Posts Tagged ‘ Obama Administration ’

The Banks Lose Control of the Optics

October 6, 2011
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The mainstream press has been predictably abysmal in its coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Andrew Ross Sorkin, one of the “money honeys” over at the New York Times, looks at the demonstrators as anthropological curiosities, as if they’re from a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea. The Times’ Ginia Bellafante calls the...

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Stupid Politics From a Smart Administration

November 29, 2010
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The whole tenor of the next two years is going to feel like George W. Bush never left office. The GOP will have de facto control over the nation’s politics and agenda. If President Obama goes down the Clinton path of triangulating against his progressive base (as seems likely) then he deserves to be...

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Party Like It’s 1994!

November 1, 2010
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Lost in the din of the triumphal declarations of the nation “speaking with one voice” calling for a Restoration of the Reign of George W. Bush, is the fact that on key policies — tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — the...

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Robert Gibbs Blew It

July 23, 2010
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs showed poor press management skills in handling the whole Shirley Sherrod saga. He allowed the media frame to shift quickly to the missteps of the administration rather than emphasizing the underhanded, contrived, and racist actions of Andrew Breitbart and his fellow travelers at Fox News. Instead of explaining...

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Obama’s “Fireside Chat” (FDR or Jimmy Carter?)

June 15, 2010
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For well over a year now I’ve been wondering why President Barack Obama, (who is a talented communicator and a student of history), failed to recognize Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s example of the necessity of speaking directly to the American people. Tonight, at long last, Obama gave his first “fireside chat.” He should have done...

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Financial Reform: “Too Small to Succeed”

May 24, 2010
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The financial reform legislation currently winding its way through the Congress is a step in the right direction but it retains too much of the status quo that brought down the economy in the first place. The key problem, as many economists have been telling us, is that the top financial institutions remain “too...

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It’s Time to Cut Goldman Sachs and the Rest of Them Down to Size

April 19, 2010
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In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Simon Johnson and James Kwak point out that in September 2008 the high-flying masters of the universe were at their weakest point and had no choice but to do whatever the government demanded of them. Never mind the supreme irony of Wall...

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End the Filibuster and Pass A Lot of Stuff

February 3, 2010
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What the 59-seat Democratic majority in the United States Senate needs is a 6-foot 4-inch grotesque S.O.B. who pulls on your lapels and sticks his nostrils right into your face until you relinquish your vote. If Lyndon Baines Johnson were the Senate Majority Leader today he would have found a secluded spot to grab...

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