Program Detail: Info: Our guest is author and former Congressional staff member Mike Lofgren. He discusses his book titled “The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.” In addition, he talks about his recent op-ed piece available on the website truth-out.org titled “Gates Agonistes.” The…
Gates Agonistes
Publish Monday Jan 20, 2014 Truthout link to article and comments Spies are inherently suspect people. For the sake of what remains of our democracy, they must be kept on a short leash. That is my conclusion from the furor surrounding former Secretary of Defense and onetime career CIA employee Robert M. Gates’s new book, Duty: Memoirs of…
The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity of the Elites
Monday, 28 October 2013 10:30 Truthout | link to article and comments We read in the aftermath of the government shutdown and near default on the country’s sovereign debt that the US Chamber of Commerce is clutching its pearls. “We are going to get engaged,” said a mouthpiece for the chamber. “The need is now more than ever…
Ex-GOP insider unloads: Blame “neo-Confederate insurrectionists” for shutdown!
TUESDAY, OCT 8, 2013 07:43 AM EDT Link to article and comments “I would take Boehner drunk over Cruz sober,” former 28-year GOP staffer-turned-author Mike Lofgren tells Salon BY JOSH EIDELSON TOPICS: SHUTDOWN, POLITICS, TED CRUZ, JOHN BOEHNER, NEWT GINGRICH, MIKE LOFGREN, CONGRESS,REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, BARACK OBAMA, DEBT CEILING, GOVERNMENT, CONFEDERACY, CONSTITUTION,BOOKS, INTERVIEW, ELECTIONS NEWS, BUSINESS NEWS, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS The government shutdown, and the prospect of an unprecedented debt default, have sparked a new…
The Authoritarian Seduction
Friday, 28 June 2013 on Truthout Link to article and comments The Gallup organization has released yet another dog-bites-man opinion poll which found that Americans’ confidence in Congress has fallen to a record low of 10 percent. This result is a continuation of a decades-long trend of declining approval ratings for Congress, and is justifiable based on…
The NSA Affair: A Symptom, Not a Cause
Posted June 14 on the Huffington Post. Link to article and comments Any person of normal intelligence could have surmised long ago what the latest headlines about the National Security Agency purport to expose: that the government was engaged in massive surveillance involving the American public; that the surveillance far exceeded any reasonable interpretation both of the…
American Exceptionalism: Alibi of a Nation
Posted June 14 on Truthout. Link to article and comments Whenever a public figure bloviates about American Exceptionalism and the country’s purported heavenly mission, one is reminded of the quip attributed to Bismarck: that divine providence looks after drunkards, fools and the United States of America. Accordingly, one is always on the lookout for anyone…