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Obama’s Centrism

April 11, 2013

Let’s keep this quick today: Right on cue the Republicans have criticized the Obama budget as being an ‘attack on the elderly’. You and I saw this coming. Apparently the White House did not. Or at least they thought they could offset the criticism by appealing to high minded centrists by representing the Obama budget […]

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Obama’s Pointless Budget.

April 10, 2013

What, exactly, is the point of the Obama budget released today? We all know that, in the context of the American political process, it has very little – make that zero – chance of being enacted. People more astute than I tell me that it is a political statement. A matter of positioning. It is […]

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Reagan: An Antidote To Hero Worship

April 9, 2013

Now that Margaret Thatcher is being lifted to iconic status alongside Ronald Reagan in the right wing community, and with the news that Reagan would pummel Obama in a head to head election, I thought a few facts are in order. So here goes: Reagan would have cut or privatized Social Security. No. Not at […]

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