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Why We Worry: RT @JohnBrennan: It’s astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, & probity. Seems like you will ne… -
Why We Worry: RT @KaplanABC11: RIGHT NOW: More than 40 years of NC executive leadership unites to announce opposition to @MyNCSenate & @NCHouseGOP propos… -
Why We Worry: RT @danpfeiffer: Worth noting Trump's: -Campaign Manager is on trial -Deputy Campaign Manager plead guilty -National Security Advisor plead… -
Why We Worry: RT @ShimonPro: Rick Gates testifying he and Paul Manafort had 15 foreign accounts they did not report to the federal government, and knew i… -
Why We Worry: Will Trump be campaigning for @tedcruz (Lyin' Ted)? https://t.co/S3hAYmvrKQ -
Why We Worry: RT @mattyglesias: Picked up some groceries on the way home but didn’t show any ID probably because this is a sanctuary city. -
Why We Worry: In his opening statement, Manafort's attorney argued that his client worked for Victor Yanukovych to "bring Ukraine… https://t.co/I2wwc0Evff
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Why We Worry: Farmers should not receive any of that $12 billion in welfare unless they pass drug tests.
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Why We Worry: RT @jbouie: For eight years right-wingers spun conspiracies about the black president who wants to subvert the United States, and then they… -
Why We Worry: I’m starting to think this Chuck Schumer guy isn’t so great at politics. https://t.co/qBuL8gqUy6
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Why We Worry: Not a good day for Glenn Greenwald
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Why We Worry: We don't really have to wonder https://t.co/ettFcvIkL4
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Why We Worry: RT @WelshGasDoc: This is remarkable, and terrifying, American politicians calling for pre-schoolers to be armed with guns. #KinderGuardians… -
Why We Worry: RT @danpfeiffer: Here's what we know: 1. Russia intervened to help Trump win 2. They colluded with Republicans 3. Senior members of Trump'…
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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