Brown
Obama’s new realities
Feb 4th
By Joan Vennochi
February 4, 2010
NASHUA, N.H.
WHO HAS more clout: Senator-elect Scott Brown or loyal supporters who still cheer wildly when President Obama talks about health care reform?
Obama hit the New Hampshire campaign trail and promised that he wouldn’t “walk away’’ from health care.
But is that a real promise to lead the charge? It was hard [...]
In State of the Union address, President Obama put himself on the outside looking in
Jan 29th
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, January 29, 2010
President Obama’s State of the Union address didn’t signal a political shift to the left or the right. It sounded more like a shrewd attempt to move from the inside to the outside — to position himself alongside disaffected voters, peering through the windows of the den of iniquity called [...]
Politics or Poppycock 2010-01-24 22:29:51
Jan 24th
The Caucus
The Politics and Government Blog of The Times
January 24, 2010, 9:56 AM
Sunday Word: Economy Week
By JANIE LORBER
Congress and the White House are gearing up for an economy-focused week.
The Senate has two major votes scheduled — one on whether to create a new commission to plan a way to curb the deficit and another [...]
