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31 May 2023, 1:00 pm
Other examples include Barack Obama's highly successful use of lies ("if you like you health insurance, you can keep it") to sell the Affordable Care Act to the public, disproportionate left-wing susceptibility to 9/11 "trutherism" (a counterpart to right-wing susceptibility to "birtherism"), and much else. [read post]
31 May 2023, 9:47 am
Barack Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer and former community organizer in touch with working people, won the election with a mandate to bring “banksters” to account for the harm they caused Main Street Americans and ensure a similar financial crisis could never happen again. [read post]
27 May 2023, 10:44 am
After all, while Democrats occasionally cast symbolic votes against raising the debt ceiling in the pre-2011 period (with even then-Senator Barack Obama doing so in 2006, although that vote in no way threatened economic calamity), there have never been substantial numbers of Democrats who favored the scorched earth policy that Republicans have gleefully abused for eight of the last twelve years.Something was different from 2017 through 2021, but the particulars escape us. [read post]
Chief Justice John Roberts and the “Privilege” of Seeing the World from Behind Fences and Barricades
25 May 2023, 9:01 pm
”As Jeffrey Toobin reminded us, then-Senator Barack Obama understood what this conception of judge as umpire would mean if Roberts was confirmed to a seat on the Supreme Court: In his Senate speech on that vote, Obama praised Roberts’s intellect and integrity and said that he would trust his judgment in about ninety-five per cent of the cases before the Supreme Court. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:45 am
There was also this quote from Maureen Dowd: Of the many exciting things about Barack Obama’s election, one was the anticipation of a bracing dose of normality in the White House.That was back when the abnormality was George W. [read post]
23 May 2023, 9:02 pm
The antigovernment movement is an extremist response to the federal “Food Safety and Modernization Act,” signed into national law by President Barack Obama on Jan. 4, 2011. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm
When a radicalized political faction throws out all convention, then only unconventional responses remain, whether Biden and his advisors like it or not.After his first fatefully unwise decision to negotiate with Republicans over the debt ceiling in 2011, President Barack Obama realized that the smart response to subsequent attempts at hostage-taking was to refuse to engage with his radically irresponsible opponents. [read post]
22 May 2023, 4:30 am
Barack Obama previously rejected this theory and said that Congress had to give him the authority to raise the debt limit. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Making such an announcement when the debt ceiling was not even on anybody’s radar screen would have been politically disruptive, potentially throwing off other priorities with what might have seemed like an unnecessary provocation.But because of what we observed during all of the debt ceiling battles during Barack Obama’s presidency, we were convinced that waiting to act would inevitably put the country back in exactly the position in which it now finds itself. [read post]
21 May 2023, 3:05 am
President Obama commuted his sentence. [read post]
19 May 2023, 4:30 am
As detailed in the report, President Barack Obama and his national security team were briefed on how “a trusted foreign source” revealed “a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable on Constitutional Crises, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:11 am
In 2015, facing political pressure from detainees’ families, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that created the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs within the U.S. [read post]
18 May 2023, 3:00 am
At another point, he writes that “President Barack Obama and his national security team were briefed on how ‘a trusted foreign source’ revealed ‘a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server. [read post]
17 May 2023, 8:43 am
" Former CIA director John Brennan briefed this material to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Mr. [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm
We hope that President Joe Biden will continue to treat the debt ceiling as non-negotiable, in particular because losing his nerve now would only encourage a repeat of this mess in the very near future, with Republicans inevitably expanding their demands in each successive manufactured crisis.If Republicans refuse to see reason, the least-bad possible outcome—among a range of outcomes that would all be rightly described as constitutional and economic crises of epic… [read post]
16 May 2023, 12:01 am
He was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Federal Commission on Long-Term Care, advising Congress on how long-term care can be better provided and financed for the nation’s older adults and people with disabilities, now and in the future. [read post]
13 May 2023, 11:08 am
The event proceeded on the assumption that Trump is eligible to serve again, which would not have occurred if, say, Barack Obama or George W. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:00 am
Bill Clinton, who was President at the time, did try to connect the dots between McVeigh and wider movements, including the so-called "militia" movement, but he obviously had many other things on his plate as well, and the "lone wolf" portrayal of McVeigh ended up as dominant.Toobin is also caustic in his criticism of “the willful blindness” of Barack Obama for his failure to support a report in 2009 by the Department of Homeland Security that… [read post]
11 May 2023, 1:50 pm
Well, I said, that is exactly what Obama needed to say in that context, because he was en [read post]
