Morning Reaction: What Goes Around, Comes Around?
News from Focus on the Family makes me believe in karma!Also, the debate continues over Clinton as a potential Secretary of State and Eugene Robinson urges the Obama administration to air Bush's dirty...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: McCain v. Napolitano in 2010
Two developments yesterday may have a profound impact on the Arizona Senate race in 2010. The news broke that McCain will likely seek reelection and Eric Holder has emerged as the front-runner for...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Friendly Fire Cover-up Story Continues
A powerful article this morning at Salon.com, where reporter Mark Benjamin provides named sources who claim that the Army shredded documents relating to two men who were killed in what Salon originally...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Economy Can't Wait
Lots of bleak economic news to start your morning. Many pundits and analysts are wondering: can we afford to wait until Obama takes office in January?Also, Eugene Robinson discusses the bailout while...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Geithner, Richardson and Grijalva, Oh My!
Rise and shine!Lots of reaction to the latest round of leaks and speculation, including Geithner at Treasury, Richardson at Commerce and Grijalva as Secretary of the Interior. Imagine my surprise when...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Keeping the Obama Organization Humming
Several media outlets are discussing how Obama plans to keep his political machine humming while in office. The Baltimore Sun looks at his Obama's political operation in the White House and the Los...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Outsourcing the Government
NPR takes a look at the "explosion" of federal contracts (the most in history) under the Bush administration and discusses the implications of this outsourcing of the federal government.Also, reaction...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Recognizing Past Mistakes
The New York Times Editorial board wonders if Obama's economic team - specifically Geithner and Summers - have "recognized their past mistakes" and will be able to provide the leadership the economy...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Hunger in America
Disturbing news out this morning from the Washington Post, showing that the number of Americans needing assistance from the Simplified Nutrition Assistance Program (i.e., food stamps) will reach its...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Are We Creating the Next Economic Crisis?
Both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times Editorial Board look at the potential that our current economic fixes are setting the stage for the next crisis.Also, continuing reaction to the...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Cluster Bomb Disgrace
This Wednesday, over 100 nations will gather in Oslo to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a global ban on the use of cluster bombs. The vast majority of our allies will be there: Australia,...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: On The Bus With Jim Martin
Today's the day in Georgia. Turnout will be key, so can you spare a few minutes for some phone calls? TIME looks at why this race is so important and 538 reports from on the ground in Georgia.Also,...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Price of Higher Education
49 states get Fs in college affordability in a new report out by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Some disturbing statistics about rising tuition costs that - like everything...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Reid Rains on Automakers Parade
Even before the automakers have had a chance to address Congress again, Senator Reid is already telling the press that there are not enough votes to give the auto industry any money from the $700...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Accountability
Amnesty International USA offers a great rebuttal to the "we can't hold Bush administration officials accountable for crimes because it is too divisive" argument. Also, they urge you to join their...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Economists React to Employment Report
The morning news is dominated with reaction to the job report released yesterday, showing that the U.S. shed half a million jobs in November. As well as news that loans to the auto industry may move...
View ArticleFilling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (6)
"I don't have any food and I've got to find something because I've got three kids at home."Words like these are spoken everyday in this country, by people just like you and me. People who can't sleep...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: A 150-Page List of Bush Administration Screwups
Want to know just what Obama has to look forward to when he steps into the White House? Mother Jones summarizes a new GAO report, detailing problem after problem after problem in federal agencies. And...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Oh, To Be a Fly on the Wall
The meeting today between Obama and Al Gore is raising some eyebrows, particularly as it comes a day or two before Obama announces his energy and environmental team. Will Gore be part of that...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: A Large Headache
It's hard to get away from the Blagojevich story this morning (and yes, I have seen it referred to in multiple instances as Blagogate). Now that the initial story has broken, most analysts and pundits...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: "We don't want to be known for torturing, but..."
Glenn Greenwald and others react to Rep. Silvestre Reyes' recommendation that Obama keep Bush's top intelligence officials on at the CIA in the name of "continuity." Reyes also recommended that some...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The GOP is Nuts
Does the GOP want to kill the economy? I'm really starting to think so. Lots of reaction to the GOP's refusal to make concessions like everyone else to assist the American auto industry.Also, Portugal...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: America Supports... You?
Noah Shachtman at Wired looks at the Pentagon's "America Supports You!" program and how the former director funneled millions of dollars budgeted for the program to a Republican PR firm run by one of...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: "Bush is No Truman"
Does Bush really think he is fooling anybody with his ridiculous legacy project? Timothy Gay writes a very convincing smackdown of the legacy project and argues that the neo-cons can stop dreaming -...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Picture Seen Around the World
So you may be sick of the "shoe incident" by now, but as I was scanning newspaper front pages this morning, I had to admit that this certainly was the picture seen around the world.Also, reaction from...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Too Much Fuss About the Cabinet?
