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It's Not The Economy, Stupid

Of all the simplistic, self-serving interpretations that have been proffered about last week's off-year election results, the one getting the most common purchase is that old Clintonian saw, "It's the economy, stupid." Voters are extra angry and ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  New York Times Company,  Barack Obama

'All Campaign Hacks'

On the eve of the first election of the Obama era, the Washington Post ran a long profile Monday of the White House's "low-profile" political director, Patrick Gaspard. It was an unremarkable story filled with unremarkable tidbits about how the ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

The Best Bonus Buster

If there is one issue that can bring Democrats and Republicans together today, it is Wall Street pay. Both the left and the right have been howling with new heights of outrage since it was reported last week that the big financial firms that owe their ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  House Financial Services Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama

A Leveraged Cry-Out

President Obama took a break from health care and war planning Oct. 9 to finally take a public stand against the corrupt capitalism that spawned last fall's financial crisis. After nine months of legislative passivity, interrupted by a few high-minded ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ross Perot,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  Federal Reserve

Simmons' Wake-up Call

The recent news that the Simmons mattress company is planning to file for bankruptcy truly hit me where I live, having bought one of its mattresses a few weeks ago. But after reading more about how this iconic bedding business went bust and the ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Goldman Sachs,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

Too Close For Comfort

Over the weekend I finally got a chance to read James Stewart's painstaking (and pain-reinforcing) account in last week's New Yorker of the fateful week a year ago that our financial system almost collapsed. It's filled with fascinating and infuriating ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hank Paulson,  George W. Bush,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Ben Bernanke,  U.S. Congress

Obama's Speech Therapy

President Obama's health care address to Congress on Wednesday has gotten Washington as "wee-weed up" as ever. The conventional wisdom seems to be that Obama is losing badly in the bottom of the ninth inning (to borrow a favorite administration ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  Ross Perot

The Democrats' Bogus Bogeyman

In my column last week I took a broad look at the Democrats' self-deluding and ultimately self-sabotaging approach to the health care debate. Today I want to zero in on arguably the most egregious and damaging myth that many in my party have bought ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  Nancy Pelosi

Their Own Worst Enemy

With the political prognosis for health care reform turning from seriously ill to fatally wounded, many of my fellow Democrats are grieving through grievance. They're lashing out at friends and foes alike, blaming everyone from Sarah Palin to the nutty ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  24 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party

Get Rid Of Pelosi

At the beginning of the year, I predicted to a few Democratic friends that the most fateful decision of Barack Obama's presidency could be installing Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. It's not that I had a problem with Emanuel--I thought he was a ...

From DAN GERSTEIN, Forbes,  20 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Rahm Emanuel,  U.S. Republican Party

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