Dick Cheney will rightly go down as one of the most despised figures in American political history. The ruthlessly cold neo con was one of the major architects of the Iraq War and the 'War on Terror', and used his power in office to do an astonishing amount of damage at home ...read more

John Cusack's article/interview with law professor Jonathan Turley on the Obama administration's abuses of the constitution is a must read. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with Cusack final point, that he's not sure he can vote for a President who taught constitutional law and ...read more

James Kwak laments the ever rightwards shifting debate on economics in America: The fact that Simpson-Bowles—which uses its mandate of deficit reduction to call for . . . lower tax rates?—has become widely perceived as a centrist starting-point for discussion is clear evidence of ...read more

By Ben Cohen: Karl Rove took one of the least intellectually curious and incapable candidates in US history to two victories in Presidential elections - an extraordinary feat that has sealed his reputation as one of America's greatest political strategists. Rove used a simple ...read more

By Ben Cohen: Listening to the rhetoric of Republicans, you'd believe they wouldn't have the government do anything other than go to war on behalf of the American people (and sometimes even that isn't true - Donald Rumsfeld spent years trying to privatize the military). ...read more

Welcome to this weeks edition of The Daily Banter Mail Bag, where Bob, Ben and Chez answer readers questions! Today, we discuss filibusters, good recipes for roast pork, Bush vs Obama on spending, and which politicians we'd like to see have a good old fashioned scrap. The ...read more

Andrew Sullivan responds to a typically intellectually dishonest post by Jonah Goldberg on comparisons between Bush and Obama's spending: The truth is that Bush ramped up spending much more than Obama has - and he did so without presiding over the the worst recession since the ...read more

By Bob Cesca: I'd like to get down to the bottom line when it comes to the deficit, the president's fiscal policies and the impact of government spending during and after deep recessions. This week I wrote a piece about Rove's latest Crossroads GPS commercial attacking the ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Last week I wrote a column here about the president's record on the deficit. The responses I received from anti-Obama Republicans vividly illustrated the far-right's inability to grasp reality and, in their defense, the degree to which they've been deceived by ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Yesterday, Mitt Romney received another pulse-poundingly enthusiastic endorsement. This time from former President George W. Bush, who could barely contain his incurable case of Romney Fever when he said: "I'm for Mitt Romney." And that was all. It kind of ...read more

By Robert Parry: As the Republican-controlled Supreme Court gets to work writing its opinion on the Affordable Care Act – with many observers expecting that the five GOP justices will strike the law down – it’s worth recalling how a similar batch of Republican justices twisted ...read more