washingtonmonthly.com - 11/3/2008
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ADVICE TO BE IGNORED.... We'll know soon enough whether Democrats have a good Election Day or not, but Doug Schoen is already urging the party not to perceive potentially sweeping victories as an endorsement of the Democratic agenda. Stated simply,...
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/5/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
At this point, there is no point in
making predictions. What will be, will be. But the...
sage words of former Red Sox GM Lou Gorman come to mind this morning. When a young (and perhaps pre-HGH) Roger Clemens walked out of spring training in a contract ...
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Sage Advice
msnbc.msn.com - 11/7/2008
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msnbc.msn.com —
President-elect Barack Obama on Friday will seek economic
advice from leaders of business, government and academia, making...
the struggling economy his first order of public business.
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Obama seeks advice from industry titans
patterico.com - 11/9/2008
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patterico.com —
[Guest post by DRJ] Harvard Economics Professor Greg
Mankiw has four suggestions for Barack Obama: Listen to...
your economists. “Pay close attention to what they have to say. They will often give you advice quite different from what you ...
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Mankiw’s Economic Advice for Obama
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Eschaton —
For conservatives we have the "stupid or lying" conundrum, and for centrist Democrats we have a similar conundrum. Do they really genuinely believe that what the great mass of voters want is senators who get along and say nice things about each other, or do they just use that as a way of preserving the status quo. ...
Opening the Day: Coal, Telecom Prepping the Biggest Hissy Fit of All Time Against Obama
Open Left - Front Page —
... renewables and pay the costs of carbon emissions. If coal can win in the marketplace, great. But they can't. And they know. Hence, hissy fit.
The telecom sector is similarly very very upset.
"Probably the thing that scares the industry the most about a Democratic administration is regulating the Internet," Dan Hesse, chief executive of Sprint Nextel, said in a speech in Washington on October 24.
Doug Schoen is a wanker.
Earl Blumenauer to be Secretary of Transportation? Awesome. ...
The Mandate Myth
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
The Mandate Myth Steve Benen strongly rejects the caution by Doug Schoen that “This election is not a mandate for Democratic policies. Rather, it is a wholesale rejection of the policies of George W. Bush, Republicans, and to a lesser extent, John McCain.” I suspect Obama, given what we know of his style and temperament, would make good-faith efforts to encourage Republicans to support his policy goals. But Schoen’s advice seems misguided — if Obama wins, he should scale back on the agenda voters asked him to implement? He should water down his agenda, whether ...
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