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So Much For The Nixon Going To China Moment

January 25, 2011Burt Likko

In a move that surprises no one but simply continues politics as usual and adds further assurance that we will run our national debt into fiscal oblivion one day during my lifetime, the President has announced that he opposes changing… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, Lighting Our Money On Fire, News

Scorecard 2010

January 1, 2011Burt Likko

Here were my predictions for 2010, and here’s how they did: Jon Huntsman will resign as ambassador to China and begin to lay the groundwork for a Presidential bid in 2012.  Has not happened.  In retrospect, I failed to credit… Continue Reading →

2010 Election, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, California, China, Constitutional Law, Courts, Domestic Politics, International Politics, Iran, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Money, Movies, News

Closing Guantánamo Bay: The Buick Solution

December 28, 2010Burt Likko

General Motors has, after its traumatic financial reorganization, reduced its branding from eight or nine different brand names to four. One of its brands, GMC, is reserved for trucks, so it has only three levels of branding available for its… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment, Domestic Politics, International Politics, Law, Terrorism

The Tax Compromise

December 8, 2010Burt Likko

Greg Sargent has an interesting observation about yesterday and today’s political developments: Obama’s strategy going forward will be to position himself as Washington’s lone resident adult in a town full of squabbling children on right and left … Obama was… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, Government, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Money

Cranberry Pardon Explained!

November 23, 2010Burt Likko

Obama Outlines Moral, Philosophical Justifications For Turkey Pardon

'Tis The Season, Barack Obama, Unimportant but Mildly Amusing

Somehow I Don’t See This In My Crystal Ball

November 13, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

President Lyndon Johnson famously responded to overwhelming public criticism of his handling of Vietnam by announcing that he would not serve as President for a second full term — he channeled the long-dead General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said “If… Continue Reading →

2010 elections, Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, News

Advice About Two Years Too Late

November 4, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Matt Yglesias suggests that the appropriate response by President Obama to the setbacks he and his party just sustained is to withdraw to the White House and make greater use of executive powers — to do things like appointing more… Continue Reading →

2010 Election, Barack Obama, Government

Premortem 2010

November 2, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Ten months ago, I made a few SWAGs about (among other things) politics. Those SWAGs included the following: Foolishly, Democrats will campaign in 2010 against George W. Bush.  This will fail and result in gains by Republicans, but more in… Continue Reading →

2010 Election, Barack Obama, California, Government, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Money

A Text About 2 Years Of President Obama

September 18, 2010Burt Likko

In response to a query from a Reader in Portugal, written so that hopefully an automatic translator wouldn’t lose too much meaning: I can tell that your English is much better than my Portuguese. I had to use a computer… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, International Politics

New Deal Meets Trickle Down

September 7, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

It’s fair to say that a trio of announcements from the White House are enough to signal a new tone, if not necessarily a new policy, on economic issues. The policies are the result of the continuing failure of the… Continue Reading →

2010 Election, Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, Lighting Our Money On Fire

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