Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:39AM I’ve had it with Squarespace, a too-costly, frustrating blog hosting service with impersonal and inadequate technical help. You can find my new blog here. I hope you will bookmark it. And to my subscribers, I hope that you will cancel your subscription here and start a new one there.
(I’ll keep this site up for a week or two during the transition.)
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 09:47PM The Associated Press has a national county-by-county map showing economic conditions like unemployment, home foreclosures, etc. The terrain isn’t pretty. Click here to see where you are. (Wait for it to load.)
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes (here, in Slate) that for Obama giving life support to the catatonic jobs sector may be more important that health care reform.
Meanwhile, in the Huffington Post Bill Maher (whom no one should confuse as being the intellectual equal to Reich and whom was being unfair for satirical effect …) nevertheless reflected a tone I’ve heard from a troubling number of Democrats in Congress:
“I will never stop having this doubt: that maybe if [Obama & Co.] had really charged in there riding the forceful energy of the historic election, and acted like it was an emergency moment — which it was — they could have gotten some big victories right up front, and there really could have been an historic “first hundred days” for this administration and the country. Instead of what happened, which is the Obamas got a dog.”
Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner says good news on jobs is just around the corner. As NPR reported this morning, for congressional Democrats standing for election next year, it had better be so.
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