Here is a checklist I will use this evening as I watch the President’s address tonight to a Joint Session of Congress (8 PM EDT). I hope you find it helpful.
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Tag Archives: Obama
Incorrect conventional wisdom about health care reform
4 September 2009 
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Here are ten pieces of conventional wisdom about health care reform that I think are wrong.
Read more Are we pointed in the right direction yet?
10 August 2009 26 Comments
Friday’s jobs report was good news because the bad news beat expectations, and because it signaled that things might turn around more quickly in the future. But the President is wrong – the U.S. economy is not yet pointed in the right direction.
Read moreHennessey's health care reform plan, v2
30 July 2009 18 Comments
President Obama has sent a letter to his White House mailing list that warns against “an avalanche of misinformation and scare tactics from those seeking to perpetuate the status quo.” I am not one of those people. I can’t stand the health policy status quo, and I think there is a better way to reform our health care system than the plans now moving through Congress. To demonstrate that I do not favor the status quo, here is version 2 of my desired health care reform.
Read more 20 questions for the President's press conference
21 July 2009 105 Comments
The President is scheduled to hold a press conference Wednesday evening at 8 PM EDT. I offer twenty questions about economic policy for consideration by members of the White House press corps. They cover the economy, stimulus, taxes, autos, health care, energy and climate change, and trade.
Read more The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
16 July 2009 42 Comments
Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed me to be a member of a new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Read more Director Orszag’s 10th year test and the health spending gap
22 June 2009 16 Comments
The President and his Budget Director Peter Orszag argue they are being fiscally responsible when they support a massive new health entitlement. But combining Kennedy-Dodd with all of the President’s proposed Medicare and Medicaid savings would make America’s long-term entitlement spending problem much worse than under current law.
Read moreGovernment Motors discussion on Fox News Sunday (continued)
7 June 2009 12 Comments
In an earlier post I attempted to correct Dr. Austan Goolsbee’s incorrect and inflammatory statements about President Bush.I would like here to add my views to one additional question on the auto industry discussion on this morning’s edition of Fox News Sunday. Host Chris Wallace moderated a discussion this morning with: Dr. Austan Goolsbee, Member […]
Read moreDr. Goolsbee gets it wrong on the auto loans
7 June 2009 41 Comments
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace moderated a discussion about the auto industry. One of his guests was Dr. Austan Goolsbee, who is a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. I want to focus on some incorrect and inflammatory statements […]
Read more Working in the West Wing: Doing a TV news interview on the North Lawn
5 June 2009 1 Comment
This is the second in a series of occasional posts about the nitty gritty of working in the West Wing of the White House. I am describing things as they were in the Bush Administration. YMMV in the Obama Administration. Again, it seems a bit silly to write about such trivial details, but given the […]
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