Harold Meyerson - When Tea Party wants to go back, where is it to?

As battle cries go, the Tea Party's "Take our country back" is a pretty good one. It's short and punchy, and it addresses a very widespread sense that the nation that Americans once lived in has changed, and not for the better.








Harold Meyerson - When Tea Party wants to go back, where is it to?

TPM Fact Check: New Conservative Anti-Spending Flick Plays Real Loose With Facts | TPMDC

When "I Want Your Money" hits theaters today, it will likely be hailed by Republicans eyeing Congressional control as exposing the Obama administration for being fiscally reckless. Already, the creator Ray Griggs has made the rounds on Fox News, which heaped praise on the filmmaker for including Fox contributors in the documentary.

But there's one big problem -- a bunch of the facts don't add up. The most egregious omission is failing to mention that Ronald Reagan, who is depicted as a fiscal hero in the film, raised taxes.





TPM Fact Check: New Conservative Anti-Spending Flick Plays Real Loose With Facts | TPMDC

Frank Schaeffer: Obama's Critics Are Dead Wrong

Before he'd served even one year, President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right-wing agitator, now progressive writer and, given my background as I describe in my book Crazy For God, the son of a famous evangelical leader, unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our president. Why? Because he is succeeding. Obama's critics from the left and right are going to be proved dead wrong.

Frank Schaeffer: Obama's Critics Are Dead Wrong

E.J. Dionne Jr. - Health reform's reality vs. its parody

Here is another piece of conventional wisdom about this year's election that is being rendered patently false. It's been said over and over that no Democrats are running on the health-care bill. Actually, more and more of them are proudly campaigning on what the plan has achieved -- and they should.


E.J. Dionne Jr. - Health reform's reality vs. its parody