Bush Comes Out of Hiding
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Last night, George W. Bush gave his first speech since the torture flap exploded. The GOP still eschews the ex-president on a personal level but, says Matthew Yglesias, it's now fully embracing his legacy.
My Beef With Ann Coulter
Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.
As the pundit begins a series of national debates this week-including an event with Bill Maher last night-Meghan McCain says that having her as the face of the Republican Party is a recipe for disaster.
To counter Obama's cool factor, RNC chairman Michael Steele has pledged to modernize the GOP with an "off the hook" PR campaign that reaches younger and minority voters in "urban-suburban hip-hop settings." Other Republicans are courting the youth vote by embracing technology and quoting rap songs. But from Michele Bachmann's street slang to Congressional Twitter debacles, some of the Republicans' early efforts are backfiring.
The Wildest Moments From CPAC
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Joe the Plumber on newfound influence, group linked to U.S. senator warns of "extraterrestrial activity," white nationalists, and more video from the conservative conclave.
Rahm: My Compliments to Limbaugh
The nation's top Republican? Rahm Emanuel says it's Rush Limbaugh, which may be accurate, or may be, at least in part, Emanuel trying to paint the entire GOP as extreme. CBS News
Limbaugh Rallies the Right
It's still the big political story: Rush Limbaugh, appearing at CPAC Saturday, explaining once again what he means when he says he wants Obama to fail. Source: CNN
GOP Shock Jock Goes Wild
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
My meeting with the infamous right-wing radio host John Ziegler.
Meet the Republican Rapper
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
The Conservative Political Action Conference always produces a breakout star. This year's winner: a hip-hop artist whose artistic inspirations include Nancy Pelosi.
Among the True Believers
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
On the first day of the CPAC conference, conservatives were a feisty bunch without a leader. But they had a remedy for the Republican woes: be more conservative.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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