nytimes.com - 3/5/2009
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WASHINGTON The French writer François Mauriac once said during the cold war that he loved Germany so much, he was glad there were two of them. After what an undivided Germany had done to France in World War II and before, that was understandable. To paraphrase Mauriac, I love France, but I don’t ...
nytimes.com - 3/9/2009
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The Obama administration’s economic policy is already falling
behind the curve, and there’s a real, growing danger...
that it will never catch up. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Behind the Curve
nytimes.com - 3/6/2009
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When it comes to dealing with banks, the
Obama administration is dithering. And the result could be...
an economy that sputters along for a very long time. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Big Dither
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What is Roger Cohen talking about?
Political Animal —
... , and aren't nearly as ridiculous as we make them out to be. It was one of the more peculiar things Cohen had ever published. Today's column is, however, worse. Cohen argues, "After the excesses of Reagan-inspired deregulation and the disaster that unfettered markets have delivered, the pendulum had to swing." Indeed, he's pleased to see President Obama's economic agenda, and believes the president's policies are a "necessity" under the circumstances. So what's the problem? Cohen thinks it's all too French. [T]he $3.6 trillion Obama budget made me a little queasy. There is a ...
Memewatch: too fast, too furious
Balloon Juice —
It’s interesting to watch these things evolve. Brooks last week:
But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
Roger Cohen yesterday (via John and Kevin Drum):
But that does not change the ...
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