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Archive for June 16th, 2008
16 Jun
Bush’s Senioritis
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, June 16, 2008; 1:45 PM President Bush’s contempt for those who question him or doubt his accomplishments has been on full display lately. That two thirds of Americans are now in that category apparently hasn’t made him any more receptive to their concerns– quite the opposite. When British [...]
16 Jun
George Will on This Week: Who Are You Gonna Believe? Me Or Your Lying Bank Account?
By: Nicole Belle on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 at 3:00 PM – PDT Don’t listen to the Federal Reserve or economists, dagnabit! You’re better off now than you were eight years ago. George Will thinks so, and he’s never wrong, correct? The problem–as Will sees it–has nothing to do with economic indicators but with [...]
16 Jun
Negotiating A Neverending War
americanprogressaction.org On Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters in Amman, Jordan that negotiations over initial U.S. proposals for bilateral political and military agreements between the United States and Iraq had “reached a dead end” after U.S. negotiators demanded “control of Iraqi airspace and immunity from prosecution for U.S. troops and private contractors.” BBC [...]
16 Jun
Fiscal Poison Pill
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 16, 2008 A poison pill, in corporate jargon, is a financial arrangement designed to protect current management by crippling the company if someone else takes over. Paul Krugman As I read the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center?s analysis of the presidential candidates? tax proposals, I realized that the tax cuts enacted [...]
16 Jun
The Fall and Rise of Hillary Clinton
What she won by losing. By John Heilemann Published Jun 15, 2008 Illustration by Laurent Fetis The victor and the vanquished are standing in a cluttered hallway backstage at the Washington Convention Center, conducting a conversation short and sweet?for one of them, at least. It?s just around noon on June 4, less [...]
16 Jun
A Blow Against Tyranny
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Friday, June 13, 2008; 12:41 PM In yesterday’s landmark Supreme Court decision that President Bush cannot deny prisoners at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in federal court, there’s a key passage about protecting people from despotism. The passage comes as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is relating [...]
16 Jun
McCain’s time warp
June 16, 2008 TRYING TO deflect criticism that he is sounding like a clone of the unpopular President Bush, Senator John McCain is equating Barack Obama’s policies with those of President Jimmy Carter. Comparisons across generations are rarely on target, and McCain’s remarks are particularly obtuse. To solidify Republican support, McCain has positioned himself as [...]
16 Jun
RISING MEDICARE PREMIUMS WILL HIT RETIREES HARD
By Scott Burns, The Austin American-Statesman Sunday, June 15, 2008 Medicare premiums might soon start crushing retiree spending power. I estimate that many a long-lived couple might need to reduce their retirement spending on nonmedical consumption by 13 percent to 26 percent to avoid sharp declines in purchasing power as they get older. This is [...]
16 Jun
The Greatest Story Never Told
Finally, the U.S. Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News By Tom Engelhardt It’s just a $5,812,353 contract — chump change for the Pentagon — and not even one of those notorious “no-bid” contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received before the contract was awarded this May [...]
16 Jun
The dumbing down of voters
(Scott Menchin Illustration for the Boston Globe) June 15, 2008 THE THOUGHT occurs to almost everybody, I would suppose, that politics today is conducted at a lower level than it used to be. Not many voted against William Howard Taft because he was fat or Abraham Lincoln because he was thin. One can’t imagine Franklin [...]
16 Jun
Iraq, the sovereign colony?
June 15, 2008 PRESIDENT BUSH has been treating Iraq less as an ally than a vassal. He has been pushing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to accept two long-term agreements that would, as many Iraqis rightly object, compromise Iraq’s sovereignty and independence. Bush and Maliki agreed in November on principles for a “status of forces agreement,” [...]
