The Esquire blogger argues that anti-Obamacare lawsuits and an effort to weaken Dodd-Frank derivatives regulation are examples of how “the slow, steady and inexorable campaign to render this president a non-person in the long sweep of history continues apace.”
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Charles Pierce: Conservatives Want America to Forget ‘It Elected (Twice) an African American Democratic President’
By Tom Johnson | December 13, 2014 | 2:32 PM EST 
By Tom Johnson | December 4, 2014 | 11:19 AM EST
The Esquire pundit claims that “every militarized halftime show, every Concert for Valor, every local television anchor wearing a flag pin or a yellow ribbon, is testimony to how the Pentagon has transformed the country from a skeptical republic to a sentimental beer commercial.”
By Tom Johnson | November 24, 2014 | 10:11 PM EST
One blogger argued that media outlets which took the story seriously should “spend the next three-plus years publishing articles [or] airing pieces” telling the public that it was “a cynical and spiteful lie from the beginning.”
By Tom Johnson | November 18, 2014 | 11:47 AM EST
The Esquire blogger argues that Obamacare-hating congressional GOPers still have no interest in actually governing, but they would like to “make a meal of Gruber as a political performance piece.” Pierce also declared that Gruber "is a lot smarter than" congressional critics "like Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, he who clings still to the shreds of his freedom against the onslaught of poor people who now have medical care.”
By Tom Johnson | November 13, 2014 | 1:07 AM EST
The Esquire blogger Charles Pierce laments that Kansans gave their Republican governor another term even though his “extreme applications of conservative economics” have made the state “a basket case.” Kansas is apparently a "state full of clodhopping, drooling yahoos."
Charles Pierce: If Elizabeth Warren Won’t Run For President, an Al Franken Bid Would Be the Next Best Thing
By Tom Johnson | November 8, 2014 | 3:50 PM EST The Esquire blogger says that the “populist” Franken showed in his recent re-election campaign “how you embrace the themes on which Warren has based her career.” (Also, it would “cause Bill O'Reilly's head to detonate in a gorgeous orange fireball.”)
Charles Pierce: Republicans Took Senate Because GOP Establishment ‘Sen[t] the Tea Party to Finishing School’
By Tom Johnson | November 6, 2014 | 12:02 PM EST The Esquire blogger contends that the GOP won the upper chamber because hard-right Tea Party candidates masqueraded as traditional conservatives. "What the Republicans managed to do was to teach the Tea Party to wear shoes, mind its language, and use the proper knife while amputating the social safety net."
Charles Pierce: America’s ‘Deliberately Cultivated Stupidity’ Would Doom an Elizabeth Warren Presidential Campaign
By Tom Johnson | October 31, 2014 | 1:14 AM EDT The Esquire blogger Charles Pierce says Elizabeth Warren’s economic message is popular, but, for reasons that include a Republican “campaign of vandalism” and Democratic ineptitude, she doesn’t get the credit she deserves for it.
By Tom Johnson | October 24, 2014 | 1:24 PM EDT
The Esquire blogger thinks the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s coverage of the Parliament shootings was excellent because the CBC is taxpayer-funded, unlike U.S. news networks, which have to pander to their audiences to keep those advertiser dollars coming in.
By Ken Shepherd | October 20, 2014 | 9:20 PM EDT
Appearing on the Monday, October 10 All In with Chris Hayes, left-wing Esquire writer Charles Pierce blamed the public's fear of an Ebola outbreak in the United States on, wait for it, George W. Bush.
Charles Pierce: Wendy Davis Wheelchair Ad Shows ‘The Basic Principles of Modern Conservatism’ Are a ‘Lie’
By Tom Johnson | October 15, 2014 | 9:52 PM EDT The Esquire blogger claims that right-wingers don’t believe in small government, but rather in grabbing all the publicly funded goodies they can.
By Tom Johnson | October 3, 2014 | 3:26 PM EDT
Charles Pierce alleges that the right-wing reaction to the disease has been marked by “political opportunism married to an active campaign of disinformation.”