Sam Donaldson
This morning on KTRS/St. Louis, I asked Sam Donaldson if, in all his years covering Washington, he has ever seen a Congress as dysfunctional as this one. The ensuing conversation touched on the failed super committee, whether Americans' dislike of Congress will lead...
It’s The Politics, Stupid!
Michael Moran has a good piece in Slate this morning about why voters (or more specifically, non-voters) are to blame for a Congress that can't compromise and forge real economic solutions. He argues that in non-presidential-election years like 2010, we abdicate our...
Will Durst
I have been a fan of political comedian Will Durst for more years than either of us would like to admit, so I was happy to have him join me on KTRS/St. Louis this morning. Even though we haven't done radio together in years, we fell into an easy rhythm as we joked...
Mark Cuban on Corporations & Taxes
A few months ago, I wrote a column on The Job Creation Myth, targeting the GOP's claims that if you lowered taxes on higher-income Americans and corporations, they would create more jobs. Now, one of those higher-income corporate CEOs has written a piece supporting my...
I Finally Figured Out Herman Cain
He doesn't want to be President. He wants to be famous, and he's following the Sarah Palin/Mike Huckabee model to add notoriety to his fortune. Like Palin and Huckabee, Cain has no chance of becoming President Of The United States. However, he does have enough pizza...
War Words
This weekend, the usual Republican suspects have been all over TV blasting President Obama for announcing that all US troops will leave Iraq by the end of this year. They claim it's a horrible decision, a subject they know very well since they're the same ones who...
Occupy Wall Street
Eliot Spitzer says the Occupy Wall Street rally (and its spinoffs in other cities) are having an impact, despite the criticism that it doesn't yet have a defining message: The major social movements that have transformed our country since its founding all began as...
Trickle Up Economics
A funny, insightful piece by Will Durst on what the GOP calls "a class war"...When taxes are raised on the rich, that's class warfare, but when subsidies are handed out to giant corporations who siphon jobs offshore so that rich people can have more money, that's...