andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/25/2008
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Every Republican primary season, we are told by every candidate that he or she will go through the budget with a tooth-comb and eliminate waste. And after eight years of insane Republican spending and borrowing, it takes a terrorist commie radical to say it after he gets elected. We'll see, of ...
tnr.com - 11/21/2008
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tnr.com —
If you've been following the auto industry's crisis,
then you've probably read or heard a lot about...
overpaid American autoworkers--in particular, the fact that the average hourly employee of the Big Three makes $70 per hour . That's an awful lot of ...
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Assembly Line
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/21/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
The great thing about elections is that as
soon as the last one ends, the next one...
begins. Everywhere the Fix goes these days -- and by everywhere we mean the office, Starbucks and the gym to play basketball --...
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The Friday Line: Ten Republicans To Watch
online.wsj.com - 12/3/2008
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online.wsj.com —
On October 18, 1999, Citigroup announced that former
Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin was joining the firm....
But what exactly would Mr. Rubin do at Citigroup? Citi's SEC filing eight days later noted that Mr. Rubin would be joining the bank's board ...
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'No Line Responsibilities'
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... . If Obama follows through on his promise to go through the federal budget "line by line," he'll do what Republicans only talk about and will thus destroy the GOP's fiscal conservative brand, writes Andrew Sullivan . That promise, however, was one that aimed more at Wall Street than at Main Street, which could use a massive stimulus package, writes ...
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politico.com 11/4/2008 —
A reader sends in the above, noting that it was taken from a south Phoenix polling place.
"Heavily Democratic and with a large ...
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Enemy combatant question to test Obama —
First Read 11/25/2008
From NBC’s Pete Williams We may know later today whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take up one of the biggest unanswered questions in the war on terror: Can the government pick up people in the United States and declare them enemy combatants?
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Obama weighs names for top posts
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/25/2008
AP - President-elect Barack Obama has picked or is considering an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for Cabinet and other top positions, according to Democratic and transition officials. They include: