Obama’s Attack on Social Security

OK, I know they aren’t talking privatization anymore now that the stock market collapsed, but I like that cartoon anyway. And yes, the siege on the social safety net continues, with a slight hiccup, as Myiq2xu reported in the previous post. Apparently some Democrats–probably members of the shrinking Democratic wing of the Obamacratic Party–had a [...]

Democrats Make Obama Retreat on Social Security

Elana Schor at TPM: The New York Times reports this morning that the White House had abandoned plans to unveil a Social Security “task force” at today’s fiscal summit, raising the question of whether the Obama administration is ready to conduct separate debate over the long-term health of Social Security and Medicare — or whether [...]

Palin Derangement Syndrome, will we ever find a cure???

First of all I saw this on CNN’s political ticker (they always do their Palin stories on the ticker so that people can comment): The mainstream media made it a mission to destroy the vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor says in a new documentary released Monday. In an interview taped last [...]

A change whose time has come, or a recipe for disaster?

I saw this article this morning in the Washington Post and thought that it would be a good topic of discussion at this site.  As many of you know, we have some of the finest legal minds out there as front pagers and contributors to this blog, so I’d certainly like to get their take [...]

Monday: The Bankers and Obama.

They paid for him.  They paid big money to get what they wanted. Liberal Rapture has an account of an unknown insider that is uncanny in its summary of Obama.  The account could be completely fabricated but if it is true, it is told from the perspective of someone who was present at many of [...]