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The New ‘Taint of Incumbency’

By | 01.27.10 | 6:00 am

In the wake of Scott Brown’s astonishing Senate win in Massachusetts last week, GOP leaders took no time to spin the outcome as an indictment of Democratic leadership that can only help Republicans in November’s mid-term elections.

[Congress1]“There’s not a seat in America held by a More…

Remembering the Roots of This Crisis – It Wasn’t Obama and Geithner

By | 03.20.09 | 2:08 pm

The outrage over AIG bonuses is dying down, but it is only being replaced by a blame game. According to critics, President Obama went too far in his populist pronouncements against banks, and his administration, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, is bungling the rescue effort. Banking executives have More…

AIG Bonus Tax Passes 328-93

By | 03.19.09 | 2:56 pm

In the end a slight majority of Republicans opposed levying a 90 percent tax on bonuses for companies that take TARP money — another signal of how complicated the populist politics of this issue are for the GOP.

Republicans are pushing two arguments now. One, that the scandal is More…

The Great Populist Divide

By | 09.05.08 | 8:28 pm

The populist hero was born on a small farm not far from the Canadian border. As a boy, he scraped together money by raising chickens and managing a grocery store. He then worked his way through an unprestigious law school, and enlisted in the Marines to More…