Feb 18,2009
Bailout Blues
With last week’s passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, for which the words “largest ever” don’t even seem to do justice, the defenders of the free market have gone...
Feb 18,2009
You hurry up! We need more time.
Last week, Barack Obama told us to expect big things from Tim Geithner: Tomorrow, my treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, will be announcing some very clear and specific plans for how...
Feb 17,2009
Taxman Set Me Up!
Today, Marion Barry will be filing his 2007 income taxes. He has filed late for 8 of the past 9 years. According to The Washington Post, Barry’s defense is that...
Feb 17,2009
As Bill Ayers might say, “Hyde Park is a great country”
Around election time last year, it became de rigueur to caricature Hyde Park as a haven of Bobo-ishness; a wealthy enclave replete with professional radicals, Esperanto courses, Wiccan temples, fair...
Feb 17,2009
Reaching across the aisle
Bipartisanship has had a rough few weeks here in Washingon, but it’s alive and well in some corners of the blogosphere. One of them is The Moderate Voice (TMV), led...