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Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin

Thot I'd stick w tour news on Twitter but can't help digress: Call senators! Tell 'em KILL THE BILL tonite;horrible govt healthcare takeover Sarah Palin may have the headlines. "Ted would be happy," Reid said Saturday night, invoking the name ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Twitter Inc,  U.S. Senate

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan

Now in a different world, at a different time, and with a different president, we face the prospect of enlarging a different war. But once again we're fighting in remote provinces against an enemy who can bleed us slowly and wait us out, because he ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Moyers,  Barack Obama,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  Wayne Morse

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda

The secretive Federal Reserve, former lair of "masters of the universe" like Alan Greenspan and Tim Geithner and current engine of a Wall-Street-first, Main-Street-last "recovery," is being set up by the Obama administration and Congressional leaders ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  CBC,  Barack Obama,  Federal Reserve

GM "Recovery" Strategy: Close Plants, Lay Off Workers

Despite continuing to lose money at what historically would have been identified as an astronomical rate, the auto company is losing less money and doing so at a slower pace than was the case a year ago. So Obama administration aides now say they are " ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Barack Obama,  New York Times Company,  Chrysler,  U.S. Republican Party

Congress Can, and Must, Move Now to Prevent Layoffs

This logic is as simple as it gets. The process is also quick and cheap. In principle, the government can go this route to save jobs at a cost of a bit more than $20,000 per job - far less than the cost per job saved through the stimulus ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Jack Reed,  Harry Reid,  Barack Obama,  John McCain

Palin's Publisher Is Right: She's "Ordinary," Very Ordinary

Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life (HarperCollins) is being pitched by her publisher as "one ordinary citizen's extraordinary journey." Back in the day, it seemed as if she might be extraordinary. When I started writing about her in 2006, at ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  George W. Bush

Obama Starts to Get It: Tackling Unemployment is Job 1

Millions of Americans -- our friends, our neighbors, our family members -- are desperately searching for jobs. This is one of the great challenges that remains in our economy -- a challenge that my administration is absolutely determined to meet. ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  New York Mercantile Exchange,  U.S. Democratic Party

To Save Journalism, Return to Founding Principles

After running through the details of the current crisis, which is seeing the loss of more than 1,000 journalists a month to layoffs and downsizings, the shuttering of international and Washington bureaus at the most rapid rate in the nation's history ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Thomas Jefferson,  New York Times Company,  John Nichols,  University of Illinois

Call Joe Lieberman's Bluff; Have a Real Inquiry

Not domestic terrorism, but full-blown terrorism that is comparable to what is seen in the most unstable of warzones. "This was an attack on America troops," Lieberman chirped on Fox New Sunday. "You've got to see it as if 12 American troops were ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Wallace,  U.S. Senate,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  James Taranto

Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

At the highest level, this bill will enshrine in law the monopolistic powers of the private health insurance industry, period. There's really no other way to look at it. I believe the private health insurance industry is part of the problem. While ...

From JOHN NICHOLS, The Nation,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dennis Kucinich,  U.S. Senate

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