Lobbying for AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Escalates
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 25th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Lobbying for AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Escalates
Advice for Obama on the Economy
James Carville, CNN
Sir, I'm sure the last thing that you want is some unsolicited advice from a pundit, particularly a pundit who comes out of the Clinton camp, but CNN has an unspoken policy of publish or perish and with a daughter entering the 11th grade and college costs being what they are, I can't afford to perish just yet.First of all, to quote one of your predecessors, “I feel your pain.”
Democrats Jump the Stimulus Shark
New Rules for Declaring War
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Obama has exceeded the 90-day period to receive retroactive authorization from Congress.But things are not so simple. No president should accept "” and no president from Nixon on has accepted "” the constitutionality of the WPR, passed unilaterally by Congress over a presidential veto. On the other hand, every president should have the constitutional decency to get some congressional approval when he takes the country to war.
It’s Way Too Soon to Count Pawlenty Out
Ed Kilgore, The New Republic
As the 2012 Republican presidential field began to take shape earlier this year, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty looked like the perfect on-paper candidate: a former blue-state, blue-collar governor from the Midwest who was cozy with both social conservatives and Tea Party folk, and who didn't have Mitt Romney's problem of heretical past positions. Nobody, to be sure, was going to confuse him with the fire-breathing orators whose rhetoric he purloined, but at a time when a generic Republican was consistently running more strongly against Barack Obama than any actual…
