Tag: President Obama
Why This Tax Cut Deal Sucks
This was the hill to die on. If you have any desire to cut the deficit, you don’t extend these cuts. For months, Obama has fought off attacks from the right, saying that he has exploded the deficit. Of course, part of this is due to the current economic conditions and much of it has […]
The Difference Between Leading from the Left Rather That the Right
Tony Blair talked with Christiane Amanpour on Sunday on a variety of topics, but one that is germaine to some of the discussions (or really, lack thereof) going on here re: President Obama:
Please Make This Happen
Rumors have surfaced that the Treasury Department is going to announce a plan that will let some homeowners reduce their principal.
The Oprah Presidency?
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker must hate that she doesn’t have a penis. What else could I infer from her vapid column in today’s Washington Post, “Obama: Our first female president”. The premise of the piece is interesting, take Toni Morrison’s famous analogy that Bill Clinton was our first black president, and turn it on its […]
Rahm Emmanuel Is Leaving The White House
There are reports that Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is leaving the White House after the midterm elections.
Reflecting On Obama’s Speech
Even if progressives and political junkies didn’t like Obama’s speech, others thought the speech did what it was supposed to do.
President Obama Doesn’t Care About White People
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “…the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race — on the side that favors the black person.”
Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.
This is the title of Frank Rich’s column from yesterday’s NYT, which, as always, is a Must Read. Like Rich, I find the emphasis on getting some anger from the President a lazy and childish response from the media. A media who perpetually is looking for the ratings-boosting human drama rather than trying to figure out how,exactly, something like this could possibly happen. So instead of trying to figure out how the legendarily dysfunctional Bush-era Minerals Management Service was still largely dysfunctional this far into the Obama Administration, we get plenty of ink on how “angry” the President is.
Misery Business
Damn, haters all around. Obama supporters always knew things would be bad with all of the right-wings’ hate and anger, but this past Memorial Day is just an argument to far.
The Full Plate
In addition to the disaster in the Gulf, international relations have deteriorated recently between North and South Korea and between Israel and Turkey.
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