Tough talk here from Randy Shaw on HuffPost:After spending 2009 mobilizing grassroots support for progressive change, activists in 2010 face a new challenge: pressuring President Obama to fulfill a progressive agenda. A new approach is … [Read more...]
The Big Fool Said to Push On
I hear echoes of Pete Seeger in admonitions and exhortations from our leaders on the issues of our time: "Sergeant, don't be a Nervous Nellie," The Captain said to him. "All we need is a little determination; Men, follow me, I'll lead … [Read more...]
President Obama’s Blog
The Obama official blog so you don't have to take my word for it. Very interesting where HE says He is coming from on health insurance. … [Read more...]
Seven tried and seven failed: what’s really driving Obama?
With all the hullabaloo and disagreement even amongst your faithful editors about whether the current, everyone-agrees-crappy-in-some-respects, Senate health care bill is worth passing, one does occasionally have to sit back and wonder what … [Read more...]
Drug Reimportation – Out
Byron Dorgan's amendment to allow for drug reimportation failed this evening. The roll call certainly made for some strange bedfellows, though it does seem that some Yeas were illegitimate. The defenders of the PhRMA deal were forced … [Read more...]
Hedges + Gravel skewer Obama on military
WARNING: not for the faint-hearted. New and blunt from Chris Hedges, talking with Mike Gravel. This column is to Obama's military strategy as Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece is to Obama's financial strategy."The first time I met him I felt … [Read more...]
Obama on 60 Minutes on war and the economy
Second troubling topic. Croft asked about the recently announced Afghanistan surge & withdrawal strategy. The core reason for the strategy that Obama offered, as I understood him, is that the border region between Afghanistan and … [Read more...]
Afghanistan Accountability #2
A few days ago I said here that someone should record and check current claims by the Obama Administration about what the Afghanistan troop surge will accomplish against reality at intervals of 1, 1.5 and 2 years. Gen. McChrystal helped us … [Read more...]
Afghanistan Accountability
Is somebody recording the statements this week of Obama, Clinton, Gates and Mullen about how the troop surge will work? The latter three made specific statements today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the beneficial impacts … [Read more...]
Obama’s Bush Problem
I'm going to let Maddow do the arguing based on matters of Afghanistan, but it's worth pointing out there there's been far too little change in terms of how we address our country's failed banking system and the economy, in job creation … [Read more...]
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