Alex Pareene

The undead, unnecessary, unhelpful Grand Bargain

Begging Republicans to let us cut Social Security and Medicare is insane (no matter how much pundits lust after it)

Alex Pareene Monday, Mar 11, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 51
Politics Politics, national debt

Celebrated author, speechwriter and columnist Peggy Noonan: Obama made Pittsburgh depressing because he did not pass a stimulus bill

An airport and an airport hotel make America's finest columnist worry about America's "spirit of guts"

Alex Pareene Friday, Mar 8, 2013 6:56 PM UTC 133
Politics Politics, Peggy Noonan

McCain and Graham rush to defend drones from mean Rand Paul

Senate's hawkiest hawks so outraged that a fellow Republican was mean to drones that they now support Brennan

Alex Pareene Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 8:55 PM UTC
Politics Politics, Rand Paul, U.S. Senate

Memo to would-be candidates: Don’t write books

Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney show how hard it is to write a campaign book that won't be a political headache

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 8:46 PM UTC 13
Politics Politics, Political Books

Politicians think Americans are super-conservative

A survey of thousands shows candidates from both parties think the electorate is way more right-wing than it is

Alex Pareene Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 9:43 PM UTC 26
Politics Politics, Republican Party

Bob Woodward demands law-ignoring, mind-controlling presidential leadership

Washington's most respected reporter is embarrassing himself in his sequester showdown comments

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 8:37 PM UTC 136
Politics Politics, Bob Woodward

Media controversy of the day: Washington Post reporter pro-gay

Reporter says he's biased in favor of gay rights, conservatives demand "objectivity"

Alex Pareene Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 9:55 PM UTC 22
Politics Politics, LGBT Rights

Rich donors yell at Ken Cuccinelli for being too nutty

The likely Republican nominee for Virginia governor has a tense meeting with the money people

Alex Pareene Monday, Feb 25, 2013 8:42 PM UTC
Politics Politics, Ken Cuccinelli

Watching the Sunday shows so you don’t have to

Today, some centrist pundits and legislators solved the sequester by demanding "balance" and "leadership"

Alex Pareene Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 7:45 PM UTC 22
Politics Politics, Media Criticism

No, BuzzFeed, no one seriously compared anything to slavery

Ed Markey brought the case up, but he's not the one constantly "equating" stuff with Dred Scott

Alex Pareene Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:55 PM UTC 28
Politics Politics, slavery, Ed Markey

Mitt Romney to resurface at CPAC

Man who spent six years failing to get elected president to address major conservative convention

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 9:02 PM UTC 19
Politics Politics, Mitt Romney, CPAC

Simpson and Bowles release lame “Simpson-Bowles” sequel

Politico loves it, but the new Simpson-Bowles plan is just a waste of everyone's time

Alex Pareene Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 8:39 PM UTC 10
Politics Politics, Federal Deficit

Why don’t people want to elect economists to run stuff?

Because everyone hates them

Alex Pareene Monday, Feb 18, 2013 8:09 PM UTC 44
Politics Politics, Economics, Science

Dear John McCain: Ted Cruz isn’t what’s wrong with the Senate, you are

Longtime example of everything awful about the U.S. Senate says a colleague is ruining everything by being rude

Alex Pareene Monday, Feb 18, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 81
Politics Politics, U.S. Senate

The increasingly ridiculous Hagel opposition

Republicans block a vote for no reason and the entire conservative media repeats an untrue smear

Alex Pareene Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 8:23 PM UTC 52
Politics Politics, Chuck Hagel

Are liberals being hypocrites about Obama’s wars?

Maybe liberals don't criticize Obama's foreign policy because American liberalism has always been pro-intervention

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 9:59 PM UTC 107
Politics Politics, American History

LIVEBLOG: State of the Union

The big speech and the rebuttals

Alex Pareene Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 10:51 PM UTC 15
Politics State of the Union

The ineffectual State of the Union

Tonight, the president will probably propose a bunch of good things, and then Congress will ignore them VIDEO

Alex Pareene Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 8:30 PM UTC
Politics Video, Politics

The GOP “civil war” is going to make both sides rich

Karl Rove and the conservative movement's never-ending gravy train

Alex Pareene Monday, Feb 11, 2013 12:50 PM UTC 19
Politics Politics, Karl Rove

Obama’s drone war and the conservative media

Why the right can't celebrate the "liberal media's" attack on the president's foreign policy

Alex Pareene Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 9:31 PM UTC 18
Politics Politics, Drone War, Barack Obama

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