Thursday's Daily Brief

2009-04-16

The Daily Brief

Lincoln Mitchell: Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric

AP/Harry Cabluck

Lincoln Mitchell: This latest GOP seems, at first, more surreal than offensive. The notion that Obama is a socialist because he wants a minor tax increase for a tiny fraction of Americans and would prefer to spend our treasure on helping people rather than on conducting wars of dubious origin or intention is more than a little strange, but if a small minority of people want to assert it, that is well within their rights. Floating the idea of secession over this is a very different story. The history of secession in the US is not a pretty one. Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other. Click here to read more.

Abraham Lowenthal: President Obama and the Summit of the Americas

Obama would do well to remember Ronald Reagan's comment on returning from his first trip to South America as President: "These Latin American countries are all very different from each other."

Bob Cesca: Sharing Tea Bags with Right Wing Extremists

Whether intentional or not, the talkers and bloggers who appear to be driving the post-Bush crazy train have opened up the conservative tent to some pretty unsavory and dangerous characters.

Maria Shriver: A Woman's Nation

For the first time in our nation's history, women now represent half of all workers and are becoming the primary breadwinners in more families than ever before. This country is now what I like to call "A Woman's Nation."

Carl Icahn: It's Up to the Shareholders, Not the Government, to Demand Change at a Company

For too long and for a variety of reasons, shareholders have been complicit in allowing management excesses and incompetence by not taking a stand.

Drew Westen: The Five Strands of Conservatism: Why the GOP is Unraveling

The modern conservative movement, which eventually came to define the GOP, was built on an ideological foundation -- and a coalition -- that was fundamentally incoherent.

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