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GOP's Debt Ceiling Fight Is About Bringing Down Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (31)Impeach him.
Not the president. Barack Obama is holding a huge global and domestic crisis in his hand. To use a Washington metaphor, he's dangerously close to being left "holding the bag" on the Treasury debt ceiling limit. He keeps talking sweet reason about the art of compromise to Republicans in Congress—not a language they speak. Obama played golf with the House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican who drones on about "small business" every chance he gets. Obama is not getting traction or making friends with Boehner because he does not grasp the conversation about the debt limit is not about the debt limit. It's about taking his presidency down—this week—even if it hurts the United States of America, which it will. A small price to pay for this tea-drinking crowd of 87 GOP House freshmen which turned the chamber upside down six months ago.
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Obama Should Marginalize GOP Over Debt Ceiling Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (16)Dear President Obama,
Your 50th birthday is nearly upon you this summer, falling on August 4, roughly when the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury may collapse in the global economy.
What an awful present to a forever-young president. Sorry, but right now, the sunny glow of youth is not a good look for you. Age and gravitas would become you better than the grace of a gazelle, as you move. And the candles at the court—well, they're not burning very bright these mid-summer nights. Something has got to give. Mind if I offer more free advice, gift-wrapped, to someone I wish well?
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What Michelle Obama Could Learn From Betty Ford
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2011 Comment (9)A Chicago-born first lady takes the country by storm and confronted some of the searing issues of her day--and her name is not Michelle Obama. I'm talking about Betty Ford, who will be buried today. She was 93.
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Wisconsin Democrats Mourn Their State's Political Soul
Tweet Share on Facebook July 5, 2011 Comment (12)Madison, WIS.—"On Wisconsin" is the fight song everybody at this fine university on the lake knows. In summer, the sunsets over Lake Mendota are to die for, as are the ice cream flavors made by the University of Wisconsin's dairy, best enjoyed with the exuberant vibe on the Memorial Union Terrace by the water. Life is sweetest here this time of year, and the Fourth of July is the sweetest day of summer.
Yet even an eternal optimist like Pangloss or me can taste the bittersweetness on the vine here, where the Republican Party was founded before the Civil War. Next came the Progressive Party, early in the 20th century. A century later, public-spirited Wisconsin is a deeply unhappy and divided state of mind.
