So, $290 billion into his bailout plan, Hank Paulson is calling for a do-over. Now there is a confidence booster. Not that Paulson's midstream direction change is a bad thing, but it shows just how uncertain Washington is about how to keep the economy from imploding. In the meantime, oversight of the massive bailout plan remains a mirage, undermined by White House inaction and Congressional turf wars. READ MORE
Brainstorm Alert: I'm going to be guest hosting for Rachel Maddow on Monday and I'd love your suggestions about which topics you like to hear discussed - and which guests you'd like to hear from. Please put your suggestions in the comments section and I'll take them to Bill Wolff, her producer, and the rest of the team.
If Obama asks Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state, it would be a brilliantly audacious political move. Choosing Clinton would elate her fans, but would it be good for American foreign policy?
The Big 3 are looking for a bailout. They should only get it if they agree to stop building autos that contribute to global warming now.
choice of Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State would represent a great show of respect to our allies that he wants the best available person to handle the job of being his top diplomat.
The first thing Obama should do to get the economy back on track is publicize the financial record of the Bush Administration. Every business knows that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it."
I don't know if John McCain's memory is starting to go and 2000-2002 is just a bit fuzzy, if he got so used to pissing away his principles for the good of the party that by now it's just reflexive.
Clean energy isn't a mirage. It's the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, with almost no support from the federal government.
Congress must work with President-elect Obama to design a policy for Colombia in which "free" trade is not built on dead worker representatives.
There are still a lot of acts to this (soap) opera to go, but we're cautiously optimistic! There are at least 40,000 votes still to be counted. If you haven't heard -- we're up 814 votes!
I understand that it must be incredibly difficult for Senate Democrats to do what they must and deny Joe Lieberman his committee chairmanship. I know it's not easy, so I want to help.
Obama's economic advisory team looks more like a semester's worth of guest speakers for an MBA class than a team that can truly help him. Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to them.
On the same ballot that we were granting more "rights" to chickens, a slim majority of voters were stripping rights away from our fellow Californians. This cannot stand. This will not stand.
The United States will now be the leader, not the laggard in the race for clean energy technology and the fight against global warming.
The military communities that have paid the most in time and lives lost over the past seven years have moved considerably away from both Bush's policies and McCain's attempts to extend them.
I don't like deficit spending in any way at any time. It is an extremely dangerous precedent to set. However, there are times when it is required. And now is such a time.
As Obama inherits a severe economic crisis, two wars, and myriad other problems, it will be too easy for media issues to get pushed down the to-do list.
Does this 2008 Presidential election represent a realignment that puts Democrats in a commanding position for at least a generation?
If President-elect Obama is serious about post-partisanship, he will need to deal with some of the institutional factors that cause polarization regardless of who is in power.
All four of my grandparents were lifelong GM employees and my father worked there when he was young. Accordingly, its recent collapse has been a topic of conversation in my family.
