Epstein Secrets

effects of austerity on weak economies. And this is still nothing like a boom. Krugman says that fiscal fearmongering is a major industry inside the Beltway, especially among those looking for excuses to do what they really want, namely dismantle Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. People whose care

ated last November, running on the same economic policies. Although I am a die-hard liberal Democrat, please allow me to make this observation about the Republican Party, because I believe that a strong two-party system is better for the country, as it encourages and forces the other party to be more honest. This wee

6 EFTA00598430 Yet as the clock ticks away and warnings mount, official Washington irresponsibly continues to look the other way. And so does the Beltway press — as demonstrated in that Town Hall debate last fall when CNN's Candy Crowley almost — almost — asked Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about glob

nly the conversation you're calling for, but action on change. ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ: And I totally agree with that. BILL MOYERS: So why can't we get the Republican Party to see what you have been talking about? ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ: I think basically the Republican Party has reached the conclusion themselves that th

rse than ever. Just ask Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann. as I'm about to do. For decades, these two political scientists were on the go-to list for Beltway pundits and reporters seeking wisdom on the curious ways of governance. But then, almost exactly a year ago to this day. they published an op-ed pi

the problem." Mann and Ornstein argued that democracy and the economy are in a crash dive, and that congressional gridlock was largely the fault of the Republican Party and its takeover by right wing radicals. What's more, they said, the mainstream media was adding to the problem by resorting to false equivalency,"