The Obama Method
Jonathan Chait theorizes on the common denominator between Pres. Obama’s foreign and domestic political maneuvers.
Fluid Imagination Is My Rooftop
“The most important thing is coming out of the closet.”
Yeah, those guys were kinda dumb
From the Atlantic’s The Founders’ Great Mistake: “Who is responsible for the past eight years of dismal American governance? ‘George W. Bush’ is a decent answer. But we should reserve some blame for the Founding Fathers, who created a presidential office that is ill-considered, vaguely defined, and ripe for abuse. Here’s how to fix what [...]
Congress Gets Real
From Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional oversight panel of the $700 billion bailout: “[The panel’s first report on the spending of the bailout money] is tough and it’s fast. And I think fast was important here too. An ordinary Congressional panel would’ve taken three months to get up and running and would’ve fooled around [...]
Illinois governor arrested for trying to sell Obama’s open Senate seat
From the Chicago Tribune’s Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich arrested: “‘The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,’ U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement. ‘They allege that Blagojevich put a ‘for sale’ sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of [...]
Obama on the Big Three
It really is going to be refreshing to have a President who is capable of talking to us like we’re adults. I don’t know if I agree with everything Sen. Obama is saying here, but I do respect the thinking that is obviously behind these words.
I mean, seriously…we’re going to have four years of political [...]
Why The Waxman Thing Is Important
From AlterNet’s Call it What it Is: Corruption: “In a functional democracy — one where lawmakers pursue the public interest — the stock prices of politically connected companies or industries shouldn’t be impacted by the changing fortunes of politicans with whom they’re cozy. But yesterday, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrested control of the influential House [...]
Obama’s Faith
From BeliefNet’s Obama’s Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani: “The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, [...]
One of the Many Reasons We All Love Justin
From Slate’s Extremism at McCain Rallies Comes Naturally: “Social psychologists have conducted scores of these ‘group polarization’ experiments since the ’60s, and they all come to the same finding: Like-minded people in a group grow more extreme in the way they are like-minded.”
“A real woman! The real thing!”
From Matt Taibbi’s Lies of Sarah Palin: “In her speech, Palin presented herself as a raging baby-making furnace of middle-class ambition next to whom the yuppies of the Obama set – Who never want anything all that badly except maybe a few afternoons with someone else’s wife, or a few kind words in The New [...]
