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You Know The Drill

February 9, 2010 – 3:39 pm

The stories abound of the American President who found himself insulated from his Cabinet and other major policy advisers, thanks to the work done by a small, insular group of staffers, most of whom found their way to the President’s side thanks to the fact that they hail from the same geographic location as him.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Andrew Malcolm, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Edward Luce, Obama Administration, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Steve Clemons, Valerie Jarrett | Comments

After Obamacare: What Should Conservatives Do?

February 4, 2010 – 11:05 pm

After Obamacare, we can stop pretending that a handful of experts in Washington know better than the rest of the country. After Obamacare, we can return to debating solutions more in line with traditional American values and American ways of solving problems by the trials and errors of a free people. After Obamacare, the goals will be more modest, but more realistic. After Obamacare, health care reform will still be possible – but only if President Obama abandons his utopian schemes and looks at the kind of solutions that Americans have long regarded as common ground.

By Dan McLaughlin | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Domestic Policy, Harry Reid, health care, Obamacare, Scott Brown, Senate Democrats | Comments

Jeff Jacoby On Immigration Policy

November 22, 2009 – 6:17 pm

As is his wont, Jacoby speaks big truth:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Illegal Immigrants, Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration Policy, Jeff Jacoby | Comments

Barack Obama Is Not The Messiah. He’s Just Another Politician.

August 1, 2009 – 2:17 am

Film at eleven.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Birthers, Democrats, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Politics, Republicans | Comments

The Obama Administration And CAFE Standards

May 20, 2009 – 2:09 am

Megan McArdle thinks that the new auto emissions/fuel economy standards being imposed by the Obama Administration constitutes bad policy, but may be the most politically feasible policy out there.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Automobile Emissions, Barack Obama, CAFE Standards, Carbon Tax, Environment, Obama Administration | Comments

The Obama Administration: Bought And Paid For By Toxic Polluters?

May 16, 2009 – 1:11 pm

Hey, that’s not just me putting the notion out there. That’s Think Progress making the claim.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Environment, Law, Obama Administration, Polluters, Polluting, Superfund, Think Progress | Comments

The “Massachusetts Model” Turns Three . . .

April 14, 2009 – 1:02 am

and has precious little to show for itself.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Health Care Reform, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney | Comments

The Markets and Policy Manifesto

March 22, 2009 – 3:39 pm

Free markets and free trade are good. But society as a whole has a say in how to use the material well-being that free markets produce.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged Francis Cianfrocca, Manifesto, markets | Comments

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