Category: Politics
John McCain and Dick Cheney Bait the Bear
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2008 | PoliticsON A JULY NIGHT IN 1983, Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney stood in Red Square with Tom Downey, a Democratic House colleague from New York. “There were just the two of us, and I asked him what he was thinking,” Downey told me three years ago, when I was working on a book about Cheney. “I […]
Ethanol, Food Prices and the Environment
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2008 | Environment, PoliticsETHANOL MANDATES HAVE BECOME a defining issue of the presidential campaign. And that’s a problem for Barack Obama. For many years, John McCain was an ardent opponent of ethanol. During the early part of the current presidential campaign—or at least while he was campaigning in Iowa—he was an advocate. Now, McCain’s an opponent again. Obama, […]
Expanding Medicare to Cover Everyone | Phil Gramm Finally Gets the Boot
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsMayors Cheer Single Payer—Most of the national news media missed the story in the last week of June: the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously endorsed a bill that would provide universal health care under a single-payer system. West Palm Beach Mayor Lois J. Frankel introduced a resolution to support HR 676, Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) […]
Privatizing Profits and Socializing Loss
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2008 | PoliticsGIVE ONE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CREDIT for identifying the problem and getting the policy right—and doing so before the twin government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went into the tank in mid-July. “For too long the Congress has played the role of an indulgent parent to the GSEs. . . . It is time […]
Two Congressional Races and One Disgraced Lobbyist
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2008 | PoliticsD’ACQUA IS AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT located halfway between the White House and the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the space once occupied by Signatures, the celebrated Washington dining spot owned by disgraced—and incarcerated—lobbyist Jack Abramoff. (We’re staying with Abramoff for one more issue of the Spectator, because although he’s in a maximum security prison, he remains […]
Bad Faith Documentary
