Published: mic (October 16, 2013)
The Senate has presented its bipartisan bill to end the government shutdown and avert a debt default. With the fate of America’s financial future now resting in the hands of right-wing firebrands, it is perhaps appropriate to remember the words of Edmund Burke, the 18th century British statesman widely regarded as one of the great paladins of conservative thought:
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”... Read Original Article
Published: mic (October 10, 2013)
Before you ask, I present the definition of “snollygoster,” courtesy of TheFreeDictionary.com:
One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.
While not born of this crisis, snollygoster is an antique in the American political lexicon, tracing as far back as the 1840s and allegedly inspired by the Pennsylvania Dutch folk monster, the snallygaster.... Read Original Article
Originally Published: PolicyMic (March 8, 2012)
Republished on PolicyMic (October 2, 2013) as “Government Shutdown Question: Would the Founding Fathers Fight Liberalism?”
Editor’s Note:Although this article was originally published on March 8, 2012, we felt it would be valuable to offer the perspective of a PhD student in history on the ideological debate accompanying the current government shutdown.
Published: mic (October 1, 2013)
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After 21 hours of orating, Senator Ted Cruz’s one-man jeremiad against Obamacare has officially come to an end.
What in the world are we to make of it?
Certainly the punditocracy has not come up short on feedback. Top Republicans are livid at Cruz for what they perceive to be his grandstanding, even going so far as to send research to Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace to be used against him.
Published: mic (August 25, 2013)
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