If President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform proposes cuts to Social Security, will the Democrats go along with it?
A detailed report by the American Civil Liberties Union only confirms what many have been saying for a year or more. The Obama administration's policies on national security, state secrets, and civil liberties threaten to ratify the Bush approach to these issues--an approach to which candidate Obama took great exception.
"Republican presidential nominee Sarah Palin" is not as crazy-sounding of a phrase as it might have been a year ago. But what would happen if the GOP actually nominates her?
Democrats could be looking at a semi-catastrophe in the November midterms, but in the long term we could be looking at a situation where the Republican party is essentially a permanent minority party, or is forced to throw its overwhelmingly white, ultra-conservative and nativist base overboard in order to attract the voters who will decide future elections.
