New Jersey, and I suppose others, are abuzz about the potential of Governor Chris Christie entering the GOP Presidential primary race. I have no idea if he will run or not; but I’m confident that he will win if he does. The problem is that he might win even bigger if he doesn’t. This deserves [...]
Zachary Roth has an article for The Lookout that gives us the other side of the story of poverty. As it turns out, poverty doesn’t actually mean one is poor because: …that measure, developed over 40 years ago, is inexact at best. It doesn’t include non-cash benefits–things such as food and housing subsidies–that can play [...]
Via the Washington Post I hear that Mitt Romney thinks corporations are people: “Corporations are people, my friend,” Romney said. Some people in the front of the audience shouted, “No, they’re not!” “Of course they are,” Romney said. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?” Corporations are not people. [...]
The Washington Post says that Democrats want a “bolder” Obama. Dee Dee Myers is quoted: “The president has shown himself unwilling to just dig in on a position,” said Dee Dee Myers, who was Bill Clinton’s White House press secretary. “He’s for jobs. I’ve heard him say that. He’s for being the grown-up in the [...]
Newsweek’s cover of Michelle Bachman is causing a stir. Of course, there is no shortage of conservatives/Republicans who are blaming ideology for a bad picture. But how short memories are. The problem is, apparently, Newsweek doesn’t know how to hire a photographer who knows how to take a decent photo of a woman. Is it [...]
I haven’t had much to say about the “debt ceiling crisis” (or much of anything else) because there really isn’t that much to say. Dan Balz says it about as good as anyone: Boehner was just as clear in casting the president as the obstacle. Obama, he said, came to office and led the country [...]
I think the answer is an obvious, “Yes.” First of all, have a reminder look at the 2008 electoral map. Now consider the changes in the electoral college. States that have gone to Democrats for the past three Presidential elections have lost a net of six votes. While states that have gone for Republicans in [...]
This weekend, I went to see Steve Earle and Joan Baez in concert. During his introduction of the song “Christmastime in Washington”, Steve Earle explained that his song was about his heroes. He explained that it wasn’t about all his heroes because he could have put Joan Baez in there. She stood up at Woodstock [...]
But probably not the way he wants to. After spending $787 billion to bail out the financial industry and stimulate the economy via infratstructure projects, the President is now talking about spending another $50 billion on…more infrastructure. That would be wonderful if the problem with the economy was not being able to get goods from [...]
My mentor, Micah Sifry, has one of the best dissections I’ve seen of the Jekyll and Hide phenomenon that has been the Obama Administration. Like a lot of my liberal friends, Sifry apparently feels abandoned by President Obama (and he provides a convincing case for that feeling being real). It’s interesting to look at it [...]
