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Republicans, I’m told, were elected to Congress by the people, and yet they’ve done absolutely nothing. This indictment has now mutated into “Republicans gave President Obama everything he wanted,” i.e., the GOP and Obama were basically colluding against the American voter this whole time. Republicans have been dreadful on plenty of fronts — the quality of their advocacy, the spine they show making arguments and the lack of innovation and malleability in the focus of their policies, to name a very few — but resistance to Obama’s legislative agenda was definitely not one of them. If Republicans had capitulated in...

A Conservative House, Divided Against Itself, Cannot Stand By Frank Salvato October 21, 2005 If just a year ago, as George W. Bush proclaimed victory in the 2004 presidential election, you would have told me that the Democrats would be sitting back and laughing as the conservatives fed on their own, like a pack of self-indulgent jackals, I would have dismissed the notion as incredible. But as we approach the 2006 mid-term election cycle it would seem that notion isn't so far fetched. We are staring directly into the eyes of a Republican-Ross Perot moment and the Democrats are enjoying...

A woman is slowly starving to death in a Florida hospice. She is under armed guard to ensure that no one offers her water to drink or food to eat. This is all happening under court order. Not a congressional act or the personal intervention of the president of the United States has been able to help her. Is America broken? How could this happen in this country, as the whole nation, the whole world, watches? Oh, the lawyers have their excuses. The high priests in black robes claim to have sympathy but say their hands are tied. This is...