As I discussed yesterday, David Leonhardt of the New York Times counseled President Obama to drop using green jobs as a selling point for address climate change. Thankfully, last night Obama did not listen. Obama made clear that tackling the climate crisis can be accomplished while growing the economy: We have doubled the distance our [...]
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Expectations are high for President Obama to get specific about his second-term plans to protect the climate, particularly regarding plans to bypass Congress and use the EPA’s authority to further reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The appeal is obvious: no need to wrangle with the climate change deniers that currently run the House. Still, there are [...]
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Bill Moyers asked a bunch of smart people what they would like to see the President say in the State of the Union address this year. Their answers are all good and I urge you to read them. if we could put them all together it would make a hell of a speech. The one [...]
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The GOP is perhaps just beginning to digest the message of the 2012 election; in which the demographics of their coalition can be summed up as old, white, wealthy, and male — compared to the diverse coalition that gave Barack Obama a second term, helped the Democrats hold to their majority, and won few more Democratic [...]
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The fight for filibuster reform does not stop with what MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz on Thursday dubbed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s “fail-ibuster.” Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen told Schultz that “we have to continue that fight.” Cohen said there are real consequences to the decision by Reid to agree to [...]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald warned, “There are no second acts in American lives.” And for recent American presidents, second acts have been brutal. The hope of the first act succumbs to the karmic reckonings of the second. Nixon cast out by his crimes in Watergate. Reagan laid low by his Iran Contra follies. Clinton shamed from [...]
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The President of the United States held a press conference with the DC elite press corps. They had the opportunity to ask the President what our government is doing about the nation's most serious problems. They didn't.
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The annual “State of American Business” speech delivered today by Thomas J. Donohoe, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was largely predictable and not particularly noteworthy. But it did contain one of those moments reminiscent of those oil company commercials in which an oil industry official and someone typically representing an opposing side, such [...]
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A destructive, radical group is in control of part of the government. It is bent on sabotage and destruction. When you elect people who hate government, don't be surprised when they set out to destroy our government.
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Note -- see the update at end of post, in which the Romney campaign uses astonishingly doctored audio, to make it seem as if Obama said something he never said.
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