A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.
Robert B. ReichTags: politics democracy government first-amendment rights corporations supreme-court public-assembly u-s-politics
It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.
Peter HartTags: politics elections unity competition democrats republicans u-s-politics bipartisanism presidential-politics primary-elections
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.
George PackerTags: politics politicians democrats republicans 1970s bipartisanship washington-dc u-s-politics
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
Amy DavidsonTags: politics government republicans political-parties worldview u-s-politics dysfunction
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.
John Kenneth GalbraithTags: history memoirs u-s-politics
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
John Kenneth GalbraithTags: memoirs u-s-politics
I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
SuskindTags: loyalty plutocracy vendetta dick-cheney u-s-politics bush-administration
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