A Constitutional President In A Celebrity Age
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 20th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
A Constitutional President In A Celebrity Age
Corbin & Parks, Federalist
For the many admirers of 2008 “hope and change,” the Obama presidency has regrettably, six seasons in, read nothing like an Aaron Sorkin script (think “The American President”): Progressive idealism meets the challenges of national leadership head on, and, even though the president struggles to achieve political success in an imperfect world, our admiration for the person in the office softens our cynicism.
WH Finds Silver Lining in ISIS, Ebola Crises
Zeke Miller, Time
President Barack Obama has found a silver lining in months of global crises: an excuse for why he’s not out on the campaign trail for Democrats this fall.
Ebola Isn’t a Messaging Problem
Gottlieb & Troy, Wall Street Journal
The Centers for Disease Control is finally getting its act together. The White House is another matter.
GOP Calls for Ebola Czar, Gets Czar, Hates Czar
Jim Newell, Salon
The idea that President Obama can do anything to satisfy Republicans on The Ebola is a joke. That’s not what this is about. The narrative has been set and will not be altered by any decisions or concessions. If Obama does one thing that Republican lawmakers call for, the most generous response will be “he should be impeached for not doing it earlier;” more likely, there will just be new conditions placed.
The Democratic Party’s Leftward Shift
Joel Kotkin, OC Register
Much has been written about the right-ward shift of the Republican Party, but far less about a mounting left-wing movement among Democrats. While the media tends to dismiss the right-wingers of the GOP as “wingnuts,” it typically refrains from categorizing even the extreme left of the Democratic Party in a similar manner.