Stephen Moore makes me laugh. He goes to all this effort to try to convince the wingnuts that they don’t have to resort to further hostage-taking because they have already succeeded in massively reducing the federal budget deficit. As if you can call off the dogs after you’ve sent them into the game.
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I hope they cost something he loves. Like the Republican party. Or his job.
Yeah, the Republicans sure did screw the President by…watching Recovery Act spending peak and decline on schedule.
It’s pretty interesting to watch Moore target his own side with his bullshit.
Obama Is Giving Up Some Executive Power, and He’ll Still Get No Credit
by Michael Tomasky Aug 12, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
Obama’s NSA proposals may not have been broad and sweeping, but when was the last time any president gave up power when he didn’t absolutely have to? Not since the presidency became imperial, says Michael Tomasky.
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…There was no mortal threat to his presidency here. Yet even so, he took a
couple steps away from the imperial presidency. I think that’s the
first time since the presidency became imperial–after World War II, more
or less–such a thing has happened. And Obama was, as he claimed Friday,
headed down this course before the Snowden leaks. Those began on June
5. But on May 23, he gave a speech at the National Defense University in which he foreshadowed the moves he just announced. Combine all this with John Kerry’s recent announcement that we have a plan for ending drone strikes in Pakistan, and you might have thought liberals would be cheering.
I suppose some liberals are. I am. But not civil libertarians. With
them, it’s all or nothing. If you’re not signed on to the whole program,
you might as well be Joe McCarthy. Environmentalists and tax reformers
and campaigners for the poor and those fighting for greater consumer
protections and even civil rights advocates understand that the
political process is about compromise and getting what you can, and they
acknowledge that there are such things in this world as competing
compelling interests. But you are well advised not to try to mention
such things to a civil libertarian.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/obama-is-giving-up-some-executive-power-and-he-ll-s
till-get-no-credit.html
Me, I’m wondering which 5 CEO’s who run corporations with sweet, sweet federal contracts told Moore to go write this and get it in the paper.
Despite this column, we should be prepared to see Moore on a cable news pundit panel next week whining about ALL THE WASTEFUL OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING!!!!! You know, like Social Security and Medicare.