Links: U.S. Politics & Government

• Teryn Norris & Jesse Jenkins, Will America Lose the Clean-Energy Race?, CommonDreams.org, 29 July 2009.


• Naomi Klein, Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism, AlterNet, AlterNet.org, 30 July 2009.


• Brad Friedman, Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition, The Huffington Post, 27 August 2009.


• Adele M. Stan, The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers, AlterNet, alternet.org, 02 September 2009.


• Max Blumenthal, Eisenhower's Forgotten Warning and the Threat of Authoritarian Currents in Our Politics, AlterNet, alternet.org, 03 September 2009.


• Juan Cole, Where Have All the Broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy, Informed Comment, 07 September 2009.


• Matt Taibbi, Sick and Wrong: How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it, Rolling Stone, 03 September 2009.


• James Howard Kunstler, The Labor Day Blues, Clusterfuck Nation, 07 September 2009.


• Daniel Dombey, President procrastinator, FT.com, 07 September 2009.


• Marshall Auerback, Iron Triangles: Wall St, Big Pharma, and insurance industry perfect power games, New Deal 2.0, 08 September 2009.
  
  Iron triangle, Wikipedia.
  
  Paul M. Johnson, Iron triangles, A Glossary of Political Economy Terms, Department of Political Science, Auburn University.
  
  Corporatocracy, Wikipedia.
  
  Corporatism, Wikipedia.
  
  Corporatocracy, SourceWatch.
  
  Corporatocracy, Google Search.
  
  Robert Higgs, Quasi-Corporatism: America’s Homegrown Fascism, The Independent Institute, 31 January 2006.


• Thomas L. Friedman, Our One-Party Democracy, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 08 September 2009.
  
  It's so obvious that now even Tom Friedman talks about it openly, although he says that that the U.S. one-party government is due to the retreat of Republican ideologues into head-in-the-sand irrelevance, rather than acknowledging that the two dominant parties are both the instruments of a corporatocracy for which the public good appears secondary.


• David Sirota, Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech, The Huffington Post, 09 September 2009.


• dday, The Poor, The Adrift, The Uninsured, Hullabaloo, 10 September 2009.
  
  And in the following essay a right-winger rationalize neglect and discrimination.
  
  Robert Rector, Understanding Poverty in America, National Review Online, 10 September 2009.


• Chris Bowers, If You Think Corporations Run the Government Now…, Open Left, 10 September 2009.


• Steve Almond, Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction, Salon.com, 12 September 2009.
  "A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia."


• Robert Reich, Where the White House is placing its healthcare bets, Salon.com, 11 September 2009.
  
  Joe Conason, Republican politicians have no empathy, Salon.com, 11 September 2009.
  
  David Sirota, We've seen this healthcare trigger before, Salon.com, 12 September 2009.
  "The provision is designed to make us wait for a public option that will never come."


• Richard Benjamin, Inside the mind of Joe Wilson, Salon.com, 11 September 2009.
  "America is changing, and that makes white people like Joe Wilson -- and Michele Bachmann -- very nervous."


• Juan Cole, A Tale of Two Joe Wilsons, a Tale of Two Americas, Informed Comment, 11 September 2009.


• Dave Lindorff, In Praise of 'Joe' Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Lies in Congress?, AfterDowningStreet.org, 11 September 2009.
  "We need more honesty in Washington, not more civility."


• Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad, The Recession’s Racial Divide, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 13 September 2009.


• Adam Nagourney, Politics and the Age Gap, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 13 September 2009.
  
  When the Baby Boomers were young this was called the Generation Gap. It's interesting how things change when they're on the other side of it.


• Glenn Greenwald, Is the Right's attack on Obama's legitimacy new or unprecedented?, Salon.com, 12 September 2009.


• Frank Rich, Obama’s Squandered Summer, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 13 September 2009.


• Hendrik Hertzberg, Lies: Obama, the Republicans, and health care reform, The New Yorker, 21 September 2009.


