powerlineblog.com - 11/26/2008
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Barack Obama has now announced his economic team, and the consistent theme is continuity with the policies of the Bush administration. Tim Geithner will be the new Secretary of the Treasury. He is so well respected on Wall Street that the market jumped five percent in an hour when his ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/26/2008
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- In response
to criticism that he is departing from his promise...
to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would ...
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Obama: Change comes from me
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/25/2008
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
The good news from last night's 60 Minutes
interview is that Obama has clearly committed himself to...
ending the torture policy of Bush and Cheney. But that clarity will sadly be in doubt if Marc is right and John Brennan becomes the next CIA ...
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John Brennan: Change We Cannot Believe In
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... me in an email that Orszag is a “good man” and a “solid choice.” “He has demonstrated courage in addressing the unsustainable growth in entitlement spending and health care costs while at the CBO,” Portman wrote. “He will now have a bigger platform to continue those efforts.” Not everyone feels so sanguine about Obama’s economic team, as RJ Matson expresses in his St. Louis Dispatch cartoon (via TMV ): [image] King Banaian says he can’t complain, either. John Hinderaker thinks that Obama will mostly follow the Bush model in economic policy, and ...
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