tnr.com - 1/23/2009
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"[T]hey saw in the New Deal only revolution or anarchy; ... they fought it in bitterness and in vain."--Henry Steele Commager, on the congressional conservatives under FDR, 1959 You would not expect House conservatives, dwindled in numbers and without even the consoling possibility of ...
cboblog.cbo.gov - 1/31/2009
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cboblog.cbo.gov —
CBO released an estimate of the budgetary impacts
of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009, as amended and passed by the House of Representatives on January 28. Over the 2009-2019 period, CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1 would ...
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Cost Estimate for H.R. 1 As Amended and Passed by the House
newsmax.com - 1/31/2009
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newsmax.com —
Six Democratic members of Congress enjoyed a Caribbean
junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress had approved the
$700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October. The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil ...
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Rangel, Other Reps, Party in Caribbean With Citi Funds
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Obama: "I won."
The Reaction —
... And Obama wasn't being partisan, he was just telling it like it is. (If anything, he's being exceedingly non-partisan, much to the frustration of those of us who would like him to be much tougher. Though I suspect the toughness will come before too long, if only because Republicans, and especially the many wackos in the House, are themselves so brutally partisan.)
Rolling the dice
Political Animal —
... THE DICE.... A charismatic Democratic president gets elected, fairly easily, in the midst of a global economic crisis. The congressional Republican minority decides to base its future on standing up to the White House's agenda. One House Republican compares the president to Hitler. Another insists the president is threatening "state sovereignty." Several issue warnings about socialism, and vow to resist the new administration's efforts to rescue the economy. This was, of course, the Republican strategy of 1933 , soon after Franklin Roosevelt took office. With this background ...
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