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Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in South Africa – Stepping Back for a Moment
An articulate president who reads books and tells things in a manner which does not demean. Huge change from Obama to Trump. The post Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in South Africa – Stepping ...
Barack Obama: a noble failure
(Dan here…NDd takes a shot at evaluating the President Obama legacy.) by New Deal Democrat Barack Obama: a noble failure Let me preface this essay by saying that I voted for Barack Obama twice,...
Oh, But Mr. Trump, Obama WAS Working For the American People Last Thursday. (!)
Looking at Air Force One @ MIA. Why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs & fixing Obamacare? Get back to work for the American people! 11:19 AM – 3 Nov 2016 — Obama taunts Trump after a...
Yup. Comey’s a Goner.
President Obama briefly addressed the FBI’s reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices for the first time, saying in an interview posted Wednesday that the agency does not ...
WHY OBAMA SHOULD FIRE COMEY*: Comey himself makes clear tha...orcement and prosecutors nationwide. As well as to the public.
According to senior F.B.I. officials, Mr. Comey felt that he would be breaking his pledge of transparency to Congress if he did not reveal the new information from the Weiner case. And he believe...
Obama should tell the public specifically—in meticulous d...etting process IS. Since Clinton once again failed to do that.
There has been a great deal of concern about the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. Are we letting terrorists into the United States? How much do we know about the Syrians being admitted? Is our ...
“Why would you want to be associated with a party that’s so awful?”
This morning I overheard a part of a conversation between two 30-ish old high school friends, both from career-military families; their high school was on a military base. One is a disabled Mar...
Trump is wrong. Hillary Clinton didn’t start the birther claim. New Jersey Muslims standing on rooftops did.
Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it, you know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we ...
Liberals, and especially African-American liberals, should not encourage Senate confirmation of Garland to the Supreme Court
Repubs apparently now think they can have the last laugh. Senate Repubs reportedly now are considering whether to confirm during the lame duck session after the election if Clinton wins. But ...
GAG. (And Paul Krugman is just so, so mystified that so man...ives support Sanders. Be mystified no longer, dear professor.)
Dan Crawford gave me the news this morning before I’d already learned of it. He emailed me with the subject title: “Merrick Garland…here we go!” He linked, without comment, to the NYT art...
Biden Tips Obama’s Hand On the Choice for the Supreme Court Nomination. (I’m not unhappy about the selection.)
Obama’s choice to replace Scalia, it appears from Biden’s comments this morning, will be Jane Kelly, whom Obama appointed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in St. Louis, in 2013. ...
A Question For Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Member... Sri Srinivasan If Obama Nominates Him to Fill Scalia’s Seat
In private practice, prior to his appointment to the appeals court, Srinivasan successfully represented former Enron Corp CEO Jeff Skilling in a Supreme Court case. The Supreme Court narrowed the...
Okay, let’s have a show of hands here: How many of you pr...vil rights plaintiffs involved in the criminal-justice system?
Or how about another former Washington corporate mega-law-firm partner? Like John Roberts?! Only moderate. I mean, but what if he or she is an Asian? And would be the first Asian on the ...
Do Voters Who Want ‘Change’ Really Care More About the ...ndidate Than About the Age of the Candidate’s Ideas? REALLY?
The Marco Rubio debate moment that worries Democrats: When Marco Rubio cast the election as a ‘generational choice,’ he took a page out of the Obama playbook to portray himself as the candida...
The Silly Analogizing of Bernie Sanders to Ron Paul
Oh, dear. This post of mine from yesterday is soooo yesterday. (Okay, sooo last-weekend, to be precise.) The attempt to paint Sanders as the Democrats’ Donald Trump has failed. Sande...
WHY THE DEMOCRATS LOST: Because they cannot win unless they...will not (or, intellectually, cannot) do that. So others must.
Yesterday, I wrote here in response to a statement by Greg Sargent that “McConnell’s only way to re-litigate Obama’s policies will remain budgetary guerrilla warfare that will only work i...
