Irish Times2010-09-08
LARA MARLOWE in Washington US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will today announce $300 billion (Euro236 billion) in tax breaks for businesses as part of his campaign to restore the Democratic Party’s flagging fortunes before midterm elections on November 2nd. Mr Obama will explain the measures at a community college in Cleveland, Ohio, this afternoon. Businesses [...]
It’s alive!
The politics of fear lives, resurrected by President Obama’s strategy to shift attention away from Democrats‘ liberal/progressive policy agenda that has put approval ratings for the president and his party underwater as the election campaign season looms.
“Don’t give in to fear,” Obama says, suggesting something scary will happen if Americans turn [...]
By Maureen Dowd
Maybe, for Barack Obama, it depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.
When the president skittered back from his grandiose declaration at an iftar celebration at the White House Friday that Muslims enjoy freedom of religion in America and have the right to build a mosque and community [...]
By Mark Davis
Is it good or bad for the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals?
Either answer is wrong. But it was a trick question, based on a false equivalency.
A reduction in the Russian arsenal is a self-evident good. While no longer operating under the old Soviet model of [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The size and power of the state is growing, and discontent is on the rise
Jan 21st 2010
From The Economist print edition
IN THE aftermath of the Senate election in Massachusetts, the focus of attention is inevitably on what it means for Barack Obama. The impact on the Democratic president of the loss of the late Ted [...]
by Peter Beinart
Things look bad now, and your party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, the Democrats will be united—and the public’s faith in government can be restored.
Democrats win elections by convincing Americans that government can work. Republicans win elections by convincing them that it can’t. Right now, the GOP [...]
