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Dana Milbank’s humorous portrayal of passivity at the White House, during a time of Middle East upheaval, speaks volumes 1

A sprinkling of Press Secretary quotations says it all President’s Obama’s passivity is, by now, an established character trait.  I’ve taken to not listening to much of what he has to say because, whatever it is, it will be a gloss on doing nothing, too little, or the wrong thing. Dana Milbank’s column yesterday contrasted turmoil [...]

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24 February 2011 – 10:24
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By BrainiYak

High-speed rail as a misplaced priority — shouldn’t we be fixing our crumbling roads and bridges first? 0

Robert J. Samuelson nailed this one with logic Economics columnist Robert Samuelson is skeptical about the financial sense of high-speed rail: [T]he Obama administration proposes spending $53 billion over six years to construct a “national high-speed rail system.” There’s something wildly irresponsible about the national government undermining states’ already poor long-term budget prospects by plying [...]

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15 February 2011 – 07:10
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By BrainiYak

Press Secretary Gibb’s pointless critique of the “professional left” demonstrated the Administration’s complacent inability to recognize that reality trounces camouflage in painful times 0

Unattractive Presidential whining Why does Press Secretary Gibbs now think that he can slam the “professional left,” simply because it expressed unhappiness that the President abandoned his campaign promises in order to cozy up to the moneyed elite that runs the country? The allegedly outsider politician, then-Senator Barrack Obama, got his golden opportunity to become [...]

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16 August 2010 – 08:41
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By BrainiYak