Even in Loss, Butler Gives Hope to Little Guys
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 7th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Even in Loss, Butler Gives Hope to Little Guys
Bob Kravitz, Indy Star
This is not the way the fairy tale ends. Little Red Riding Hood doesn't get mauled by the big, bad wolf. Cinderella doesn't show up two hours late for the ball because of traffic on I-65. The Three Little Pigs don't get evicted from their home before the dyspeptic fox even thinks about blowing their house down.Duke 61, Butler 59.Where were Norman Dale and Jimmy Chitwood when you needed them? Where was Hollywood when Gordon Hayward's fall-away jumper from the corner, on line but slightly long, bounced off the rim and out? Where were the writers when Hayward's…
Still Waiting for that ObamaCare Bounce
Kyle Wingfield, Atlanta JC
Yet another opinion poll indicates the public wasn’t sighing in relief after ObamaCare passed. The latest is from CBS News, which calls the American public “increasingly skeptical” about the new health laws:Fifty-three percent of Americans say they disapprove of the new reforms, including 39 percent who say they disapprove strongly. In the days before the bill passed the House, 37 percent said they approved and 48 percent disapproved.Republicans and independents remain opposed to the reforms, and support has dropped some among Democrats. Now 52 percent of…
The White House and the Writedowns
James Klein, Wall Street Journal
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke had it backwards last week on these pages when he cited the “hype and overheated rhetoric” of U.S. corporations that have reported large writedowns in response to health-care reform.In fact, the companies' accounting announcements were written in the most bland prose imaginable. It was the Obama administration that created the controversy by suggesting that these legally required filings were politically motivated. Mr. Locke himself publicly criticized the companies for being “premature” in making these disclosures, even though rules…
Obama’s 17-Minute Non-Answer Answer
Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
In June, comedian Bill Maher complained of President Obama, “You don't have to be on television every minute of every day — you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order.'”I get paid to listen to politicians tell the same old jokes, repeat the same canned sound bites and — as often occurs — not answer questions. But I do not think it too much to ask that, now that Obama has signed legislation to overhaul the health care system, he ditch the health care spiel.
