By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted November 29, 2008. While we deliberate major economic transformation, there are good ideas waiting on the shelf right now the new president can green light. Barack Obama has said that there can only be one president at a time. By all appearances, in the midst of an almost unprecedented economic [...]
Archive for November, 2008
29 Nov
5 Great Progressive Columnists’ Advice and Ideas on the Coming Obama Era
AlterNet. Posted November 29, 2008. Amy Goodman, Sean Gonsalves, Robert Scheer, David Sirota and Norm Solomon on what kind of White House Obama will create. The following are five recent articles by AlterNet columnists on the issues Obama and his supporters face during the presidential transition. Amy Goodman: How Obama Can Help Redeem the White [...]
29 Nov
Kuttner: Another Great Depression a Bigger Risk Than Budget Deficits
This week on NOW on PBS, economist Robert Kuttner states what should be (but unfortunately isn’t) conventional wisdom: that it’s more important to get this economy going again than it is to manage the federal budget deficit downwards. As Kuttner points out, our national debt is currently around 40% of GDP, less than a third [...]
28 Nov
Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING 17 Reasons To Give Thanks This Thanksgiving, progressives have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s our list: We’re thankful we’ll soon have a president who will hit the ground running instead of a president who is running the country into the ground. We’re thankful that Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are demonstrating every [...]
27 Nov
Obama Addresses Worries That There Isn’t Enough ‘Change’ in His Cabinet Picks
Posted by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly at 6:28 AM on November 26, 2008. “Understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost: it comes from me.” At his third economic-related press conference in as many days, Barack Obama announced the creation of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, modeled on the President’s Foreign [...]
27 Nov
America Out of Work
By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. Posted November 27, 2008. Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan. WASHINGTON — There will be no freedom from want. The only thing we might now hope for is freedom from fear. Even that is a [...]
27 Nov
How Will Obama Harness Powerful Economic Team?
By David Cho and Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, November 27, 2008; Page A01 Barack Obama’s appointment yesterday of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker to the growing team advising him on the nation’s deepening financial crisis only heightens a central leadership challenge the president-elect will face: how to manage a stable [...]
27 Nov
Blessings Of the Moment
By Eugene Robinson Thursday, November 27, 2008; Page A29 “May you live in interesting times” is supposed to be an ancient Chinese curse, but I can’t find evidence that the saying is Chinese at all, much less that it’s ancient. One of the earliest reliable citations seems to be a 1950 short story by the [...]
27 Nov
Good Time For a Brainy President
By David S. Broder Thursday, November 27, 2008; Page A29 When I started covering the White House more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong. Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were certainly not intellectuals, but they understood the power of the presidency [...]
27 Nov
WHEN IS THE LOWEST COST PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN NOT THE LOWEST COST PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN?
Medicare Advocacy Org/Thanksgiving Day, 2008icareadvocacy.org The Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) for Part C and Part D plans, which began on November 15, is the time of the year when all Medicare beneficiaries may change how they receive their prescription drug and other Medicare coverage. This year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is urging [...]
26 Nov
Obama Offers Recovery Proposals
He Announces Two More Officials On Economic Team By Dan Eggen and Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 26, 2008; Page A03 In his second news conference in as many days, President-elect Barack Obama continued his assertive approach to the nation’s financial woes, naming two more top economic officials and promoting a [...]
26 Nov
Orszag Will Be Director of OMB
Position Expected to Have Broader Role By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 26, 2008; Page A03 Not long ago, the men and women minding the federal budget were pure number crunchers. But in choosing Peter R. Orszag to run the Office of Management and Budget, President-elect Barack Obama indicated yesterday that the [...]
