pajamasmedia.com - 1/30/2009
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OBAMA CALLS WALL STREET IRRESPONSIBLE, but look at what he’s doing:
Eight hours of debate in the HR to pass a bill spending $820 billion, or roughly $102 billion per hour of debate.
Only ten per cent of the “stimulus” to be spent on 2009.
Close to half goes to entities ...
ft.com - 1/30/2009
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ft.com —
President Barack Obama lashed out on Thursday at
“shameful” Wall Street executives for claiming billions of dollars...
in bonuses while their stricken institutions asked taxpayers for support. Mr Obama was responding to a report showing that financial ...
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FT.com / US & Canada - Obama slams Wall Street over ...
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 1/30/2009
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simplifythepositive.blogspot.com —
If I were President Obama, I'd go to
Wall Street. Not the normal way a president goes...
to New York, by flying on Air Force One. I'd drive there.
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Obama Should Do Wall Street Road Trip
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Telling it straight: Must reads
The Anchoress —
... Our hopeful, compelling new president shouldn’t have gone with this bill. He made news this week by going to the House to meet with Republicans. He could have made history by listening to them.
Bravo Mr. Krauthammer; Brava Ms. Noonan.
I wrote similar sentiments on both Obama’s distorted history and the sloppy pork “stimulus”, but this is why I am a blogger and they are big-time pro.
Reality is here. And here.
Can I just make an ironic observation? We’ve watched the ...
The Sting, or Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste
Maggie's Farm —
... the crisis-induced demand for action may suspend the normal laws of political gravity — and allow Democrats to redirect federal priorities as boldly as Reagan did. "This is a once-in-a-25-year opportunity to [implement] a lot of our agenda," a top House Democratic aide says.
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The stimulus will undo two decades of welfare reform.
Via Insty:
For the amount spent we could have given ...
"The Sting," or "Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste."
Maggie's Farm —
... the crisis-induced demand for action may suspend the normal laws of political gravity — and allow Democrats to redirect federal priorities as boldly as Reagan did. "This is a once-in-a-25-year opportunity to [implement] a lot of our agenda," a top House Democratic aide says.
How big is the "stimulus"? Bigger than any program or war in history.
The stimulus will undo two decades of welfare reform.
Via Insty:
For the amount spent we could have given ...
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