By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON — We’re the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can’t be stupid. We’re just pretending, right? We’re not really taking seriously the “argument” that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence — or even proof — that climate change is some kind [...]
By Cam Inman
Bay Area News Group columnist
Tiger Woods’ coming-out speech Friday proved even more awkward than expected. But just as tightly scripted.
If you wanted apologies, you got plenty. He had the tears in his eyes. He hit his mark by eye-balling the camera to proclaim he is “so sorry.” He even hugged his mom in [...]
By Robert Pollin
Unemployment in the United States stands officially at 9.7 percent. This represents 14.8 million people out of work. By a broader official measure that includes people employed fewer hours than they would like and those discouraged from looking for work, the unemployment rate is 16.5 percent, or about 25 million people in a [...]
American politics seems unusually bogged down at present. Blame Barack Obama more than the system
THIS week Evan Bayh, a senator from Indiana who nearly became Barack Obama’s vice-president, said he was retiring from the Senate, blaming the inability of Congress to get things done. Cynics think Mr Bayh was also worried about being beaten in [...]
By Jeffrey Rosen
Sunday, February 21, 2010
He’s too detached and cerebral . Too deferential to Congress. Too willing to compromise . And he’s too much of a law professor and not enough of a commander in chief, as Sarah Palin recently admonished.
These are some of the qualities for which the president, rightly or wrongly, [...]
By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN
Sen. Evan Bayh’s stunning decision to retire should serve as more than a wake-up call to Democrats. It should spur a fundamental re-examination and reorientation of the party’s policies, practices and approaches leading into the fall election.
Let’s be clear. The Democratic brand is in trouble—big trouble. There are at least eight Senate [...]
Sen. Bayh’s retirement sends a powerful message, but is anyone listening?
It’s understandable that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele would be incredulous at Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh’s announcement that he has decided not to run for re-election because of partisanship in Congress.
Sure, Mr. Steele’s analysis of the situation – that Senator [...]
So much for the “bold and aggressive diplomacy” with Iran that presidential candidate Barack Obama promised.
Eight months after Tehran unleashed a murderous repression of anti-regime protesters — to a mostly timid response from Washington — Team Obama now believes that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship.
So says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently touring the [...]
By Dick Morris
One of my favorite quotes about politics comes from Henry Kissinger in his book Years of Upheaval, his memoir of the Ford presidency: “A statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his vision and his nation’s experience. If his vision gets too far out ahead of his nation’s experience, he will lose [...]
Someone will have to step in and lead if Obama can’t
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Whether we realize it or not, Washington has come to a standstill and at a very dangerous time. Democrats, who have control on paper, have neither enough votes in Congress nor enough support among the American people to move a serious agenda. [...]
