Posterity
…very different than they ever have been. But it also may serve as a warning to Obama. I’ve pointed out before that except for one or two issues (Obamacare and…
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Comments on Journalist Chris Hedges’ article “Why I’m Suing Barack Obama”
by Beverly Mann Comments on Journalist Chris Hedges’ article, “Why I’m Suing Barack Obama” (reformatted for easier reading) Dan asked me if I could comment on an article published yesterday…
Windfall taxes and Mr. Obama
…an article June 10, 2008 named Please, Mr Obama No Half-As**d Measures. Mr. Obama had made remarks April 25, 2008 and more recently on the subject. The economic theory seems…
Obama AFDC TANF EITC and facts which are stubborn things
In his speech on inequality Barack Obama said it’s also true that some programs in the past, like welfare before it was reformed, were sometimes poorly designed, created disincentives to…
Birther Schadenfreude: Backdoor Historical Vindication for Obama
Back in 2008, after he was elected but before he took office, I wrote a piece countering what I thought was the strongest attack on Obama’s Natural Born Citizen status….
Obama: "We are not a deadbeat nation." (But the Republicans are a deadbeat party.)
…of the way we pay our bills? … I don’t think anyone would consider my position unreasonable. — President Obama, today So President Obama does read Angry Bear. Cool! Seriously,…
Why Spending/GDP is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Metric For Judging Obama’s Performance
A post like this really shouldn’t be necessary, but part of the right wing canard that Obama has been a profligate spender is based on spending as a percentage of…
Obama’s FY 2011 Budget
by Linda Beale Obama’s FY 2011 Budget The Obama Administration released its FY2011 Budget proposals today which assumes a substantial amount of tax cuts (making the 2001-2003 Bush cuts permanent…
Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Econ Man
T-bone got me thinking in his response to my comment about Obama. Well, as a good AB’er, that meant I had to go a hunting. In this case, specifically for…
Okay, let’s have a show of hands here: How many of you progressives want Obama to nominate a moderate to take Scalia’s seat? Because the Supreme Court should always be comprised only of arch-conservatives and a few moderates. How many want a former prosecutor, on the theory that the federal bench does not already have enough former prosecutors, and because the Supreme Court is just toooo pro-non-white-collar criminal defendant and tooo favorable to civil rights plaintiffs involved in the criminal-justice system?
…lists do reflect what are considered the political realities, and Obama is widely viewed by non-Republicans as a political-realities type of guy. Including by me. And by Hillary Clinton. And…