Obama needs to be more like Bush

I never thought I’d write this: President George W. Bush had it right.
When the opposition gave him a difficult time doing something, he’d say, “F— you, we’re doing it anyway.” Think warrantless wiretaps, tax cuts for the wealthy, Iraq.
And if he had the votes in Congress, he’d say, “F— bipartisanship and pleasing the opposition. We’re [...]

Wordle on the presidents’ speeches

Wordle.net is a cool Web tool that takes text and gives a visual diagram of how often words were used. I’ve taken the speeches by presidents Bush and Clinton to see what, if anything, they attempted to point out when they addressed their respective parties.
Here’s the DNC speech by President Bill Clinton on August 27:

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CNN: Oil companies not drilling in already leased offshore fields

While the debate about whether ending the federal ban on offshore oil drilling rages on, CNNMoney did this nice little bit of reporting:
Of the 90 million offshore acres the industry has leases to, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, it is estimated that upwards of 70 million are not producing oil, according to both Democrats [...]

Friedman: W is “Addict-in-Chief”

The brilliant Thomas Friedman wrote this today in The New York Times:
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress [...]