Will Loss Wipe Grin Off Gibbs’s Face?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 22nd, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Will Loss Wipe Grin Off Gibbs’s Face?
Dana Milbank, Washington Post
For Democrats, the only good thing to come from Tuesday's loss of the Senate election in Massachusetts is this: It could wipe the grin off Robert Gibbs's face.The Democrats' failed struggle to hold onto Ted Kennedy's seat in the liberal state showed how badly the party's brand had been damaged over the past year. But as the White House press corps challenged President Obama's press secretary on Tuesday afternoon about the anticipated loss, Gibbs answered with his usual mix of wisecracks and insults.”Broadly speaking, can you talk about the difference between…
Dems Won’t Win Back Indies by Attacking
Amy Walter, National Journal
Sign In nationaljournal.com > On the Trail Sponsored Links Print Print Email Reprints Tools Sponsor: ON THE TRAILWill Democrats Feel Voters' Pain?The Party Won't Win Back Independents This Year Simply By Attacking Opponentsby Amy WalterWednesday, Jan. 20, 2010After all the finger-pointing and hand-wringing are done over Martha Coakley's once improbable…
Time to Elevate Entrepreneurs
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets
WASHINGTON-When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address next Wednesday evening, many Americans will be hoping he will offer help on the employment front. The president could usefully approach job creation by adopting measures to help entrepreneurs, the main drivers of innovation and job creation.The employment situation is worrisome. Not only are over 15 million Americans unemployed, with the national unemployment rate at 10%, but the ratio of Americans of working age in the labor force – the employed plus those looking for work – is 64.6%, the lowest since 1985. Almost 40% of…
Health Care Reform and the Founders
Charles Lane, Washington Post
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts could be the end of the road for comprehensive health care legislation. If so, it would give a whole new meaning to President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress last Sept. 9, in which he vowed that, although he was not the first President to seek universal health care, “I am determined to be the last.”� Everyone has his own explanation for the fact that the U.S. still doesn't have a national health plan while all the other industrial democracies do. Here's mine: The constitution.I don't mean that…
