Constitutional Authority
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 3rd, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Resurrection of the Death Panel Canard
Jeffrey Weiss, Politics Daily
Personal Well-Being Overshadows Inequality
Michael Barone, Examiner
Let’s Face It: 2010 Was a Disaster
Dave Barry, Miami Herald
Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet. Can we honestly say that we had a worse year than those species did? Yes, we can, because they were not exposed to “Jersey Shore.”So on second thought we see that this was, in fact, the worst year ever. The perfect symbol for the awfulness of 2010 was the BP oil spill, which oozed up from the depths and spread, totally out…
How Obama Can Work With Republicans
Gregory Mankiw, NY Times
DEAR President Obama: Sorry to bother you. I know you are busy. But I have the sense that you could use a few words of advice. In a matter of days, Republicans will control the House of Representatives and have a larger voting bloc in the Senate. If economic policy is to make any progress over the next two years, you really will have to be bipartisan. To do so, you'll need to get inside the heads of the opposition. I am here to help. As a sometime adviser to Republicans, I'd like to offer a few guidelines to understanding their approach to economic policy….
