Posts tagged “Bush legacy”
Greenspan Throws A Curveball
Over the last week, various Republicans in Congress have distinguished themselves by arguing that the Bush tax cuts desperately need to be extended — without any effort to pay for them — because that’s what the economy oh-so-desperately needs. Forget job creation, forget any form of stimulus; the magic potion is tax cuts. And they [...]
Coburn On Taxes: An Instant Classic
Yesterday, I wrote about Senator Tom Coburn saying that “if we wanted to do new tax cuts, I think we ought to cut spending to pay for them” but it really wasn’t necessary to cut spending to pay for extending Bush‘s tax cuts. Since his original statement wasn’t entirely clear, yesterday on C-SPAN, he returned [...]
Delusionality And Mendacity: Republicans On The Bush Tax Cuts
Republicans of every stripe continue to spout utterly incoherent gobbledygook on the subject of George “Tax Cuts” Bush‘s tax cuts, the budget deficit and the national debt. Carly Fiorina — who used to be CEO of HP, was fired for incompetence, and decided that she was now qualified to be a Republican candidate for the [...]
Quote Of The Day
“One-term president” wasn’t the only thing Newt Gingrich had to say about Barack Obama. There was also this: “I think he will replace Jimmy Carter as the worst president of modern times,” said Gingrich. Gingrich apparently doesn’t feel very much need to stay on top of the news, not even political news. When it comes [...]
We-a Culpa! We-a Minima Culpa!
Back in May, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government published an interesting little study of media dishonesty. It examined how four major newspapers — the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today — have covered the topic of waterboarding [...]
George Bush Wins The Votes He Richly Deserves
President former president George W. Bush may not be running in elections any more, but he’s still winning votes. At least as the worst President of the modern era: Since 1982, the Siena Research Institute has polled presidential scholars on whom they view to be best and worst presidents in American history, based on a [...]
Trapped In A Kafkaesque Nightmare
Yahya Wehelie is an American citizen, born and raised in Virginia, trapped by President Obama‘s homeland security apparatus in a literally Kafkaesque nightmare which ranks right along with some of George Bush‘s most ludicrous homeland security shenanigans. This is far from the first time that Obama has been in the spotlight for seamlessly continuing the [...]
The Emergency Room Model Of Free Universal Health Care
Remember the compassionate conservative meme which gained wide currency in the time of Bush, that we already have free universal health care because anyone can show up at an emergency room and be treated for free? That model of free universal health care just took a gunshot wound to the shoulder: An unemployed Michigan woman [...]
The Dream Team With Feet Of Clay
Back in January 2009, when President Obama was assembling his Justice Department team, liberal bloggers were giddy with excitement over the fine, fine people he was picking. Champions of the Constitution, and paragons of virtue, they were going to preside over the Constitution’s slow but complete recovery from the gang rape it had suffered for [...]
Idle Thoughts, SCOTUS Edition
So by all accounts, President Obama will announce this morning that he is nominating Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. It occurs to me it might be both interesting and profitable to make book on which Republican Senator will offer the most absurdly unfair criticism of her nomination. (I would probably back John [...]