news.yahoo.com - 1/29/2009
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WASHINGTON (AFP) After a failed "charm offensive," US President Barack Obama and his allies unleashed a hard-hitting campaign Thursday to break defiant Republicans' thus-far united opposition to his economic stimulus plan . The strategy called for millions of labor union members to telephone ...
news.yahoo.com - 2/5/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that
failure to act on an economic recovery package could...
plunge the nation into a long-lasting recession that might prove irreversible, a fresh call to a recalcitrant Congress to move quickly. In ...
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Obama warns of need for stimulus bill right away - ...
reuters.com - 2/2/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing opposition from Republican lawmakers
to parts of his economic recovery plan, President Barack...
Obama called Democratic Congressional leaders to a meeting on Monday to drive home his message of urgency. With hundreds of ...
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Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/30/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON — Looking beyond expected House approval of
his $825 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama...
said Wednesday the nation is at a "perilous moment" requiring swift and decisive action. "We don't have a moment to ...
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Obama On Stimulus Bill: "I'm Confident We're Going To ...
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Cenk Uygur: Rush 177 Obama 0
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... These guys are the barbarians at the gate, there's no charming them. President Obama went to visit them, he invited them over to the White House, he had drinks with them, he stood by while they bad-mouthed Congressional Democrats, he adjusted the bill for them, he cut out the contraception education and he added tax cuts. In the end, what did he get for his efforts? A big fat doughnut. Nothing. ...
Rush: 177, Obama: 0
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... Republican voted with the president on the stimulus package even after his "charm offensive." These guys are the barbarians at the gate, there's no charming them. President Obama went to visit them, he invited them over to the White House, he had drinks with them, he stood by while they bad-mouthed Congressional Democrats, he adjusted the bill for them, he cut out the contraception education and he added tax cuts. In the end, what did he get for his efforts? A big fat doughnut. Nothing. Not one House Republican voted for his stimulus package. 177-0. On the other side, they ...
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