Greg Sargent confuses Obama with Elizabeth Warren. Or with ...le Obama confuses the congressional Republicans with Michelle.
Presuming Republicans win the Upper Chamber, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will claim a new era of constructive governance has arrived, while simultaneously claiming a mandate to chip aw...
Repeal LyndonJohnsonCare?
While I was reading an article on the web this morning from my phone, up popped one of those incessant anti-Obama/anti-Obamacare “take-a-survey” ads—one of those little square red-and-white...
Dear Greg Sargent: “Re your Morning Plum reference to Krugman’s column today”
Update appended below. —- After a two-and-a-half-month hiatus from regular blogging here—most of my few posts this summer related to my passion about animal rescue and animal welfare—I’m ...
Thom Tillis vs. Sam Walton and Ray Kroc
From an interview of North Carolina Republican Senate Candidate Thom Tillis by NBC’s Chuck Todd today: Todd: Do you think should be raised in North Carolina? Tillis: I think that’s a decis...
Obamacare plans bring hefty fees for certain drugs? Really? Well … it depends on what the meaning of “bring” is.
MIAMI (AP) — Breast cancer survivor Ginny Mason was thrilled to get health coverage under the Affordable Care Act despite her pre-existing condition. But when she realized her arthritis medicat...
Here’s what “unaffordable” long-term leukemia care ACTUALLY looks like, Ms. Boonstra. And Rep. Peters.
Just when I thought I’d written my last post on Julie Boonstra, I read Kenneth Thomas’s post below, from Sunday. The only comment to that post–mine, which I just posted–reads: How very,...
Okay, so why was Julie Boonstra advocating for lower-cost o... concerned about reaching her annual or lifetime coverage cap?
Boonstra is the ex-wife of Mark Boonstra, the former Washtenaw County GOP chairman whom Gov. Rick Snyder appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 2012. Julie Boonstra said she’s never been...
Paul Krugman is wrong; Obama DOES need to discuss Keynesian economics in his State of the Union address. Here’s why.
Paul Krugman is my hero. I credit him–him alone, really–with ending, finally, the Peterson Foundation’s capture of almost all of the mainstream news media as their PR outfit. Just as I ...
Yes, Speaker Boehner, but WHOSE Fiscal Policies of the Present Are to Blame?
House Speaker John Boehner told a closed meeting of his colleagues that a Republican pollster found that for the first time, most Americans blame President Barack Obama for the economic troubles,...
Kochcare vs. Obamacare: Finally, Finally, Obama Comes Out Swinging
Mr. Obama also singled out sponsors of a “cynical ad campaign” discouraging Americans from signing up for the new health care program by arguing that it would effectively put the government i...
Inequality: Obama’s Speech, Detroit’s Bankruptcy, Taxes
by Linda Beale Inequality: Obama’s Speech, Detroit’s Bankruptcy, Taxes Was Obama’s speech on inequality really what Michael Lind claims in “The Day the Right Lost the Economic Argument”...
WHISKEY SOUR: No, Sen. Alexander, and, no, Ruth Marcus, Mitch McConnell Is Not Everett Dirksen. So Sorry.
Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1949) and...
John Boehner Needs a Dictionary
All of these bipartisan discussions are encouraging, and Republicans hope they will lead to real solutions that help American families. But presidential leadership is really what’s needed. By s...
Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Balancing the Budget Is Just a Sales G...he Federal Government. And We Republicans Think It Will Work!
But several right-leaning fiscal experts described a balanced budget as a tool to force a fractious Congress to tackle the nation’s long-term budget problems. “It is important to reduce the d...
John Dickerson Halts This Week’s Nonsense Juggernaut. Or At Least He Tries To.
By turning his efforts to the inside game, the president is momentarily turning away from the “campaign style” tours around the country, which he had hoped would help put pressure on Washingt...
John Boehner Lists Our Presidential Thieves–And Ronald Reagan Is Among Them!
