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The Challenge Obama Faces With Congress

By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 2:58pm |
I do think David Brooks the other day stumbled onto some truth when he said Obama is not at this point feared by Congress.  I think that's accurate.  I think over the next couple of months re health care...

A Comment on How the Health Care Debate is Evolving

By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 2:40pm |
One observation I am led to on health care based on discussions at the cafe is that many members of Congress seem either to have gotten the message that there is considerable support for including a public option in the...

On the Obama Hating

By AmericanDreamer on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 2:41pm |
This is the only post I hope I make on this odious subject.Bush was deeply hated by many. But I don't believe I have ever seen a single comment by a tpmcafe denizen even suggesting or intimating violence against Bush...

Excellent Read on What (I hope) US Foreign Policy Will Move Towards

By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 12:46am |
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The Stimulus Bill Was Small Relative to the New Deal: My Unsuccessful Efforts to Get the WashPost to Set the Record Straight

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 1:45pm |
Much of the economic policy discussion over the next few months will be about how to stop the bleeding in the financial sector, and then, how to prevent it from happening again.  Understandably so. Paul Krugman is not alone, however,...

Prominent Economists Endorse Employee Free Choice Act

By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:58am |
  Lots of distinguished names on this list of signatories endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act (scroll down below the article for the full list).  Notable for their absence are Krugman and Stiglitz--perhaps a fellow denizen knows the stories there. ...

Rec'd reading: The China Price, by Alexandra Harney

By AmericanDreamer on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 2:54pm |
I'd like to see this book get as widespread attention as possible.  It is an engagingly reported look at working conditions in the south China industrial factories, which appears to be balanced and should help to ground discussion about our and other countries' policies...

On the Lack of Engagement of Invited Book Club Contributors

By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 1:30pm |
Some good comments in the book club discussion this week on Andrew Bacevich's book, both by invited contributors and cafe denizens.   It could be so much better if Michael Klare, Bacevich, and others would engage with us riffraff.  Evidently they can't...

Bipartisanship, the Stimulus Bill, and Dealing with Bad-Faith Hill Republicans

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 1:19pm |
Oversimplifying somewhat, there are two basic reasons for the White House and the Democratic Congressional leadership to be open to accepting ideas/requests for changes from individual or groups of Congressional Republicans to a bill they are trying to move....

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