To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Old Folks Are Doing OK
BY FROMA HARROP “Round up everybody that can ride a horse or pull a trigger,” John Wayne says in Chisum. “Let’s break out some Winchesters.” That’s how I feel every time someone calls for “saving” Social Security. Conservatives have been likening it to the Bernie Madoff scandal. Some call it a Ponzi scheme, as MSNBC’s […]
Stronger, Please, Mr. President
BY JOE CONASON Having allowed his Republican opponents to dominate the economic debate for two weeks as his stimulus proposal languished, President Obama used his first news conference to rebut them – coolly and civilly, yet without leaving any doubt that he can strike back harder if necessary. He drew the lines that had to […]
Doctor Obama
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The patient is in trouble. That much we know. About that everyone is certain. There are mounting job losses, record deficits, banks failing, mortgages underwater, layoffs looming. Last month, we lost as many jobs as there are in the state of Maine. One down, 49 to go. No, you won’t find too […]
The Whine Of Wall Street’s Tune
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Listen intently, and you can hear the faint music of the band coming from over the hills. Their drums are pounding out a steady cadence, the bagpipes are wheezing mournfully, and the fifes are trilling plaintively. Coming straight at you, it’s The Musicale Marching Pity Corps from Wall Street! This big banker […]
The Disloyal Opposition
BY FROMA HARROP Barack Obama never guaranteed he would end partisan rancor in Washington. He said he’d try. The assumption was that Republicans might want to work with Democrats to reach shared goals. Passing a stimulus plan to stop the economic freefall would seem an easy place to start. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Although Republicans surely […]
