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• Who Says The U.S. Is Losing Its Influence?

  Published: August 12, 2007, 3:07 am

  Tags: The Arbitrary Executive, Republican Malgovernance

  Hey, Robert Mugabe likes the American move towards arbitrary executive power just fine!

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• Reverse Midas Touch

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Republican Malgovernance

  Indeed. It really doesn't seem to have dawned on the administration that explicit American support may not actually help more liberal factions in countries with strong anti-American sentiments, although the point seems to trite as to barely be worth pointing out.

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• Rudy Giuliani: Utter Fraud

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:26 am

  Tags: 2008 Republican Primary, Republican Malgovernance, Giuliani

  there going after a credible Republican." While the IAFF did endorse Kerry, the Uniformed Firefighters of Greater New York, whose president starred in the video, endorsed Bush. Its former president, Tom Von Essen currently a member of Giuliani Partners was the fire commissioner on 9/11 precisely because the union had played such a pivotal

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• Thunder on the mountain, rolling like a drum

  Published: August 24, 2007, 3:11 am

  Tags: Republican Malgovernance, Environment

  Brad Plumer has the details on mountaintop-removal mining and the Bush administration's inevitable but still-appalling attempts to ensure more of it with toothless legal restraints. Garance fills us in on both the Democratic reaction and on civilian activism.

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• It Was You, Fredo

  Published: August 27, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Republican Malgovernance, Rats Sinking Ships, Abu Gonazles

  for actually believing that Republicans should be subject for the law is also a definitive example of modern Republican governance.Even more scary: the GOP base considered Gonzales too moderate to be appointed to the Supreme Court, largely because he was willing to construe a law permitting minors to obtain judicial bypasses as actually

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• The Political Failure of Libertarian Tax-Cut Justifications

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: The Tax Cut Scam, Republican Malgovernance

  have enormous influence on Republican policy. Supply-siders haven't had the kind of influence that Chait describes since the Reagan administration. And that's because everyone observed the Reagan tax cuts opening up huge deficits. Supply side theories are window-dressing--bad, horrible window-dressing, but still, just window dressing. You don't

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• GOP: Magna Carta Placed Too Many Restrictions on Executive Power

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: The Arbitrary Executive, Republican Malgovernance, Disgraces

  The Habeas Restoration bill failed 56-43; Christy has the tally. Unless I missed one, no Democrat voted "naye," including Nelson, Landrieu, and Conrad. The ever-more-disgraceful Joe Lieberman, of course, did. My question: where exactly is the ongoing "Rebellion or Invasion"? Hopefully the Supreme Court will correct Congress's

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• The Barbour of Jackson

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:44 am

  Tags: Venality, Haley Barbour, Republican Malgovernance, The Mississippi Miracle

  kind of "small government" Republican who ensures that any budget deal contains plenty of tobacco subsidies. And the kind of "anti-tax" Republican who, given an ultra-regressive 7% grocery tax in the second-poorest state in the country, well:If the tobacco companies were hoping all this would pay dividends for them in Mississippi, they cannot

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• Bush: War On Drugs Over The War On Terror

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Drug War Idiocy, State Society, The Fiasco, Republican Malgovernance

  One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies, is very difficult, and usually involves alliances with other powerful actors to help raise revenues and maintain coercive authority. One reason Iraq

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• SCHIP and Republican Strategery

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Health Care, Republican Malgovernance, American Political Discourse

  It seems to me that Atrios is completely right about this. I mean, what happens if this ridiculous smear campaign about the kid makes breaks mainstream? The veto is a political loser pretty much regardless, I think, but if the explanatory strategy seems quite likely to make things worse.Roy Blunt, on CNN, just said that a family making 80,000 a

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• Why, That Sounds Like a Terrible Idea

  Published: May 26, 2008, 8:33 am

  Tags: Mariners, Republican Malgovernance, Baseball, Mass Transit

  This sounds like an incredibly bad idea:People who normally use Metro Transit's [the Seattle bus system-ed] special service to get to ball games, community festivals, and other special events should be aware that new Federal Transit Administration (FTA) rules could significantly restrict Metro's ability to provide this service.These changes in

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• Priorities

  Published: July 28, 2008, 3:39 pm

  Tags: The Arbitrary Executive, Republican Malgovernance

  Shorter Bush administration: "Indirectly punishing partisan opponents is more important than effectively opposing terrorism." (Via Atrios.)

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