NBC’s Meredith Vieira used a liberal talking point against the Bush administration on the Today show on Tuesday. Vieira asked Inez Tenenbaum, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, “Under President Bush, the Consumer Products Safety Commission was criticized for being too cozy with business- essentially, toothless. How do you assure the American public...that that’s...
checkin’ it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice… The New York Times : “A group of conservative Republican leaders is proposing a solution to the internecine warfare over what the party should stand for: a 10-point checklist gauging proper adherence to core principles like opposing government financing for abortion and, more generally, President Obama’s ‘socialist...
We've noted the Obama administration's penchant for bullying America's allies and kowtowing to its adversaries. This Washington Post story presents another case-in-point -- our treatment of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. As Afghan presidents go, Karzai makes a good mayor of Kabul (in a bad year). Nonetheless, right now the U.S. needs Karzai and Karzai needs the U.S. Thus, in the words of one senior...
Washington - Normal human beings -- let's call them real Americans -- cannot understand why, 10 months after President Obama's inauguration, Congress is still tied down in a procedural torture chamber trying to pass the health care bill Obama promised in his campaign. Last year, the voters gave him the largest popular vote margin won by a presidential candidate in 20 years. They gave Democrats their...
After President Obama's inauguration, the folks who ran the Obama campaign (Obama for America), relaunched the campaign organization and infrastructure as Organizing for America. So what are they doing and what have they been able to accomplish. Our Christina Bellantoni...
Professor Paul Rahe writes to comment on President Obama's remarks on the occasion of the festivities in Berlin yesterday: In yesterday's post , I failed to anticipate Barack Obama's cleverness. He did appear in Berlin -- metaphysically, if not physically. He did not honor our allies with his presence. He kept his distance and descended briefly, like a god, from the ether. In his speech he made no...
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Daniel Ellsburg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that revealed Lyndon Johnson went along with a war he knew was unwinnable, says we’re repeating Vietnam. In an interview with The Real News, Ellsberg remarks on the war between the Pentagon and the White House. He also equates Vietnam to Afghanistan. “No victory lies ahead in Afghanistan,” he says, and “they’re not going...
Good Morning America’s Bill Weir on Saturday interviewed Nancy Pelosi and wistfully responded to the House Speaker’s reminiscing about the "stillness" and "silence" of Barack Obama’s inauguration. He cooed, "What happened to that sense? That was such a day of, of unity. You think it's still there?" After Pelosi assured the weekend anchor that such solidarity...
The Obama administration came into this summer with a sweeping plan for financial regulation--its proposals for how to prevent another meltdown after the mortgage crisis and the wave of bank failures that led up to President Obama's inauguration and continued to dominate discussion during his first months in office. Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rolled out a package of proposals that included...
The Birthers' last, best hope -- a case brought by Orly Taitz on behalf of Alan Keyes, among many others -- has failed. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Carter issued a ruling in which he dismissed the case, which had been ongoing since the day of President Obama's inauguration. The ruling, which can be read in PDF form here , is pretty striking. Taitz's followers had always thought of Carter...
Steve Benen keeps trying to fight Captain Tire Swing, but it's no use . The Sunday shows insist that America wants to know what President McCain thinks about things nearly every week. For crying out loud. As of this weekend, there will have been 40 Sundays since President Obama's inauguration in January. With his 15th Sunday show appearance, McCain will have been a guest on one of the programs every...
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) recently said something extraordinary on the House floor. If true, Slaughter has revealed that the Obama administration had quietly slipped language into a bill upholding the Executive branch’s right to keep under wraps the photographs of us torturing detainees. This would involve making the torture photos exempt from the already-gutted FOIA. That’s extraordinary...
FOLLOWING THROUGH A SANE DRUG POLICY.... Literally just 48 hours after President Obama's inauguration, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a medical marijuana dispensary in northern California. The move was at odds with Obama's policy, at least as it was articulated...
Dan Balz : "Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the left." "Little more than a year out, the political landscape for the coming midterm elections looks decidedly more favorable for Republicans than in either of the past two elections -- hardly a surprise, given the shellacking...
According to a just-released Gallup Poll , Hillary Clinton is actually more popular than her boss, with Clinton retaining a 62 percent favorability rating to Barack Obama's 56 percent. In the days and weeks surrounding Obama's inauguration, this seemed all but impossible, with the new president then polling at 78 percent favorable to Clinton's 65 percent. Figure in the president and administration's...
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