Tag Archives: White House

The White House Attacks Edmunds for Reaching Politically Uncomfortable Conclusion on Cash for Clunkers

Don’t you find it interesting the amount of effort this White House puts toward going out of its way to discredit its critics by name?

Creigh Deeds and the Revenge of the Son of Macaca

Attempting to follow the script of Jim Webb’s narrow win over George Allen in 2006, the Deeds campaign started floating around with visions of Macaca dancing in their heads. Three years in its wake, the lessons of the Macaca incident are about to take down another candidate. But this time, it’s the Democrat.

The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the White House’s latest actions capping executive pay on Wall Street and an interesting take one blogger has on those troublesome Too Big to Fail policies.

The Significance Of Van Jones

My column is out.

Takeaway Lessons From The Van Jones Saga

Casting Van Jones out should have been an easy-as-pie call, but for some reason, his defenders decided to make the process harder than it should have been by trying to ignore his story, and then, trying to defend the indefensible.

Deficit Spending and the New American Economy

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the incredible nine trillion dollar deficit predictions of the OMB and the CBO released yesterday, and what they say about how the government has remade the American economy so significantly in the space of a year.

Michael Kinsley and Those Evil Lobbyists

Michael Kinsley took the occasion of the death of longtime Democratic Beltway lobbyist Anne Wexler to denounce that favorite scapegoat of political liberals: the influence of lobbyists in Washington. But Kinsley is not serious about the influence of lobbyists, because unaddressed in his diatribe is the actual source of their power in the first place.

The Mini-Great Personnel Exodus

I didn’t expect that so many people would be leaving the Obama Administration so soon. And yet, as my latest column for the New Ledger points out, that’s precisely what they are doing.

Leaving So Soon? Obama’s Crew Jumps Ship

Personnel departures from an Administration are not supposed to take place en masse until either the end of a one-term Presidency, or well into the second term, when it is clear that the President in question is a lame duck. But as with so many other subjects, when it comes to personnel, the Obama Administration is breaking new ground.

Toxic Assets and the New Immortal Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Thursday, August 6th edition of Coffee and Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast concerns Tim Geithner, Hank Paulson, and the planned remake of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

- November 21, 2009 -

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