By David Swanson Congratulations are in order for Congressman and senate-candidate Mike Capuano of Massachusetts for openly acknowledging that Dick Cheney should be prosecuted for his crimes. Calling Dick Cheney a vampire recently helped Congressman Alan Grayson raise over 1/2 million dollars in a day. But for Capuano to light the sort of fire needed for him to win (or for Grayson to continue exciting...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Obama administration can walk and chew gum at the same time. At the same time it takes on healthcare, education and the economy, the administration will tackle immigration reform next year. Fixing immigration should be easier because there is support from many republicans for reform. Here's her speech today at the Center for American Progress: Release...
There is perhaps no organization in Washington with a closer relationship to the White House than the Center for American Progress. Its President and CEO, John Podesta, co-chaired President Obama’s transition team, and dozens of former staffers have taken positions in the executive branch. When they put out a report, you can at [...]
Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg just wrote a piece in the New York Times that could have been (and probably was) written by Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina. Pear and Stolberg reveal that Obama's secret strategy of not getting involved in the health care debate, and then actively undercutting those of us who were trying to fulfill Obama's campaign promises without him, is what actually saved health...
MSNBC reported on the "unprecedented release" of White House visitor logs: The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities. No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only about 110...
The Center for Security Progress published a recent report on Obama’s flawed Honduran Strategy. To no surprise, the top radical advising Obama, Dan Retrepo, was weaned at the Far Left Soros-funded Center for American Progress run by strategist John Podesta. Dan Restrepo meeting with ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. Honduras’ ousted President Manuel Zelaya, center, [...]
Wingers are always good for a laugh as displayed by Laura Ingraham as she goes for the double word score on Obama Derangement Scrabble and spells out S-T-O-O-P-I-D. Ingraham argued that " a lot of people are saying " that the Obama administration is more "impassioned about" Fox News than "other threats to the United States, whether economic threats or real threats, Islamic...
DOWNLOADS: (80) PLAYS: (178) (h/t David at VideoCafe ) Well, I guess when Dick Cheney referred to Obama " dithering ", he actually meant spending any time thinking about the situation at all, given how little time they spent preparing a report for the incoming administration. CAP's John Podesta points out the problem on This Week : (Former Bush officials and Republicans) have been citing...
Will: 'A bit of dithering might have been in order before we went into Iraq' The Bush administration spent only one hour on a report on Afghanistan before handing the issue over to the incoming Obama administration, a former Clinton-era White House chief of staff says. John Podesta, now president of the Center for American Progress, made [...]
On the Roundtable, Fox News Contributor Laura Ingraham said that she wishes the White House would be as tough on Islamic jihadists as it is on Fox News. John Podesta fired back that might be the case “when the drones...
Not there yet, but the roundtable seemed to think that the legalization of marijuana is coming. John Podesta even suggested (in jest') taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. The times they are a-changin’. Watch video...
Well you should be. The Value-Added-Tax seems to be on many people's minds these days. For instance, John Podesta, the co-chairman of his transition team , and Nancy Pelosi, of course, think it's a great idea. And it's not as if these guys want to replace the income tax with a VAT, they want to adopt a European-style VAT that's added on top of the income tax. Here is Podesta making his pitch: "There’s...
Thank gawd we've got true progressives in office and a charismatic President who's a combination of Lincoln and FDR! Reuters blogger James Pethokoukis: You can add House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the group of Democrats or Obama allies (John Podesta, Paul Volcker, Roget Altman) calling for a value-added tax. ( I predicted all of this days ago. ) Here is Pelosi (via The Hill ): read more
Thank gawd we've got true progressives in office and a charismatic President! Reuters blogger James Pethokoukis: You can add House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the group of Democrats or Obama allies (John Podesta, Paul Volcker, Roget Altman) calling for a value-added tax. ( I predicted all of this days ago. ) Here is Pelosi (via The Hill ): Pelosi, appearing on PBS’s “The Charlie Rose Show”...
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