thepage.time.com - 1/11/2009
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The president-elect tells ABC's Stephanopoulos that fixing the economy will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don't work, and ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/10/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing
tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that...
fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises. "Our challenge...
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Obama Calls for 'Grand Bargain' on Economy: 'Everybody's ...
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Obama: We’re all going to have to sacrifice for the greater good
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... ; follow the link for fudging about whether he’ll investigate Bush or why it might take more than 100 days to close Gitmo, both of which have the nutroots wringing their hands. When I first saw the headline on this bit, I thought for sure he was hinting at raising taxes. And maybe he is, but that’s not the context in which the exchange occurs. Stephanopoulos’s question, quite explicitly, is about entitlement reform, including — dare I say it? — social security. Exit question: What does The One have in mind? Click the image to watch. ...
Comedy is hard — but not hard to come by
Cold Fury —
... liberal hobbyhorses will — *gasp!* — damage the economy . That couldn’t possibly be right, could it? After all these years of our having been so pedantically told by these same propagandists that the tired old shibboleths are just what we need? “He hasn’t asked anybody for sacrifice,” Baker said. “His whole economic package is about giving things to people.” Okay, the only appropriate response to this is to borrow Lileks’ Perry head and his chastening stare: [image] You sure about that , bub? You ...
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