nytimes.com - 2/28/2009
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President Obama’s budget seems aimed more at a middle class that missed out on the boom than at the nation’s poorest. >
news.yahoo.com - 3/5/2009
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Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and seven
White House cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick...
off the inaugural gathering of President Obama's Middle Class Task Force . The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to ...
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Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class
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The Saturday Word: A Way Out
The Caucus —
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Scaling The Heights Of Absurdity
JustOneMinute —
... comes from the category "Those Daffy Dems": These Blue Staters voted in droves for a Democrat who promised to raise their taxes - I can only imagine their surprise that he is doing so. The second entry is filed under "Don't Know Much About History (And Don't Want To) and the topic is Obama's return to Big Government: “There are striking similarities to Johnson and Great Society,” said ...
"Swinging for the Fences": The Major League Moment In American Politics
Open Left - Front Page —
... The corollary benefit to this is - potentially - the beginning of a tectonic shift in our national political debate. As the New York Times says, the implicit "rallying cry" of Obama's budget "is an end to the Reagan Revolution" with the new president appearing "to have shed President Clinton's fear of being labeled an old-fashioned liberal." Put another way, Obama's budget - far more than the tax cut-draped stimulus bill - could be the first step in forcing our structurally conservative political Establishment to represent a structurally progressive majority in the country at ...
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