• Thomas B. Edsall, Angry Populism Could Save The GOP, The Huffington Post, 15 September 2009.


• Andy Kroll, Dispatches from America: A well-oiled influence machine, , 16 September 2009.
  
  "More than US$1 million a day is shelled out in the United States for lobbying on health-related issues, a massive endeavor in which 3,300 lobbyists are involved. Then there are the 2,400 lobbyists working on financial industry issues and 1,000 defense-related lobbyists. In total, 12,500 federally registered lobbyists ply their trade in Washington - and they're only a small slice of the pie."


• Stephen Green, America's Strange Health Care Debate: The Most Expensive System, But Not the Best , CounterPunch.org, 16 September 2009.


• Franklin Spinney, Bin Laden's Latest Message: The Nuttiness of the War on Terror, CounterPunch.org, 15 September 2009.


• Dan Froomkin, Who Will Harness The Rage?, The Huffington Post, 18 September 2009.


• America's Workers, Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 18 September 2009.
  
  Tula Connell, ‘Young Workers: A Lost Decade’, AFL-CIO NOW Blog, 01 September 2009.
  
  the report: Young Workers: A Lost Decade [PDF file], AFL-CIO, 2009.


• Bruce Judson, Economic Inequality: The Wall Street Journal Is Just Wrong, The Huffington Post, 16 September 2009.


• Jason Leopold, Did Bush Continue to Secretly Operate Total Information Awareness?, truthout, 18 September 2009.
  
  On the President's Surveillance Program.
  See also: Total Information Awareness;
  Terrorist Surveillance Program.
  
  Wikisource provides a copy of the Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program.


• Bob Herbert, The Scourge Persists, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 18 September 2009.


• Michael Winship, Wall Street buys Washington, Salon.com, 19 September 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, CIA Directors conclude CIA shouldn't be investigated for murder, Salon.com, 19 September 2009.


• David Sirota, Washington's selective deficit disorder, Salon.com, 19 September 2009.
  "They blew billions on wars and bailouts, but spending cash that actually helps people seems to bother politicians."


• Justin Elliott, TX Board Of Ed Member: Minorities Must Be Thankful To 'The Majority' For Giving Them Rights!, TPMMuckraker, 18 September 2009.


• digby, What Moved Him [Irving Kristol], Hullabaloo, 19 September 2009.
  
  See also the comments.
  
  Paul Campos, To the manner born, Rocky Mountain News, 28 January 2009.


• digby, Regional Power [of the Republican Party], Hullabaloo, 19 September 2009.
  
  Christopher Caldwell, Why the GOP Is Doomed, Hoover Digest, No. 4, 1998.


• digby, "Respects The Corporate Form", Hullabaloo, 19 September 2009.


• Alex Massie, Americans treating Presidents like Kings. Monarchy restored surreptitiously, by dint of general stupidity, Cyrano's Journal Online, 20 September 2009.


• Frank Schaeffer, Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?, AlterNet, AlterNet.org, 21 September 2009.


• Rachel Weiner, Josh Treviño, GOP Consultant: "My Red Hair And Pale Skin IS My Passport", The Huffington Post, 21 September 2009.


• Tom Tomorrow, Our awesome post-racial society, This Modern World, Salon.com, 21 September 2009.


• Michael Lind, Intellectual conservatism, RIP, Salon,com, 22 September 2009.


• Robert Reich, So much happening in D.C., so little to show for it, Salon.com, 09 October 2009.


• * Simon Johnson and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 09 October 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, On the government's owners, Salon.com, 10 October 2009.


• David Michael Green, A Hapless Presidency: Hanging Out with Barry, CounterPunch.org, 09 October 2009.


• David D. Kirkpatrick, Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 11 October 2009.


• Richard Lardner, Associated Press, Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight, Salon.com, 11 October 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Weiler on authoritarianism in American poitics, Salon.com, 11 October 2009.