Well what do you know? The New York Times looks at the economic stimulus bill passed a year ago and notes that despite the bad publicity and political grandstanding, it actually worked. “Perhaps the best-known economic research firms are IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody’s Economy.com. They all estimate that the bill has added [...]
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If you watched or heard anything from Friday’s monumental meeting between President Barack Obama and House Republicans, then you may have come away impressed. In today’s heavily covered political landscape, pure political gamesmanship is going the way of the dodo and the brontosaurus. The art of deftly pointing and counter-pointing your political rival doesn’t make [...]
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Religion and politics are a toxic blend. Who holds the moral high ground? Political policy is shaped by ideas and innovative minds. Policy is not formed by religious proselytizing and radical invention. Yet components of both major political parties– one party more than the other– uses religion and the ensuing fervor behind it, to craft [...]
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This is exactly what I said here back in December– about the Obama administration– and Congress. Ornstein nails it: [T]his Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president — and [...]
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Take a peek at this chart and tell me the pattern you see: It seems that Republican presidents in the last 30 years have played a bigger role than their democratic counterparts in increasing the national debt. Why is this important? GOP arguments of “tax and spend liberals who are mortgaging our children’s future” –don’t [...]
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If you’re a progressive, Scott Brown’s victory shouldn’t upset you. This should. Ta-Nehisi? I get the optics of bipartisanship. I also get the need to show you aren’t in the pocket of liberals. As a liberal I’m fine with that–as long as it works. So if Obama needs to tell the country that Chuck [...]
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To me, there is no scenario whatsoever that changes this thorn bush into a bed of roses for Democrats. Others seem to have found some sunlight amidst the clouds: If Brown wins, the House has to pass the Senate version. We all know how colossally stupid congressmen can be but they cannot be that colossally [...]
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One of the most interesting and reflective quotes I’ve read in some time about race is as follows: “Prejudice is how you feel, discrimination is how you act. I care how you act!” To paraphrase, prejudices are inherent in all of us on some level. We’ve all felt nervous or jaded about something or someone [...]
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MEEP MEEP– December 23rd, 2009: I will freely admit that I am in the tank for Barack Obama. I believe his combination of pragmatism, measured cool, intelligence, and willingness to find the common ground–were exactly what this country needed after eight years of the Bush administration’s feckless policies, and unilateral bullishness. I am not in [...]
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From the Confederate Yankee: Robert Byrd has been around a very long time, and his many decades of service have made West Virginia a wonderful state in which to manufacture methamphetamine or frame the locals for murder. But it’s time for Senator to do the right thing, and expire. It isn’t too much to ask [...]
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