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crooksandliars.com - 2/5/2009
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Download | Play Download | Play Speaking before the Energy Department this morning, President Obama made a stirring defense of his stimulus package, and nailed his critics' ears to the wall: As we are meeting, in the halls of Congress just down the street from here, there is a ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 2/3/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
I've seen it asserted, assumed or alleged in
many places that the stimulus package is hemorrhaging public...
support and might become something of an albatross around the Obama administration's neck. While I don't doubt that the stimulus could become ...
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The Stimulus: Still Popular After All These Weeks
nytimes.com - 2/4/2009
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nytimes.com —
The Obama administration has not publicly answered criticisms
that its stimulus package is not as effective as...
it could be, dollar for dollar, or that it is simply too small. >
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Economic Scene: Time to Steer ‘Forceful Course’ for ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Claire McCaskill seems to be softening her line
on the Senate stimulus deal. She Tweets “Just saw...
Krugman’s comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900.” ...
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A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
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Corrente —
Obama sounds a few partisan notes here, but he can't help undercutting a progressive agenda in the following ways:
* Playing up the virtue that most of the stimulus jobs are in the blessed private sector
* Framing healthcare only as a "cost" issue (and not, for example, an access issue)
* Playing the "bickering" card, which once again bolsters the disempowering, juvenile "food fight" misconception Read more…
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