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Is the Team of Zombies Plotting An Attack on Social Security?
Open Left - Front Page —
... Dean is one of the best economists - progressive or otherwise - out there right now, and I certainly don't think he's making up what he's reporting. I think he probably is hearing eager chatter in Washington about Obama's Team of Zombies getting ready to assault Social Security. I just don't believe that Obama will go through with it. I'm saying that not because I'm naive and think the president is just too good or moral a guy to propose retirement benefit cuts during a recession, but because I think the president is just too smart a politician to join with the radical right in ...
Floating the Most Discredited Canard of the Trade Debate
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... Where is this theology coming from? Likely from the Team of Zombies. Obama has put the same free-trade fundamentalists in his government that originally crafted and championed NAFTA and NAFTA-style trade agreements (Summers, Geithner, Emanuel, etc.). These are people whose careers coddling corporate power are directly at odds with Obama's campaign promises (made, of course, in key industrial swing states) to seriously reform our trade policies. ...
David Sirota: On Canada Trip, Obama Floats A Discredited NAFTA Canard
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Where is this theology coming from? Likely from the Team of Zombies. Obama has put the same free-trade fundamentalists in his government that originally crafted and championed NAFTA and NAFTA-style trade agreements (Summers, Geithner, Emanuel, etc.). These are people whose careers coddling corporate power are directly at odds with Obama's campaign promises (made, of course, in key industrial swing states) to seriously reform our trade policies. ...
David Sirota: Economic Credibility Gap: Obama Defies His Own Economic Team, Demands Move to Block AIG Bonuses
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I don't think we really have an answer.* Though it is certainly good news that the president is taking the more rational and populist line in this divide, it's a huge problem that he's allowing people to speak for his administration who seem to be directly undermining his wishes - in this case, his wishes to stop banks and insurance companies from ripping off taxpayers. That's not "team of rivals" - that's the Team of Zombies creating mixed messages, which reinforce the idea that this administration still refuses to answer the fundamental question: Which friggin' side are you ...
