redstate.com - 1/16/2009
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1. The Obama Tax Cuts Are Just Bait for the GOP
Obama’s whole model is to lead by being unthreatening. He’d rather have someone else make the tough decisions. He figures that tax-cut proposals will work like catnip on Republicans in Congress. Then they’ll have the big fights with the ...
article.nationalreview.com - 1/19/2009
townhall.com - 1/15/2009
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Flying back to California from D.C. last night
on Jet Blue I watched a few hours of
the panels on the financial stations chewing over the dispiriting retail news from December, the illness of Steve Jobs, the vote today on the second release of the ...
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Hugh Hewitt: Confirm Geithner; Approve The TARP Funds, ...
michellemalkin.com - 1/16/2009
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What the Right is Saying: Tim's Taxes
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I will be regularly posting clips called "What the Right is Saying" and "What the Left is Saying" from time to time -- particularly when there is a point either side is making that reasonable people could scratch their head and say, 'hey, that makes some sense. . .'
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Tim Geithner Did What Leona Helmsley Did. She Went to Jail. Will He Go to Treasury?
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