Word: rightfulness
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...meantime, the Establishment is obligated to roll its eyes. Obama has likened cable news to professional wrestling and said in a recent TV interview, "The media encourages some of the outliers in behavior because, let's face it, the easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude." But Obama plays the game too: his online fundraising pitches read like populist fairy tales, with the big insurance industry playing the wicked witch of K Street. And at a fundraiser in Miami on Oct. 26, the President called Grayson an "outstanding member of Congress...
...probably be better off with a smaller, less-well-remunerated financial industry than the one we've had. Exactly how much smaller? "I've done what I could, but it's not like I've found the right formula, that finance should be 6.65% of GDP," jokes Philippon. As for Blankfein and Griffiths, they clearly need to come up with a better formula for defending their paychecks...
...debate has progressed, the public option has become an ideological flash point, igniting fears on the right that it will be the precursor to a government-run system like Canada's and some European countries'. Which is the same reason that many on the left like the public option so much...
...this notion can only be assuaged if one remembers that Chavez is the world leader who, infamously, cornered President Obama at the Summit of the Americas this spring to give him a book about foreign (read: American) exploitation in the Americas. Chavez, in his personal world, has the right to put the American president on the spot like this. He also was justified, presumably, in writing, “For Obama, with warm regards,” inside the book, because though the two are close enough that Chavez might give him the book uninvited, Obama has not earned...
...pretty sure I hit the goalie right in the chest,” Buesser said, “which is usually not a great area for rebounds, but it somehow popped...