We’re cataloguing a slew of generally anti-mosque folks who are today coming out against that nutso church’s plan to hold a Koran-burning festival on 9/11. So far today, Haley Barbour says it’s not a “good idea.” John Boehner says it’s “unwise.” And now honorary Republican Joe Lieberman says the church should “reconsider and drop their plans.” On the one…
-By Warner Todd Huston Back in 2007 Andy Stern, the now former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), attended a forum sponsored by the NDN Globalization Initiative and during the question and answer period after his remarks he said that he was “totally involved in distorting the political system.” Here the president of one of America’s most powerful unions just said that he feels his job is to purposefully subvert America’s political …
While the American leftist establishment continues to wonder why so many Americans could possibly believe that President Obama is a Muslim, a Pakistani Minister of State isn’t troubled by the question.
Mark Halperin asks the Indiana governor about President Obama’s management skills: Daniels: “I personally wouldn’t fault the president or the administration on management grounds as I understand your question. I have had a close enough look to tell you the federal government is basically unmanageable. Personally I don’t think the president should spend a whole lot of time trying to manage it. He doesn’t have enough days for that. I think that it…
The new Washington Post / ABC News poll shows President Obama’s approval rating at a new low of 46 percent, while for the first time majorities of Americans disapprove of Obama’s overall job as president and agree that he has “has not brought needed change to Washington.” Sizable majorites — 57 and 58 percent respectively — disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy and deficits…
(Kenneth Anderson) The text of President Obama’s Iraq speech from last night is here . The parts that most interested me were, first, the idea of ‘time to turn the page’. Merely my view, of course, but it seems to me (along with practically all the other critics of the speech, to be sure) an ambiguous and ambivalent formulation aimed at avoiding having to address the question of victory or loss, among other things. But also of…
(Kenneth Anderson) The text of President Obama’s Iraq speech from last night is here . The parts that most interested me were, first, the idea of ‘time to turn the page’. Merely my view, of course, but it seems to me (along with practically all the other critics of the speech, to be sure) an ambiguous and ambivalent formulation aimed at avoiding having to address the question …
(Kenneth Anderson) With an eye to Ben Bernanke’s upcoming testimony to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission during the two days of hearings on “too big to fail” — in other words, systemic risk — the WSJ has an editorial in today’s paper raising various questions about the basis on which the Fed, the FDIC, and other agencies concluded that AIG, Bear Stearns, Wachovia, and others qualified as “systemic risk” exceptions allowing for extraordinary actions — i.e., bailouts. I follow the systemic risk discussions pretty closely, as part…
(Kenneth Anderson) With an eye to Ben Bernanke’s upcoming testimony to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission during the two days of hearings on “too big to fail” — in other words, systemic risk — the WSJ has an editorial in today’s paper raising various questions about the basis on which the Fed, the FDIC, and other agencies concluded that AIG, Bear Stearns, Wachovia, and others qualified as “systemic risk” exceptions allowing for extraordinary actions — i.e., bailouts. I follow the systemic risk discussions pretty closely, as part of a current writing project, but I realized that I had not been tracking the FOIA requests surrounding some of the US government actions — in part because the…
(Kenneth Anderson) With an eye to Ben Bernanke’s upcoming testimony to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission during the two days of hearings on “too big to fail” — in other words, systemic risk — the WSJ has an editorial in today’s paper raising various questions about the basis on which the Fed, the FDIC, and other agencies concluded that AIG, Bear Stearns, Wachovia, and others qualified as “systemic risk” exceptions allowing for extraordinary actions — i.e., bailouts. I follow the systemic risk discussions pretty closely, as part of a current writing project…