Democrats didn't lose the battle of 2010. They won it. - By William Saletan. Democrats have lost the House, and health care is getting the blame.
Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, a retiring Democrat, says his party "overreached by focusing on health care rather than job creation" and by spending $1 trillion on "a major entitlement expansion. " Sen. John McCain's economic adviser agrees. Pundits say the health care bill killed President Obama's approval ratings, cost congressional Democrats their jobs, and snuffed out the legacy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Will Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate.
Follow I'm not buying the autopsy or the obituary. I realize that sounds crazy. They're wrong. Legislative majorities come and go. Exactly. Most bills aren't more important than elections. Politicians have tried and failed for decades to enact universal health care. And that's not counting financial regulation, economic stimulus, college lending reform, and all the other bills that became law under Pelosi. Rep. Louie Gohmert Goes Berserk On Anderson Cooper!!! Immigrant Farm Workers. Wisconsin GOP candidate health care hypocrisy. What America Left Behind in Iraq - By Nir Rosen. Click here for images of Iraq: Obama's inherited war.
Hundreds of cars waiting in the heat to slowly pass through one of the dozens of checkpoints and searches they must endure every day. The constant roar of generators. The smell of fuel, of sewage, of kabobs. Automatic weapons pointed at your head out of military vehicles, out of SUVs with tinted windows. Mountains of garbage. Iraq has had several declarations of sovereignty since the first one in June 2004. Iraq is still being held back from full independence -- and not merely by the presence of 50,000 U.S. soldiers. The Americans, meanwhile, worry about losing their leverage at a time when concerns still run high about a renewed insurgency, Shiite militias, and the explosion of the Arab-Kurdish powder keg everybody's been talking about for the last seven years.
American diplomats also worry that they will soon lose their ability to understand and influence the country. It's hard to disagree. Warrick Page/Getty Images. Noam Chomsky: The Real Reasons the U.S. Enables Israeli Crimes and Atrocities. August 16, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Noam Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of America’s most critically engaged public intellectuals today. He spoke with Kathleen Wells, a political correspondent for Race-Talk,about Israel and its interplay with the United States. Kathleen Wells: I’m speaking with Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and renowned political activist and writer.
Noam Chomsky: Very pleased to be with you. KW: Speak to me about the relation between the United States and Israel. NC: That’s a ... as a descriptive statement, that is pretty close to accurate. The history is reasonably clear. But the major change in relationships took place in 1967. Well, in 1967, Israel destroyed the source of secular Arab nationalism -- Nasser's Egypt -- which was considered a major threat and enemy by the West. Think tank: If each of us carried a gun . . . -Times Online. The Great Negotiation. By Jim Campell The November 24 cover of Time magazine pictured President-elect Barack Obama as the reincarnation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
It is an image of strength and hope. An image of a future filled with enthusiasm, intelligence and leadership. To many it seems as though the mainstream media’s adulation of the incoming President might be overboard causing a Washington Post media reporter to write on November 17 that “we seem to have crossed a cultural line into mythmaking.” President-elect Obama won a significant electoral victory. He has a great negotiation ahead of him to unite the country. As a negotiation coach working with hundreds of million of dollars in negotiations every day during in the most difficult economic times since the Great Depression, I naturally look at the negotiation process facing President-elect Obama, we citizens, and the rest of the world. We must dig into every issue and start paying attention. Many of us know the answer. Like this: Like Loading... Why Mommy and Daddy Are Democrats.