huffingtonpost.com - 2/9/2009
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There's a hurricane coming. Meteorologists aren't sure what category it will be but know it will be the worst in generations. There's a warehouse full of sandbags.
What do you do?
Some folks in town are arguing that using the entire warehouse would be wasteful and leave the next ...
theanchoressonline.com - 2/12/2009
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theanchoressonline.com —
Hey, $13 dollars is $13, I guess. In
January that falls to $8. Here is our 800...
billion dollar stimulus mostly-spending bill we must see passed, and we must gratefully accept as the only possible solution to our “catastrophic” problems ...
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The $13 a week stimulus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Claire McCaskill seems to be softening her line
on the Senate stimulus deal. She Tweets “Just saw...
Krugman’s comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900.” ...
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A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
thehill.com - 2/10/2009
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thehill.com —
House Democrats on Tuesday said they are prepared
to negotiate past Presidents Day rather than cave to...
GOP Senate centrists on the details of the economic stimulus package. Bucking warnings that the delicate Senate compromise passed Tuesday cannot be ...
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House Dems to fight for their stimulus
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"Centrists" apparently means "Morons"
The Latest on Air America —
... for the society at large.
We need government spending to create jobs and expand (or at least mitigate the contraction) of our economy. Government is the only player in our society which will act in the interests of the society at large- it has no profit motive, it can spend at a time when businesses and individuals are sitting on what little they have.
We have a crisis and some are supposedly worried that this neccessary government spending will be wasteful... we're screwed:
There's a hurricane coming. ...
What the Cuts to the Stimulus Mean, In Real Terms
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... . Ryan Grim, writing in the Huffington Post, checks win with a bunch of economists and figures out why the danger of not spending enough is far, far greater than the danger of spending too much. ...
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
MONDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * Why the stimulus is too small . * Nissan is slashing 20,000 jobs . * Joe Biden's remarks over the weekend at a security conference in Munich were well received by Russian officials. * The fires in Australia are just brutal . * Now here's a provocative idea from a "Political Animal" regular: marijuana legalization as an economic stimulus ? * When Michael Steels complains about " bling, bling " in the stimulus bill, you know he's trying a little too hard. * In addition to taking ...
Bayh: My Group Of Blue Dogs ‘Literally Has No Agenda’ Other Than Blocking Obama’s
Think Progress —
... – Shrinking Economic Recovery: The group’s first significant “success” was “paring down the more than $900 billion economic stimulus bill to $787 billion,” reducing the government’s ability to spur economic recovery quickly. [Roll Call, ...
Sunday Show Panelists Claim That Obama Has Never ‘Opposed His Liberals’
Think Progress —
... — warned that the President’s stimulus package was too small to lift the sinking economy. Similarly, progressives consistently warned the President not to replace highly-stimulative spending with ...
Triumph of the Willfully Ignorant
The Republic of T. —
... filings have surged in the first have of 2009, and may reach 1.4 million by the end of the year.
It is why we got a credit card reform bill that gave lenders 18 months to raise existing fees and invent new ones, and why now credit card companies are piling on new fees, while they still have time. Meanwhile credit card debt is rising quickly for those 65 and over, and credit delinquencies are at a record high.
It is how we got a stimulus that was smaller than we needed and that was whittled down to create fewer jobs. ...
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the-reaction.blogspot.com 2/14/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Krugman says no : By any normal political standards, this week's Congressional agreement on an economic stimulus package was a great victory for President Obama. He got more or less what he asked for: almost $800 ...
Stimulus Polling
obsidianwings.blogs.com 2/24/2009 — by publius A new Post/ABC poll shows strong public support for the stimulus plan, and for Obama more generally. The same poll also shows that Democrats are retaining large advantages over congressional Republicans. It's easy to look at these ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/8/2009 — At the time it was proposed, many liberals thought the stimulus plan was too small. Or to be more precise, I think what we thought was that it was imprudently small. A fiscal expansion that turned out to be “too big” would waste some ...
Democrats Have a Stimulus, But You Can't Read It
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/12/2009 — During the first six years of the Bush administration, when Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress, they were rightly infamous for ramming through controversial bills without giving Democrats time to read the legislation -- let ...
Is Obama Still Running for Election?
themoderatevoice.com 2/9/2009 — With the stimulus package battle seeming to draw toward a close, President Obama is packing his bags and heading out for a town hall meeting in Indiana . The timing may seem spot on, but the venue raises some questions.
White House spokesman Robert ...
Obama praises economic stimulus deal
swamppolitics.com 2/12/2009 — by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama this evening thanked "the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who came together around a hard-fought compromise that will save or create more than 3.5 million jobs and get our economy back on track.''
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State of the Stimulus
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 2/13/2009 — A day of waiting turns into night. And perhaps into dawn for the full language of the stimulus bill.
Hardball Time: Ditch the Stimulus
WWW.samefacts.com 2/4/2009 — Now that, as Brian Beutler well puts it, the Obama Administration has decided to outsource the stimulus decision to Ben Nelson and Susan Collins, it might be well to completely change the strategy. To wit: Go with No More Mr. Nice Guy.
The ...
The Future of the Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 2/2/2009 — Have spent some time today talking to Republican and Democratic members of the Senate, as well as political strategists, about what is coming with the stimulus bill. The first thing is that the Republican critique of the bill, as passed by the House, ...
Bank bailout plan postponed until Tuesday —
CNN Political Ticker 2/9/2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The "massive overhaul" of the banking bailout will be announced a day later than expected.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was originally scheduled to give full details about the changes to the rescue plan in a ...
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