There’s an Obama negative column in the Washington Post by Kathleen Parker [Barack W. Obama] comparing Obama’s "I won" to Bush’s, "I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style." I think it’s something of an overworked analogy., O. and W. But she goes on […]
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Blagojevich Makes a Day of It on Way OutBy MONICA DAVEYJanuary 29, 2009 “I come out of the alleys of Chicago politics,” said Mr. Blagojevich, 52, who entered Democratic politics in 1992, first as a state representative, then a United States representative. “That’s a tough place. The politics there is not motivated by idealism or […]
Wake Us When It’s Over From the Scrapbook THE SCRAPBOOK finds itself in a minority of one here, but we’ll say it anyway: We thought Barack Obama’s inaugural address was surprisingly mediocre. Not as painful to listen to as Elizabeth Alexander’s banal inaugural poem, or Joseph Lowery’s embarrassing benediction ("when yellow will be mellow, […]
I aver that I, 1boringoldman, have absolute immunity from understanding the Law. In college, I had passing thoughts of going to Law School. My roommate, a Law student, helped me with that. He said, "You think the being a Lawyer is about right and wrong?" emptywheel [FDL] and Matt Cooper [TPM] are having a field […]
Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms By JONATHAN D. GLATER Lawyers are having trouble defending the most basic yardstick of the legal business — the billable hour. Clients have complained for years that the practice of billing for each hour worked can encourage law firms to prolong a client’s problem rather than solve […]
Obama Made a Rash Decision on Gitmo The president will soon realize that governing involves hard choices. By JOHN YOO During his first week as commander in chief, President Barack Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay and terminated the CIA’s special authority to interrogate terrorists. While these actions will certainly please his base – […]
Let the Limbaughs Whine by Joe Conason January 27, 2009 How fortunate for Barack Obama that Rush Limbaugh, big radio personality and leader of the instinctual far right, has yet to retire to a sunny island with his bottles of pills. At a moment when Republicans on Capitol Hill feel they must pretend to negotiate […]
In his speech today, Governor Blagojevich said, "You haven’t proved a crime and you can’t because it hasn’t happened. How can you throw a governor out of office with incomplete or insufficient evidence?" I’ve come to think of that as the Bush/Cheney defense. No crime, ergo innocent. But crime is not the gold standard for […]
Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. [B. Obama 01/20/2009] What was the problem that lead us to this economic cliff? Why were houses so overvalued? Why were loans […]