Tony Greco

Serious people tend not to read New York Magazine, so I imagine most of my readers haven’t seen Jonathan Chait’s excellent commentary on the current political impasse.  As a service, then, I’m passing on relevant excerpts.  Like Sullivan’s last week, ...

The government is largely shut down, and a debt crisis looms.  How did we get into this mess?  Since the mess is entirely due to the Republican Party’s crazed radicalism, the question amounts to “How did the Republican Party get ...

I don’t feel a need to say anything today about the current Washington impasse because the unorthodox conservative Andrew Sullivan has  expressed many of my own views so well and concisely.   Here are excerpts from his blog yesterday: How does one party that ...

Joe Nocera does a pretty good job on the Republicans in his NY Times op-ed today, but he spoils it near the end with this piece of nonsense: A party controlled by its most extreme faction will ultimately be forced ...

Before I ever read George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language I was interested in how the language we use in political discourse shapes the way we think about politics.  So, from time to time I will be posting reflections ...

As he so often does, Paul Krugman nailed it right in his column on Friday. The time for euphemism is past: the Republicans are crazy.  Ok, he doesn’t mean crazy in the literal clinical sense, and he probably doesn’t mean ...