The Boston Herald lays out the reforms, The bill will end some of the most egregious abuses of the system – including one that has allowed state employees to inflate their pensions by including as “regular compensation†housing expenses, parking and other perks. Let’s call that one the “Billy Bulger provision†after the former Senate […]
Well blow me over with a feather. Wednesday afternoon I did a very rare Tweet ( @punditreview) asking a simple question, What time is the N.O.W. press conference denouncing David Letterman for his jokes about Palin’s 14-year old daughter? 1:59 PM Jun 10th from web Tounge in cheek as the silence was deafening and the […]
Congressional Quarterly on the latest, and perhaps most expensive, difference yet between Barack Obama’s words and deeds, One Tough Sell: Paying for Health Care Overhaul Last year, candidate Barack Obama zeroed in on a feature of John McCain ’s health care plan that would have taxed workers’ benefits, branding it history’s largest middle-class tax increase […]
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The excellent financial blog Crossing Wall Street nails it, Barney Frank was just on CNBC. I’ve started a game of watching at what point Frank goes into his overly dramatic routine that he’s being interrupted and not allowed to answer the question. He does this all the time. Fortunately, this time he was up against […]
These days you would think political math involved numbers in the billions, if not trillions. A really cool blog called Political Math is here to make things easy to understand. Obama was all about change afterall, so here they go explaining his promises about the Stimulus Plan versus The Reality.
Excuse me, Ms. Gilligan, Chris Cassidy is on the phone… Chris Cassidy of the Salem News is delivering a case study every day in the paper on the importance and influence that a watchdog media can have on the governing class. As I’ve said all along, we need the media to play this role in […]
Jim Pethokoukis returned last night to talk about his move from US News & World Report to Reuters and the big initiatives that make up Obamanomics. Jim’s Political Risk blog can be found here. Jim was on a roll tonight, he managed to get off a great line that could only come from a former […]
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