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A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days: Well, That Didn't Take Long
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The Corner on National Review Online: Democrats Who Don't Need Obama's Honeymoon Unity Party
Flopping Aces: Congressional Democrats Say Obama Not Doing Enough To Fix Mess They Created
Hot Air » Top Picks: Dan Rather: New presidents should take over on December 1
Well, That Didn't Take Long
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
The circular firing squad forms, as promised : Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama's refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country. Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin. "He's going to have to be more assertive than he's been," House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., told consumer advocates Thursday. Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry and a proposed rescue of Detroit automakers, said Obama needs to play a more significant role on ...
Well, That Didn’t Take Long
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
The circular firing squad forms, as promised:
Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country.Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin.
“He’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., told consumer advocates Thursday.
Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry and a proposed rescue of Detroit ...
Well, That Didn’t Take Long
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
The circular firing squad forms, as promised:
Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country.Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin.
“He’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., told consumer advocates Thursday.
Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry and a proposed rescue of ...
Democrats Who Don't Need Obama's Honeymoon Unity Party
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Friday, December 05, 2008 [image] Democrats Who Don't Need Obama's Honeymoon Unity Party [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] Barney Frank: "Having lived with this very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time, the notion of trying to deal with them as if we could be post-partisan gives me post-partisan depression." 12/05 01:24 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | ...
Congressional Democrats Say Obama Not Doing Enough To Fix Mess They Created
Flopping Aces —
... and pack. The Democrats’ Congress (with an approval at 15%) is actually gonna have to step up and decide on their own, with no political cover/scapegoat, what to do.
Meanwhile, my home state of Ohio’s unemployment is closing in on 7.5%. Yeah, nice work guys. How many trips to Ohio did Senator Obama make during his 2yr term as a Senator for Illinois/his Presidential campaign? What will come of those trips now?
ANSWER: 8.5% unemployment in January.
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Dan Rather: New presidents should take over on December 1
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... six weeks earlier, when the primaries ended in early June, might make a swearing-in around December 15 possible. There’s no reason the new president would need to have the entire cabinet ready to go by then, either. Just the important people — Defense, State, Treasury — with holdovers from the last administration lingering for a few more months until they can be replaced at leisure. That’d create a bit of weirdness, but we already have weirdness under the current arrangement with de facto co-presidents . What am I missing?
How Bad Will The Bush Depression Be?
DownWithTyranny! —
... large additional losses also could come from other sources. Most notably, the spreading global recession, on top of national banking crises in other countries, are producing enormous pressures on government financing operations in a number of nations, including some in the Eurozone, which in turn may produce sovereign debt defaults. And most of the sovereign debt that could well default in coming months is held today by financial institutions, especially ours. Obama has to do better, much better.
A Cautious Obama Picking His Fights Carefully
Pajamas Media —
It might not be "new" politics. But it is smart politics. [image] Barack Obama won an impressive victory on November 4 and has overwhelming Democratic majorities in the House and Senate on his side. But that doesn’t mean he is going to get everything he wants. And it doesn’t even mean he is going to try. That’s what we’ve been seeing this week: the fine art of picking his fights and conserving political capital. First was the Georgia Senate race. Sure, the president-elect recorded some calls and sent his staffers into the state. And, yes, the AFL-CIO blew some more union cash collected from their members. But Obama studiously declined to campaign in ...
