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Staying Power
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President Obama has continued many Bush policies, from Gitmo, to Iraq, and expanding the war in Afghanistan. He draws the line, however, at withdrawal from golf.
Dawg Pound
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Obama threw a bone to the friendly crowd at the Milwaukee Laborfest on Monday. He yelped that his critics talk about him like a dog. Is he the Big Dog or Big Labor’s lap dog? Speaking of man’s best friend, Tony Blair, in his new book, says Bush has more integrity than nearly every other leader he has met.
The Big Dawg visits Cleveland today. Should be a howl.
Clunkers
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There’s not much question who was in the driver’s seat when the economy first went off-road. Bush careered between the Bear Sterns bail-out, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover, loans to AIG and GM, and the 700 billion dollar TARP. (Go here for an excellent bail-out timeline by ProPublica.) (And here’s the story in a Nov. 2008 cartoon). Obama then grabbed the wheel and put the pedal to the metal with the 800 billion dollar stimulus. At that point Krauthammer says, “Obama bought the economy”.
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers
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Liz Cheney wants AG Holder to name Justice Department attorneys who represented terrorists. Here’s the story in Politico.
Second Stimulus
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Here’s a Slate article on the need for a second stimulus without admitting the first one failed, and here’s Krauthammer on blaming Bush on Afghanistan.
Kid Talk
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The wing nuts demanded a congressional investigation after the president’s speech to school children. That would be President George H.W. Bush’s speech in 1991.
Fears that our future generation of social security payers would be brainwashed by President Obama’s speech this week were overstated. He told kids to study hard and stay in school.Unfortunately they’ll be staying in failing public schools in DC because the Department of Education is shutting down the popular voucher program there.
Wild About Harry
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Some of Senate majority leader, Harry Reid’s, constituents don’t like the way health care reform is going. He responded by calling them Evil Mongers. Not surprisingly, he finds himself down in the polls. Now he’s charming his way back by picking a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel (not to quote Mark Twain). He told the Las Vegas Review Journal he hopes it’s going out of business. His defenders say he was joking. Judging by his Evil Monger thigh slapper, they could be right.
Please go here for the counterpunch from the man who buys the ink (Sherman Fredrick, the publisher)
