Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …
What Teabagger males envision when they hear Sarah Palin call herself a “Mama Grizzly” Arianna Huffington has a post today well worth reading. It begins: I’ve been thinking about this paradox: the most important political ad of 2010 so far did not play on television, and came from someone not currently running for any office. It was Sarah Palin‘s latest …
Arianna Huffington writes in her blog today: On or about December 1910,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “human character changed.” We can be much more specific: “On November 4, 2008, just after 11 pm Eastern, America changed” (human character remains rather intransigent). The change was driven by two things: our country’s remarkable capacity for regeneration, and Barack Obama’s remarkable ability to tap …
Arianna Huffington says to stop yelling at the Clint and and start yelling at the Dems— the SuperDems— to get their vote on. So who are these slacker/power mongers? People who are holding back to be among the “deciders”? They’re listed here. If you know any of them, it’s time to shoot’em— an email— and get the nomination process over …
[UPDATED BELOW] Comedian Jimmy Kimmel made an astute observation the other day: the only way Barack Obama can lose to Hillary now is to marry Bill. As the toxic oil slick from the wreck of the USS Clinton continues to spread throughout the once unified Democratic Party, the refusal of Billary to gracefully withdraw from the race is being spun …
