Month: March 2009

Open Thread

You want to know what is funny? Republican activists that love Rush Limbaugh are funny. But not in a good way.

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Orszag Playing Hardball

Checkmate: President Obama’s budget director said the White House would consider using a Senate procedural tactic so that only 50 votes would be rquired to pass major healthcare and energy reforms. Peter Orszag, the director of...

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Why Hope Obama Fails?

Watching Meet the Press, I see Republican strategist Mike Murphy and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough saying that they are relieved that Obama has chosen to move to the left because they were afraid that he would...

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Dershowitz strikes back: it’s anti-Semitism

Dershowitz shops at Leviev, who funds settlement building in the West Bank. When Hampshire College voted to divest from Israel a few weeks ago, it was predictable that Alan Dershowitz, a professed liberal and progressive, who...

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