Is the Party Over?
Eyal Press
In the past two years, the GOP's dream of a permanent majority has become a nightmare.


Eyal Press
In the past two years, the GOP's dream of a permanent majority has become a nightmare.

John Nichols : Barack Obama
Judging by their voting patterns in the primaries, crossover Republicans may swing the presidential election for Barack Obama.
Rick Perlstein : John McCain
The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.
Christopher Hayes & Te-Ping Chen
A former GOP fundraiser talks about donor psychology, disillusionment and the high cost of winning.
Eyal Press : George W. Bush
In his recent memoir, former GOP insider Lincoln Chafee boldly decries the Bush era.
John Nichols : John McCain
John McCain is just enough of an outsider to keep the GOP competitive in a "change" election.
Forget Values Voters. With Bushism discredited and mainstream Republicans looking for candidates with business savvy and competence, Democrats may be facing far more formidable foes than they imagined.
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
Bush and the neocons are trying to save their crumbling reputations by blaming critics of the war for the debacle.
Robert Dreyfuss : Political Analysis
Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.
Marc Cooper : Presidential Election 2008
The Iowa straw poll offered a penetrating glimpse into the crisis facing the Republican party.
The institutional neglect that brought Minnesota's Republicans into power has led to tragedy and scandal.
Weary of tax cuts for the rich, state politicians are rethinking their aversion to tax-and-spend.
College Republicans staged a tasteless game at NYU and hundreds of students showed up to oppose them.
Republicans in Congress have set aside $20 million for a gala in Washington to celebrate victory in Iraq and Afghanistan. The party may be postponed for a while, but the program has been drafted--and we've got a copy.
Jonathan Schell : Civil Rights & Liberties
The GOP's one-party rule has created a constitutional crisis that threatens America's future. By pulling the right lever on November 7, voters can throw this party out of office.
Max Blumenthal : Electoral Politics
Republican adman Scott Howell has racked up a startling Democratic body count with his signature hyperemotional style. Will his attack on Harold Ford Jr. succeed or backfire?
Max Blumenthal : Electoral Politics
How will the GOP woo back values voters after the Foley scandal? How about a purge of gay Republicans in Congress? That's the Rev. Don Wildmon's idea.
Far more important than the Foley affair is the Bush Administration and the GOP have molested Lady Liberty while pretending to guard our national security.
Virginia Senator George Allen claimed it was a "mistake" when he called an employee of his Democratic foe a racist name. But the leader of America's top racist group explains Allen's long and cozy history with white supremacists.
Bob Moser : Electoral Politics
Two Republican primaries in the Deep South expose potentially serious cracks in the party's religious-right foundation.
What is the born-again East Texas word for chutzpah? Whatever it is, Tom DeLay displays enormous amounts, as he exits Congress and faces corruption charges.
Tom DeLay has left Congress, but his legacy lives on in the work of five disciples.
The infusion of religion into American politics has become the GOP's Achilles' heel, turning the Republican Party of Lincoln into the party of theocracy.
What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deeply betraying both.
House Republicans rammed through a budget bill in December that cuts $40 billion from domestic programs. Is there anyone of conscience in the Senate to defeat this?
The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mechanisms of accountability, and Death by a Thousand Cuts and Stand Up Fight Back examine how the Republican machine dominates issues from tax cuts to energy conservation. Plus, the Clinton biography The Survivor looks at the man who once made liberals feel like winners, yet whose legacy holds them back.
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolution off their pedestals.
John Nichols : White-Collar Crime
The controversy surrounding conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff is
creating headaches for red-state and swing-state Republicans and
opportunities for Democrats to turn a national bribery and
influence-peddling scandal into political paydirt.
Jonathan Schell : Conservatives & The American Right
Jonathan Schell writes that unmaking the fraudulent empire that the GOP has created will not be done quickly and the outcome is unclear. But historians may one day write that the fake American empire was the Achilles' heel of the one-party state the Bush Administration failed to build.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Conservatives & The American Right
Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.
As House Republicans use the cost of recovery from Gulf Coast storms as
an excuse to rip last-minute holes in the social safety net, it's not
too late to change priorities.
Three senators caved and supported the
nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Chief Justice. But
one lawmaker, banking on the public's cynicism of the oil industry,
wants to tax its windfall profits.
Ari Berman : US Politics & Government
Tom DeLay's indictment on criminal conspiracy charges comes at a moment of acute public awareness of the culture of corruption the GOP has created. What happens next is up to the Democrats.
Robert Scheer : White-Collar Crime
The hurricane-driven windfalls for GOP-connected businesses continues, and so do the scandals of widespread corruption among George Bush's cronies. And the rest of us are played for suckers.
Christopher Hayes : Democratic Party
With Ohio's GOP tainted by scandal and corruption, Democrats see an opening for 2006.
The fight over stem cell research has divided Congressional Republicans.
As Bush and his allies assail Newsweek, they continue to ignore the Downing Street memo.
David Rubenstein : Native Americans
Minnesota's GOP looks to cut taxes and build more casinos
instead.
David Sirota : Democratic Party
State Rep. Wes McKinley of Colorado stays in the minority, while Democrats and Progressives in Vermont move toward the majority.
Katha Pollitt : Conservatives & The American Right
Forget common ground--it's time to divide up the country.
A reflection on Justice Sunday.
Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue.
Christopher Hayes : Democratic Party
It led to Democratic control in Illinois.
Jonathan Schell : Human Rights & Civil Liberties
The government manipulates popular movements at home and abroad.
William Greider : Catholicism & Catholics
The country has witnessed an interlude of religious hysteria, encouraged and exploited by political quackery.
Judd Legum & David Sirota : Terrorism Targeting the US
The Republicans politicize terror.
John Sayles : Presidential Election 2004
The Democratic and Republican conventions can be fairly judged only as extended advertisements for the parties that staged them.
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Good sizzle can always sell a lousy steak.
Liza Featherstone : New York City
While New York City authorities and anti-GOP organizers square off over the right to rally, cultural activists are taking matters into their own hands.
Laura Flanders : Condoleezza Rice
Cast as moderate and benign, the White House's women are anything but.
Rep. George Miller : Medicare
GOP pols can pass "reforms" only by exempting themselves.
Sasha Abramsky : Democratic Party
The Republican drive represents a power grab unprecedented in scale and timing.
Nancy Reagan is right-on for blasting proposal to replace FDR with her Ronnie.
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2004
A new ad questioning the patriotism of Democratic candidates is shameless.
William Greider : George W. Bush Administration
The recent Senate roll call was a decisive rebuke to our warrior President and one that will be understood eventually as having pivotal meaning.
Katha Pollitt : Conservatives & The American Right
What's the matter with conservatives? Why can't they relax and be happy?
That one Yankee could so upset the balance in Washington illuminates how much opportunity exists for the Democrats should they be able to act like a party of principles.
Robert Dreyfuss : George W. Bush
While firmly planted on the extreme right, Norquist has built a solid alliance with the Fortune 500 corporate elites.
John Lantigua : Electoral Reform
As thousands of blacks registered to vote, the state threw many others off the rolls.
Jonathan Schell : Florida Recount
Power, as the founders of this country well knew, is a mighty temptation. Money is another. Put the two together, and you have a force to reckon with.
Jonathan Schell : Florida Recount
Whoever wins the legal battles over the election, recent events will cast a long shadow over American political life in the years ahead.
Jonathan Schell : Florida Recount
The postelection battle for the presidency is without doubt some kind of crisis, but it's not easy to define precisely what kind.


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