By rising above their bait and merely presenting a contrast of character, President Obama is making the Republican A-listers appear small, petty and absolutely befuddled. They're frantically struggling to figure out how to counterpunch, so they're grabbing, borrowing or downright plagiarizing ideas from anywhere, irrespective of the general quality of the idea. But if this is their "voice" and they're satisfied with it, I for one welcome the new Republican "voice" and wish them a hearty and very sincere: "Good luck with that."
So much has been written about the bank rescue announcement by Treasury Secretary Geithner, and a clear verdict has set in -- the details were missing and the plan was far too scant to soothe the markets.
Why not allow recently laid off workers to apply their unemployment benefits toward their next job in the form of a voucher?
Rarely in the rich history of congressional stonings have the victims been so crisply-attired, so contrite, so deferential, and so tolerant of their grandstanding captors.
What does the unrelated cast of characters featured in this evening's newscast have in common? They all benefited from the tax cuts and deregulation policies of George W. Bush.
The Treasury seems in danger of pandering to the Wall Street beast, rather than protecting the vulnerable -- those companies where real wealth is created.
Rep. Solis has been forced to wait and watch while a few Republican Senators try to make political hay of her husband's small business tax woes.
You wanna say, "Boy, I don't think this is gonna work," or , "This is the dumbest plan I've ever seen" -- great. God bless. This is America. But to incite millions to hope for failure?
The worst irony may be that those of us clucking over her excesses also help feed the frenzy of attention that will allow her to cash in on her horribly pathological choices.
Reed, who has spent eight of the last ten years on the run, entering Ivy League schools under adopted fake identities, and evading cops along the way, was sentenced today to over four years in prison.
There's a new kind of father-daughter relationship. Young women are educated, oriented and dedicated to making their way in a world of work -- territory that their fathers have patrolled for decades.
"The nation's economy is in a crisis that could easily turn into a catastrophe," the Treasury Secretary said. "In this precarious state, it is highly vulnerable to my talking."
Nadya Suleman may have been the one to selfishly create an entire litter of children she could barely take care of, but a lot of people within the media told her there was no harm in it.
Isn't it time to end the debate about whether or not media shapes society or merely mirrors it and consider the real life examples of media as a singularly powerful agent of change.
The new administration needs to take on the one real "existential threat" to the Republic -- the sane, mutual reduction of nuclear weapons in the United States and the Russian Federation.
In Michael Wolff's book, he serves lots of candy and cat food as he tells the story of Murdoch's rise from scion of a smallish Australian newspaper empire to master of the universe in today's media world.
Everybody in Iraq is paranoid. And I can't blame them. I've only been here four months, during a drastic cooling in the violence, and I feel like a cop showing up late to a domestic disturbance.
By obstinately opposing Obama's plan to create or save 4 million jobs, the Republican leadership could be leading its followers from their current political wilderness into "never-never" land.
It will be easier for President Obama to deal with Netanyahu than with the almost equally hawkish Tzipi Livni because Livni seems dedicated to ending the conflict.
