Obamateurism of the Day
Political petulance. Needless to say, Barack Obama’s joint session request to John Boehner didn’t win him any competence points — from either side of the aisle. Guess who wrote this rather biting...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Good question. How amateurish was that stunt Barack Obama pulled with the jobs-speech demand for a joint session at the same time as the Republican debate? Even the news media wonders why anyone...
View ArticleVideo: Classical (union) Gas
He who cracked it, taxed it? With Barack Obama looking for ways to regain momentum on job creation, expect the President to lecture Congress on the upcoming expiration of the federal gas tax when he...
View ArticleWhich word was missing from Obama’s speech last night?
Basics. Barack Obama’s supporters praised him for having it in his joint-session speech last night on job creation. A national economy needs plenty of it in order to expand. Consumers consider it...
View ArticleMilbank: Yeah, this president’s irrelevant
Shrinking before our eyes? Were you impressed by the pageantry and pomp of the joint-session setting for what turned out to be a mundane and insubstantial campaign speech? Neither were the...
View ArticleDick Durbin and the Fierce Moral Urgency of … Next Month
Plus, Manchin on the “good, bad, and ugly” of Obama’s jobs bill. Barack Obama went to Congress eleven days ago and demanded that they pass his jobs bill immediately … seventeen times, in fact, during...
View ArticleObama drops to new low of 39% in Marist poll
“A litany of bad news.” You know, call me crazy, but it sure doesn’t appear that President Obama’s jobs bill did much for his popularity. A new poll from Marist conducted a few days after Obama’s big...
View ArticleSubmit Paper on The Debt Crisis for the AALS by August 31
One more scholarly paper note….The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint program on January 5, 2013 at the AALS Annual Meeting, entitled The Debt Crisis and...
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