Posts tagged obama
HuffPost Radio: Left, Right & Center: Financial Regulation, Goldman’s Deal, And The Midterm Elections
Jul 17th
The Financial Regulation bill that passed has many flaws, chief among them, says Arianna, that it doesn’t prevent “too big to fail.” Tony and Bob agree for different reasons that “the people” lose, in that the lobbyists will get to make the rules. Is the Goldman Sachs settlement a real punishment or mere slap on the wrist
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Loading ...Medicare Scams: 94 Charged In Schemes Totaling $251 MILLION
Jul 17th
MIAMI — Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate, About Communications
Jul 17th
This is the kind of thing that tends to get me into fights with reporters, but as a general rule, I have little respect for political analysis that boils down the problems of elected officials as “communications problems.” Typically, politicians have struggles because of structural conditions. The prevailing force on the political fortunes of those in power is the massive unemployment crisis. The media has a hard time understanding this crisis because they live in a bubble and do not talk to actual unemployed people.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama-Palin Polls Don’t Serve Much Purpose This Early In The Game
Jul 17th
Two new polls released yesterday asked about a hypothetical presidential contest between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama with very different results: The Time/SRBI poll ( article , SRBI analysis & results ) shows Obama with a massive, 21-point advantage (55% to 34% with 11% unsure or not voting), while a survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows a dead heat (46% to 46% with 9% undecided). What gives?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dexter Rogers: The Economy Stinks and the American People are Furious: Is President Obama to Blame?
Jul 17th
You all remember the proposed $700 million bailout plan was first scrapped by Congress by a vote of 228-205?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Adm. Defends Hiring Of Ex-Health Insurance Exec To Oversee Reform
Jul 17th
The Obama administration is defending its hiring of a high-ranking Capitol Hill aide and former private health insurance vice president to oversee the implementation of health care reform after good government groups complained it violated the spirit of the president’s own ethics rules. This week, the White House hired Liz Fowler to serve as deputy director of the Office of Consumer Information and Oversight at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Admin Praises Elizabeth Warren But States ‘There Are Other Candidates As Well’ To Lead CFPB
Jul 17th
Top Obama administration officials rushed to praise leading consumer advocate and bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren on Friday as being “exceptionally well-qualified” to lead a new consumer protection office. But a senior adviser to Obama left open the possibility that she would not be chosen while administration officials did not deny a report that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner opposes her nomination. The Huffington Post reported Thursday that Geithner opposes Warren getting the nod to lead the new agency.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: "Defectors" and the Unfolding Intelligence Failure on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Jul 16th
Coverage of Shahram Amiri’s departure from the United States and his return to Iran has focused, rather superficially, on the question of whether he was kidnapped or defected and then changed his mind.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Joe Peyronnin: Midterm Referendum
Jul 16th
The Senate passed financial reform legislation that President Barack Obama will sign into law next Wednesday. This legislation will address many of the problems that led to the near total collapse of the American economy. This is the latest in an impressive list of successes by President Obama, which should be winning him praise from Americans and political pundits
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mitchell Bard: The Financial Regulation Vote Shows that While Americans Should Be Angry, the GOP Is not the Solution
Jul 16th
As the partisan cable networks breathlessly discuss what will happen in the midterm elections in November, there is much talk about how Americans are angry and, as a result, the Republicans are set for major gains in Congress. But the connection between these two assertions — Americans’ dissatisfaction and GOP success — strikes me as incredibly lazy, both by the media and the voters
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Maine Visit: First Family Heads To Acadia National Park Vacation
Jul 16th
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) – President Barack Obama and his family are heading off Friday for the weekend to a spectacular national park on the coast of Maine, no doubt hoping this latest jaunt doesn’t fall victim to the Obama family travel hex. That would be the one in which events seem to scramble the plans whenever Obama has his wife and daughters in the mix. In a mere 18 months on the job, Obama has rolled up an impressive record of diversions, interruptions, delays and outright cancellations of planned family travel — all thanks to the nonstop demands of a turbulent presidency.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Laura Flanders: The F Word: Great Hoarding Causing Great Hurt
Jul 16th
Congress is hemming and hawing over financial reform, no doubt weighing up the cost of too little reform vs. too many lost campaign contributions. Meanwhile, while the best jobless workers can hope for is an extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed, it’s not just the jobless who are slipping under the bus — it’s all workers
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tom Vander Ark: Don’t kill the guys that will make the US #1 again
Jul 16th
President Obama thinks the US should lead the world in post secondary degree completion by 2020. That will take more than 5 million graduates
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Federal Prosecution Of Immigrants Soared In Spring As Obama Continued Aggressive Bush-Era Policies
Jul 16th
FRESNO, Calif. — Federal prosecutions of immigrants soared to new levels this spring, as the Obama administration continued an aggressive enforcement strategy championed under President George W
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Creamer: Dirty Little Secrets the Republicans Don’t Want You to Know
Jul 14th
The Republicans have a set of dirty little (actually not so little) secrets they don’t what you to know – and certainly don’t want you to think about when you go to the polls in November. And the fact is that some of those secrets could provide Democrats with silver bullets this fall. But first let’s recall the context.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Iowa Tea Party Billboard Compares Obama To Hitler, Lenin
Jul 14th
DES MOINES, Iowa — A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism – even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money. The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week.
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