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Inoculated

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Well, [according to the Beltway pundits](http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-villagers-will-not-be-ignored.html), Obama has himself three scandals. Amazingly enough, one of them, about which the Republicans will take the least umbrage, actually does involve an abuse of power by people for whose actions Obama is responsible. I refer to his Nixon like pursuit of information about members of the press. Charlie [...]

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Con Men All

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

This type of thing is probably not unprecedented, but it’s particularly galling in a political environment in which it takes massive public pressure to even get debate on a bill people want, never mind an actual vote. Last year, to much fanfare, and with support from both parties, Congress passed the STOCK act, an act [...]

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Newt’s Contract on America nears fruition

Sunday, April 7, 2013

A good history at Angry Bear of the roots of Obama’s quest to slash Social Security. Is it surprising that it is yet another right wing idea that has become middle of the road by virtue of ceaseless repetition on the right and no pushback from what passes as the left in the Beltway. It [...]

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What comes after “Fool me twice, shame on me”?

Friday, April 5, 2013

Well, Obama is doing it for at least the third time in his presidency, though I’m sure I’m missing quite a few: proposing as an opening gambit a position that he should accept only as a last resort in any negotiation. Actually, what he’s now proposing, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, should be off [...]

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Obama punts on climate

Saturday, March 16, 2013

No surprises here: The Obama Administration has, tragically, signaled it may retreat on two major climate issues. The UK Guardian reported Friday: Barack Obama’s grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day…. [...]

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Obama’s Legacy

Saturday, February 23, 2013

It is an unfortunate fact that Barack Obama will not go down in history as another Franklin Roosevelt, though the times and circumstances conspired to give him the opportunity, had he grabbed for it. We forget that he started his presidency with commanding majorities in both houses; but failed to use them to take decisive [...]

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Puzzling

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Obama is damned by the right wing for claiming to shoot skeet, something they absolutely refuse to believe he does, not that it matters. They accuse him of violating our liberties because he made an incremental change in the law that might enable more people to afford still overpriced health care. They would love to [...]

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Unilateral Disarmament

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Obama has now unilaterally declared that he lacks the independent power to deal with the debt ceiling. There are some, actually there are many, who believe he has done so because an inability to act on his own is a condition precedent to his ability to claim he had no choice but to cut vital [...]

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Declaring victory

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Back during the Vietnam War, Vermont Senator George Aiken, a Republican (back in those days there were Republicans who were perfectly sane. You can look it up.) made the following suggestion about the war: Declare victory and leave. A lot of people saw the wisdom in his suggestion, and in the end, though it was [...]

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Obama blinks again

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

In the past I’ve observed that, politics being a dirty game. When one has one’s opponent on the ground, the thing to do is stomp on his head, especially in this political clime, and especially if you are a Democrat, since you know that you’d get even worse treatment if you were down. Obama had [...]

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