August 12, 2009 – 12:59 pm
Since it’s the middle of August and we’re just phoning it in, here’s an interesting take on the current health-care debate (and protests) from someecards.com:
August 10, 2009 – 10:52 am
Yahoo! teased a Time magazine article on President Obama’s golf game with the headline, “What Obama’s golf game reveals about the way he governs.” Because I’m so ga-ga over the president, I just had to know. The answer? He’s everything we could ever hope for. Natch. According to Time’s Michael Scherer, “Presidents, like normal people, […]
August 7, 2009 – 11:21 am
Shepard Fairey, the “street artist” who designed those iconic red and blue Obama posters during the campaign, is back with another portrait of Mr. Obama for the August 20th issue of Rolling Stone. As the New York Daily News reports, “the portrait [pictured here] depicts Obama with a brow knit in determination, surrounded by a […]
August 6, 2009 – 11:02 am
Senator Barack Obama, June 3, 2008: I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment … when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. Bloomberg, August 6, 2009: Hurricane Outlook in Atlantic Cut […]
Jennifer Senior’s New York magazine article analyzing President Obama’s ubiquitous media presence contains one superb observation: Rahm Emanuel is, she says, “so profane he’d embarrass a toilet.” But as I read Senior’s depiction of a White House fully comfortable using every communications method available, I found myself wondering to what end. The president’s poll numbers have […]
August 3, 2009 – 10:58 am
Earlier this summer, a friend who keeps his ear to the ground on these things told me he’d heard that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, during his trip to China, told Chinese officials concerned about rising US deficits that the Administration is gearing up to propose a value-added tax targeted specifically to debt reduction following the […]
Here’s Sarah Palin’s farewell speech from this weekend. Here’s William Shatner giving the beginning of the speech a poetic twist on last night’s Tonight Show.
Recognizing the escalating concern about his remarks in reference to the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police department during Wednesday’s press conference, President Obama went to the briefing room this afternoon to announce that he’d just spoken with James Crowley, the officer at the center of the story, and to acknowledge that he had probably gone too far […]
At Wednesday night’s press conference, President Obama sought to get to the heart of Americans’ concerns about health care: I realize that with all the charges and criticisms that are being thrown around in Washington, a lot of Americans may be wondering, “What’s in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from […]
Any doubt that Republicans (and conservative Democrats) are winning the argument over health care reform was erased within moments of President Obama opening his mouth at tonight’s press conference. While delivering his opening statement, the president looked and sounded chastened – like the teacher’s pet who got unexpectedly scolded in front of class. The president […]
I’m not surprised that Paul articulated my point about the wider implication of the Miller/Obama student loan proposal even better than I could. As Paul says, the federal government has long paid a subsidy to private loan providers in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program. That’s because banks incur costs when they originate and […]
I don’t want to scare anyone, but if you really believe President Obama’s government-run health care option is just a benign attempt to inject some competition into the health care system (I’m lookin’ at you, Paul and Robert Reich), take a look at what Congressman George Miller is proposing for the student loan industry. In […]
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing began today and the end of the process is about as foregone a conclusion as you’re likely to find in politics. Which is probably good. Judge Sotomayor has three crucial qualities going for her: (1) The president wants her to be the newest justice of the Supreme Court (and he […]
How did we get by without him? Example number 487, from Sunday’s Politico Playbook by Mike Allen, quoting “senior White House officials” on health reform: “This is probably the most difficult legislation attempted by anybody, EVER. We’ve never been closer on health care, in 50 years.” Seriously? Over the last 50 years, the federal government gave birth […]
Interesting that Vinca and Julia picked up on that workout metaphor offered by President Obama last week. I also noticed it, and it got under my skin – not because it’s sporty, but because it’s condescending. “This is a town where there was just a belief that nothing could get done…. Folks have been sitting […]
