Obama proposes $50 billion plan to fix roads, railways, runways Bloomberg News in the Washington Post By Julianna Goldman and Lisa Lerer September 6, 2010 At a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee two months before midterm congressional elections, Obama called for a six-year program to fix roads, railways and runways, and to modernize the air- […]
There are two choices [both Hoover-esque]: The Stimulus was a waste of time. The economy will just work itself out. The Stimulus was too low for the problem we had. It aborted a Great Depression but wasn’t enough to turn things around. I think Number 2 makes sense. Number 1 makes no sense. I vote […]
1938 in 2010 New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN September 5, 2010 Here’s the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The president’s policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high. More action is clearly needed. Yet the public has soured on government activism, […]
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I’m Gay The Atlantic by Marc Ambinder Aug 25 2010 Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, […]
As long as I’m on something of a negative roll, I’d like to complete things with a possibility that none of us would like to contemplate. For many of us it’s clear that the eight year long reign of George Bush and Dick Cheney was a disaster in most dimensions – the economy, foreign policy, […]
Cheney’s “Hard, Hard Power” and Syria By emptywheel September 5, 2010 Apparently, the Poodle’s memoir [the tour for which got a little messy in Dublin] confirms something that was blatantly obvious: Dick Cheney wanted to conquer the entire Middle East, country by country. Describing the former US vice president as an advocate of “hard, hard […]
So it was a Thursday night and I was catching up on my reading. I was perusing the recent 900+ page dump of John Yoo’s emails from the latest CREW FOIA [in non-secret accounts]. I ran across a State Department summary of the world reaction to Bush withdrawing us from the treaty that was setting […]
In a couple of my last posts where I was talking about the Iraq War, I kept thinking about something that seemed a bit like over-speculation. But the thought lingers. It’s about the recession and the economy. It’s about the Tea Party and the persistence of the conservative white right even in the face of […]
Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young New York Times By DUFF WILSON September 1, 2010 OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums. Kyle Warren at 6 years old. At 18 months, […]
Britain’s Blair steadfast on decision to support Iraq war in new memoir The Hill By Emily Goodin 09/02/10 Former British prime minister Tony Blair spends more than 100 pages of his newly released memoir defending the war in Iraq. Blair, who was criticized for his decision to stand by President George W. Bush and send […]