cnn.com - 2/6/2009
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President Obama said if a stimulus bill isn't passed the economy will continue to get worse.
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 - ...
washingtonindependent.com - 2/5/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed
by the House and now being considered by the...
Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly bold. The gist , from Sen. DeMint’s Website: o ...
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It’s All Part of My Stimulus Fantasy
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Obama Blasts Critics and Uses the Fear Card
A Blog For All —
President Obama is getting a wee bit testy these days because everything isn't exactly going to his plan. His cabinet nominees have this nauseating tendency to avoid paying their tax obligations or reporting their income properly. His stimulus plan is receiving strong opposition because people see for the porkfest it is. He claims that people are basing their opposition on phony and debunked economic theories . "Don't come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis," the president said at the House Democrats' annual retreat in ...
The Neverending Campaign
Ace of Spades HQ —
The Neverending Campaign President Obama, speaking to the Democrats : "We're not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that, for the last eight years, doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin," he said. "We can't embrace the losing formula that says only tax cuts will work for every problem we face, that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring cost of health care, or failing schools and crumbling bridges and roads and levees. "I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV -- if ...
A ‘Führer’ Moment For Obama At The National Democrat Socialist Spa Caucus - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... guy on TV nearly 24/7?
Through the 2008 presidential campaign … and now. He is on at least once a day. And I have seen more than that. Every time he opens his yap the cameras switch on and beam it out over the cable news stations. Imagine what Hitler could have done with this much undivided and eager attention …
BTW, I got a little “Amway” tingle down my ass when I heard him talking … I’m just sayin’ …
CNN:
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia — President Barack Obama said Thursday that “the ...
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 2/6/2009 — WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that "the scale and the scope" of his economic plan is right, turning up the heat on critics he said were hawking "phony arguments" and "false theories of the past" to chip away ...
House Stimulus Bill
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/16/2009 — Here’s the summary circulating on the Hill . Whatever one thinks of this, keep in mind that the process of getting a bill through the Senate is all-but-certain to make things worse.
Video: What the stimulus bill may do for you
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 2/17/2009 — The economic stimulus bill that President Barack Obama will sign into law Tuesday is worth $787 billion. Among the bill's provisions are measures designed to help average Americans right away.
Stimulus Passes House With Zero Republican Votes
openleft.com 1/29/2009 — The stimulus bill just passed the House. Only eleven Democrats voted against it. Notably, zero Republicans voted in favor of it.
Cool. While we will need two Republican votes to pass the stimulus through the Senate, I'm glad no Republicans supported ...
House Stimulus Bill (FULL TEXT)
huffingtonpost.com 1/24/2009 — The 647-page House stimulus package scored the coveted designation of H.R. 1, which the Speaker reserves for her highest legislative or symbolic priority. The bill is a combination of legislation that moved this week through the Ways and Means, ...
That Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/26/2009 — Watching the Sunday political shows today was certainly discouraging. It is perfectly clear that essentially no economic thinking underlies the stimulus bill that will move through the House next week. It's simply seen by the Democratic leadership as ...
Obama Signs Stimulus Bill
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 2/18/2009 — President Obama signed his $787 billion recovery package into law on Monday with a statement that it would "set our economy on a firmer foundation."
Blue Dogs push back against stimulus
thehill.com 2/5/2009 — Conservative Democrats in the House are pushing back against their leaders’ economic stimulus plan even as President Obama steps up his push for the spending package. The leadership of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative Democrats ...
First 100 Days: Ratcheting up rhetoric —
First Read 2/6/2009
Politico writes, “In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican arguments that massive spending in the $819 billion stimulus bill that passed the House should be replaced by a new round of ...
Obama urges passage of stimulus —
First Read 2/6/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones At an event today to announce the members of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, President Obama highlighted the latest jobs numbers and kept up his campaign-style rhetoric Friday, urging quick passage of the stimulus ...
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