The GOP’s No-Exit Strategy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 20th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
The GOP’s No-Exit Strategy
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
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 largest Senate majority since 1976 and their largest House majority since 1992. Receive news alertsObama didn't just offer bromides about hope and change. He made quite specific…
Obama Keeps Missing Deadlines: Does It Matter?
John Dickerson, Slate
President ObamaAs a professor of constitutional law, Barack Obama gave his students eight hours to complete his exam"”even though the exam was designed, he wrote in the instructions, “to be completed in three hours.” Now that he's president, Obama could use that kind of cushion. Upon taking office, the president promised that the prison at Guantanamo Bay would close in a year. He now says it will not. He demanded that Congress pass a health care bill by August. It still hasn't. The president's promise to sign a health care bill this year has now…
Obama Goes to China, Brings Home a T-Shirt
Afghanistan: To Succeed, We Must Fail
Gerard Russell, Los Angeles Times
