‘The President Is … Behaving Like Herbert Hoover’ As the economy spirals downward into what many economists view is already a recession, President Bush delivered a speech this week expressing confidence “in the ability of the markets” to turn it around. In 1930, as the U.S economy was sinking into deep recession, President Herbert Hoover […]
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"We will continue to fight vigorously to change the status quo on behalf of all New Yorkers. I’m never going to apologize for that. But we must recognize that this effort will succeed only if our means for changing the status quo are as honorable as our ends." Eliot Spitzer July 2007 "As we take […]
July 29, 2007 Op-Ed: An Apology From Albany By ELIOT SPITZER Albany WE made mistakes. Though two independent investigations proved that no illegal activity occurred on my watch, it is crystal clear that what members of my administration did was wrong — no ifs, ands or buts. I have apologized to Joe Bruno, the Senate […]
A Crude Case for War? … Instead of making Iraq an open economy fueled by a thriving oil sector, the war has failed to boost the flow of oil from Iraq’s giant well-mapped reservoirs, which oil experts say could rival Saudi Arabia’s and produce 6 million barrels a day, if not more. Thanks to insurgents’ […]
We had us quite a day in Georgia. Last night, a tornado ripped through the center of downtown Atlanta, stopping NCAA Basketball games, flooding CNN, and tearing up a swathe through the city. This morning, another line of storms woke us up shaking the house and blowing the leaves off the trees. The third wave […]
Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on Partisan House Bill Today, the House of Representatives took a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism and passed a partisan bill that will please class-action trial lawyers at the expense of our national security. Their bill would make it easier for class-action trial lawyers […]
I sort of shut down the blog for a while because the front burner issue was the Democratic Primaries, and it felt to me like that’s a private matter. I’m not a registered Democrat, though I certainly mostly vote for Democrats. In my mind, both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are honest, right-thinking people. I’d […]
House Rejects Eavesdropping Immunity After its first secret session in a quarter-century, the House on Friday rejected retroactive immunity for the phone companies that took part in the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11 attacks, and it voted to place greater restrictions on the government’s wiretapping powers. The decision, by a […]
Eliot Spitzer’s "Emperor’s Club" … The real lesson here is the continuity between Spitzer’s professional career and the scandal that ended it. The common theme of his public and personal life is identified, ironically enough, in the preposterously pompous name of the call girl ring Spitzer patronized: the "Emperor’s Club VIP." That says it all, […]