- A Better Press Corps Please –
Obama did fine in his press conference tonight, but good grief . . . what an embarrassing performance by the White House press corps.First, there wasn't a single question asked about the Geithner plan which the administration rolled out yesterday. It's kind of a big deal. The fate of the world's financial system more or less hangs in the balance, and there are all sorts of important questions that need to be asked. And I bet that Obama spent considerable time today preparing to answer those questions. But I guess that was time wasted. The White House press corps doesn't care.
(tags: none) - Unpacking Conservative Humor –
[On tax cuts, the budget, and mainstream GOP crackpottery. --Lee.]
(tags: none) - Birthrate: No, all about the wimminz –
Indeed, the entire notion that our economy would do better if we took a great deal of women out of the workforce so they could work for free as housewives is another way of saying that women’s work has no value, and that the loss of it to the economy wouldn’t be missed. No surprise that this is believed by people who think women have so little value that forcing us to bear children against [our] will is no big deal.[On the economic burden of caring for the elderly and children, and how this relates to population growth and the recession. --Lee.]
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