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Eve Fairbanks: What to do when they won’t leave
- Poor Larry Craig. The Idaho senator who dared Minnesota police officers to arrest his high-powered self after getting busted for soliciting sex in a public restroom back in June, who pleaded guilty to a resulting misdemeanor charge despite myriad opportunities to claim his innocence and who, once the plea became public, claimed those nasty police officers tricked him into his guilty plea, couldn’t even catch a break from a judge.
Eve Fairbanks: European Union may not survive Belgium
- We’ve heard again and again of evidence of disease in the European Union — Great Britain’s refusal to adopt the euro, the rejection of the federation’s draft constitution, the bitter controversy Turkey is provoking by its bid to join. But the most alarming sign of cancer within the EU system has appeared just in the last couple of weeks: the struggles of Belgium.
Eve Fairbanks: My goat is fine, Mr. Samuelson
- What if Hispanic immigration were the only thing worsening our poverty crisis — the inequality presidential candidate John Edwards speaks of when he talks about “Two Americas”? What would liberals think of immigration then?
Eve Fairbanks: Compromise: The art of politics
- Thanks to former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, Abraham Lincoln is enjoying a resurgence as a sage for our times.
Eve Fairbanks: What happened to Joe Lieberman?
- R emember when the increasingly pro-Iraq War Lieberman won — as an independent — his strange race against anti-war candidate Ned Lamont in November? We all envisioned him as the triumphant future linchpin of the Senate, since the election left Democrats in control of that chamber by only one vote.
Eve Fairbanks: Senate GOP should stop subbing for a Bush veto
- On last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that one might have expected to be a stunning triumph for Democrats: A measure requiring the start of American troop withdrawal from Iraq within 120 days.
Eve Fairbanks: Time for Democrats to lose the anger on Capitol Hill
- This decade is, for Democrats, the decade of noble anger. It hasn’t always been this way. Before the 2000 presidential election, liberals — in contrast to the bomb-throwing Republicans of ’94, who opened rhetorical fire on everything from American pop culture to the education department — tended, stylistically, toward being cautious and moderate.
Eve Fairbanks: Plenty ways to define what ‘withdrawal’ actually means
- In the case of Iraq, what does withdrawal really mean?
Eve Fairbanks: This liberal would like to be able to vote for a Mormon
- Contrary to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s hopes, the focus on Mormon faith is growing these days, not fading.
Eve Fairbanks: New wave of hair splitting cuts politics too closely
- Our country is now in the grips of a full-blown obsession with men’s hair.
Eve Fairbanks: Conservatives are fawning over the enemy of their worst enemy
- By the time people started noticing that presidential candidate Barack Obama’s middle name was Hussein and Fox News began promoting the fake story that he attended a Muslim madrassa in Indonesia, it made sense to conclude that Obama was well on his way to becoming this election’s big conservative punching bag — the 2008 equivalent to Slick Willie, nickname (Barack Osama?) and all.
Eve Fairbanks: Delay’s ‘conspiracy’ equals ‘we lost’
- We’ve been served up a whole smorgasbord of reasons why Republicans lost the last midterms: Mark Foley. Democrats running as Republicans. Bush hatred.
Eve Fairbanks: Where’s the Democratic terrors GOP feared?
- Back in the fall, conservatives were blowing a fuse about the 180-degree-turn they judged would happen if Democrats took over Congress: Astronomical taxes, activist judges, soldiers on planes back from Iraq on Jan. 1.
