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Why We Worry: Time to crawl back under that rock @seanspicer https://t.co/G5y52TqgHp -
Why We Worry: “Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?” https://t.co/xueFPHaAIi https://t.co/qROMDXqgG8
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Why We Worry: “Experts Keep Finding New Terrible Things in the Republicans’ Shoddy Repeal Bill” https://t.co/bOs1iLCYxX https://t.co/5bG7gabDu6
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Why We Worry: Must be nice https://t.co/pyUKzhLfvw
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Why We Worry: After you lose your health insurance, take solace in the fact it will pave the way for rich men to get a tax cut https://t.co/3BFVyOUj6Y
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Why We Worry: RT @jimmykimmel: If you too are disappointed in Sen @BillCassidy #GrahamCassidy let them know it - call (202) 224-3121 https://t.co/eswlh6B… -
Why We Worry: Manafort the subject of multiple wiretaps. White House officials fear colleagues wearing wires for Mueller.… https://t.co/mhMxaz11tZ
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Why We Worry: RT @Kyle_Feldscher: John Kelly apparently went through some sort of existential crisis during Trump's UN speech. https://t.co/v0JUz21klN -
Why We Worry: After Graham-Cassidy leaves the health care system in shambles at least we’ll... have no recourse https://t.co/KoVpCxxEzz
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Why We Worry: In case you thought the Trump administration might walk back talk of genocide... https://t.co/dwTkoXOM4s
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Why We Worry: "Mueller then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Manafort they planned to indict him." https://t.co/x2O5Ghs2v8
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Why We Worry: Not what you want to hear after another black man is killed by the police https://t.co/choQWSFHxj
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Why We Worry: See also: everyone from the George W. Bush administration, recession era bank execs, Experian https://t.co/y6xCDGoxBh
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Tag Archives: Obama
Adding Obama’s Electoral Votes
Why We Worry / Prognostications Desk Media reporting tends inexplicably to focus on national poll numbers, when the race will ultimately be decided by state-level votes in a half dozen or so battlegrounds. The national numbers are useful only for assessing a candidate’s general level of support, which might maybe possibly help predict how toss-up […]
Wildly inappropriate
Another reason Jeffrey Immelt, G.E.’s CEO, shouldn’t be the chairman of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness: General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American […]
‘Acute case of The Embarrassments’
IOZ on Obama’s complicity in Bradley Manning’s torture: Here is a fine opportunity to engage in a little free and painless magnanimity, to make vague noises about according decent treatment even to one’s enemies, to blather a bit about America’s committment to the humane treatment of all God’s precious children, to give the poor kid […]
Obama embraces the Dark Side
The President has now firmly embraced the teachings of Darth Cheney: … in Barack Obama’s administration, it’s perfectly acceptable to abuse an American citizen in detention who has been convicted of nothing by consigning him to 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement, barring him from exercising in his cell, punitively imposing “suicide watch” restrictions on him against the […]
‘Our diplomat’
From Greenwald: President Obama then publicly demanded the release of what he absurdly called “our diplomat in Pakistan”; when he was arrested, Davis “was carrying a 9mm gun and 75 bullets, bolt cutters, a GPS unit, an infrared light, telescope, a digital camera, an air ticket, two mobile phones and a blank cheque.” Link
Obama’s budget bright side
Obama's new budget is meh. It stupidly cuts some programs that help the neediest among us in yet another boneheaded attempt to please conservatives. But at least it doesn’t touch the biggies like Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, which would be fine if we weren’t dedicated to giving millionaires gigantic tax cuts. In any case, […]
When big businesses run the government
It’s tough to have fair laws: ‘It makes no sense and it has to change,’ Mr. Obama said in his State of the Union address. ‘Get rid of the loopholes. Level the playing field. And use the savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years — without adding to […]
Where the money goes
Tax cut distribution chart, via Ezra Klein: Yes. Obama actually wants to sign a deal with Republicans to make the tax code more unfair. Wtih nearly 10% unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and bankrupt state governments we shouldn’t be giving even more money to millionaires who don’t need it. * * * * Update I realize the […]
Counterproductive
Obama will freeze federal worker pay for two years as a “a symbolic gesture toward public anger over unemployment, the anemic economic recovery and rising national debt.” Too bad taking more money out of the economy will hurt the recovery, depress the job market and stunt the kind of growth that would solve our debt […]
Olbermann on the tax cut deal