yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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Here’s a January 2007 Melody Barnes op-ed on what a progressive president might say in a Sate of the Union address:
Here at home there is urgent work to do to fight the historically high — and growing — gap between our richest and poorest citizens. While the mean income of ...
thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Later today, President-elect Barack Obama will announce that
our friend and former colleague Melody Barnes will be
named as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Council “ coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White ...
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Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes,
who was at CAP before I got on board,
will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation for such ...
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Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
washingtonpost.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Tomorrow President Bush will deliver his State of
the Union address. While this speech is sure to
be filled with the President's plans for moving the nation forward, it is also sure to be very different from one that a progressive would deliver. If we ...
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Melody Barnes - What a Progressive President Might Say
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In Defense Of the Left Flank
TalkLeft —
Matt Yglesias criticizes the Left flank of the blogs (specifically Chris Bowers.) I want to speak in defense of them. While on policy I am to the right of all of them (Sirota, Stoller, et al), I simply love that they speak strongly in favor of the policies they believe in. That they worry about it. That they pressure about it. A while ago I wrote at ...
Obama Advisers: He's Not Moving To The Center
TPM Election Central —
... ? Or is Obama merely assembling a team of experienced hands in order to implement his own progressive vision, as Matthew Yglesias contends? ...
Watching From the Sidelines
The Mahablog —
... , we Obama supporters are hoping there’s a “secret” Obama progressive agenda, and of course we’re stupid (I mean, no one but Hillary Clinton can win in November, right? Oh, wait …) , because Obama is a centrist who won’t do anything the Clintons wouldn’t have done. Matt Yglesias addresses this concern, as does the ...
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