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Obama Op-Ed
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The president pushes his stimulus plan in the Washington Post.
"What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives...." ...
Obama Solicits Stimulus Support in WaPo
News —
... President Barack Obama penned an editorial in the Washington Post Thursday soliciting support for his economic stimulus plan. The move comes as the controversial bill continues to be debated in the Senate and on the heels of a ...
Obama Steps Up Sales Effort
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... for the press conference and potential Oval Office address during a stop at the Senate Democrats' retreat at the Newseum on Wednesday in response to a question from California Sen. Barbara Boxer about how he would sell the American people on the bill, according to a source in the room." Politico notes Obama has also planned "a set of remarkable face-to-face meetings Thursday with swing senators-alone without any aides present." He also penned an op-ed in today's Washington Post. However, CNN cites sources this morning saying the president believes he ...
The empty Obama editorial
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Has Barack Obama realized that he won the election? I know he told Republicans in the House that “I won” as a means to shut down actual negotiations over the stimulus package and try to get them to vote on a bill in which they had zero input. But in reading Obama’s column in today’s Washington Post, all I see is empty sloganeering and cheap fear-mongering instead of substantive cases for the myriad of spending projects in his stimulus bill: This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending — it’s a strategy for America’s long-term growth and opportunity in areas ...
Shots from the Show 2/5
Tammy Bruce —
... Barkey WaPo Opinion Piece: Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear. Do as I say. Fear. Sky falling. Fear. Call me a goof, but I still can't figure out how giving needles to drug addicts, buying new cars for federal employees, and paying 65% of everyone's COBRA health insurance is gonna save anyone's job or shore up the economy. ...
"Time for Talk Over," White House Tone Changes on Stimulus
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... During remarks to the Department of Energy Staff, Barack Obama said, "The time for talk is over." Today during the daily briefing, Robert Gibbs acknowledged, after a series of questions on the perceived change in White House tone toward the speed of the stimulus, that "it's fair to read impatience into that." Indeed, in Obama's penned op-ed in this morning's Washington Post uses his trademark rhetorical phrase-repetition, "[n]ow is the time." ...
Preparing for Failure
The American Spectator —
... of reasoning as part of his public relations offensive to boost support for the stimulus package: a failure to act will make things worse, even if acting may not make things better -- or at least not for a while. President Obama is selling the plan as one that will " save or create" four million jobs, and he's continued to hedge his statements on the upside potential of the legislation while portraying the dire consequences of inaction. Last week, he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that if Congress didn't pass the stimulus package: "Our economy will lose 5 million more ...
