**UPDATED** Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements is the headline. Does anyone believe Pres. Obama or Rep. Paul Ryan will support it through policy? The austerity play is a wrap, the opposition player now cast. It remains to be seen who will speak for the American people. Pres. Obama didn’t do it on health care [...]
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Our Stunning First Lady Upstages the Presidents
**updated** First Lady Michelle Obama is wearing Alexander McQueen. Nice touch. Kenneth Roth, executive director for Human Rights Watch, was among the guests at the state dinner this evening. The food sounds sumptuous, lobster my favorite, but the entertainment is right where my music tastes live. Jazz. The theme for the evening was “quintessentially American,” [...]
The Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao (bumped)
**UPDATED with “U.S.-China Commercial Relations Memo from White House** –originally posted at 6 a.m. EST– “We want to sell you all kinds of stuff.” – Pres. Obama (at joint press conference where Pres. Hu, more here) Also see CSIS primer on Hu’s visit. This is the eighth meeting between Presidents Obama and Hu. It’s the [...]
Obama’s Wall Street Shout Out
Sometimes, those rules have gotten out of balance, placing unreasonable burdens on business—burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs. At other times, we have failed to meet our basic responsibility to protect the public interest, leading to disastrous consequences. Such was the case in the run-up to [...]
2010 Didn’t Have to Be a House Rout
Republicans are on the verge of broad wins next week for one big reason: independent voters are ready to boot Democrats from office, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll. Expressing deep dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policies and performance, independents have increasingly sided with conservatives in the belief that government grew too large, [...]
Not These Guys Again
The fat cats at the big corporations are drooling at the prospect of “Speaker Boehner,” and why not? The industries giving the most to Boehner: insurance companies, drug manufacturers and Wall Street firms, all of which now face new regulations adopted by the Democratic-controlled Congress. The political action committees and employees of insurance firms, for [...]
Say Good-bye to the Smack
I’m adding an update here, because I made a mistake when I first wrote on Risen’s “revelation” by not saying up front that this is not news. It’s been known. I’m just surprised the potential for oil wasn’t also mentioned, because the looming boom hovers out there on a yet unforeseen horizon. The point that [...]
Obama Administration Reacts to Iran ‘Fuel Swap’ Deal
“Of course they are not thrilled,” Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Pentagon official, said of the administration. “They thought [the Brazilian-Turkish diplomatic effort with Tehran] was going to fail and didn’t stop it, or couldn’t stop it. It looks like it undercut their diplomacy. – President Obama’s [...]
They Came from Around the World
It was just an ordinary Wednesday night for many people in Washington, D.C., but not for the young women chosen by the U.S. Embassy in their home country to be part of Fortune Magazine and the U.S. State Depts. Most Powerful Women mentor program. A very windy, chilly day in D.C. turned into an evening [...]
Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit Theater
The Post’s Scott Wilson asked Obama if he would call on Israel, which skipped the summit, to declare its nuclear weapons. “I’m not going to comment on their program,” Obama said. Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit, by Dana Milbank Why, of course not. But it would have added substance to [...]
Al Gore, China, and Nancy Pelosi Hearts Tea Partiers
Two important editorials today, one on China, with this closer: China is no enemy, but inflating the challenge from China could be just as dangerous as underestimating it. The other from former Vice President Al Gore, who finally addresses the latest scandals and Rush Limbaugh induced hysteria on climate change. I’ve also got something up [...]
Brennan, and ‘Bomb Iran’ is Back
Some news that’s surfacing slowly is Iran’s new bluster on refining higher grade uranium. Russia and Israel seem to be talking the same language, while China still isn’t willing to sign on to harsh sanctions, something SecDef Gates is promising will come sooner rather than later. Even as it will take some time to reconfigure [...]
Sarah Palin’s Op-Ed
updated I commend Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision today to conditionally approve drilling at three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska; it’s a decision that’s been a long time coming. The area north of the Arctic Circle contains some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves. U.S. Geological Survey [...]
All Out of Love
Coming after China “jammed” Pres. Obama with the “press conference” anything but a press conference, no questions, just monologues, James Fallows offers his continuing rebuttal of Obama’s “manufactured failure,” which is now in part 5. Meanwhile, Afghanistan questions continue, with a 9th meeting on AfPak scheduled for tonight in the Situation Room. Pres. Obama is [...]
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Tough Out There
The reviews on Pres. Obama’s Asia tour have been very mixed. But none were as harsh as Saturday Night Live, which channeled the feeling of many of us when it comes to where the White House has been on economics, particularly when juxtaposed against how people are experiencing the financial straights of this year. But [...]
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