George Bush, Wednesday:
It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes that have announced that they’ve got nuclear warheads fire missiles.
The White House, yesterday:
The White House complained last night that the disclosure could hurt anti-terrorism activities.
“We are disappointed that once again the New York Times has chosen to expose a classified program that is working to […]
Quote of the day, from Matt Yglesias:
the same conservatives who think all this is no big deal seem to regard the EPA as an intolerable sign of creeping totalitarianism.
He’s speaking, of course, of the executive usurpation of power in its liberal reading of war powers legislation. As Mark Shields said last night, with not too […]
David Eisenthal looks at a growing and seemingly insurmountable problem (the budget deficit) and comes up with an interesting, reasonable sounding solution that I’m nonetheless going to have to disagree with: a line-item veto amendment to the constitution. First, his case for it:
One idea that should be considered is an amendment to the […]
Over at Health Care for All’s blog, John McDonough gripes about Mitt Romney’s policy approach:
I’m old fashioned — and I long for the days when gubernatorial initiatives were accompanied by legislation and detailed policy briefs that spelled out assumptions, numbers, and details. This governor accompanies his pronouncements with zero details, making it impossible […]
Two seemingly contradictory statements can be true. Gov. Romney’s attempt to oust Matt Amorello from head spot at the Turnpike Authority following more Big Dig doubts is petty grandstanding. It’s also part of a necessary power play to centralize the power of the governor’s office.
First the grandstanding: when Governor says "The culture of obstruction […]
I’m not sure how seriously we can take the federal government’s efforts to halt identity theft when they design their tax forms to make it nearly impossible not to have a person’s social security number show through the plastic address window.
An op-ed on the Brookings Institution site blasts the Dems for not taking on the problem of government reform. As its author, Paul Light, writes,
Much as it prides itself on being the party of federal workers, the Democratic Party has become the champion of the mid-level managers and poor performers who thrive in a seniority-based […]