Month: March 2009

CYA Thread

Funny that Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven Bradbury would wait until five days before Bush left office to cover his ass (.pdf) and disavow the bulk of Cheney/Addington/Libby’s legal [Unitary Executive]...

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Question

How low can it go? NEW YORK (AP) — Investors’ despair about financial companies and the recession have brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than...

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Repudiating a Failed Presidency

Interesting insight from Ron Brownstein: In a classic 1997 book called The Politics Presidents Make and a 2008 follow-up called Presidential Leadership in Political Time, [Yale University political scientist Stephen] Skowronek...

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