DATELINE: September 12, 2009 04:51 PM DAVE LINDORFF: What’s Wrong with Calling Out Lies in Congress? One of the big problems with American democracy is that the presidency has over the years been elevated to the level of a monarchy, with all the imperial trappings and pomposity formerly associated with royalty. Presidents surely should get [...]
Lessons in Leadership: Why Obama Needs to Brush Up on His FDR By Arianna Huffington Watching the gun-toting, Nazi-sign-holding town hall crazies, the talk radio charlatans, and the Palin-infected politicos, my first instinct has been to rally around President Obama and defend his handling of the health care debate against this Cuckoo’s Nest menagerie. But [...]
Killing Yourself with Kindness By Robert Kuttner Will somebody please explain to me why Barack Obama is still on his bipartisan kick? Ever since Obama’s first efforts to reach out to Republicans, with his cabinet appointment of two Republicans, Gates at Defense and LaHood at Transportation, and his appeasement of Republican tax-cutting demands in the stimulus [...]
Posted: August 13, 2009 09:44 AM / Originally at Huffington Post Change We Can Believe In: Feelings Toward the Administration by Those Who Elected It By Drew Westen OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS I’VE BEEN HEARING RUMBLINGS. – They’re not from the staged or misinformed protestors at town hall meetings who have decided that [...]
Faint Praise, indeed ROBERT KUTTNER Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect President Obama wanted health insurance reform in the worst way. And at the rate things are going, he is likely to get it. PHOTO: Obama selling his concoction. Even at best–way before the potshotting began–the plan was a surrender to special interests. “Afford” [...]
By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON / Dateline June 25, 2009 REMEMBER ALL THAT CHANGE AMERICANS VOTED FOR IN NOVEMBER? Well, there’s been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists who, this year alone, have watered-down, gutted, or out-and-out killed ambitious plans for reforming Wall Street, energy, [...]
Dateline May 5, 2009 “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place” ••• BUT IT ISN’T JUST THE BANKS. Agribusiness is protecting its obscene subsidies. [...]
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