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Tag Archives: Obama
What Hillary Will Win In 2016
The Supreme Court. A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s blog makes the point concisely: A president Clinton will have […] a very gray Supreme Court (FOUR octogenarians in her first term). Think about what that means for all those Voting Rights Act cases … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, GOP, Hillary, hillary clinton, Obama, Politics, Republicans
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3,000,000
Wow. This is in The Huffington Post this morning: The Obama administration said Friday that more than 3 million people have now signed up for private plans through the federal and state health insurance exchanges, including more than 800,000 in … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, hillary clinton, Marketplace, Obama, obamacare, Red State
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Invoke the 14th Amendment: Sean Wilentz’s Must-Read Advice to President Obama
Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian, has written for the NYT today an absolutely must-read essay on the looming debt default crisis, how it would violate the 14th Amendment to actually let the country go into default, and what President Obama … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th amendment, debt default, economy, john boehner, Michelle Obama, Obama, Republicans, rush limbaugh, Ted Cruz
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Obama “Willy Wonkas” the Republicans
President Obama has exactly the right strategy for dealing with the tantrum-throwing/government shut-downing/anti-Obamacare Republicans: Willy Wonka them.
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Tagged America, Obama, Red State, Republicans, rush limbaugh, tea party, Willy Wonka
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Atlas Shrugged for Real: Republicans Seek an Economic Shutdown to Achieve Their Agenda
The Atlas Shrugged Party looks like it’s barreling full-tilt to an economic shutdown–an Atlas Shrugged scenario for real–in a couple of weeks, and here’s Jon Favreau’s advice to President Obama: [A] failure to raise the debt limit would inflict far more … Continue reading
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Tagged America, debt, deficit, economy, Obama, Red State, Republicans
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Obamacare: You Fund It, You Own It
It’s entertaining to watch the Tea Party right send the Republican Party over the cliff, as in this ad pressing Mitch McConnell to defund Obamacare: __________ The Republican leadership clearly recognizes that it cannot defund Obamacare without a stand-off with … Continue reading
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Tagged America, evolution, fitness, health care, Michelle Obama, Obama, obamacare
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Obama Surfs the Demographic Wave, But Through Target Marketing (the Use of Big Data), Not Reason
Jonathan Alter’s new book, The Center Holds, on President Obama and the 2012 election, was recently reviewed in The New York Times, and there are some revelations in it: [Alter] thinks the United States “dodged a bullet in 2012,” and … Continue reading
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