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I’m beginning to see a pattern here

Monday, September 14, 2009

FromBloomberg news: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. … “It’s an outrage,” especially “in the U.S. where we poured so much money into the banks,” Stiglitz said. “The […]

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Cave of the week

Saturday, September 12, 2009

This is happening with depressing regularity: FOX’s Glenn Beck, whose criticism got a top Obama aide fired this week, has also been agitating about ACORN and its involvement with the 2010 census. The Obama administration has just announced that it is severing its ties with ACORN, and they admitted that they made the move because […]

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One Day Sabattical

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Taking the night off to watch Obama.

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Obama’s speech

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Obama has painted himself into a bit of a corner. He allowed the debate on health care to get away from him at home, and to be held hostage to Max Baucus and the Republicans to whom Baucus ceded control of the debate. Now, Obama has to rescue a deteriorating situation, with all signs pointing […]

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Van Jones

Monday, September 7, 2009

Obama’s capitulation in the face of the coordinated assault on Van Jones may very well spell the end of his Administration. It put out a signal of weakness that the Republicans will understand perfectly. Jones did and said nothing that Republicans don’t say and do every day. Republicans are assholes. He was right about that. […]

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No, we can’t

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

In deference to my wife, who retains her fierce loyalty to Obama, I confess that I’ve been somewhat detached the last few days, lacking 24 hour a day access to the internet. Nonetheless, I can’t help but feel that real health care reform is slipping away, with the Obama administration sending, at best, mixed signals […]

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Poor Obama… and why they didn’t have wine.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Mel Brooks may have been right about how good it was to be the King, but it’s not always that great to be the President. Consider today’s meet and greet among Obama, Gates and Crowley. Crowley had “Blue Moon”, a more than respectable brew that I personally foreswore only when I learned it was a […]

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Obama’s pick

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Obama has picked Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. I don’t know much about her, so I have no opinion about her legal philosophy, although she certainly appears to have the paper credentials. Of course, so did Alito and Roberts, though I’m sure we can be confident that she won’t be fellow travelers with them […]

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One step forward, after some steps back

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Like many of his supporters, I was more than disappointed when Obama, through his “Justice” Department, took a legal position in favor of unlimited presidential power to wiretap. It was a sad day for the country, and we on the left have put principle over person by loudly disapproving. Today, Eric Holder and his department […]

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Obama out-Bushes Bush

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Yet another demonstration of how important it is for those of us on the rational side of the spectrum to avoid the cult of personality that we endured for eight years during the Bush era. The Obama administration has taken an even more extreme position regarding government wiretaps than that taken by the Bushies. Not […]

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