HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Libya-Iraq, Birthers-Church, Social-Fiscal
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 4th, 2011 4:43 am by HL
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Libya-Iraq, Birthers-Church, Social-Fiscal
Mary and sit-in Wayne Barrett debate how March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion — Shutdown Washington? Shutdown nuclear? Shutdown Gaddafii?
Robert Kuttner: Changing the Tone in Washington
“I ran for president to do two things — to change the tone of bitter partisanship in Washington, and to accomplish constructive economic change so that more Americans can share the blessings of prosperity.” That’s what the leader I thought I was voting for would say. When Obama eventually gets a budget deal, it doesn’t matter to him that it’s mostly on Republican terms. The bounce in the polls that he enjoyed in the aftermath of a craven tax cut deal is used as the object lesson in the value of the president as compromiser in chief. But that bounce has pretty well evaporated.
Tobias Barrington Wolff: Labor and the LGBT Community
Labor rights is an LGBT issue. Showing up to help labor in their current struggle is not an act of altruism, it is the satisfaction of a reciprocal obligation.
