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Well, That Certainly Didn’t Go Like He Planned It
By marfdrat on January 24, 2011
Image via Wikipedia Update: Well, that certainly didn’t last long. Today, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a stay that allows Emanuel to stay on the ballot. You had to know he’d find a way. An Illinois Appellate court has decided in a 2 to1 vote that Rahm Emanuel -who quit his job as White House [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged chicago, chicago mayoral race, DFOaLG, obama, rahm emanuel, white house chief of staff | Leave a response
It’s not such a mystery: Why Obama and Co. are doing a lousy job.
By marfdrat on August 29, 2010
I have to give Michael Tomasky a little credit for at least admitting that the Obama administration is doing a lousy job of governing. But only a little. His in-depth “examination” of this mystery betrays his complete lack of understanding of the why. First, he lays out some possible reasons why Obama was “two steps [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, constitution, keynesian stimulus, Michael Tomasky, Paul Krugman, rahm emanuel, rule of law, White House | Leave a response
The environmental disaster that, well, wasn’t
By marfdrat on July 29, 2010
It appears that even the lame-stream media (LSM) is starting to get it: there isn’t really an “environmental disaster” in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion was a terrible tragedy for the workers who were killed and their families. The resulting oil spill, touted nightly on news reports with dramatic “Day x” [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, deepwater horizon, Environment, Exxon Valdez, Gulf of Mexico, ixtoc, kuwait, New York Times, Offshore drilling, rahm emanuel, Rush Limbaugh | Leave a response







