The Old Deal
Posted by tas on Nov 8, 2010 in 2010 midterms, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Economy, Elections, Government, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Politics | 0 comments
[This essay, about Obama’s past, is the first essay I’ve published about the president today. The second essay is about Obama’s future, and you can read it on Pushing Rope.] In January 2009, at the beginning of the Obama Administration, I thought everyone knew the deal. The Republicans’...
US Health Care Reform: Made in…Afghanistan?
Stephen M. Walt, commenting on Obama’s recent AfPak escalation and the incongruity of domestic spending initatives vs expensive foreign military endeavours on the part of the US: As I’ve said before, Americans have come to believe that spending government revenues on U.S. citizens here at home...