The Obama Infrastructure Play
istockanalyst.com 2/7/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama has been in the news over the past few weeks speaking about “the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the interstate highway system under Dwight D. Eisenhower,” but we’ll have to wait and see if ...

Two (radical?) thoughts on infrastructure
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/4/2008 — We hear a lot about infrastructure investment today: roads and bridges, mostly. But we live in an information society and an information economy. We need investment in information infrastructure, and that, in the near term that is relevant for a ...

Infrastructure Spending Is No Cure-All
corner.nationalreview.com 12/10/2008 — A lot of people on Wall Street are praising Obama's infrastructure plan for roads, highways, tunnels, schools, green tech, and other build-outs. But they don't know that in 2008 alone the U.S. spent $114 billion on infrastructure, following $102 ...

Whatever Happened to the Last Big Infrastructure Bill?
volokh.com 1/28/2009 — These days, we are repeatedly told that we have to pass a massive new infrastructure spending bill in order to fix our "crumbling" roads and bridges. Everyone seems to have forgotten...

Helping People and Defending the Indigent: The Other Infrastructure
talkleft.com 11/21/2008 — As elected Democrats decide how to invest in the nation's infrastructure, they should remember this: bridges and roads and trains and buildings are all important, but so are drug and alcohol treatment programs, shelter and service providers for the ...

Blue America: Progressive Infrastructure
firedoglake.com 12/15/2008 — Dave Johnson You may have heard the term “progressive infrastructure.” We need it. Let me explain. Bush and the Republicans are out, but we have to consolidate that victory, keep them out and implement progressive policies. We need to ...

Lowry: Infrastructure Spending to Nowhere
article.nationalreview.com 11/18/2008 — Democrats are enjoying a New Deal reverie wherein a Democratic president solves an economic crisis with public-works projects.

All Infrastructure Is Not Created Equal
dailykos.com 12/22/2008 — For almost forty years, my father was the city administrator for a small town in Kentucky. And in every one of those years, decisions had to be made over one of the city's most expensive activities -- repaving streets.  Depending on the weather, ...

Has the remaking of conservative infrastructure begun?
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Progressive Infrastructure To Renew The California Dream
speakoutca.org 12/13/2008 — Markos, in a post today about the state of progressive infrastructure compared to the right's, Building machines,[. . .] But that battle is no longer one-sided. Their machine may be bigger, but we have something. And that's all we ever...

Emanuel, Former Clinton Aide, Tapped by Obama as Chief of Staff (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/6/2008
Bloomberg - Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Rahm Emanuel, a bare- knuckled Chicago politician versed in the inner workings of Capitol Hill and the White House, has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to serve as chief of staff, three ...

Obama, Biden to meet with economic advisers Friday — CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
(CNN) — President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden will meet with their Transition Economic Advisory Board in Chicago Friday, followed by the pair's first official press conference since winning the White House, the transition team ...

Pentagon prepares for first war-time transition since Vietnam — CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
The Pentagon is preparing for a war-time transition. WASHINGTON (CNN) – As administration transition teams around Washington crank into high gear, Pentagon officials are insisting that the complicated transfer of power from the Bush ...

Congress Prepares Itself for the Obama Era — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 11/6/2008
The shape -- and behavior -- of the new House and Senate are key to the President-Elect's ability to take action

Rahm Emanuel to be Obama's chief of staff — L.A. Times - Politics 11/6/2008
The Chicago resident and close ally of the president-elect is currently the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Democrats applaud the choice, but some Republicans worry that the tough political operative might be too partisan for the job.  ...