Dear President Obama,

One year into your rule, you’ve accomplished little while losing the love of much of your populace. I recommend to you my work The Prince.
Within this little book, I’ve summarized many useful rules for governing a newly acquired republic. These rules and warnings could save you significant grief in your endeavor to rule.

The famous conservative sociologist Irving Kristol once wrote, “…The best use of social science is to refute false social science.” Today I will refute false social science — in particular, the claims conservatives and free market fundamentalists use to attack President Obama’s economic stimulus legislation. I will defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and then discuss the GOP’s opposition to the bill.
Constructed by conservative think tanks and repeated …