Michael Grunwald has an interesting piece in TIME this morning about Obama's cabinet picks and how they all underscore one thing - policy in this administration will be made in the White House, not the...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Welfare Apps Skyrocket While Goldman Sachs Pays 1% Tax Rate
So who can spot what's wrong with this picture? Something is seriously so out of alignment in this country. The Washington Post has a lengthy report this morning on the "surge" in welfare recipients...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Michael Pollan on Vilsack
Michael Pollan is a guest on NPR's Morning Edition today and will discuss his reaction to the choice of Tom Vilsack to head the USDA. A preview of the interview below the fold.Also, reaction to Ray...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Gates Orders Guantanamo Closure Plan
Robert Gates is asking his staff to draw up a plan to close the Guantanamo prison and he wants it ready by Inauguration Day. This is good news in my book, even though the formulation of a plan is not a...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Cheney Ignoring a Law? I'm Shocked!
Guess what? Dick Cheney has found yet another law to evade or just completely ignore. I know, I know. You are completely shocked. This morning, there is much reaction to the man Joe Biden famously...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Line Starts Here
More and more industries are lining up to receive some sort of federal assistance, including the commercial real estate and aviation industries. Sorry, but if you are a struggling homeowner and about...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Most Admired Men and Women
A new USA Today/Gallup polls finds that Americans selected President-elect Obama as their most admired man of the year, followed by... George W. Bush.Also, the media continues their obsession with...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: The Cycle of Violence
Newspapers around the world are reacting to the latest violence in Gaza, as Israel considers a ground invasion and Hamas continues lobbing rockets into Israeli territory.Also, the GOP continues to...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Are We Still in Iraq?
The major broadcast news networks are quietly pulling out of Iraq and have stopped sending full-time correspondents to the country. The total combined minutes they spent covering Iraq also plummeted in...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Santa Was Good to the Credit Card Companies
Several credit card companies are enjoying quite the holiday season, as their effort to transform themselves into banks has successfully allowed them to access TARP funds. American Express, Discover...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Military Times Needs to Get Out of the Polling Business
Happy New Year Kossacks!Once again, Military Times is attributing views to the military as a whole based on highly unscientific surveys of its subscribers. And, once again the media jumps on it as a...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Increasing Aid to the Jobless
The new stimulus package may contain large increases in much-needed unemployment benefits, including extending aid to part-time workers.Also, reaction to Blagojevich's latest drama (will this guy ever...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Obama, Republicans and Tax Cuts
Yesterday, several major news outlets reported that Obama is planning to devote about 40% of the upcoming stimulus package to tax cuts for businesses and middle-class Americans. The vast majority of...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Why a CIA Director Against Torture is So Important
With the reaction to the choice of Leon Panetta coming fast and furious, a story in the New York Times about Muhammad Saad Iqbal illustrates why it is so important that we have a CIA Director who is...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Please End the Unnecessary Drama
I agree with John Nichols that the opening day of Congress was not a good one for Democrats. Rather than focusing on what we need to accomplish we have unnecessary drama that should have been averted...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: No Purple Hearts for PTSD
The Pentagon has decided that they will not award Purple Hearts for military members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. I don't know if changing the...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Where Have They Been The Last 8 Years?
Sorry for my absence the past few days, but sometimes life intrudes into blogging and news-reading time.Democrats in Congress are working on a full-court media press to show that they will not be...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: TARP, Round II
Obama and Bush seem to be working together to convince Congress to approve the second half of the TARP money before Bush leaves office. Supposedly, the Bush administration won't allocate any of the...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Positive News... For Once
Sometimes I think Morning Reaction is too doom and gloom. That is probably because, as I'm reading the news, I usually choose to highlight issues that outrage me in some form or another... so you get...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Foreclosures Rise 81% in 2008
My father-in-law lost his house to foreclosure in 2008. He was just one of 2.3 million Americans who entered into foreclosure proceedings last year. How many will we see this year? Obama's advisors are...
View ArticleHayden on Prosecutions: "You Can't Do This to These People"
So apparently it is okay torture, but when it comes to inquiries and investigations - that would ruin too many innocent lives. Hayden thinks public inquiries into the CIA's torture programs would ruin...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Inaugural Optimism
Two new polls out this morning show that Americans are overwhelmingly optimistic about Obama's presidency, which is great, but also a little surprising considering the host of problems Bush is leaving...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: A New Chapter
I still can't really believe that Barack Obama is currently our President, but hopefully it will sink in soon! There is lots of work to be done, but it is nice to just savor the moment...The South...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: Not Just Guantanamo
I think everyone could predict that Obama would act to close Guantanamo. He said it repeatedly during the campaign and now he is making steps towards keeping that promise. I am more encouraged by the...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: McCain Who?
I hate being gone from Daily Kos because then I feel like I have no idea what is actually going on in the world! Took me awhile to get up to speed.So, the media is "buzzing" as it normally does about...
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