Cheney says Obama makes us weaker and presto, the media gives his claim oxygen. Instead, the media should be pressing back at Cheney and asking him why he was such a national security fuck-up, leaving Obama’s administration to straighten out Cheney’s messes like counterrorism databases gone wrong, while our nation remains exposed to preventable terrorism.

The Obama Administration will provide loan guarantees to backstop the construction costs of new nuclear power plants. Republicans like that, even though it hides an implicit electricity tax to cover the high capital costs.

Understand what Hayes is saying here. The party in the White House typically gets the majority of members from their party on the NLRB. That’s been the case since its inception. The Workforce Fairness Institute wants the President to get an even 2-2 split on the board, and nothing more, which would be unprecedented in the history of the NLRB. What’s more, traditionally these nominees are moved as a package.

The Chicago School of economics teaches that finance companies make trading decisions based on all available information, and that their decisions produce accurate prices for securities. How is that even conceivable in the real world.

It’s immaterial whether Bayh thinks his brand of mushy centrism and fiscal peacockery would fare better under a change in Senate rules. What’s crucial here is that we have a Democrat actually stating the reasons for the lack of action from Washington, combined with a real proposal to fix it.

Among the $100 billion they demanded be stripped from the stimulus package before they’d support it was money for school modernization and state fiscal stabilization funds.

We now know that–as predicted–states are reeling with budgetary problems to an extent that may cause 900,000 further job losses.

The big question for the 2010 election is: Will it be an anti-Democratic election or an anti-Washington/anti-incumbent election?

Looks like Dubya and Jeb! got together for a “town hall” at some high school in Naples, Florida. The Bushes didn’t allow cameras, but a reporter caught Bush trashing the Quitter.

Roughly a third of Americans plan to almost always vote for Democrats, and a third plan to almost always vote for Republicans. Given how the Republican Congressional leadership has decided to wage an all-out war on Democrats’ health care bill, it is not surprising that the Republican base is nearly unanimously against it.

Barack Obama just spoke and offered a strong defense of the Recovery Act, which he signed into law one year ago today. This complements a wide-ranging set of efforts from Administration officials to both show the importance of the stimulus in moving the economy from failure toward recovery, and to put Republicans in a box, calling them out for hypocrisy on voting against projects they tout in their districts.