Archive for November, 2010

Climate Care blog, on Obama bipartisanship

Monday, November 29th, 2010

What should Obama’s message be? His current one certainly makes no sense. Posted: 27 Nov 2010 07:11 AM PST Obama has been saying (erroneously) for two years now that Republicans have good policy ideas for creating jobs, whereas Republicans have been saying (erroneously) for two years that Obama has job-killing policies.  Is it any wonder [...]

Calling the bluff on deficits (Washington Post)

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Calling the bluff on deficits   By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, November 22, 2010 Ronald Reagan (bless his sense of humor) loved to say that the problem with his administration was that the right hand didn’t know what the far right hand was doing. Something of that sort is happening among conservatives on the supposed [...]

Too Good to Check

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (New York Times) Published: November 16, 2010 On Nov. 4, Anderson Cooper did the country a favor. He expertly deconstructed on his CNN show the bogus rumor that President Obama’s trip to Asia would cost $200 million a day. This was an important “story.” It underscored just how far ahead of [...]

Social Security reform: Are progressives jumping the gun?

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

  Social Security is not the key fiscal problem facing the nation. Payments to its beneficiaries amount to 5 percent of the economy now; by 2050, they’re projected to rise to about 6 percent. Over the same period, federal health care costs will increase six times as much. Enlarge This Image Stephen Savage Opinionator Peter [...]

Don’t be shouted down and cowered- either you believe or you don’t

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

By E.J. Dionne Jr. (Washington Post) Thursday, November 11, 2010 In 2008, the largest number of voters in American history gave the Democrats their largest share of the presidential vote in 44 years and big majorities in the House and Senate.     How did Republicans react? They held their ideological ground, refused to give [...]

The whole truth, and nothing but the truth

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Can GOP dismantle health care bill?

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

GOP Will Face Obstacles in Repealing Health Overhaul By Emily Ethridge, CQ Staff  ( The Commonwealth Fund) November 3, 2010 — For months, the man presumed to be the next speaker of the House, John A. Boehner of Ohio, has said that repealing the health care overhaul, President Obama’s signature achievement, would be one of his [...]

Blue Dog Reps go down, not liberals

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Blame The Whiny Center  By Paul Krugman NY Times So, we’re already getting the expected punditry: Obama needs to end his leftist policies, which consist of … well, there weren’t any, but he should stop them anyway. What actually happened, of course, was that Obama failed to do enough to boost the economy, plus totally [...]

What’s the message? Climate Progress Blog

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Entertaining but ultimately disappointing Rally To Restore Sanity (and/or Fear!) by Stewart and Colbert – False equivalence mars the ‘why can’t we all get along?’ message Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:29 PM PDT I attended the entire pre-election ‘rally’ by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert today. If the health and well-being of the nation [...]