marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/9/2009
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( shamelessly pilfered from PTI)
CHANCES Sen. Barack Obama's stimulus package is sent to the Whte House by February 16, the day Speaker Nancy Pelosi has set as a goal for Congressional passage. 60% All the posturing headlines today notwithstanding, momentum, the ...
Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
sfgate.com 1/7/2009 — Feinstein - the new chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation hearings - raised eyebrows when she expressed surprisingly sharp disapproval of Panetta as nominee for CIA chief on Monday. She said that "the ...
Obama's Price is Right Negotiating Strategy?
fivethirtyeight.com 1/11/2009 — So it turns out that the Senate Democrats are not entirely happy about the Obama administration's proposal to spend "only" $800 billion or so on the economic stimulus package, about $300 billion of which would be devoted to tax cuts. Not just any ...
Youth Ball Rounds Out Obama's Inaugural Schedule
briefingroom.thehill.com 1/6/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are planning to attend a total of ten balls on Inauguration day, Jan. 20.
The last of the gala events, the Youth Inaugural Ball, was announced Tuesday by the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC). Tickets for the event, which is ...
Questions for Panetta
weeklystandard.com 1/16/2009 — Eli Lake has an excellent piece in the Washington Times today sifting through Leon Panetta's record on rendition as Clinton's chief of staff. Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, will face confirmation hearings next week. As Lake points out, ...
Obama and Pelosi meet about stimulus package
dailykos.com 1/5/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a private meeting earlier today to discuss the economic stimulus package that will be the focus of the 111th Congress that begins tomorrow. They did not take questions, but ...
Panetta too inexperienced for CIA?
swamppolitics.com 1/7/2009 — by Frank James
Reports that President-elect Barack Obama intends to make Leon Panetta director of the Central Intelligence Agency not only surprised some key Capitol Hill Democrats but left them questioning the former congressman and Clinton ...
Addressing Progressive Concerns
openleft.com 1/9/2009 — Quite a few Democratic Senators are expressing concern over the business tax cuts in Obama stimulus plan. An MSNBC story points to critical comments from John Kerry and Kent Conrad . A couple hours ago, Talking Points Memo quoted Tom Harkin expressing ...
Change.gov against Obama
crookedtimber.org 1/11/2009 — One of the safer predictions I’ve made in recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
What Did Leon Panetta Know About Rendition And When Did He Know It?
redstate.com 1/10/2009 — Thus far, defenders of Director-designate of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta make the following points in defense of the proposition that he would make a good DCI:
In response to arguments that Panetta is not experienced, Panettaphiles tell us ...
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