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Why We Worry: RT @joshtpm: Trump: The grocery store will float you the food on credit until the shutdown is over. That's how it works. https://t.co/3oSNt… -
Why We Worry: .@morningmika said today that Democrats should give Trump the money for his wall. They should "go high" and "seek c… https://t.co/nKhckKD3LF
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Why We Worry: RT @ReichlinMelnick: Here's how the "compromise" bill shreds our asylum laws: 1. Bans asylum for all Central American Minors (including th… -
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Why We Worry: RT @amyfiscus: NEW: The FBI began investigating whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia after he fired Comey. Mueller took o… -
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Why We Worry: I'm gonna need C-SPAN Prime to follow all of the checks and balances action in 2019. #116thCongress #SpeakerPelosi
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Why We Worry: RT @SwedeofNorfolk: @PreetBharara @theNFLton I will shut down the government I am proud to shut down the government I will be the one to… -
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Why We Worry: Cracks are widening between Trump and the GOP Senate. This article has rare public criticism of the president from… https://t.co/wPrldAE7wQ
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Why We Worry: "So long as Mattis stayed on the job, Republicans in Congress could indulge the hope that responsible people remain… https://t.co/MIv4bkX3XD
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Why We Worry: RT @Elizabeth_McLau: Defense Secretary James Mattis has resigned. Here’s the letter: https://t.co/e2PulyXpXZ
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Tag Archives: Obama
Ahmadinejad Proposes Debate with Obama
“We are ready to sit down with Mr .Obama face-to-face, and put the global issues on the table, man-to-man, freely, and in front of the media and see whose solutions are better,” Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday. His country has been the target of a series of U.N. sanctions, most recently in June, because […]
Sherrod firing part of pathetic Obama pattern
Yesterday, the Obama Administration fired Shirley Sherrod, a USDA employee, because a right-wing smear artist released a speech from Sherrod that was edited to make it look like she was racist against white folks. It goes without saying that Sherrod should be reinstated (Update: The Obama Administration has apologized to Sherrod). But there’s a larger story […]
Judge overturns drilling moratorium
On Monday I wrote that oil companies were trying to overturn Obama’s moratorium on drilling wells deeper than 500 feet. Well, so far they’ve won: A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling services shares jumped on […]
Innocent? Keep em locked up anyways
This is the kind of story that makes me question humanity: Even in the context of America’s wretched civil liberties abuses over the last decade, the case of Mohamed Hassan Odaini stands out. He was 17 years old in 2001 when his father sent him from Yemen to study at a religious university in Raiwand, Pakistan, […]
Drill now, safety later
After Obama realized the BP spill was an unmitigated disaster rather than a tiny hiccup in an otherwise smooth operation, he ordered a halt to drilling all new wells deeper than 500 feet. He wanted time to asses the danger posed by new wells and our ability to respond to future mishaps. Unsurprisingly, oil companies […]
Obama’s BP spill speech
(Read the transcript here) I don’t want to spend too much time criticizing and nitpicking the President’s speech last night. After all, no amount of speeches will stop the oil leak or clean up the ocean and the coastlines. Obama did, however, miss an opportunity to move beyond generic campaign rhetoric about the American spirit […]
Illegal human testing
The moral catastrophe of the Bush years continues to reveal itself. According to a report by the Physicians for Human Rights, the U.S. government doctors experimented on suspected terrorists that we were torturing. The goal of their research? How to inflict the maximum amount of pain without killing the suspect: The report cites agency guidelines for […]
The Pragmatist’s Ideology
The Obama Administration and its loyalists dismiss ideology as passé. They portray idealists – on both Left and Right – as rigid partisans unmoored from political reality. This criticism is neatly-distilled in Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, where he says: “Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts […]
Obama maybe finally gonna be liberal?
It’s taken over a year, but President Obama may finally understand the essential truth of the current Republican party. Republicans will reflexively oppose anything he does, so there is little point in courting their support: President Obama thinks Republicans will engage in a full battle over his Supreme Court nominee regardless of the person’s ideological […]
Can we start the war crimes tribunal yet? Part 2
Back in April 2008, President Bush told ABC that he personally approved the torture of suspected terrorists in our custody. At the time, I wrote that Bush’s open admission of a war crime should have led to a war crime tribunal. Well, that didn’t happen. (Big surprise, right?) And now Bush’s right-hand man, Dick Cheney […]