blogs.abcnews.com - 1/16/2009
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ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: President-elect Barack Obama has said he’s looking forward, not backwards. But he’s facing intensifying pressure to check the rear-view mirror when it comes to alleged wrongdoing by the Bush administration. New York Times columnist Paul...
npr.org - 1/13/2009
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David Welna Morning Edition , January 13, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has suggested that when it comes...
to investigating the Bush administration on issues such as eavesdropping or terrorist interrogations, he'd rather look forward than back. He ...
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Democratic Lawmakers May Investigate Bush Years
thinkprogress.org - 1/9/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been a
frequent critic of President-elect Obama. During the primary season,...
he faulted Obama for saying there is a Social Security “ crisis ,” refusing to adopt a mandate in his health care ...
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Obama: ‘If Paul Krugman has a good idea…then we’re going ...
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Obama Pressed to Investigate Bush Era
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... the House Judiciary Committee. He touts a report he and his staff prepared, Reining in the Imperial Presidency, and which, at nearly 500 pages, is itself hard to rein in. ... He said he understands the impulse to look only forward -- but thinks its the wrong course. He wants Congress and the Obama administration to launch major queries of the Bush years -- including an independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities. Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/01/obama-pressed-...
Some Libs Need To Get Honest With Themselves
Riehl World View —
... , there are pols and other Lefty pundits who just don't seem to want to let go of the blanket of anger they cloaked themselves in through Bush's term. ...
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From NBC's Athena JonesIncoming Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefed the press on Obama's agenda and more during an informal talk on the plane just before landing in Ohio. Here are some bullet points:
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Flashpoints for Obama's crisis room —
CNN Political Ticker 1/16/2009
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(CNN) — After his inauguration, if President Barack Obama needs real-time intelligence on crises around the world, he is likely to do it in the Situation ...
Shoppers snatch up Obama shirts, hats, undies —
msnbc.com: Politics 1/16/2009
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