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Why We Worry: Just like with the House bill, no one Republican wants to be the person who torpedoes repeal. -
Why We Worry: Who isn't looking forward to debating health care policy for the next decade or more?
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Why We Worry: Harsh, but true. https://t.co/ZIMt4u2nke
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Why We Worry: RT @RWPUSA: Pressuring AG to prosecute the person who lost the election is an impeachable offense if we value free elections. https://t.co/… -
Why We Worry: In a couple months Kushner will probably amend this statement to include the 100s of times he colluded https://t.co/XkeHcaj6Ey
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Why We Worry: Scaramucci was apparently offended after Trump criticized the "hedge fund community." via @FoxNewsSunday. https://t.co/jbOCytUhXY
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Why We Worry: 1) If Trump pardons himself and is allowed to continue as president, what's stopping all future presidents from doing the same thing?
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Why We Worry: This is what happens when you're not forthcoming about your finances. Now every shady deal will be scrutinized. https://t.co/EYGhfcVmTL
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Why We Worry: Only 7.5 more years of Trump
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Why We Worry: RT @BarackObama: John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. G… -
Why We Worry: Obamacare isn't perfect, but it sure is resilient. It's survived 100% GOP obstruction, two SCOTUS decisions & full GOP control of gov't.
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Why We Worry: "We're not going to have a two-year period where there's nothing. Obamacare will be repealed and replaced." Trump… https://t.co/O0fu3wEywH
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Why We Worry: RT @mattyglesias: CBO already scored it -- 32 million people lose insurance. https://t.co/1KNyvUvQSO -
Why We Worry: Even the @NRO asks why we should believe that the offer of Russian assistance was never followed up on. https://t.co/72Z0KU7cFR
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Why We Worry: RT @chrislhayes: So the Trump campaign was floated the idea of Russia aiding them with exclusive HRC dirt, had one meeting and then dropped…
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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