Let Obama and Frieden Do Their Jobs
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Let Obama and Frieden Do Their Jobs
Joe Conason, National Memo
If the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then even the possibility of infection with Ebola should do the same — for all of us. Instead, we seem easily distracted by attempts to blame President Barack Obama and to scapegoat the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Republican politicians and media loudmouths have even demanded the resignation of Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC’s director, because he’s refused to endorse a West African travel ban.They’re all dead wrong.First, Obama is following precisely the correct approach in addressing the outbreak with his order to dispatch…
Fueling Decentralization: Solar Power & the Tea Party
Amit Ronen, RCP
Amit Ronen tells Carl M. Cannon about the unlikely political alliance between environmental groups and the Tea Party.
We Don’t Know What the White House Is Hiding
Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Typically, the practice of avoiding making any controversial announcements or decisions in the weeks leading up to an election is something of an artful and hopefully discreet exercise – even if it obvious what is happening, there is usually a fig leaf of cover. Apparently, the Obama administration has abandoned the “artful” aspect of this exercise. In order to hide what they really believe and what they really want to do, this administration is blatantly delaying announcements on a range of topics until after the midterm elections. For instance, when explaining the…
