President Obama’s quixotic quest for bipartisanship and his administration’s lack of action has caused the fierce urgency of now to melt into the maddening wait for whenever. Full Story »
Posted by Cynthia Gilbert - via Opinion Source, NewsRack (Health Care), AllTop, New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Most Emailed)
Op-Ed piece noteworthy not so much for what it says but for where it is published (New York Times). There are many criticisms of President Obama from the left in places like CounterPunch, Alternet, Huffington Post and Common Dreams, but the gatekeeper press (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) rarely countenance discourse from out of their self-imposed mainstream, which ranges from the far right to the moderate center, and which focuses on people like David Broder who are embedded with officialdom.
