Jonathan Zasloff

At least so far. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has been making a lot of loud noises lately, theoretically criticizing GOP plutocracy. A few days ago, he supposedly advanced a new conservative concern for the not-1% percent: “We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street […]

Filegate. Travelgate. Whitewater. Birtherism. Solyndra. Fast and Furious. Notice a pattern? When there is a Democratic President, Republicans are quick are quick to make wild accusations of wrongdoing that turn out to be a huge nothingburger. (Oh yes, they did impeach a President for having sex with an intern. Saving the Republic, that.). Now we […]

We all know the famous story of FDR meeting with a group of liberal activists early in his term. They made an impassioned plea for their policies, and the President said, “Okay, you’ve convinced me. Now make me do it.” This must the progressive mantra for President Obama’s second term: make him do it. While […]

That’s what a lot of pundits say. But let’s examine the assertion a little more closely. There is a reason why the Republican Party, and leading politicians in the Republican Party, and the bosses of the Republican Party (such as Limbaugh, Rove, Norquist etc.) take the positions they do. They believe in those positions: They […]

Lots of chatter throughout Blogistan if President Obama is re-elected with more than 270 Electoral votes but with fewer popular votes than Mittdrake the Magician. Much of it is silly. First silly meme: Democrats were outraged when Bush lots the popular vote in 2000. How can they defend swearing in a non-popular vote winner now? […]

When I was a child, “Zingers” were a kind of packaged pastry made by Dolly Madison. They weren’t very good, but because they sponsored Peanuts specials, they had Charlie Brown, or Snoopy, or Lucy, or (my favorite) Linus on them. I desperately wanted to eat them more often. Mom was smarter than that. “They really […]

Perhaps the most outrageous part of Romney’s deservedly-infamous speech to the $50,000-a-plate dinner was his assertion that he inherited nothing from his upbringing. After all, he was only the son of the CEO of American Motors and then the Governor of Michigan, who went to one of the country’s best prep schools and then to […]

Not my phrase — it’s the phrase of Time Magazine political reporter and Republican fanboy Mark Halperin, and it describes the pall hanging over the Republican campaign. The Obama convention bounce continues, with the President now getting a six-point margin in the latest CNN poll — the first non-tracker since Charlotte. There are, unfortunately, two […]

The Obama Administration’s decision — released the Friday afternoon before Labor Day — that no one will be held accountable for the systematic policy and use of torture would be more nauseating if it were not so predictable. I cannot add to Lemieux, Serwer, Drum, Sullivan, and Greenwald, and you should read them. American political […]

Or at least he did in his speech in Iowa, when he commented on the Republican convention: “What they offered over those three days was more often than not an agenda that was better-suited for the last century,” Obama said. “We might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.” Wrong. The last century […]