Another Times writer gives Obama a "Yes, but," pass on his lack of budgetary leadership: "Mr. Obama would seem to be taking the more balanced approach. True, Mr. Obama didn't act on his own debt ...
Matt Bai warns Republicans from being too angry and "anti-Washington" if they want to get elected in 2012. Didn't it work pretty well in 2010? "The main lesson Republicans might take from this ...
Matt Bai gushes: "Mr. Obama is probably the most talented writer to occupy the office in the television age; his political career was made possible, in large part, by the candid memoir he wrote as ...
Political reporter Matt Bai argues that the "divisive" Sarah Palin could make Obama look like more of a reformer: "...it's considerably easier if you can contrast yourself with an adversary who ...
In an article on the Tucson shootings, reporter Matt Bai falsely attacks Republicans for questioning Democratic Sen. Max Cleland in a 2002 campaign ad: "...any sense of common purpose had more or ...
Reporter Matt Bai: "...the problem would seem to rest with the political leaders who pander to the margins of the margins....Consider the comments of Sharron Angle, the Tea Party favorite who ...
Matt Bai on his least favorite kind of Republican: "In the kind of opposition Ms. Palin represents, issues aren't always meant to be addressed through governance, but rather to be deployed as ...
New York Times writer Matt Bai: "White House advisers contend that as the conservative insinuations about Mr. Obama grow more pronounced, the extremism that underlies them will become self-evident ...
Matt Bai: "White House advisers contend that as the conservative insinuations about Mr. Obama grow more pronounced, the extremism that underlies them will become self-evident to the public."
Plus Sheryl Gay Stolberg explains the Ground Zero mosque to the rubes outside Manhattan, and Matt Bai questions the "nativist impulse" behind the mosque's opponents.
