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Read These Now as Petulant Drifts
Shakesville —
... me these days anyway: the same old pitiful warring over strips of land; the same old politicking with a new wrapper. Hell, the only links I find exciting involve science or shoes and insane fashion. The soundtrack for the beginning of the morning reading is the now out of print cd of European Music at the Ottoman Court. Delicious and bouncy! So what does the Gray Lady offer at this hour. Sex trade at South Korean US bases. Obama will tackle Social Security and Medicare without any details. YAY! ...
Progressive Breakfast: Bigger, Bolder, Better?
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... reassuring, not less.
But the Obama team recognizes that position won't last indefinitely. The ratio of debt to GDP has to stop growing and must stabilize at what they see as a reasonable rate. The problem is determining when to ratchet back the stimulus. Obama officials are determined not to pull back too fast for the sake of fiscal discipline and risk plunging the economy back into recession.
Social Security/Medicare Overhaul?
NYT headline sounds ominous: "Obama Promises Bid to Overhaul Retiree Spending." But
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Obama Is Still Trash-Talking The Economy, And The MSM Is Helping - Why?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... A recession could last for years unless a stimulus plan is passed, Barack Obama plans to say in a speech today. The Caucus: Speech Excerpts Daschle to Face Tough Questions on Health Plan Obama Promises Bid to Overhaul Retiree Spending Video: Interview With Obama | Transcript | Post a Comment ...
Obama's Economic Push: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Open Left - Front Page —
... A day before his major economic speech, Obama delivered a separate speech saying "We are beginning consultations with members of Congress around how we expect to approach the deficit," adding, "We expect that discussion around entitlements will be a part, a central part, of those plans." As the New York Times points out, that's coded political-speak for an effort to "reform" Social Security and Medicare, which history has shown is often itself politicalspeak for cuts to those programs. ...
Waving Goodbye to Reaganism: Terms of the Tax Debate Continue to Tectonically Shift
Open Left - Front Page —
There's a pretty intense (and terrific) fight brewing over budgetary issues right now - a fight whose contours are tilting the terms of debate away from Reaganism and toward progressive policy goals.
Over the last few weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) has been escalating her demand for the Obama administration to back an immediate repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the top one percent of all income earners. Like progressive leaders in states across the country, Pelosi is fearlessly using her bully pulpit to try to shift the terms of the tax debate away from the fringe right's framing and toward the real center of American public ...
