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As long as Wall Street insiders are in charge of economic policies in Washington, we will never have any serious reform of Wall Street, no matter what bills the president wants to crow about. And we can kiss any usefulness of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau good-bye if the awesome and independent Elizabeth Warren … more…
The man in absolutely unflappable. It’s like his superpower is the ability to remain absolutely dead calm even in the face of outrageous, um, outrage. I started posting Obama’s weekly addresses because I thought they were an interesting step into the Internet age for communication between our leaders and our populace. I saw them as … more…
On July 1st, Anderson Cooper — on his weeknight CNN program Anderson Cooper 360 — had this to report on new government restrictions on journalists covering the BP oil spill (transcript of pertinent bits after the jump): Cooper is railing against a new rule announced today backed by the force of law and the threat … more…
More help for vets can only be a good thing. Here’s hoping it actually comes to pass.
The “aftermath” of a “brutal recession”? Sure feels like we’re still in it… Investing in alternative energy is good. We should also be disincentivizing the use of fossil fuels. Like by upping — a lot — minimum MPG requirements for new cars. If we could shift our factories in a matter of months in 1942 … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
As always with Obama, he talks a good game. But I’ll hold off on cheering until he actually implements his promises. Because he doesn’t have a good track record on doing that so far.
I love how “politics” seems to be its own reason to exist. I mean, getting things done for the American people no longer seems to be a priority — what’s important today is whether a politician can score points against an opponent. Or perhaps getting anything done was never a priority. Maybe things only seem … more…
It’s really astonishing what a wide range of problems we face in this nation — such as ensuring that doctors are paid fairly for their work and that the elderly continue to have access to medical care — that would be solved if only we taxed the rich at the same rates we did in … more…
Is this it? It the Gulf Coast dead, not just environmentally but economically? No amount of money could ever fix that, but why don’t we just dissolve BP and spread its money around to the areas and the people affected? If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court recently said they are, and if the … more…
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