Help Wanted: Leadership
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 26th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Help Wanted: Leadership
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
TO Barack Obama, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Cantor, I just have two words of advice: Herbert Hoover.I know you’re all familiar with that name. Hoover lives in infamy in U.S. history for having been on duty when the Great Depression happened. You’re all courting a similar fate. Your collective behavior is setting all of you up to be known as our generation’s Herbert Hoovers — the leaders who were on duty when we entered our second great economic meltdown.
Only Conservatives Can End the Death Penalty
E.J. Dionne, Wash Post
WASHINGTON — How can we end the death penalty in the United States?Every so often, one capital case receives wide attention and makes a public spectacle of the American machinery of death. Last week, it was the controversy over Troy Davis, who was executed in Georgia after years of impassioned argument, organizing and litigation.I honor those who worked so hard to save Davis' life because they forced the nation to deal with all of the uncertainties, imperfections and, in some instances, brutalities of the criminal justice system.Yet after all the tears are shed and after the last…
Solyndra and the Stimulus Scandal
Charles Gasparino, Huffington Post
The left wing media loves a good scandal, particularly one that somehow points out how allegedly greedy capitalists rip off taxpayers. If these capitalists are in any way connected to the Republican Party, like defense contractor Halliburton, it's feeding-frenzy time.But if the scandal involves one of the liberal media's pet causes like “affordable housing” to the poor, scandals such as the widespread accounting fraud at the government mortgage lender Fannie Mae and the massive pay packages handed out to the agency's top executives are just not such a big deal.
