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Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots)
firedoglake.com - 2/2/2009
Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots)
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Today on Stephanopolous, Jim DeMint repeated the mantra that we never spent our way out of a recession. As he said when defending his "stimulus" bill , which had nothing other than permanent tax cuts: Long-term corporate, small business and family tax relief will work. John F. ...

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LiberalOasis : The Blog:  Progressive Breakfast: Senate's Turn on Econ Recovery

corner.nationalreview.com - 1/30/2009
The Point of the Stimulus
— corner.nationalreview.com — Ron Brownstein writes (I think it's a temporary link): To call the economic legislation now moving through Congress a stimulus bill obscures its full implications. The measure represents the most ambitious effort in decades to swell public spending ... (more) The Point of the Stimulus

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Is President Obama losing the stimulus battle?
salon.com - 2/5/2009
Is President Obama losing the stimulus battle?
— salon.com — Feb. 4, 2009 | Tuesday's Tom Daschle news stepped all over President Obama's stimulus sales campaign. Likewise, it kept me from writing about Robert Reich's excellent Salon piece on the larger issues at stake in the stimulus battle, but I want to take ... (more) Is President Obama losing the stimulus battle?

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rasmussenreports.com - 2/2/2009
Majority See Reagan As Republicans’ Way Back To Power
— rasmussenreports.com — Ronald Reagan isn’t just a Republican thing anymore. Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters say the Republican Party should return to the views and values of the iconic 40th president of the United States to be successful, according to a new ... (more) Majority See Reagan As Republicans’ Way Back To Power

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Progressive Breakfast: Senate's Turn on Econ Recovery
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... ignorance: "I cannot say my expectations were high. But Sen. DeMint (R) of South Carolina does seem to be an even bigger ignoramus than I'd realized. On This Week this morning he actually said: "Let's don't say it's a stimulus when it's a government spending plan." A 'Stimulus plan' is pretty much by definition a spending plan, though of course it can include tax reductions as well ... I'm wowed by the amount of nonsense and lies that are being injected into this debate." FireDogLake's Jane Hamsher nails DeMint for typical revisionist Reagan history. ...

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