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washingtonindependent.com - 11/21/2008

Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?

— washingtonindependent.com — Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists... to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary. (more) Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?

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Bill Clinton

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ourfuture.org - 11/25/2008

Mandate Watch: Confused About Tax Promises

— ourfuture.org — I'm confused about the state of Barack Obama's tax promises. Last week we heard this strong, admirable... declaration that campaign promises would be upheld - a rejection of the "center-right" media meme that tax increases on the super-wealthy hurt the ... (more) Mandate Watch: Confused About Tax Promises

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Barack Obama

Bill Clinton

Washington, D.C

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google.com - 11/21/2008

The Associated Press: Aide: Obama on track to nominate Clinton

— google.com — 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as... secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday. One week after the former primary rivals met secretly to ... (more) The Associated Press: Aide: Obama on track to nominate ...

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Bill Clinton

Barack Obama

Washington, D.C

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News — ... The possibility that President-elect Barack Obama will hold off on a repeal of President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy has disappointed liberal bloggers. Obama's Cabinet has already given bloggers on both sides something to complain about. The "Saturday Night Live" portrayal of Obama's profane chief of staff-designate, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), makes bloggers laugh. The suggestions by Obama's aides that he'll delay repealing the tax cuts confuses The Huffington Post's David Sirota , who recalls that tax raises on the wealthy contributed to an economic boom under President ...

More Change: Obama to Delay Rollback on Bush Tax Cuts
Stop The ACLU — ... Considerations, eh? I suppose the meltdown on Wall Street had a lot to do with those “considerations”. The near-unanimous chorus from economists about the dangers of raising taxes in the middle of a recession may have produced those “considerations” as well. Now that Obama has to actually govern his way out of a global financial collapse, he’s realizing that he needs all the capital he can get to invest back into economic growth. And that’s not a bad thing. Huffington Post: I’m confused. Beyond the very clear - and admirable - mandate Obama created for himself in terms of ...

The Politico's Jayson Blair
Open Left - Front Page — ... on oil and gas companies. I also think that his transition team has offered conflicting signals on whether the new administration's timing for its push to repeal Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Those are concrete, verifiable, undebatable facts, and he deserves to be asked about them. ...

Stepping Up, Ever So Gently, On Taxes
Open Left - Front Page — ... and dancing around his promises to raise income taxes on the wealthy are bad moves - bad politically because they project fear/weakness in their willingness to appease - rather than challenge - the worst right-wing frames, and bad because corporate tax cuts and refusal to raise taxes on the wealthy simply aren't sound economic policy (as the last 8 years clearly proved). ...

Waving Goodbye to Reaganism: Terms of the Tax Debate Continue to Tectonically Shift
Open Left - Front Page — ... back an immediate repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the top one percent of all income earners. Like progressive leaders in states across the country, Pelosi is fearlessly using her bully pulpit to try to shift the terms of the tax debate away from the fringe right's framing and toward the real center of American public opinion, which supports efforts to make taxes more fair and better fund public priorities. Obama aides have countered by being, well, ambivalent on the issue - first flip-flopping, then by spinning out of any kind of clear answer. The Bush tax ...