The Grown-Up
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 10th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
The Grown-Up
You can maintain that Obama can’t guarantee that his stimulus can create 4 million jobs. That he is too gracious to Republicans. That he doesn’t “make news” with his national audience. What you can’t argue is that he disrespects the…
The Israeli Center: Players and Program
If all one means by center is a vague desire to contain Palestinian terrorism yet distance oneself from settlers’ excesses–to do the former without alienating Washington, and the latter without splitting the Jewish people–then a stable majority has been centrist…
Senator Collins and the fateful choice: not stimulus but investment
Senator Collins — who is a not so much a moderate as a negotiator for the extreme conservative faction of American politics — says that money spent to stop a global pandemic flu doesn’t belong in the stimulus bill.That crystallizes…
