nytimes.com - 12/27/2008
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Times have changed. In 1996, President Bill Clinton, under siege from the right, declared that “the era of big government is over.” But President-elect Barack Obama, riding a wave of revulsion over what conservatism has wrought, has said that he wants to “make government cool again.” Before Mr. ...
nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
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Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect,
to make itself the party of racial backlash. And
everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Bigger Than Bush
nytimes.com - 12/22/2008
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It may take a lot longer than many
people think before the United States economy is ready
to live without bubbles. And until then, the economy is going to need a lot of government help. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Life Without Bubbles
nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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Even as Washington tries to rescue the economy,
the nation will be reeling from the actions of
50 Herbert Hoovers — state governors who are slashing spending in a time of recession. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Fifty Herbert Hoovers
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“Goo-Goo”? Gag Me.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Paul Krugman wants Barack Obama to “make government cool” and figures that the best way to do that is to follow through on the “clean government” standard supposedly set by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Amity Shlaes reminds us just how “good government” FDR really was when she discusses the prosecution–or persecution–of former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon by the Roosevelt Administration:
When the Crash came in 1929, Mellon expected blame, and he got it. He took the hostility in stride and coolly capitalized on the downturn to stock his gallery with new pictures–acquiring ...
"Goo-Goo"? Gag Me.
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Paul Krugman wants Barack Obama to "make government cool" and figures that the best way to do that is to follow through on the "clean government" standard supposedly set by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. Amity Shlaes reminds us just how "good government" FDR really was when she discusses the prosecution--or persecution--of former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon by the Roosevelt Administration: When the Crash came in 1929, Mellon expected blame, and he got it. He took the hostility in stride and coolly capitalized on the downturn to stock his gallery with new pictures--acquiring Jan van Eyck's "Annunciation" and Raphael's "Alba Madonna" from the ...
Date Night
JustOneMinute —
Hot Air covers the Jive Talking of Obama press flack Robert Gibbs as he ducks questions about the First Couple's Nights on Broadway. Gibbs missed his brothers. The Daily Mail estimates the taxpayer's tab for the night out at $73,000. And what would the most influential liberal pundit in America say? Here is Krugman writing last December with eerie prescience: Oh, enough of Krugman! What would Barack say ?"Everybody" is everybody else. And I wonder whether Obama's exhortation would get big laughs if delivered in Chinese. LAST THOUGHT: Somewhere an Obama aide presented the notion that Obama and Michelle would have been happy to take the shuttle ...
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Obamas visit Hawaii sea park —
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A vacationing President-elect Barack Obama slipped away from the traveling press pool that follows him wherever he goes, taking his two young daughters, family members and friends to Hawaii's Sea Life Park.
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