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In Defense of Yahoo! and Marissa Mayer's Telecommuting Ban
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentYahoo!'s recent edict banning telecommuting for employees has become a minor scandal, largely because to many, it seems an incongruous move for an Internet company. A fussy law firm seems like the kind of place that would insist its workers do their jobs on-site. Yahoo! sounds like the kind of place that would not only encourage telecommuting, but be working on software that would allow people's avatars to do their grunt work while the real people go out and find new financing. Plus, the new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is the first person to be hired as a major company CEO while she was pregnant—and she came back to work two weeks after her child was born.
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Violence Against Women Act Win Shows Obama Has House GOP’s Number
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentThe Violence Against Women Act passed the House today with bipartisan support. The renewal of the law represents a win for good public policy. It also marks another win for President Obama's legislative strategy as he reaps the rewards of the conservative movement's widening schism from the main stream of American thought.
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When Will Conservatives Get Over the 'Liberal Media' Myth?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentIt's the perfect recipe for conservative apoplexy: On the one hand you have the Politico reporting that journalists are dissatisfied with their access to the president and, on the other, you have Chuck Todd saying the media isn't liberal.
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Did the Obama White House Threaten Bob Woodward?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentSo is the Obama administration going to the mattresses against iconic Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward? Is that a Predator drone I see circling over a certain Georgetown residence? OK everyone, take a deep breath and back away from the crazy train. Looking at the exchange in full gives the impression that at best Woodward is being oversensitive and at worst outright disingenuous.
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Republicans Are Losing the Sequestration Battle
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentDo Americans really know what they want?
It's the countdown to the sequester. Do Americans want that? Do they want cuts? Do they want Democrats and Republicans to work together to get this done?
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Sequestration Polls Show Americans Don't Know What They Want
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentGovernment by the people, for the people ... but what is it that the people want? In assessing the current polling, it appears that the people are contradictory about what they actually want. According to the Pew Research Center, 72 percent say that some form of a deficit reduction should be a top priority for the president and Congress. Interestingly, it's a priority focus that ranks above terrorism, Social Security, and education.
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The Republicans' Conservative Problem, In One Quotation
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentRyan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Eric Cantor has rightly gotten a lot of attention this week. Cantor's admission to having been the knife man nixing the almost-"grand bargain" on the deficit between House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama has especially received prominent play around the Web this week. But there was another quote that lept out at me as illustrating how deep the GOP's problems run, especially as regards to its truculent conservative wing.
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On Sequestration, Obama Wants to Have His Cake and Eat It, Too
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentThough someone is almost certain to do so, no one has yet figured out how much President Barack Obama's all-star antisequester traveling road show is costing U.S. taxpayers. The amount is probably considerable, which should make for interesting optics at a time when the automatic budget cuts that originated in White House are almost to take effect.
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Sequestration! So What?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentCue the Twilight Zone music… Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 is coming right up and together with it what some would have the American people believe to be that most ominous of events: the Sequester. I disagree.
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Why Did CPAC Snub New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentI'm sorry, why exactly has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie been banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC to its friends and attendees)? Why would CPAC want to exclude him? Could it be that the right has gotten so weirdly, short-sightedly venal?
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