Sam Tanenhaus has a piece about presidential war powers that helps me understand why he commissioned a review of a bio of Willie Mays that consisted mostly of nostalgic blubbering.
Shorter some unnamed "Democratic strategists": "Nothing would have House Republicans more likely to support an immigration reform bill than have Barack Obama come out strongly in favor of it. He.
Shorter MoDo: No matter what Obama says, he could totally get House Republicans to do what he wants if he only had the leadership to lead, with leadership. I blame.
Shorter Glenn Kessler: Republicans aren't lying when they say that President Obama doesn't have a plan. Because if he was really behind a plan, he could shove it right down.
I've been thinking more about issues surrounding what I see as progressives' lack of understanding around how to organize for the change they want. See here, but to reiterate, too.
I forgot to get to this when I first read it, and fortunately Pareene did the job so I mostly don't have to. I'll just focus on this particular howler:.
Robert Wright is wondering why the Affordable Care Act wasn't just a straightforward use of the tax power, and his analysis is of course focused on the median votes of.
Since this failure to bring Congress aboard involves Obama trying to achieve abysmally and unnecessarily conservative ends, I'm pretty sure that this time I'm not going to get much of.