“The revenue issue is now closed,” Mr. Boehner said Thursday, before the House left town for the weekend without acting on the cuts and a Senate attempt to avert them died. Mr. Boehner said t...
Dr. Richard Wolff on the Sequester
I watched Dr. Wolff (Professor emeritus, UMass) on this past week episode with Bill Moyers. At the end of this show, Mr. Moyers invited the viewers to submit questions to Dr. Wolf who has...
Obama’s Inexplicable Failure to Explain and Clarify What ...er IS–and What the Respective Sides Want to Replace It WITH.
This is the political atmosphere within which the battle will unfold over who is to blame for the damage done by the sequester. Now, in fairness, Republicans are favored on the deficit and contro...
The Large Number of Hedge Fund Managers Near Fort Rucker, A... Suggested Response to the Republicans’ Simple Response(s).)
It’s unconscionable to use our military men and women in uniform as a bargaining chip to raise our taxes. — Rep. Martha Roby, (R. Ala.) Our taxes, huh? Ours! This actually is unexpectedly...
John Boehner Should Travel More. To Australia.
Yesterday, both sides drew their battle lines in the coming war over the minimum wage. After Obama called for a minimum wage hike in his State of the Union speech, House Republicans dug in agains...
This was the best State of the Union address in my memory.
I’m so surprised, and so happy. There were three or four lines in there early on that I was so happy about, and just so surprised at, that they they brought tears to my eyes. And that last ...
Does Obama Have Stockholm Syndrome, Or Is Greg Sargent Misreading Obama’s Press Conference Comments?
And the plain fact is that Obama has reiterated that the same spending and entitlement cuts he offered in 2011 are still on the table, even irking his own base in the process. — Greg Sargent, t...
Not to beat a dead horse, but …
In further follow-up to my post of yesterday (I already appended the original post yesterday) called, “Stories That Will Continue to Get Far Too Little Attention As Long As Obama Allows Them To...
Stories That Will Continue to Get Far Too Little Attention As Long As Obama Allows Them To.
* Don’t forget about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Paul Krugman has the goods on a story that’s getting far too little attention: In filibustering Richard Cordray, Obama’s choic...
John Boehner Says Defense Spending Is the Problem with the Economy. Awesome. –
Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports this morning that Republicans believe the GDP report showing the economy is shrinking gives them political “leverage” over Obama, since bad economic news is ...
… But Also Don’t Miss Glenn Greenwald’s Piece Today on Obama’s First-Term Appalling Justice Dept. – UPDATED
The disgusting Lanny Breuer–a Clinton-era big-wig–is heavily featured in Glenn Greenwald’s article. But of course the weak, ineffectual Eric Holder, and Obama himself, are even greater cu...
David Gergen’s Beautiful Essay Today on CNN.com.
It sums up this week and what it means. I think, and dearly hope. The post David Gergen’s Beautiful Essay Today on CNN.com. appeared first on Angry Bear .
O Brotherhood, Where Art Thou? (Ezra Klein versus … Me (and Others))
Oh, dear. I like Ezra Klein. A lot. So I’ll leave out the sarcasm–a necessity anyway, since I’ve already exhausted this week’s supply. But I do want to point out, because he’s so in...
Does David Brooks Really Think Student Loans, Public Univer...rmines Creativity and Private Enterprise? I Mean … REALLY?*
I’m a political junkie, born and bred. And so the number of political opinion pieces I’ve read in my life, dating back to my teenage years (me being a child of my parents, they of the arden...
Obama Asked Not What His Country Can Do For Him — He Aske...Which is why Dana Milbank–yes, him again–hated the speech.
There was less wow in the address that preceded Clarkson. Obama teased the crowd with a theme of unity: “Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people.”...
Finally … The Change We’ve Been Waiting For
This was a throw-down-the-gauntlet speech. We have ourselves a leader. —-UPDATE: E.J. Dionne equates this speech with FDR’s second inaugural speech and Reagan’s first one, in its impo...
