Bush’s Memoir Is a Story of a Blindsided President
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 8th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Bush’s Memoir Is a Story of a Blindsided President
Maureen Dowd, NYT
W. never sweated the small stuff.Unfortunately, he didn't much sweat the big stuff either.Often the thing the former president was sweating most was, well, sweating "” making sure he got in quality time for his cherished workouts.In his deftly crafted and utterly selective new memoir, W. is the president we all wished him to be: compassionate, bipartisan, funny, charming, instinctive, independent, able to admit and learn from mistakes "” and a good dad, who sang his twin girls the Yale fight song as a lullaby.
The Battle Over ObamaCare
Michael Tanner, New York Post
In the first hours after Republicans reclaimed the House, the presumptive new dpeaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio), made clear his plans for the health care bill passed last March: “We must do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care.”Voters made themselves abundantly clear on Tuesday — Democrats who supported the health care bill lost in droves. Eight Democrats in the House, including New York’s Scott Murphy, switched from opposing the bill on early votes to supporting it for…
You Lose 65 Seats, You Resign. Period.
Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
Okay, today is the day I'm officially getting old. Moving toward the mushy middle. At least on this one question. Nancy Pelosi is going to run to keep her job as leader of the Democrats, and I am not down with this at all.I think she was a good to very good speaker. In interviews and other occasions I had to speak with her, she's not what you'd call an intellectual, and I dislike this habit she has of interrupting her own sentences and changing direction like a pinball that's just hit a bumper. But she's a sharpie, believe me. Maybe not up there with Schumer,…
