Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 13th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Tea Party America Thinks Small
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Kishore Mahbubani, the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is over for tea and I am telling him about what I consider to be the most exciting, moon-shot-quality, high-aspiration initiative proposed by President Obama that no one has heard of. It’s a plan to set up eight innovation hubs to solve the eight biggest energy problems in the world. But I explain that the program has not been fully funded yet because Congress, concerned about every dime we spend these days, is reluctant to appropriate the full $25 million for each…
How to Understand the Incumbent Rule
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Jobs Slog: How Dems Will Dissect the Jobs Issue
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
LIST: 12 secure jobs for the next decade.For the Democrats, there's no escaping last Friday's gloomy jobs report, the final Labor Department numbers that will be released before the November elections. So what's a party with ownership over an epically bad economy to do to limit losses? The plan, it appears, is to adopt a lemonade-from-lemons approach.Initially, Democrats tried nationalizing the issue: whom do you want governing in tough times”"the party fighting for the middle class or the party fighting for Wall Street? But focus groups conducted for Democratic…
