Paul Krugman: Obama Won't Be Able To Pass Major Legislation In His Second Term
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Flg away.
And I did answer, but it went elsewhere.
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Paul Krugman: Obama Won't Be Able To Pass Major Legislation In His Second Term
Monday, January 28, 2013
If JoeLieberman couldn't be counted on to vote with the DemocraticCaucus in lockstep on cloture and filibusters when the Republicans voted in lockstep (particularly when it came to domestic issues, the only area of legislation where Lieberman's vaguely progressive), what possible purpose did it solve to have him in the DemocraticCaucus (and hand him the much coveted plum of a committee chair)?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/politics/07cong.html?_r=3&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://thinkprogress.org/lieberman-not-progressive/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/8/17349/2244
For his treachery against Democrats going back years (at least as far as the 2000 presidential campaign, when he conceded absentee military ballots), Lieberman got everything out of that deal, and Democrats got what?
Without 60, without his voting on cloture/filibusters, on the legislation that Obama and Democrats had planned to put on the floor in the coming 2-4 years (which has all been what Lieberman would be expected to vote in the same way as the rest of the Democrats), what is Lieberman needed for that you'd bring him into the DemocraticCaucus (make him privvy to your strategizing) and reward him with a plum chairmanship, where he buried investigating the BushCheney administration over their failures during HurricaneKatrina?
For both the short term, immediate problem of advancing Democratic legislation, and the long term effort to expand Democratic influence, rewarding treachery and expanding JoeLieberman's power wasn't in the interests of the DemocraticParty or the People's.
Do you really believe that Obama got nothing for that concession? No agreement that Lieberman would vote as Obama told him to vote? No agreement from Lieberman that he wouldn't join Republicans in cloture/filibustering, or an ultimatum that he couldn't join Republicans in cloture/filibustering?? No agreement that he'd sign on to a PublicOption?
Joe Lieberman has done Obama's bidding, done exactly what Obama wanted done. Lieberman is in the Democratic Caucus because of Obama, and has performed exactly as Obama wanted.
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Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell Reach Filibuster Reform Deal [UPDATE]
Friday, January 25, 2013
Pretty much the same people/corporations/industries that Republicans represent.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
http://www.salon.com/2010/03/29/mcconnell_3/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama
While it will be interesting the corporate boards of directors that Obama lands on after the White House, it will be more interesting to see where Michelle Obama winds up. More and more politicians are working as teams with their spouses, switchbacking between public office and corporate whor/tool-ing (Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, Chris Dodd and his wife Jackie Clegg, Tom Daschle and his lobbyist wife Linda Hall Daschle, Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas, are just a few examples. Then there's this.
Before entering the White House, Michelle Obama directly benefitted professionally from her husband's legislative efforts through her job at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She was also a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (a major Wal-Mart supplier) with ties to Citibank.
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Filibuster Reform: Senators Reportedly Close To Deal On Modest Limits
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Yes. On not getting Democratic voters' objectives met.
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Rush Limbaugh Abortion Idiocy Revealed
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Obama is the military. He's the CiC. And the refusal comes directly through the White House and the petition system that they've instituted.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
Monday, January 21, 2013
FWIW, healthcare providers (the people who are actually providing the healthcare to patients) haven't had a raise in close to 20 years.
Meet The New 1%: - Healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid:
Pity Wall Street's bankers. Once the highest-paid bosses in the land, they are now also-rans. The real money is in healthcare and drugs, according to the latest survey of executive pay. One example is Joel Gemunder, CEO Omnicare, who had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98 million.Then there are the shareholders.
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Obama's Post-Partisan Promise Mellows Amid First Term Gridlock
If the Tea Party was any serious threat, Obama would have been running against Michelle Bachman or Rick Santorum in the general election.
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