salon.com - 2/5/2009
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Feb. 4, 2009 | Tuesday's Tom Daschle news stepped all over President Obama's stimulus sales campaign. Likewise, it kept me from writing about Robert Reich's excellent Salon piece on the larger issues at stake in the stimulus battle, but I want to take it up today. Reich said something Democrats ...
news.yahoo.com - 2/5/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that
failure to act on an economic recovery package could...
plunge the nation into a long-lasting recession that might prove irreversible, a fresh call to a recalcitrant Congress to move quickly. In ...
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Obama warns of need for stimulus bill right away - ...
realclearpolitics.com - 2/5/2009
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- The irony of President Barack Obama's
Blue Tuesday is that the wall-to-wall television interviews he...
granted were designed not to apologize for Tom Daschle's fall from grace but to fight back against the Republicans' success in ...
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Obama Losing Stimulus Fight to Defeated GOP
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Tammy Bruce —
... Salon: Obama is failing because Republicans have lied, lied LIED to people for 30 years about the role of government. Like, it's supposed to be your Daddy but no one understands that yet, because of evil, evil EVIL lying Republicans who have fooled people into thinking that low taxes, small government of personal freedom were more important than Big Government Sugar Daddy. ...
Obama: “Pass this, or else…” - UPDATED
The Anchoress —
... daily to give our opinions on this bill, we should be contacting the news programs on the networks and the cables. We should be calling the editorial boards of the newspapers and saying, “do your damn jobs, please. Ask some damned relevant questions, or if this things pass, and things get worse, we’re going to blame you for your sheep-like, unquestioning complicity.”
Some “guardians.” Rather than questioning the president, the press is advising him on “how to sell it.”
Most news organizations are making their ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... What Is Congress Stimulating? - The Government Itself
Contrary to conventional Beltway wisdom, the House Republicans' zero votes for the Obama presidency's stimulus "package" is looking like the luckiest thing to happen to the GOP's political fortunes since Ronald Reagan switched parties. If the GOP line holds, the party could win back much of the goodwill it dissipated with its big-government adventures the past eight years.
The New Great Communicator Isn't - The Left Fears Obama is losing the stimulus battle
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: sarah_palin ashley_judd)
The New Great Communicator Isn't - The Left Fears Obama is losing the stimulus battle
Obama is stumbling in the stimulus debate — and public support is dropping — because for 30 ...
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