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Our Clown-Around Congress
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson rips into the country’s leaders for their recent lack of productivity. To say that Congress looked like a clown show this week is an insult to self-respecting clowns. Painful though it may be, let’s review what just happened. Our august legislators — aided and abetted by President Obama — manufactured…
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Take Action on Guns Now
We must begin to take deadly weapons out of the hands of madmen this minute, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes. We are not helpless to stop the massacre of innocent children. We must begin — today, right now, this minute — taking guns out of the hands of madmen, and the first step should…
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Boehner Plays a Weak Hand
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson defends President Obama’s decision to insist on an approach to fiscal policy that includes modest tax rates for the wealthiest households. How dare he? President Obama, I mean: How dare he do what he promised during the campaign? How dare he insist on a “balanced approach” to fiscal policy that…
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Cracks in the Anti-Tax Wall?
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes that he sees a possible “twitching of the eyelids” that could mean President Obama is waking Republicans from a “self-defeating dream.” Maybe the fever is breaking. Maybe the delirium is lifting. Maybe Republicans are finally asking themselves: What were we thinking when we put an absurdly unrealistic pledge to…
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In Gaza, Status Quo Won't Do
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says that a peace process is likely to be long, bitter and frustrating, but not undertaking one is much worse. The drama unfolding in Gaza seems numbingly familiar. This time, however, there’s a big and potentially tragic difference: Not even the actors — Palestinians and Israelis — can possibly know…
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A New America Speaks: It's Our Country, Too
The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson explains what he says was the message sent by the millions of voters who re-elected President Obama. So much for voter suppression. So much for the enthusiasm gap. So much for the idea that smug, self-appointed arbiters of what is genuinely “American” were going to “take back” the country, as…
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Will Hurricane Sandy Be Our Wake-Up Call?
In his Washington Post column, Eugene Robinson hopes the recent storm drives home the point that ignoring climate change won’t make it disappear. We’ve had two once-in-a-century storms within a decade. Hurricane Sandy seems likely to become the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, behind Hurricane Katrina. Lower Manhattan is struggling to recover from an unprecedented…
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President Obama Embodies the America of Now
In his Washington Post column, Eugene Robinson says that issues of race, power and privilege are less explicit this year than they were in 2008, but in some ways they are even more relevant. Four years ago, we asked ourselves whether the nation would ever elect a black president. The question was front and center.…
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Why Aren't the Candidates Talking About Climate Change?
In his Washington Post column, Eugene Robinson wonders why Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been so silent when it comes to this important issue. Not a word has been said in the presidential debates about what may be the most urgent and consequential issue in the world: climate change. President Obama understands and accepts…
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We Got the Real Biden; Now We Need the Real Obama
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson hopes that the president emulates his vice president’s winning approach during his next debate against Mitt Romney. … Mostly, Biden did the obvious things that Obama failed to do. The debate started at 9 p.m.; at 9:24, he made the first of three references to Romney’s “47 percent” speech, in…
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