The president is bringing in Congressional leaders, both parties, to talk about Afghanistan this afternoon. In the long, slow march to deciding whether to fight or not, it’s a key moment which may provide important clues about which way he’s leaning or whether, as has been the case with other major agenda items, he intends to let Congress lead for him. WSJ’s Washington Wire :  Afghanistan Update: President Barack Obama is hosting a bipartisan, bicameral meeting at the White House today with congressional leaders to discuss Afghanistan—the first meeting of its kind since Army Gen.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is putting the federal government on a greenhouse-gas diet. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama directed all agencies to set the first-ever targets for reducing climate-altering pollution from government buildings, fleets and federal workers’ commutes See the original post here: Obama Puts Government On Greenhouse-Gas Diet

From Gloria-Centre.Org Obama Administration and Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Grinding to a Total and Humiliating HaltATTENTION WEBMASTERS.  You are welcome to post this entire article as long as you give a direct link to the article on our site and to http://www.gloria-center.orgThe newly elected Fatah Central Committee—the one that was supposedly made up of young, reform-minded moderates but actually isn’t—has told Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas that he should absolutely not negotiate

This is one of those Washington days that seems to defy a theme. Read the original post: The First Draft: David Letterman and the Dalai Lama

Remember Greg Craig, the attorney who helped facilitate the return of little Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba? Craig was also Bill Clinton’s personal attorney during the Lewinsky scandal back in the day. Then Barack Obama was elected the first bi-racial president of the United States and he wisely appointed Craig as his lead counsel in the [...]

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In 1932, FDR had an opportunity to change the conventional way that governments deal with a recession. His predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who also had a tendency towards central planning, had started the process. Instead of allowing markets to correct themselves as they had in all the previous panics, as depressions were then called, both men instituted programs of government intervention. Hoover signed the Smoot Hawley tariff even after many of the leading economists of the time personally implored him not to sign it.

CCAGW reacted with dismay and alarm to President Obama’s September 9 speech to a joint session of Congress on healthcare reform.  Despite widespread protests at town hall meetings across the country and vociferous taxpayer opposition to any further intrusion by the federal government into the nation’s healthcare system, the President used the address to burnish his commitment to a radical, overly-bureaucratic, and costly plan that would insert the federal government even further into the healthcare

Spengler from the Asia Times thinks there’s a rough road ahead. While there have been tough times before, he argues the coming days will be different.  “President Barack Obama may be remembered for permanent depression, the way that Leon Trotsky’s name is linked with permanent revolution. Fiscal stimulus combined with near-zero interest rates have proven to be a toxic cocktail for the United States, the macroeconomic equivalent of barbiturates and alcohol.

From The UK Telegraph : President Barack Obama has refused to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington this week in a move to curry favour with the Chinese.  The decision came after   China   stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the   Tibetan   spiritual leader.  It means   Mr Obama   will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the