Don’t Panic, Mitt Romney!
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 28th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Don’t Panic, Mitt Romney!
Ross Douthat, New York Times
“Right now,” David Brooks writes today, in the wake of Rick Perry’s surge to the front of the G.O.P. field, “the Romney camp is passively hoping [Perry] implodes. That seems unlikely … Sooner or later, Romney is going to have to prove his own toughness by taking Perry on directly.”Ed Kilgore agrees: “At some point, and some time soon, Mitt Romney is going to have to begin making not only a more positive case for his candidacy but a comparative case by way of attacking his rivals … Mitt cannot safely continue to…
New Election Laws Limit Minority Voting Rights
Rep. John Lewis, NYT
AS we celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, we reflect on the life and legacy of this great man. But recent legislation on voting reminds us that there is still work to do. Since January, a majority of state legislatures have passed or considered election-law changes that, taken together, constitute the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Growing up as the son of an Alabama sharecropper, I experienced Jim Crow firsthand. It was enforced by the slander of “separate but equal,” willful blindness to acts of…
Our Oil-Constrained Future
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
I've talked a few times about the possibility that world growth is now constrained by oil production. The basic story is simple: As long as there's spare oil-production capacity, increasing demand caused by economic growth produces only a steady, manageable increase in oil prices. But oil production is now close to its maximum and can't be easily or quickly expanded. When the global economy grows enough that demand starts to bump up against this ceiling, oil prices don't rise slowly and steadily; rather, they spike suddenly, causing a recession, which in turn reduces oil…
Keep Your Health Plan? Don’t Count On It
Byron York, DC Examiner
In June 2009, as he fought to pass the Democrats' national health care bill, President Obama made a clear, unequivocal pledge. “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people,” Obama said. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”Spoken with great confidence, Obama's words were meant to reassure, and it's possible many Americans believed them. But at the…
