talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/3/2009
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I've been hollering for days about this or that Republican's picayune complaints about the Stimulus Bill -- either line items for minuscule dollar amounts or bogus complaints about spending items that demonstrably will create lots of jobs and improve the economy over the long term. And now, ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/3/2009
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
Sen. Thune (R-SD) explains Republican thinking about the
economic crisis ... Country's on the precipice. And idiots...
like this are holding the floor.
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Painfully Stupid
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 2/1/2009
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
Let me type this s l o w
l y so that certain people who don't seem...
to be able to read with any level of detail can follow along. The Pajamas Media advertising network—responsible for those ads you generally...
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Why Stupid People Shouldn't Blog
sideshow.me.uk - 1/31/2009
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sideshow.me.uk —
Greg Palast may like Obama this week, but
Stirling Newberry doesn't : Obama isn't a Democrat giving...
things up to get Republican votes, he's a conservative mugging liberals for a conservative agenda that includes: 1. War in Afghanistan 2. Paulson's ...
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Bipartisan stupid
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Josh Marshall on the stimulus. There are serious critiques and unserious ones. Most of those on cable news are unserious. This we know. ...
Axelrod: Daschle Made the Decision to Withdraw This Morning
TPM Election Central —
... Asked about the stimulus bill pending before Congress, Axelrod offered a noticeably temperate endorsement of the legislation as it stands. ...
Dept. of Forest, trees
Political Animal —
... . Those are the kind of numbers one might expect when conservatives -- on the Hill and on the airwaves -- are driving the discussion, pointing to cherry-picked "wasteful" spending. Stepping back and looking at the big picture, Josh Marshall notes that it's easy to understand why "Republicans are having such a field day spreading disinformation and simple nonsense about this bill," and what the White House has to do about it. We've heard virtually nothing over the last couple weeks about the big issue, which is that the economy is in severe free-fall because of a ...
Spadework on the stimulus
The Reality-Based Community —
[image] Spadework on the stimulus I agree that Obama has lost some control of his message (as Josh Marshall and Nate Silver argue), and has, in Senate negotiations, given up some of his priorities (and mine) too easily--though I wouldn't go as far as Jonathan ; things are far from catastrophic. The question is what to do about it. Avid armchair politician though I am, I think it's time for lots of us to turn foot soldier instead. The way to amplify Obama's message is to repeat it. The way to improve a big recovery package's chances in the senate ...
Progressive Breakfast: The Majority Fights Back
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... "It's time to hit the phones for the stimulus bill. Calls are running at 100:1 against. Yes, it's not that good a stimulus bill, I've said so myself, but it's not a case of scrapping it and starting over, what looks likely to happen is that it gets badly watered down with bribes to Republicans and 'moderate' Democrats like Ben Nelson to get it through."
Reality-Based Community's Andrew Sabl:
I agree that Obama has lost some control of his message (as Josh Marshall and Nate Silver argue), and has, in Senate negotiations, given up some of ...
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