swamppolitics.com - 3/26/2009
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by Mark Silva
If there's one thing that President Barack Obama can do well, it's raise campaign cash - having raised more than $700 million, a runaway record, for his own campaign last year, and now turning his fundraising prowess to his party's midterm ambitions.
Obama was the ...
mcclatchydc.com - 3/24/2009
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's army of canvassers
fanned out across the nation over the weekend to...
drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were ...
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Congress isn't feeling much heat from Obama's 'army'
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 3/25/2009
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latimesblogs.latimes.com —
Following is the complete transcript of remarks by
President Barack Obama and Q and A with reporters...
at his second White House news conference, on March 24, 2009. Scroll down to the previous items below for The Ticket's live-blogging of the ...
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Full text of Barack Obama news conference
huffingtonpost.com - 3/25/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
For the first time since his inauguration, President
Barack Obama is flexing his electoral muscle, urging supporters...
to organize and vote for New York Democratic congressional candidate Scott Murphy. In an email signed by the president and sent to ...
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Obama Flexes Political Muscle, Enters NY Congressional Race
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A Quick Explanation for the GOP Seppuku Today
Balloon Juice —
... of thirty years ago.
Hitting someone and not having them hit back hurts the morale of that person’s supporters, buoys the confidence of your own backers (particularly if many tend toward an authoritarian mindset) and tends to make the person who’s receiving the hits into an object of contempt (even if also possibly also one of sympathy) in the eyes of the uncommitted.
Pretty clearly, this debacle today was a result of this line from President Obama the other night at the fundraiser:
And because we’ve ...
America's Future, the Cliffs Notes Republican Version
Shakesville —
The Republicans apparently got pretty ticked off at President Obama: To a bunch of the critics out there, I've already said, 'Show me your budget!' I'm happy to have that debate. "There are those who say, 'You know you're taking on too much,''' Obama said, "'Your budget is too ambitious'.... that we can only focus on one problem at a time." How dare he suggest they're full of hot gas! Oh man, they're gonna prove that they totally DO have ideas and a budget of their own, yes uh-huh, shut up if you don't think so. They so TOTALLY ...
Come Saturday Morning: The GOP’s Underpants Gnome Budget
Firedoglake —
... had a shot at this already, but dang it, this is frickin' hilarious. When President Obama challenged the Republicans to come up with a FY 2010 budget, after listening to them rant for nearly a month about ...
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huffingtonpost.com 3/26/2009 — WASHINGTON — President Obama headlined two fundraisers in Washington expected to bring in an estimated $3 million for the Democratic National Committee. The party is struggling to keep financial pace with its Republican counterpart despite ...
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All In
talkingpointsmemo.com 3/28/2009 — As you likely know, on Tuesday a special election will be held in New York's 20th congressional district to replace now-Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). The race pits New York State Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco against Scott Murphy, a venture ...
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