althouse.blogspot.com - 11/26/2008
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Writes Carl Hulse. In a notable shift, Congressional leaders and officials of the incoming Obama administration are actively trying to retire that term and use the more marketable “economic recovery program” as the descriptor for the multibillion-dollar economic initiative to be considered ...
Keep bailing . . .
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 11/15/2008 — Felix Salmon complains , justly I think, that the bailed out financial firms are using the funds to keep their operations going rather than restructure them: The NYT also, however, has a pointed column from Floyd Norris ,
who notes the double ...
Bailing Out the Auto Industry
outsidethebeltway.com 11/10/2008 — No matter what your politics are, left or right, I think we can all agree that bailing out the U.S. auto industry is a bad idea. As Conor Friedersdorf notes
When an auto firm makes a product inferior to its competitors, signs labor contracts it ...
Are We Bailing Ourselves Out?
talkingpointsmemo.com 2/24/2009 — We already own 80% of AIG. Now they're coming back for more .
And more to the point, who are the counter-parties that the money is going to go to once we give it to this company that has no value at all?
Bailing Out Detroit
motherjones.com 12/10/2008 — BAILING OUT DETROIT.... David Leonhardt uses this graphic in the New York Times today to illustrate the labor costs of the Big Three auto makers vs. the Japanese companies who manufacture cars in nonunion plants. As he says, the $70+ per hour ...
Bailing Out in the Real World
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/17/2008 —
I feel like some of the commentary on the prospect of an auto industry bailout is starting to remind me of some of the stuff I fell for before we invaded Iraq. The kind of thing where someone yes, “yes this sounds like a bad idea, but if we ...
The Word
theheretik.us 2/10/2009 —
And the word was made flesh. Never mind that some of the flesh may have taken a beating. Or two. Hidden in a New York Times bit about The New Media ( yay , New Media, yay ) was Obama’s answer to the question, “ Are you willing to rule out ...
They Have a Word for It
highclearing.com 10/14/2008 — In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory, John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the possibility that, as Erickson puts it, "Barack Obama had an underage, gay affair with a ...
Bailing Out of the Constitution
washingtonpost.com 3/30/2009 — It is high time Americans heard an argument that might turn a vague national uneasiness into a vivid awareness of something going very wrong. The argument is that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) is unconstitutional.
Take Me At My Word
wizbangblog.com 12/9/2008 — Once again those that cling to guns are showing bitterness in the change soon coming to the White House. Gun sales during the week Obama was elected jumped nearly 49%...
Obama team reacts to Mumbai attacks —
CNN Political Ticker 11/26/2008
Obama’s transition team reacted to the shootings in Mumbai.
(CNN) — The Obama Transition team's chief national security spokesperson, Brooke Anderson, released a statement late Wednesday reacting to the attacks in Mumbai, ...