yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
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Barack Obama did an interview at The Washington Post yesterday where he apparently said a bunch of stuff, including something that inspired the Post to run a big article about his plans for entitlement reform . But for a long article about how Obama told the Post something about his plans ...
mediamatters.org - 1/19/2009
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Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack
Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100...
million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on January 15. "Why does the ...
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Boehlert: The media myth about the cost of Obama's ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/19/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
ENTITLEMENTS.... Barack Obama stopped by the Washington Post's
offices yesterday and covered a lot of ground with...
reporters and editors. There was one subject of particular interest -- the Post's front-page headline read: "Obama Pledges Entitlement ...
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Political Animal —
... , "Fix health care and you can fix Medicare -- which, by the way, is what Obama has promised all along." What's odd, though, is the way the Post characterized all of this. As Matt Yglesias noted , the lede of the front-page piece read, "President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare 'bargain' with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs." The substance of that is misleading, but more importantly, ...
Obama and the Deficit Paradox
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... in the Oval Office for the past few administrations. Mercifully, W. Bush (and John McCain) failed to convince Congress that we should privatize Social Security--playing the stock market with the money--or we'd be looking at an unimaginable future of poverty and despair for the baby boom generation.Entitlements will be front and center at today's White House gathering. The fact that Obama is talking up the looming problem is enough for some Republicans (and some Democrats, too) to wonder just how far the president is prepared to go in order to fix what seems ...
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Entitlements
eschatonblog.com 2/19/2009 — I appreciate that people get twitchy whenever "entitlement reform" comes up, but I haven't been too worried about the administration's plans in this area. Hope I'm correct!
Obama Promises Health Care Reform "This Year"
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corner.nationalreview.com 1/22/2009 — It's hard to say anything about it that hasn't already been remarked upon in here or elsewhere. Like others, I was struck by how pedestrian the prose was, but on re-reading it, I like the plainspokenness of it. The weakest moments were when it, ...
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Obama's health care challenge - Jan. 12, 2009
money.cnn.com 1/20/2009 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic. Here's the audacious plan: ...
Obama in the Post
corner.nationalreview.com 2/5/2009 — President Obama's op-ed in today's Washington Post is a very peculiar move by the White House. It makes a case for refusing to compromise on the stimulus bill that Obama is clearly about to compromise on, and it makes the argument of his opponents: ...
Health Care
cato.org 1/30/2009 — Cato's health policy work is designed to show that the only way to make health care of ever-increasing quality available to an ever-increasing number of consumers is to put consumers in charge of their health care dollars and decisions. With that in ...
Change.gov against Obama
crookedtimber.org 1/11/2009 — One of the safer predictions I’ve made in recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
Obama takes stimulus pitch on the road —
First Read 1/16/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- President-elect Obama returned to this battleground state Friday, but this time he was not campaigning for the nation's highest office, but for a massive stimulus package he says is necessary to ...
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