Dems Say Party Failing to Humanize Budget Cuts
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 20th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Dems Say Party Failing to Humanize Budget Cuts
Mike Lillis, The Hill
A growing chorus of Democratic loyalists argue their party is losing the messaging battle over spending by failing to put a human face on cuts proposed by the GOP. Instead of shining the spotlight on the programs slashed and the people affected, Democrats have let the debate revolve around the cumulative size of the cuts, the critics charge. That attention to an arbitrary figure “” and not the underlying programs on the chopping block “” has spun the debate into a fight over numbers that lacks a human element.
Mega-Banks & The Next Financial Crisis
James Freeman, Wall St. Journal
At the height of the housing bubble, hedge-fund manager Paul Singer was shorting subprime mortgages. By the spring of 2007, he was warning regulators on both sides of the Atlantic that the world was facing a major financial crisis.They ignored him. Now the founder of Elliott Management says the biggest banks are headed for another credit meltdown. Among the likely triggers for the next crisis, Mr. Singer sees one leading candidate: Monetary policy “is extremely risky,” he says, “the risk being massive inflation.”
What’s Our Plan in Libya?
James Jay Carafano, New York Post
Judging from his press conference yesterday, it seems President Obama is unaware of the oldest maxim in war — “The enemy gets a vote.”Hours earlier, for example, Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa declared to journalists in Tripoli that the regime had declared a ceasefire — so there was (supposedly) no threat to civilians and thus no justification for bombing his troops.
