Apparently unable to muster the votes to actually pass the Senate healthcare reform bill (and Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have reason to be not so confident), so that it can then be amended by way of reconciliation and thus… Continue Reading
I can’t look at this picture of the President from today’s Gray Lady without being struck by the utter disdain on his face. It’s deeply unflattering and plays right in to the right-wing narrative of Obama as an arrogant autocrat —… Continue Reading
Plenty of people, myself included, got upset when the Bush Administration reserved for itself the right to unilaterally engage in a warrantless wiretap. I thought it was an affront to the Constitution that the President, acting on his authority alone,… Continue Reading
Thoughts as they occur to me: There are probably a lot of people out there more interested in the premiere of the iPad than in the President laying out his agenda for the next year. The whole Supreme Court is… Continue Reading
Here’s the problem: the way things are going, we’re going to have a deficit of $1.35 tillion this year. I have been alive long enough to remember when the national debt was that much. Okay, not really, but it is… Continue Reading
Direct from the source: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” said President Barack Obama. Well, he’s on his way to getting half that wish granted — right now it looks like he’s on… Continue Reading
In politics, “growth” is used by some to describe what others would characterize as an “ideological transformation” that takes place over time rather than immediately. Question: was President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he used to justify… Continue Reading
It seems hard to believe that there hasn’t been an official state dinner at the White House yet during the Obama Administration. I thought those were fairly regular sorts of occurrences for visiting ambassadors and heads of state of other… Continue Reading
I’m as committed as ever to the idea of due process. I have plenty of intellectual companionship in saying that a trial is the right thing to do because indefinite detention is not a good option, and that we should… Continue Reading
The image of President Obama bowing deeply while greeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito has generated many spilt electrons of apoplectic outrage and instinctive, unthinking apologia. But in fact, both the left and the right have it wrong. And it’s not the… Continue Reading