All Life Is Problem Solving

Olympia Snowe, our modern-day Hamlet, decided to vote in favor of getting the Baucus bill out of committee. This insignificant action in itself (if she had voted against the bill it still would have passed in committee 13-10), was celebrated by the MSM all day long today, as the coming of at least a bit […]

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The Federal Government has three independent and theoretically co-equal branches. But presently it is unbalanced, and the chief source of the imbalance is the US Congress. Congress is either a very weak, or a very strong institution, depending on one’s perspective. If you’re opposed to the status quo, and interested in blocking legislation changing things, […]

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Hi Bill, Thanks for your kind words, your support of my post, and your help in calling Jason’s attention to it. It’s great to be writing in a community where people support one another even when they disagree. I take your point that the presidency should be less powerful than it is, and I generally […]

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Well, the chorus has now started singing “too small, too small” about the stimulus. What was obvious to Paul Krugman, Joe Stieglitz, Dean Baker, Jamie Galbraith, Robert Reich. Robert Kuttner, and a host of other economists is now becoming so clear that the MSM, which not very long ago, wouldn’t even cover the opinion that […]

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Today, I have a quickie comment on US politics. Ryan Lizza had a striking profile on Rahm Emanuel in the New Yorker, which among other things recorded Rahm’s reactions to some critics of the Administration’s efforts on the stimulus package. Lizza puts things this way: ““They have never worked the legislative process,” Emanuel said of […]

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When the Senate cut Education Funding, Aid to the States, Aid to Low Income Families, Renewable Energy Investments, Health Information Technology, and Science Funding, all of which would have produced $.57 for each dollar invested, and, instead, increased wasteful tax cuts which will produce an additional $.02 gain on each dollar invested, I began to […]

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