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thehill.com - 2/10/2009

House Dems to fight for their stimulus

— thehill.com — House Democrats on Tuesday said they are prepared to negotiate past Presidents Day rather than cave to... GOP Senate centrists on the details of the economic stimulus package. Bucking warnings that the delicate Senate compromise passed Tuesday cannot be ... (more) House Dems to fight for their stimulus

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Stimulus Plan

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usnews.com - 2/12/2009

Republicans Trail Obama Dems By One Point in Poll--Anti-Stimulus Push Is Working

— usnews.com — Astonishing news on the generic ballot question. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that Democrats are currently ahead of... Republicans by only 40 percent to 39 percent. Given that this generic ballot question over the years has tended to understate ... (more) Republicans Trail Obama Dems By One Point in ...

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Democratic National Committee

Stimulus Plan

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Gallup Poll

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rightsoup.com - 2/12/2009

Dems Ice Out Republicans In "Compromise" Stimulus Negotiations

— rightsoup.com — Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid... (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the “stimulus” conference report. They intend to attempt to shove this $1.3 trillion bill through in the dead of the night without Republican... (more) Dems Ice Out Republicans In "Compromise" Stimulus ...

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Nancy Pelosi

Harry Reid

Democratic National Committee

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Stimulus Lessons
Political Punch — ... with a piece on stimulus lessons for the president."Some of it is miscalculations on their part, where you create a set of standards that raise expectations to unbelievable levels," Norm Ornstein told the paper. "And then you end up not being able to meet them." Another lesson: "Our best asset and our best salesperson is President Obama, and when we got out there and started talking about this, the American people stood up right behind him," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla. Politico's Glenn Thrush also weighs in with some lessons learned."I don't think he should ...

The Sunday Word: Sifting Through the Stimulus
The Caucus — ... at the major provisions of the stimulus package. The effectiveness of presidential travel, by the way, was one of the seven lessons Politico’s Glenn Thrush suggested the Democrats should learn from their uphill fight to push the stimulus bill through: “Everyone from the White House to the leadership offices agrees on at least one take-away from the week: The stimulus regained its forward momentum only when Barack Obama used his superlative communications skills and sky-high approval rating to sell it.” Among the Republicans leading the drive to sink the stimulus legislation ...

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Daily Kos — ... to go to both Democrats and Republicans and I'm going to say, 'Here is my best argument for why we need to do this. I want to listen to your counterarguments, if you've got better ideas, present them, we will incorporate them into any plans that we make and we are willing to compromise on certain issues that are important to one side or the other in order to get stuff done,'" he said. What's up with Obama being his own man and not listening to th pundits? Glenn Thrush: The 7 stimulus lessons for the Dems, some of which are valuable (but only ...