President-Elect Obama
No Change Alert: Bailout Hank Hands Off To Bailout Tim
Obama’s choice for Treasury Secretary has a history of letting Wall Street run wild. And he represents “change we can believe in,” how exactly?
January 14, 2009 | Read More
First Step: Fire All The Experts
We need to stop being surprised when the so-called experts are surprised by how bad things are.
January 8, 2009 | Read More
Obama Reality Check–Pentagon Revolving Door Edition
Moving from the Pentagon to a major arms manufacturer and back again. It’s so easy!
January 7, 2009 | Read More
Bill Richardson–Blago With Better Hair?
Another day, another pay-to-play scandal in the Democratic Party.
January 5, 2009 | Read More
Obama Reality Check - Transparency Edition
During the campaign, Obama had his own doctor tell us he was healthy. Now his own lawyer tells us he did not make any deals with Gov. Blagojevich.
December 24, 2008 | Read More
Obama Reality Check - (More) Cabinet Retreads Edition
Another day, another Washington retread joins the Obama administration.
December 19, 2008 | Read More
Obama Reality Check - Ethanol Edition
How does rewarding big, subsidy-sucking agricultural corporations equal “change from the bottom up”?
December 18, 2008 | Read More
An Obama Flashback
A magazine profile of Barack Obama in 2006 tells us a lot about Barack Obama in 2008. Namely, that we shouldn’t trust him–or any other politician from the two major parties–to fix our broken government.
December 17, 2008 | Read More
Diane Feinstein: Yet More No-Change Change
First Hillary Clinton got to run our foreign policy. Now Diane Feinstein gets to oversee our intelligence agencies. This is change?
December 16, 2008 | Read More
The Obama-Cheney Administration?
Dick Cheney will be out of office in a month. But when it comes to presidential powers, he’s probably going to be with us for a long, long time. If you don’t believe it, just ask him. He’ll tell you.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
