Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
Thomas FrankGovernment is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
Thomas FrankIf your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta.
Thomas FrankThere is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Galleryโs version of the Barack Obama โHopeโ poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obamaโs Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyistsโ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
Thomas Frank