Since when do U.S. generals give interviews to Rolling Stone? Double-dip recession? There was never any real question of that. You can see bigger storm clouds on the horizon. Of course, they could blow over. You never know. BP lies. So which big corporation can you trust? What about government? Everyone turns to the federal… [Read more…]
June 18, 2010
We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.” There it is. Write it down. Send it to the printer. Barack Obama said it in June, in Ohio. “We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.” You can put that on your bumper sticker. “Make America… [Read more…]
February 25, 2010
Maryland is well-represented in President Barack Obama’s health-care showdown today, live and televised from Blair House. As President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walked across the street to the White House for the lunch break, the president paused for an impromptu one-on-one with Rep. Steny Hoyer, the congressman from Southern Maryland, who also happens… [Read more…]
February 4, 2010
I think the second dip of the double-dip recession began this week. It’s hard to expect much, if any recovery in 2010 or 2011. Just my opinion. The worldwide stock sell-off might be only the beginning of another crisis. The financial story was Greece on Wednesday, Spain and Portugal on Thursday. It could be anywhere… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
You could say the voters get exactly what they deserve. Massachusetts voters are probably embarrassed this morning to realize that they deserve Republican Sen. Scott Brown. That was my first reaction to the stunning defeat yesterday of the Democrat Martha Coakley, in the election for a successor to Sen. Ted Kennedy. But my first reaction… [Read more…]
December 14, 2009
On Sunday, President Barack Obama said, “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.” On Monday, the fat-cat CEOs, who are still employed and still getting their fat bonuses, thanks to a bailout from the U.S. government, had only a 75 percent attendance rate for… [Read more…]
December 8, 2009
The president’s economic theme for December is: “Create Jobs And Help Small Business.” President Barack Obama held a summit meeting on jobs with business leaders and labor leaders last week, and this morning (Tuesday) he made a pretty good television address on jobs and the economy. The president outlined a three-point plan to encourage job… [Read more…]
November 8, 2009
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Whip James Clyburn, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer We saw democracy in action tonight. Democracy is not a sure thing. How small is the margin between success and failure. Between victory and defeat. Progress and regression. How many votes to change history? Whose effort turns the battle? Whose vote… [Read more…]
November 6, 2009
For days, I guess for weeks, President Barack Obama has been studying the question: How many more thousands of American soldiers to send to war in Afghanistan? Will the President decide how many thousands next week, or will he struggle with the decision until the week after? The question is not whether to have a… [Read more…]
July 22, 2009
The film clip on TV news of President Harry Truman (“The buck stops here”) making the case for health care for Americans was poignant. NBC aired the Truman clip following President Barack Obama’s news conference on the same subject, health care. If I remember history correctly, President Teddy Roosevelt (“Speak softly and carry a big stick”)… [Read more…]
June 22, 2010
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