balloon-juice.com - 2/6/2009
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From the comments to another post :
You know, I’ve been on this blog almost all day and I’ve about had it. Can we just get the pitchforks out and get this over with?
You know, putting aside the stupidity of the Republicans, I would really like it if the Democrats would make ...
peterfeld.tumblr.com - 2/9/2009
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eschatonblog.com - 2/11/2009
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eschatonblog.com —
A bit weird telling the operator that the
company sponsoring the conference call I'm trying to get
on is "The White House."
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Eschaton: Deep Thought
eschatonblog.com - 2/11/2009
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eschatonblog.com —
A bit weird telling the operator that the
company sponsoring the conference call I'm trying to get
on is "The White House."
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Eschaton: Deep Thought
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Morning Skim: Obama Faces a Full Court Press; Voting in Iraq; Anarchy in the U.K.
The Opinionator —
... : [Obama's] serious and consequential policy mistake is that he put his prestige behind not a new way of breaking through but an old way of staying put. This marked a dreadful misreading of the moment. And now he’s digging in. His political mistake, which in retrospect we will see as huge, is that he remoralized the Republicans. He let them back in the game. Balloon Juice : John Cole says Obama should quit warning about catastrophes and sell his bill : It would be nice if the Democrats would sell this bill and explain why it is good, rather than Obama just coming out and ...
I Can’t Support The Stimulus Bill
The Moderate Voice —
... next month or two, and a long term infrastructure in six months. This will isolate the bad criticism so it can be destroyed.
For supporters of the bill, I’d stop focusing on how completely crazy some of the arguments are against it (and how awful the alternative “proposal” is) and focus on whether the bill itself is any good. Be like John Cole and recognize that just because one side is insane doesn’t mean that the other side isn’t idiotic.
Saturday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
Heading up to ski at Mt. Snow this morning. It's an excellent mountain when it's not crowded - and it's close. I'll try to get there when the lifts open. New skis and boots. Wahoo.
Dem John Cole on the "stimulus" porkfest (h/t Outside the Beltway's Obama attacks Repubs for partisanship)
You know, putting aside the stupidity of the Republicans, I would really like it if the Democrats would make the god damned case for this bill. There is another report up from the CBO ...
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talkingpointsmemo.com 3/30/2009 — Why is Rick Wagoner getting the boot while the management of the big banks remains in place? Whatever resonance the question has on first blush, it gets more complicated on further inspection. Citi does not have the same CEO it did at the start of ...
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Politico writes, “In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican arguments that massive spending in the $819 billion stimulus bill that passed the House should be replaced by a new round of ...
Romney: Obama 'off to a rocky start' —
CNN Political Ticker 2/6/2009
Romney is a possible 2012 contender.
(CNN) – Mitt Romney says it’s “been a good year” since he dropped out of the GOP nomination fight, but, he says, “I wish I would have won the nomination, and won the presidency.”
In an interview with TIME ...
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