Drilldown: Opinions

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• $646,214 Per Government Job
• $825B, keep the change

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• 'Historic' Stimulus Is Egregious Waste
• 'Stimulus' Follies: Pelosi's Poison
• 'We wrote the bill'

5

• 5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy

A

• A 40-Year Wish List
• A Fiscal Gamble
• A large stimulus bill for large problems
• A looming fiasco?
• A war the Pentagon doesn’t want
• Action in Syria about saving face
• America Needs to Stay Out of Syria
• An $800 Billion Mistake
• An Accidental War
• An overoptimistic stimulus plan
• Answering North Korea
• Arm and Shame
• Assad Crosses the Red Line

B

• Bad medicine: Stimulus bill is sickening
• Bad politics and urgent remedies
• Bang
• Bang for the Bucks
• Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely
• Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal

C

• Change for the worse
• China must help pressure N. Korea to abandon nukes
• China must rein in North Korea
• Chinese must pluck Kim from nuke perch
• Cleaner and Faster
• Coping with Mr Kim

D

• Democratic Stealth Care
• Disappearing Jobs
• Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers
• Don’t Intervene in Syria

E

• Empty 'stimulus'
• Exactly How Does Stimulus Work?

F

• Facts, not merely suspicions, must guide U.S. policy regarding Syria
• For real stimulus, fix infrastructure

G

• Getting Tough in Washington
• GOP greets stimulus bill with ‘audacity of nope’
• Government spending can create jobs

H

• Herbert Hoover Lives
• Hit him hard
• How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus?

I

• Ill-Considered Advice on Syria
• Imperfect stimulus plan is still the best answer
• In Defense of Waste
• In Syria, U.S. inaction is better than intervention
• It's China's Problem
• It's Time to Intervene in Syria

J

• Jobs, now
• Just do it, Mr. President

K

• Keynes can't help us now
• Kim Jong Il's Challenge to China
• Kim's Ka-boom

L

• Look at the Time

M

• Message from the ruins of Qusair
• Money for nothing won't grow the economy

N

• North Korea and the Bomb

• North Korea and the Dominoes
• North Korea Isn't Our Problem
• North Korea's nuclear test puts onus on China, S. Korea
• North Korea's Nukes
• North Korea's Pass
• North Korea's perennial helpers
• Not all stimulus ideas are created equal
• Not too Late to Curb Dear Leader
• Nukes and More Nukes

O

• Obama dithers, people die
• Obama is talking America into a war
• Obama mythology could use some stimulus
• Obama puts politics over morals in abdicating presidential authority in Syria
• Obama right to show restraint in Syria
• Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria
• Obama to take his Syrian case to Congress
• Obama wants Congress to hold him back, and it should
• Obama's loss for words on Syria
• Obama, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine
• Obama’s new deal is the same old blunder
• Obama’s thin red line
• Obama’s third war
• Obama’s valid caution on Syria
• On Syria, a weak strike is better than none
• On the dole again
• On the Edge
• Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
• Only China, not U.S., can rein in N. Korea
• Outsiders have no tool to fix Syria

P

• Pain in the Assad
• Pass the stimulus: Republicans oppose needed aid at their peril
• Pink line over Damascus
• Politics of payoff
• Pyongyang's act of irresponsibility

Q

• Questioning Syrian Intervention

R

• Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
• Real Stimulus Wouldn't Empty Wallets
• Red lines: Obama's costly bluster
• Reinforce a Norm in Syria
• Reject Obama's request to attack Syria
• Responding to North Korea
• Rogue Realities
• Roll Over the Republicans

S

• Salvaging Our North Korea Policy
• Shamed into war?
• Showdown in Syria
• Slice the pork from stimulus program
• Sorry, O: 'I Won' Won't Cover This
• Stay out of Syria
• Stimulated right into being another Europe
• Stimulating Times
• Stimulus bill: On the whole, it makes sense
• Stimulus? Yes, some
• Stop the spending sprees
• Strike Syria? Think again
• Syria is bleeding to death and the west stands by
• Syria Is Not Iraq
• Syria Side Effects
• Syria strategy can’t rely solely on military might
• Syria Vote Is A Political Trap Republicans Can Avoid

• Syria will require more than cruise missiles
• Syria, a cause for bipartisanship
• Syria: The case for No
• Syria: The Only Red Line Should Be To Stay Out
• Syria: the ugly choice ahead
• Syria: What Is the War Good For?
• Syria: Where is the outrage?
• Syria’s al-Qaeda threat
• Syrian chemical attack demands precise strike
• Syrian war leaves no easy choices

T

• Take Charge
• Tax-Cut Stimulus
• The Action Americans Need
• The compelling, but still unpersuasive, case for war on Syria
• The consequences of doing nothing in Syria
• The costs of symbolism in Syria
• The defiant one
• The Entitlement Stimulus
• The Fierce Urgency of Pork
• The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself
• The nation needs jobs, not a political agenda
• The New Era of Irresponsibility
• The Non-Intervention War
• The Republicans' Fatal Misreading of FDR -- and How It Would Worsen The Depression
• The Right Questions on Syria
• The Right Stimulus
• The risk of taking on Syria
• The Robert Taft Republicans Return
• The Same Old Song
• The Stimulus Advances
• The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
• The Stimulus Tragedy
• The U.S. must act against Assad
• The US needs its stimulus now
• Thirty Years Later, a Return to Stagflation
• This Ain’t Yogurt
• Time for consequences in Syria
• To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate
• Too late for Syria
• Too Little Bang for The Bucks
• Too little in return for stimulus plan

U

• U.S. policy on Syria still lacks coherence
• Unreal Stimulus
• Unserious Commander-in-Chief

V

• Volatile Syria: There are more reasons for the U.S. to stay out

W

• Wake up and smell the trillions in pork
• Waking up to Syria
• Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.
• War Party beats drums for action in Syria
• War, What Is It Good For?
• We can’t look away from Syria now
• We set Syria ablaze... Now we're hurling in explosives
• We’ve left it too late to save Syria – this conflict can never be won
• What Is Congress Stimulating?
• When Maynard Met Nancy
• Why America Is Saying 'No'
• Why Have Democrats Abandoned Syria?
• Why I Support the Stimulus
• With or Without Us