motherjones.com - 1/5/2009
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NEGOTIATING WITH THEMSELVES.... Paul Krugman surveys the current political scene and wonders if Barack Obama is going to be undone by his insistence on bipartisanship: Here
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/11/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
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 ...
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Obama's Price is Right Negotiating Strategy?
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Stimulating talk
Political Animal —
... enough to slow the descent, not stop it. Meanwhile, deflation is setting in, while businesses and consumers start to base their spending plans on the expectation of a permanently depressed economy â well, you can see where this is going. So this is our moment of truth. Will we in fact do what's necessary to prevent Great Depression II? It's a fair question. Obama's priority needs to be the effectiveness of the rescue plan, not its ability to pass with huge bipartisan majorities. As Kevin Drum noted , "The American public really doesn't know or care if this bill passes by one ...
Obama's clever fiscal stimulus strategy
The Next Right —
... . Kevin Drum says this attempt to win bipartisan support (rather than just the few Republican votes he absolutely needs to secure passage) is a bad idea, because Obama is making concessions he doesn't have to make and diluting Democratic policy. ...
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Negotiating the Obama Way
behindbluelines.com 5/8/2009 — And now for something completely different. Entitled, ‘President Obama Hosts a Dinner for Chrysler’s Creditors’.
From Director Blue, via Instapundit. I almost soiled myself laughing. An adaptation based on De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’.
Enjoy.
First thoughts: Negotiating time
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 2/11/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Negotiating time: This is Susan Collins’, Olympia Snowe’s, and Arlen Specter’s world, and we’re all just lucky to live in it, right? With House and Senate negotiators working with the White House ...
“Bargaining” is Not Negotiating
westernfrontamerica.com 12/24/2008 — I was recently asked, in my capacity as a negotiations coach, what was my opinion of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s bailout. I am completely opposed to it, but for a reason that politicians and the media have not discussed. Detroit’s auto manufacturers always employed flawed concepts when ...
The Negotiating Partner
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/6/2009 — By Brian Beutler
Quoting Dave Weigel in full:
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed by the House and now being considered by the Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly ...
Are Obama's "New" Politics Really New?
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/19/2008 — Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post about the Rick Warren mess, which he uses as a jumping off point to argue that Barack Obama's "new" politics isn't really new at all.
Greenwald's basic point is that Obama's efforts to placate the right by ...
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 12/27/2008 — Best. Craigslist. Ever . For reasons too complicated to go into, I'm back on the rental housing market, and it's basically impossible to find anything on Craigslist because of all the listings responding to, as far as I can tell, a surging demand that exists only in urban legend.
Key Republican Senator Open To Negotiating On Employee Free Choice?
theplumline.whorunsgov.com 3/12/2009 — Okay, it looks like a key Republican Senator may be signaling a willingness to negotiate over the Employee Free Choice Act -- a position that is at odds with some in the Republican leadership and one that is cheering backers of the measure today.
Change We Can Perceive In
techpresident.com 11/24/2008 — The liberal blogosphere has gone decidedly bi-polar in the Great Transition. On one side are the believers, betrothed to an image they conjured between the lines of conventional centrism, a group that is beginning to think that President-elect Obama ...
More Obama Justice Dept. picks announced —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
(CNN) — The Obama transition released a Harvard-heavy list of Justice Department appointments Monday. Transition release follows after the jump.
WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the ...
Sources: Panetta is pick for CIA —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Leon Panetta, chief of staff in Bill Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA, two Democratic officials told CNN Monday.
The same officials said that retired Adm. Dennis Blair, who ...
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