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Supreme Court justices are appointed for life and are not subject to the whims of electoral politics. This is so they can make their decisions on the law and what is right, not on what would get them re-elected (as many politicians do).
Clarence Thomas Thinks Rules Are For Other People
Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, arrive in Nashville on June 15, 1999, the day before Gore announced his presidential candidacy.
Going After Gore, by Evgenia Peretz: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
The Road to Economic Crisis Is Paved With Euros - NYTimes.com
Not long ago Europeans could, with considerable justification, say that the current economic crisis was actually demonstrating the advantages of their economic and social model. Like the United States, Europe suffered a severe slump in the wake of the global financial meltdown; but the human costs of that slump seemed far less in Europe than in America. In much of Europe, rules governing worker firing helped limit job loss, while strong social-welfare programs ensured that even the jobless retained their health care and received a basic income.
Gabrielle Giffords and the rightwing hate machine (on the bogus equivalence between right/left extremism) : Peter Daou
Reaction to the horrific Arizona shootings , where six people were slaughtered including a 9-year-old girl, quickly congealed along clear-cut lines:
Amid the buzz over David Frum’s recent ouster from the American Enterprise Institute, some folks have linked back to this old post on the now-hoary trope that heterodox conservatives are simply angling for invitations to the fabled Georgetown Cocktail Parties. There’s a certain irony here in that Frum himself is no stranger to attacking the motives of deviationist conservatives.
Frum, Cocktail Parties, and the Threat of Doubt
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Tom Engelhardt and Alfred W. McCoy
Trying to play down the significance of an ongoing WikiLeaks dump of more than 250,000 State Department documents, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently offered the following bit of Washington wisdom: "The fact is, governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets... [S]ome governments deal with us because they fear us, some because they respect us, most because they need us.
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker
On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that.
Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wing Lies? | | AlterNet
Until progressives change the mind sets of the tens of millions who believe right-wing mythology, elections will be disappointing regardless of who is in the White House.
The Big Lie - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
It seems to me that the last year or so in America's political culture has represented the triumph of untruth. And the untruth was propagated by a deliberate, simple and systemic campaign to kill Obama's presidency in its crib. Emergency measures in a near-unprecedented economic collapse - the bank bailout, the auto-bailout, the stimulus - were described by the right as ideological moves of choice, when they were, in fact, pragmatic moves of necessity.
Good TARP News Doesn't Fit; Media Are Flummoxed : It's All Politics : NPR
Mark Wilson / Getty Images A year ago, TARP was a clear villain — as when this protester appeared on Capitol Hill when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was preparing to testify. Many in the news media haven't caught up with the more recent better news about the program.