By MERRILL GOOZNER
During the last election campaign, Tea Party-backed Republicans across the country rode to power on a tidal wave of advertising attacking health care reform as a cut in Medicare. It is. If efficiency programs like the accountable care...
" Time-limited, scope-limited military action ." Isn't that the definition of a drive-by shooting? "But your honor, I was just conducting a "time-limited, scope-limited military action" in defense of my peeps!" Hmmmmm. Mebbe I should be a defense lawyer. Nah.
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I made this pic for Princess Crabby back during the 2008 campaign. Heh. Looking more accurate than ever, now, at least in terms of a feckless foreign policy. That whole "reset" button thing worked out real well.
Episode 3 of the Uncle J as Press Secretary series.
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals?Kennedy said in his speech to Congress in May 1961:"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and...
By MAGGIE MAHAR You might be wondering why I haven’t written about the President’s Health care bill. The reason is that I have very little to say. This, I realize, is unusual. But the truth is that the president’s proposal... Read More...
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It is hard to see how the health care plan the President released this morning changes anything. There is nothing new in it save a health insurance rate regulatory board that is an awkward political proposal at... Read More...
By BILL KRAMER I love Daniel Schorr. I’ve never met him in person, but I love his voice and his insights about politics on NPR’s Weekend Edition. But this morning I was disappointed. After listening to his comments on the... Read More...
General Eric K. Shinseki spent almost four decades of service in the U.S Army. That distinguished career abruptly ended in 2003 when Shinseki, then Chief of Staff of the Army clashed with the Bush administration over the war in Iraq. Shinseki’s major crime? He testified before Congress that it would...