Posted by alexseitzwald at 2:47 pm February 21, 2010 Today on Face the Nation, former Secretary of Sate Colin Powell dismissed former Vice President Cheney’s claim that President Obama has made the nation less safe. Saying, “I don’t know where the claim comes [from],” Powell ticked off Obama’s national security accomplishments, gave a full-throated defense [...]
Archive for February, 2010
22 Feb
What Makes Us Think We Can Help “Govern” Afghanistan?
Tomdispatch.com / By Tom Engelhard Why do American officials think they have the special ability to teach Afghans to embark on good governance in their country if we can’t do it in Washington? February 21, 2010 | Photo Credit: Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez (U.S. Air Force) Explain something to me. In recent months, unless you [...]
21 Feb
A fact: Stimulus created jobs
GLOBE EDITORIAL February 21, 2010 THE NUMBERS are in, and there can no longer be any doubt that President Obama’s stimulus bill, passed just over a year ago, helped pull America from the brink of economic catastrophe, in part by creating millions of jobs that would not otherwise have existed. All of the major economic [...]
20 Feb
Steele Blasts Buy America For Being Too Weak, But Gop Opposed Buy America
ourfuture.org By Mike Elk February 19, 2010 – 12:44pm ET GOP Chairman Michael Steele blasted the Obama administration in a fund-raising email earlier this week for allowing stimulus money designated for clean energy solutions to be spent on overseas companies. Which is interesting, because stimulus money going to overseas firms was the direct result of [...]
20 Feb
Public Option Support Surging In Senate
HuffingtonPost First Posted: 02-17-10 06:08 PM | Updated: 02-19-10 05:42 PM Support for the public health insurance option is surging in the Senate. It began with three freshman Democrats in the House, Alan Grayson (Fla.), Chellie Pingree (Maine) and Jared Polis (Colo.). The campaign has taken place almost exclusively online. Grayson organized an online petition calling for [...]
19 Feb
Today’s Broad Brush Issues
www.ourfuture.org After Summit, Reconciliation? By Bill Scher February 19, 2010 – 8:47am ET Dems Ready Reconciliation Bill President will post online “comprehensive” legislative proposal 72 hours before bipartisan health care summit. NYT: “‘“It will be a reconciliation bill,’ one Democratic aide said. ‘If Republicans don’t come with any substantial offers, this is what we would [...]
19 Feb
IS AMERICA in decline?
Finally, an honest look at what’s crippling America By Scot Lehigh Boston Globe Columnist / February 19, 2010 As James Fallows recounts in the January/February Atlantic, that question has been asked for most of our history, and those concerns have always proved ill-founded. And yet, we’re now on a fiscal trajectory that has rendered us [...]
19 Feb
Conservatives’ Real Agenda Revealed at CPAC Conference: Love of Torture and Hatred of Obama
AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan Day One of this year’s conservafest included a surprise visit by torture advocate #1 Dick Cheney, and the crowd went wild for him. February 19, 2010 | At first, the opening roster of speakers at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference sounded a common theme: How many ways can [...]
19 Feb
Health Care Reform Back from the Dead? Obama’s Team Signals Support for Public Option; 18 Senators Sign on
Pressure is building in the Senate among Dems, and Obama’s Health Secretary backed government-run insurance plan if Majority Leader Harry Reid signs on to it. February 19, 2010 | Editor’s Note: AlterNet’s Daniela Perdomo writes: “Adding to the building pressure this week from his Senate colleagues who have openly demanded a public option in [...]
18 Feb
The straw that broke Evan Bayh’s tenure
By David S. Broder Thursday, February 18, 2010 The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Reid that they would oppose any increase in the statutory debt ceiling unless it was accompanied by a serious [...]
17 Feb
It’s past time for President Obama to show some leadership
By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, February 17, 2010 It’s a rotten time in Washington, and I’m not just talking about the snow. Health-care reform, financial regulation, the jobs bill, the long-term budget deficit, energy and climate change — everywhere you turn, there’s political stalemate. Poll numbers are plummeting, and many good people either have been reduced [...]
