Posts Tagged ‘ Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up ’

Your one stop pundit shop. Marleine Bastien, noting the commemoration of International Women's Day on Monday, says of Haiti: Women are the backbone of Haiti's economy, yet, they are not represented in the nation's decision-making process. By historically keeping women out of the political leadership, Haiti squandered its chances...
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Happy and safe Thanksgiving. Get your safe and effective H1N1 vaccine when it's available.   Gail Collins on the Obama Turkey pardon:   The turkey-pardoning is supposed to be a long-running national tradition, but it officially only goes back to George (the Good One) Bush and 1989. Since Thanksgiving is...
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Your really late, I can't believe I forgot all about it, one stop pundit shop. Gail Collins is the best. Thanks to the health care protests over the past week, the nation seems to have come to a fragile consensus on a few critical issues. For instance, government-run death panels...
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Wednesday opinion and nutty as a a fruitcake edition. Can we talk? Tom Friedman: Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. It should have and could have been pursued with much better planning and execution. This war has been extraordinarily...
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Monday opinion: The Hurt Locker wins big. NY Times TV Watch: The hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, did an updated Catskills routine, but were at their best when snubbing George Clooney and mocking the most distinguished nominees. "Oh look, there’s that damn Helen Mirren," Mr. Martin said, pointing at...
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Sunday funnies, courtesy of the pundits. Frank Rich: Those who are unsympathetic or outright hostile to Obama frame his failures as an attempt to impose "socialism" on a conservative nation. The truth is that the Fox News right would believe this about any Democratic president no matter who he was...
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When Lyndon Johnson convinced Congress to pass Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, few suspected it would take four more decades to again pass health reform to cover more Americans that would reach the White House for signing. Medicare and Medicaid didn't instantly improve health care, but it did strengthen the safety net that protects...
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In today's APR, DemFromCT linked to an ABC/WaPo poll that draws the following conclusion: But it is the public option that has become the major point of contention, with support for the government creation of an insurance plan that would compete with private insurers stabilizing in the survey after dipping last month....
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See today's Abbreviated Pundit Round-up for more on health reform. Note the framing in the WaPo, which today looks also at the religious right and their "contribution" to the debate: President Obama attempted to reinvigorate support for his struggling health-care agenda on Monday by giving a stirring, campaign-style speech to thousands of...
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Friday puntidation, and end of week opinionating. Beats working for a living. Paul Krugman: The talking heads on cable TV panned President Obama’s Wednesday press conference. You see, he didn’t offer a lot of folksy anecdotes. Shame on them... To see what I mean, compare what Mr. Obama has...
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