washingtonpost.com - 1/15/2009
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For the past two years, Barack Obama has made it hard for anyone to pin him down philosophically. So when he raises his hand on Tuesday, exactly what -- beyond the efforts of an eager, data-driven problem-solver -- can the American people expect?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/19/2009
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
Mark Thoma and Brad DeLong are both, in
slightly different ways, perturbed by the state of debate...
over fiscal stimulus. So am I. This has not been one of the profession's finest hours. There are certainly legitimate arguments against spending-based ...
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Economists, ideology, and stimulus
mediabistro.com - 1/17/2009
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mediabistro.com —
MSNBC held their Television Critics Association panel yesterday
in Los Angeles, and the questions ranged from comparisons...
of MSNBC and FNC to comparisons of Obama and Bush. Variety's Brian Lowry writes that MSNBC president Phil Griffin fielded ...
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Griffin: "We're Less About Ideology Than Fox"
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Daily Kos —
... is a great column to start the day with. Five legal experts ask the questions they'd like to see Attorney General nominee Eric Holder answer. George Will argues against the case to overturn Proposition 8, saying that "would establish an unassailable tyranny of a minority -- judges -- over any California majority." And that equal protection clause in the Constitution? Not an issue, because everyone knows how tolerant California is of deviants. E.J. Dionne delves into the mystery of President-Elect Barack Obama's "approach to (and avoidance ...
Ideological Hubris
The Corner on National Review Online —
Thursday, January 15, 2009 [image] Ideological Hubris [Ramesh Ponnuru] E. J. Dionne Jr. writes: Obama's anti-ideological turn is also a functional one for a progressive, at least for now. Since ...
War and Piece —
EJ Dionne : Audacity without ideology. ...Obama has spent his adult life tilting left while courting conservatives. That's how he won his very first campaign, for president of the Harvard Law Review. He has been known to call himself a "progressive," and when he occasionally uses the word "ideological" in reference to his own leanings, he clearly casts himself as somewhere left of center. Yet most of his references to ideology are disdainful and dismissive. In discussing his economic stimulus package, he speaks of judging his proposals by how many jobs they produce and how ...
Obama's "Avoidance of Ideology"
Open Left - Front Page —
... was written through the prism of a column by E.J. Dionne this past Thursday, "Audacity Without Ideology". Regardless of whether or not my fears expressed in that earlier diary prove well-founded, I believe that Dionne's article can help us unpack some of the misgivings I have about Obama's approach that I think many others share as well, albeit to varying degress. ...
Are The Facts Enough???
Open Left - Front Page —
... had a multipart argument about E.J. Dionne's rationalization of Obama's avoidance of ideology in "Audacity Without Ideology". The discussion was hijacked by a couple of trolls who inadvertantly made one of my points for me--that Obama's "anti-ideological" position was actually quite ideological in and of itself. They made this point by launching a vitrolic ideological attack on me, and a number of other regulars, based on schematized misrepresentations of attitudes, arguments, ideas, you name it. They repeatedly ignored demands for specific examples, ...
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