The Electorate vs Obama’s Agenda
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2010 5:30 am by HL
The Electorate vs Obama’s Agenda
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
“I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, after passing a $787 billion (now $862 billion) stimulus package, the largest spending bill in galactic history, he unveiled a manifesto for fundamentally restructuring the commanding heights of American society — health care, education and energy.
Rising Debt Will Do U.S. In
Brian Riedl, Boston Herald
It's a good thing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress just agreed to raise the federal debt limit by nearly $2 trillion – they're going to need every penny of it. And fast.Last year, Obama swept into office promising to make tough choices – and then released a budget proposing the largest debt-and-spending spree in American history. This year, he's at it again: Over 2010-2019, his new plan boosts spending another $1.7 trillion and the deficit by $2 trillion over what he proposed last year.In fact, this year's budget shows yearly deficits as much as 49…
A Course Correction on Terrorism
Stuart Taylor, National Journal
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Michigan’s Blueprint for America
Henry Payne, National Review
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Toyota: Too Good To Be True
Edward Niedermeyer, The Truth About Cars
The ongoing kerfluffle over Toyota’s recall of over 2m vehicles for a gas pedal defect which (allegedly) caused unintended acceleration has caught much of the automotive media flat-footed. How could it be, many have wondered, that the automaker most associated in the US market with the concept of quality has slipped so badly? As TTAC’s Steve Lang recently discussed, Toyota has been on a decontenting binge since the mid-to-late-1990s, putting profit above the quality obsession that had defined its operations up to that point. As a result, the current generation of…
