Sunday's NYT: The Drive-by Edition
A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won't fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers' bonuses won't fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner won't fix it. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
The tableau of Michelle Obama hoisting a pitchfork on Friday with her sinewy arms and warning that the commander in chief would be commandeered into yard work left me wondering if the wrong Obama is in the Oval.
President Obama missed a huge teaching opportunity with A.I.G...He should have gone on national TV and had the fireside chat with the country that is long overdue...and then calls on those A.I.G. brokers...and tells them that their president is asking them to return their bonuses "for the sake of the country."
And here's the really scary one from Krugman's blog. And the one before it, which is actually scarier.
Arguably this isn't the only revolution that should be taking place in the country at the moment but it's one we'll take.
There is a lot of space opening up on 14th Street these days with which to explore this silver lining.
Do you think he's noticed yet?
The tip of the iceberg?
Populist outrage? Check. Very slippery slope? Check.
The longest good-bye ever, no doubt involves a helicopter crash.
"When it expelled Miss Bass in November, her side of the story is much darker: in a lawsuit against Miss Porter's, Miss Bass says she was driven to a nervous breakdown by constant harassment from a secret society of girls who call themselves the Oprichniki, taking their nickname from a 16th-century Russian torture squad."
This week the Travel section headlines reads like a fiction writing class of sorts.
Right now, for those of us who rent, the Real Estate section is merely a waiting game.
Not this week but soon.
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