Obama Heads West to Campaign for Candidates
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 9th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Obama Heads West to Campaign for Candidates
Is Immigration Lawsuit a Joke?
Show Us the Money
Joe Conason, New York Observer
So often are the certitudes and pronouncements of the chattering class simply mistaken that they must always be treated with deep skepticism. That is especially true when anything important is at stake — from the arguments for invading Iraq several years ago to today's economic stagnation. Whatever the conventional wisdom tells you must be true is almost certainly false.The choral complaint emanating from every mainstream-media outlet — and the mouth of nearly every mainstream pundit — is that the federal government is spending too much and that the public will not stand for …
Obama’s Partisanship: What Happened to Change?
Keith Koffler, Politico
President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 to unite the country, transform Washington and inspire Republicans and Democrats to work together. Now he looks more like a typical partisan pol, battering the opposite party with the kind of vitriol almost never displayed by the man he was sent to replace, former President George W. Bush.Obama may put some short-term points on the board by reverting to classic political meanness. But by repudiating the mantle of change he was given, he is undermining his own raison d’etre.
