Bailout Barney To Ralph Nader: "We Are Trying On All Fronts To Increase The Role Of Government In The Regulatory Area"
dailybail.com 10/28/2009 — MSNBC Video: Ralph Nader And Barney Frank Get Snippy About Derivatives Legislation "Ralph gets to luxuriate in the purity of his irrelevance." "We are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area." Pretty comical stuff.  Drudge and ...

What if George W. Bush had done that?
politico.com 10/28/2009 — A four-hour stop in New Orleans , on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama . Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. Freezing out a TV network . Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf , too. ...

Obama Is Following Bush’s Playbook
kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com 3 days ago — Speaking as a big skeptic of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, and as a major critic of nation-building, I basically liked President Obama’s surge speech last night. I think he did himself some good with it. I notice today that General McChrystal spoke positively about both the speech ...

Gays and hate crimes : Small comfort — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Barack Obama is doing a bit for American gays ELEVEN years ago a young gay man named Matthew Shepard was whipped with a pistol, tied to a fence, robbed, tortured and left to die. This murder has served as a rallying cry for gays, who think the ...

Cap-and-trade: The road to 60 — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Signs of bipartisanship on the climate-change bill MANY commentators fear that Barack Obama’s plans for a cap-and-trade bill have got fatally stuck in the Senate. Their calculations were shaken up over the weekend when Lindsey Graham, a South ...

The “mini mid-terms”: Republicans resurgent — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Democrats face two tough races with national implications CHRIS CHRISTIE, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, is meeting voters at a restaurant in Monmouth Junction that serves colossal bacon cheeseburgers. But nothing passes his ...

Global-warming diplomacy: Bangkok blues — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Gloom and pragmatism ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summit THE planet is warming, but the mood among climate negotiators seems as chilly as ever. On October 9th the penultimate round of talks before December’s climate-change summit in ...

The war in Afghanistan: Obama's war — The Economist: Full print edition 10/15/2009
Why the Afghanistan war deserves more resources, commitment and political will EIGHT years after the deceptively swift toppling of the Taliban, the prospects for the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan seem worse than ever. Every Western casualty, every ...