Obamanation
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…
Apparently worried that their leg-tingling “conservative” in the New York Times was shedding his cataracts of hope and change (one on each eye, presumably), the Obama team approached David Brooks with a targeted spin campaign, and in his view, they’re almost comfortably moderate again. Boy, that was easy: I didn’t finish these conversations feeling chastened…
I’m sure they are: President Obama said yesterday that he had told Russia that reducing Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon would in turn lessen the need for a U.S.-planned missile-defense system in Eastern Europe that Moscow has opposed. But Obama said he sought no “quid pro quo” with Moscow. Obama also said it was…
Curious about how conservative Obama fans are getting along, I checked in with the man whose leg the messiah made tingle with knowledge, David Brooks. Here is a guy who reallly, really wants to believe: If ever this kind of domestic revolution were possible, this is the time and these are the people to do…
You know whom I haven’t heard from, lately? Those centrists and conservatives who were so sure that Barack Obama’s natural tendency toward dialogue and cooperation would temper — maybe even cancel out — the liberalism of his past. Their silence is understandable; this must be an awful bulk to absorb among the hopes and impressions…
So that two-trillion-dollar deficit? Turns out it might be the optimistic scenario: The administration insists it isn’t so, but some private economists are wondering if the Obama administration has brought “Rosy Scenario” back to town. In unveiling his budget, President Barack Obama pledged to bring “honesty and fairness” back to the budget process by getting…
Dick Morris is hit or miss, and I can’t say I’m sure which it is with this column: In addressing this panic, the president of the United States must truly be the leader of the world — showing the way back to confidence. Instead, Obama has been instrumental in purveying fear and spreading doubt. It…
Turning debate into bickering over legislation that would increase departmental budgets by eight percent, Rep. James McGovern (D, MA) offered this irrelevancy: “The same people who drove the economy into the ditch are now complaining about the size of the tow truck,” said Rep. James McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts, pointing out the large increase…
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of state of the union addresses. They’re political speeches dressed up as government updates. A lot of partisan applauding. A lot of commentary as if what the president says sets some bold, unexpected plan for the country. And yet we go on living. The few minute’s of President Obama’s…
With his latest maneuver, Barack Obama has really clarified his approach to politics: President Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to…