Joan Walsh

I have Clinton fatigue - and it’s not even 2014 yet

Two Clintonland profiles remind us of the power couple’s coziness with corporate America and the top 1 percent
Pub Date: 
Mon, 09/23/2013
Author: 
Joan Walsh
Source: 
Salon
Link: 
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/23/i_have_clinton_fatigue_and_its_not_even_2014_yet...
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Too much tea party racism

As protesters call Dem leaders 'nigger' and 'faggot,' it's time for Republicans to denounce them. So far, none have
Pub Date: 
Sat, 03/20/2010
Author: 
Joan Walsh
Source: 
Salon
Link: 
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/03/20/tea_party_racis...

So I'm having a hard time tonight trying to believe almost uniformly white tea partiers are anything other than a racist, right-wing reaction to the election of an African American president who brings with him feminists and gays (even if he doesn't do as much for them as they would ideally like). I'm having a hard time seeing the tea partiers as anything other than the spawn of George Wallace racism – the movement Pat Buchanan bragged to me that Richard Nixon made his own.

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