In essence, it’s Too many fools talk too much and know too little. In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has been amateur hour back in Washington. I don’t mean Barack Obama. He’s doing pretty much everything he can, with what are a very limited set of policy options …
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I wonder if anyone looked at Obama this evening and said that to him. It’s true, though. Tonight was his sixth time standing up there in the House chamber. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe his 2016 speech will be the one in which he just tears into the opposition and tells them what …
This annual event always gives Obama a chance to make jokes. He didn’t disappoint this year either. “Early in Oprah Winfrey’s career her bosses told her she should change her name to Susie,” President Obama quipped in introducing Winfrey. “I have to pause here to say I got the same advice.” He then assured the …
Sometimes I am so shocked and dismayed about a US Government policy that I feel I should write long essays chastising the President, Congress, the courts, or whoever formulated the policy. What usually happens is that I’m first made aware of the malfeasance at a blog like Charlie Pierce’s or maybe Digby’s. I then realize …
I never thought I’d see the day that a Democratic President would include cutting Social Security as part of his budget proposal to Congress. A key feature of the plan Obama is proposing for the federal budget year beginning Oct. 1 is a revised inflation adjustment called “chained CPI.” This new formula would effectively curb …
In a perceptive post at TPM, Josh Marshall writes Over the last few days, as the emerging national marriage equality consensus has become more clear, a number of social conservatives have begun suggesting they are now in a new and oppressive climate in which they’re no longer able to speak their minds about the immorality …
In case you missed it. I also recommend you read Charlie Pierce’s post about the speech, and for its atmospherics out on the Mall, read his previous post as well.
This amuses me for several reasons, one of which is that the President of the United States shows that he’s had at least some exposure to touch typing technique. Look how his hands hover over the home row on that keyboard.
John Scalzi: Four years ago, there were a lot of people who believed that Obama’s election heralded a material change in American politics. I would argue that it’s this one that’s the actual signifier of that change. Look: It’s one thing for a black man with a name like “Barack Hussein Obama” to win an …