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madkane.com - 11/21/2008

What Would The Press Do Without Clinton Rumors?

— madkane.com — Hillary wants to be Obama’s Secretary of State. Hillary doesn’t know if she wants to be Secretary... of State. Bill’s standing in her way. Bill’s fully cooperating. Obama’s made an offer. Obama hasn’t made an offer. ... (more) What Would The Press Do Without Clinton Rumors?

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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 11/19/2008

Rumors Of Appointments

— obsidianwings.blogs.com — by hilzoy Today's rumors seem less speculative than most, so I'm going to break with normal practice... and report them. First, the National Journal reports that Obama will make Peter Orszag to head up the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag is ... (more) Rumors Of Appointments

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Barack Obama

General David Petraeus

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attackerman.firedoglake.com - 11/14/2008

You going to cut military programs? You got to REALLY CUT THEM, then

— attackerman.firedoglake.com — Zumwalt Destroyer So later today I'll have a piece up about Obama's relationship with the military and... the challenges/opportunities it presents. But, like R. Kelly, I want to break you off with a little taste of the remix. One of my sources ... (more) You going to cut military programs? You got to REALLY ...

White House

Barack Obama

U.S. Army

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Hunkering Down For a Fight
Talking Points Memo — The military-GOP complex won't go quietly into the night: The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense spending as a tool to limit options for a Democratic Congress and president to pass new, and potentially costly, social programs, including health care reform. They also like the idea of creating an unrealistically high baseline of expectations for defense spending that will allow them to claim President Obama ...

The Missile Defense Joke
Newshoggers.com — ... on the "bailout scale" but a sizeable bit of pork nonetheless. And by the time you add it to the millions and billions for other big-ticket shiny toys for the military, as always inflated to the needs of corporate welfare for the military-industrial complex, it's a bailout a year. Military leaders and neocon think-tankers, working in concert, are trying to lock in missile defense spending, even expanding upon it to include space-based weaponry. And that's just a part of the overall attempt to force Obama's hand. The uniformed services are trying to lock ...

Defictits Actually Do Matter and Defense Is, In Fact, a Budget Item
Obsidian Wings — by Eric Martin With Barack Obama's convincing win, and a further consolidation of the Democratic gains made in 2006, the Republican Party is scrambling to come up with a strategy to reverse the trend.  In fact, there is a veritable cottage industry of would-be visionaries springing up. Some claim that the ...

Deficits Actually Do Matter and Defense Is, In Fact, a Budget Item
Newshoggers.com — With Barack Obama's convincing win, and a further consolidation of the Democratic gains made in 2006, the Republican Party is scrambling to come up with a strategy to reverse the trend.  In fact, there is a veritable cottage industry of would-be visionaries springing up. Some claim that the Party must distance itself from ...