What Dana Milbank’s Stunningly Awful Column Today Reveals About the Washington Press Corps –
Okay. There’s no way to do justice to Washington Post centerist columnist Dana Milbank’s column today about Obama’s “presser” yesterday by just summarizing it or quoting a sentence or...
Obama: "We are not a deadbeat nation." (But the Republicans are a deadbeat party.)
The issue here is whether America pays its bills. We are not a deadbeat nation. … This is the United States of America. We can’t manage our affairs in terms of the way we pay our bills? �...
Rep. Greg Walden (R. OR) Explains the Debt Ceiling. Good For Him!
Either that or he means that the public understands what the debt-ceiling statute actually is, and will never support Congress’s authorization of payment of already-incurred expenses earlier au...
See Harold Meyerson’s Washington Post Column Today
This shift from wages to profits is called redistribution. It is the central fact of American economic life. And it is the primary reason that economic inequality in the United States has skyrock...
Will the Republicans’ The-Debt-Ceiling-Is-About-Appropria...isinformation Campaign Succeed? (Well, only if Obama lets it.)
In the wake of the fiscal deal raising taxes only on income over $450,000, Republicans are declaring that the debate over taxes is finished. The next fiscal deal will contain nothing in new reven...
Eh. I’ve changed my mind.
I want to remove the post I posted this afternoon called “Harry Reid Throws Down the Gauntlet In Front of … Obama. Hurray.” I think Reid has done exactly that, and I think he’ll play ...
The Best Revenge: Pointing Out that Romney Keeps Pretending to Be Stupid. Or That He Really IS Stupid.
Yesterday in Springfield, Ohio, the crowd listening to Barack Obama booed when the President brought up Mitt Romney and the Republican Congress. That prompted Obama to say: “No, no, no — don...
Binders Full of Battleships, Horses and Bayonets
I loved the horses-and-bayonets rejoinder, and I especially loved that it highlighted Romney’s incessant plucking of irrelevant statistics and misrepresenting what they indicate. But the line...
The Binders That Bind
The most revealing moment last night came as Ann Romney walked toward her husband onstage at the end. That expression on her face. I thought she looked like a woman in a binder. It is, I supp...
At long last, have you left no sense of decency? (The most important fact that Obama can point to tomorrow night)
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch, head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCa...
Why Last Night’s Debate Will Really Matter—and, yes, it will.
Not surprisingly, the pundits have concluded that, while the debate last night will stop the bleeding for the Dem ticket—stop the momentum for Romney/Ryan—it won’t make a difference beyond ...
Why has no one (but me) mentioned Romney’s erroneous clai...n, folks; the Clinton administration ended only 12 years ago.*
A really striking feature of the Romney campaign is the candidate’s penchant for stating policy positions as though each one exists in a vacuum. To wit: His 20% across-the-board tax-rate redu...
Spain. Please, Mr. Obama, talk about Spain. Please.
ROMNEY: Look, the revenue I get is by more people working, getting higher pay, paying more taxes. That’s how we get growth and how we balance the budget. But the idea of taxing people more, put...
Why Doesn’t Rachel Zubay Know That Most Provisions of Obamacare Won’t Start Until 2014?
Rachel Zubay, 32, works as a waitress at Abdalla’s Steak House, in the shadow of a recently idled coal-fired power plant. She’s got two kids, is in the middle of a divorce, has no medical ins...
John Cusack and Jonathan Turley Support Hideki Tōjō for President. They Want You To, Too.
I like Truthout. I’m on its email list and so I receive daily notices about newly posted articles on the site. I don’t read them all, but the ones I read usually are worth the time. And...
Matthew Yglesias, Slate’s Boy With a Little Curl
Lost in the shuffle here is the question of what it is Romney is denying he’s responsible for. Stipulate that Romney somehow had nothing to do with running a company of which he was the CEO and...