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Charlie Crist Is Back – and Democrats Are Smart to Take Him In
It’s hard to believe now that the GOP ever allowed such a thing. In 2007, the host of a major climate-change summit was none other than Florida’s then governor — and then Republican — Charlie Crist. “If you go back to …
Paul Ryan and the Stimulus, Part 2: Make Him Stop!
The blogosphere has done a nice job of exposing the lies and hypocrisies in Paul Ryan’s prime-time convention speech — not that it will have any effect on his unassailable reputation for courageous straight talk. I’ve already banged my spoon on this high chair before, but I do feel a special responsibility to recount the golden …
Mark Sanford’s Lonely Battle for Austerity: Did It Lead Him to the Appalachian Trail?
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama
TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama …
Paul Ryan and the Stimulus: A Match Designed to Make My Head Explode
My main obsession these days is President Obama’s misunderstood stimulus bill—why, yes, thanks for asking, The New New Deal did come out today—but I’m also fascinated by the partisan Republican budget-buster Paul Ryan and …
A New Wind Blowing: Obama’s Clean-Energy Revolution
Before President Obama took office, the U.S. had 25 gigawatts of wind power, and the government’s “base case” energy forecast expected 40 GW by 2030. Well, it’s not quite 2030 yet, but we’ve already got 50 GW of wind. …
Obama’s ‘Stealth Stimulus’ Renewed
Back in December of 2010 when Congress was faced with the imminent expiration of the Bush tax cuts, Democrats and Republicans made a pretty straight-forward tradeoff. President Obama would allow extended lower rates on top-tier income, anathema to liberals, in order to secure a moderately sized economic booster shot. The “Stealthy …
With Obama Jobs Bill Vote, Democrats Seek to Prove Congressional Dysfunction
The Senate Tuesday night is expected to vote down President Obama’s jobs bill. Democrats aren’t even sure they can get 51 votes, let alone the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. And even if it …
In Thursday Press Conference, Professor Obama Demands Answers
“Why?” Barack Obama asked Republicans about their opposition to his job creation bill. Then he asked it again. And again. By the time he was done, the President had repeated the question, in different ways, some 15 …
Solyndra and the Green Jobs Fantasy
The talented Mike Grunwald laid out the case yesterday for quarantining Solyndra from the rest of the solar effort. Just because Solyndra’s model failed, he says, doesn’t mean the rest of the push to fund innovation in …
The Unemployed Aren’t Victims of Discrimination. They’re Victims of a Lousy Economy.
It will not surprise my loyal fans—Hey, Dad!—that I like President Obama’s jobs bill. It’s a second stimulus, and when I haven’t been flacking the first, I’ve been kvetching for more. When unemployment is 9% and federal borrowing is practically free, it’s time to pay construction workers who need jobs to fix schools that …
The Sisyphean Stimulus Sell: Why Obama’s Big Job Speech Will Likely Prove Unpersuasive
Governor Rick “Galileo” Perry declared at the Reagan Library last night that President Obama and his 2009 stimulus have “proven once and for all that government spending will not create one job.” Actually, in the last …