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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 2/6/2009
First thoughts: Fired up
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Fired up: The Senate is still working on the stimulus bill. The unemployment rate is now 7.6% (with nearly 600,000 jobs lost in January, the most in more than 30 years). And President Barack Obama is definitely fired up. Often straying from his prepared remarks at last night’s House Democratic retreat, Obama called out Republicans for not reciprocating his bipartisan overtures, and he reminded the country who’s to blame for the current ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 2/5/2009
First thoughts: Back to candidate Obama
— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Back to candidate Obama: The president is ramping up... the rhetoric as he tries to get back on offense to sell his economic stimulus plan. It started yesterday with two events, where for the first ... (more) First thoughts: Back to candidate Obama

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politico.com - 2/6/2009
With plan in hot water, Obama fired up
— politico.com — In a mostly impromptu speech to House Dems, Obama hammered his Republican critics.... (more) With plan in hot water, Obama fired up

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First thoughts: Negotiating time
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 2/11/2009
First thoughts: Negotiating time
— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Negotiating time: This is Susan Collins’, Olympia Snowe’s, and... Arlen Specter’s world, and we’re all just lucky to live in it, right? With House and Senate negotiators working with the White House ... (more) First thoughts: Negotiating time

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:  To Filibuster Or Not To Filibuster?

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To Filibuster Or Not To Filibuster?
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... First Read: "There is actually a good reason for McConnell not to force the Democrats to come up with 60 votes, but rather allow for a simple up-or-down vote. The talking point of little or no GOP support could be more effective in long term, and McConnell might keep more GOPers in line if he allows an up-down vote. Yet while most of the attention has focused on Obama and Democrats during this stimulus fight, Republicans are making a BIG gamble here by opposing the legislation. If the stimulus passes, if the economy starts to turn around in the next couple of years, and if the ...

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