“It’s time to play hardball,” advises the WaPo’s E.J. Dionne today, echoing the sentiments of many, including myself, who think Obama needs to fight back against Republican anti-stimulus spin. Dionne concludes: In just two weeks, the elation of Inauguration Day has given way to a classic form of partisan hardball. Obama and his advisers have been forced to learn basic lessons on the run. For starters, the media cannot be counted on to be either liberal or permanently enchanted...
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Guest Blogging
I am guest blogging at TaylorMarsh.com for a few days. Check in and see what’s happening there including the latest on the Senate Dems and the stimulus bill. Sphere: Related Content
Justice Ginsberg Hospitalized With Cancer
In a sad development, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the second woman to sit on the Supreme Court, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. As it was diagnosed early and the Justice had been having no symptoms the prognosis, while never good with pancreatic cancer, is better than usual. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, according to a statement released by the court. Ginsburg had...
Grassrooters Storm The Hill
While I have some reservations about the newest form of lobbying by people from the grassroots, although most would puke at my accurate description, it’s starting on The Hill. Community organizers are the new oilmen. For a change, one of them is in the White House. They walk the marble halls of Congress with a certain swagger, as if their backpacks were designer briefcases and their jeans and baggy blazers were tailored pinstripe suits Good comprehensive story that you...
How Bad Must The Economy Get?
How bad must the economy get before Republicans in Congress get that we can’t afford to follow the same old failed policies and we can’t afford to sit around and twiddle and fiddle while more and more Americans are losing their jobs, savings and homes? Growing up, I heard many stories about the Great Depression from my parents who lived through it. This is as bad as I have seen the economy in my lifetime, and as readers here...
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