Today in Salon: The leaderless GOP

Today in Salon: Tuesday February 3, 2009

The leaderless GOP Sorry, Republican bosses, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are in charge. And there's nothing you can do about it By Joan Walsh

Open Salon She Hit me: Forgiving My Mother Runaway Tales from the Shelter Home-Starring Tanya Half Dome: Path of a City-Boy Hi I'm MiMi & I'm an alcoholic (& I was taken advantage of)

Republican sound and fury, signifying (almost) nothing Senate Republicans trash an economic stimulus bill that many of them will probably vote for very soon. By Mike Madden

The party of prima donnas Obama is trying to build a country that works together like a great football team. The Republicans want to take their ball and go home. By Gary Kamiya

The Michelle Obama hair challenge Nappy or relaxed, African-American hair has always been a loaded subject. So what does it mean to have a black do in the White House? By Erin Aubry Kaplan

The real fight starts after the stimulus is enacted We can't fix the economy in the long term without significant public investment. By Robert Reich

Broadsheet Bankers: No (female) stimulus needed Super Bowl ads: Violence + boobies = laff riot! "Obsessed with children"

Time to choose: The stable guy or the fun guy? I want kids. I want security. I want laughter. By Cary Tennis

This Modern World The incredible shrinking Republican Party! By Tom Tomorrow

War Room It's official: Judd Gregg picked for Commerce Republican senators targeted by pro-stimulus campaign Senate votes to confirm Holder as attorney general Dems drop smoking, STD prevention funds from stimulus Right-wing bloggers to Obama: Leave Jessica Simpson alone! Dems won't get to 60 in Senate after all Time for a bailout of GOP governors? Poll: Republicans want Palin as model for GOP Can Obama get the stimulus past the Senate? Fox's Wallace: Armey insult "pretty funny"

GigaOM Network Itron's Stimulus Rally May Be Done Google Toolbar for Firefox Adds Useful Navigation Features Honeyshed Shuts Down Crackulous Defeats App Protection T. Boone, Sen. Reid Team Up for Clean Energy Summit Redux Apple Considering Video Recording Support for iPhone? Battery Runs Samsung Netbook for Over 12 Hours Dear Technologizer: Apple Doesn't Own Your Contacts Find Any File: Classic Mac Filename Searches Return to OS X How to Sync Calendars from Two Different Google Accounts Over-the-Air App Store Organization: One Problem, Four Current Solutions 3M Amps Up R&D to Supply Renewable Energy Industry No Bonus, No Salary Increase for AT&T CEO Online Community Manager: What Does It Take to be Successful? Mobile Tech Minutes: ZumoDrive Integrates Cloud Data with Client Applications Google Oceans Could Unveil Climate Change Data The Language of the Web Worker Apple, Adobe Working Together On Flash for iPhone? Define "Together" Would You Pay to Get Netflix Out of the "HBO Hole?" Has the U.S. Wireless Data Boom Stalled? Project Management, Collaboration, and How Our Brains Work ASUS Eee PC 1000HE: A Worthy Netbook Upgrade

How the World Works The right-wing New Deal conniption fit The penny-pinching paradox The stimulus and the deficit: Not a problem

Glenn Greenwald The L.A. Times, Obama & renditions

Steelers rally beats Cardinals rally Super Bowl 43 looked like a grinding Pittsburgh win before the two teams started trading thrilling comebacks. King Kaufman

Just how bad off is the Republican Party? Republicans know what they're against: Barack Obama. They're still figuring out what they're for. By Thomas Schaller

Watching Bill Clinton work his magic at Davos His rock-star status among world leaders, at a time when America's reputation is in tatters, shows the former president is a major asset to Barack Obama. By Joe Conason

How Republicans created the myth of Ronald Reagan With the Gipper's reputation flagging after Clinton, neoconservatives launched a stealthy campaign to remake him as a "great" president. By Will Bunch

My friend says I should call him more "Change is hard," he says. What? By Cary Tennis

Should NATO kill Afghan opium traffickers? Debate rages in NATO as a top U.S. commander calls for deadly attacks on the drug mafia, not just Taliban insurgents. By Susanne Koelbl

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