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President Obama has no intention of dumping Treasury Secretary Geitner. Embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner’s job is safe and the subject of resignation has not come up in his conversations with President Obama despite calls from some in Congress for Geithner to step down, the president said in an interview to be broadcast tonight…
I remember when President Bush made his announcement about the ban on federal financing of embryonic stem-cell research. He held an evening address, at his desk, and took the time to explain some of the science, present the opposing arguments as he saw them, and explain his decision. You can think what you like about…
UPDATED: Roger Kimball: I was having lunch yesterday with a prominent critic of the Spender in Chief, and he raised a possibility that many of us have entertained over the past several weeks: that Obama is simply out of his depth: that he hasn’t a clue about what makes the economy tick and his talk…
Christopher Buckley. David Brooks. Even David Gergen. Jim Cramer. Now Silicon Valley entrepreneurs see their incentives are being altered for the worse: Like the college students who stayed up late to be inspired by his campaign rallies only to find Obama’s first significant action to be a stimulus program that will transfer about a trillion…
Obama’s budget proposal presents plans which run radically counter to the proper role of government if America is to remain a free society: …The widespread use of the market reduces the strain on the social fabric by rendering conformity unnecessary with respect to any activities it encompasses. The wider the range of activities covered by…
Commentators on the evolving Obama presidency: Charles Krauthammer: Obama proposes a European U.S. Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic — indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by…
One could have expected that Barney Frank would know that he was playing to his own crowd at last night’s Ocean State Follies, and it also wasn’t surprising that his humor has a meanish, hyperpartisan tinge: stream, download. The clearest indication of his attitude came toward the end when somebody on the restaurant staff dropped…
Can we now be clear about what it fundamentally means to strive for “bipartisan” action? Reed said economists “on both sides of the political divide” concluded “this stimulus was necessary, that we had to stop the job losses, we had to get people back into the marketplace, that there was a very real fear of…
Most Anchor Rising readers are old enough to recall the School House Rocks cartoons that offered young TV viewers a bit of civic education back in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The one that I remember most clearly was the “I’m Just a Bill” song about how a bill becomes federal law. Well, Jim…