chicagotribune.com - 2/5/2009
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Reporting from Washington - President Obama abruptly changed tactics Wednesday in his bid to revive the economy, setting aside his bipartisan stance and pointedly blaming Republicans for demanding what he cast as discredited "piecemeal measures." Obama's comments were a marked departure from the ...
latimes.com - 2/5/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- President Obama abruptly changed
tactics Wednesday in his bid to revive the economy,...
setting aside his bipartisan stance and pointedly blaming Republicans for demanding what he cast as discredited "piecemeal measures." ...
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Obama puts the heat on Republicans - Los Angeles Times
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Stimulus Fine Tuning: The Way It Should Be Done
The Moderate Voice —
From a Tribune Co. report , this passage seems to signal the most reasonable and promising path forward:
[Obama] met Wednesday with two Senate Republicans and a Democrat considered to be key moderates: Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both Maine Republicans, and Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat.
The three are part of a group of senators seeking to “scrub” the bill to remove programs that are not likely to give the economy an immediate boost.
Snowe, who spoke with reporters afterward, said there may be $100 billion in ...
Let’s Have This Debate
California Conservative —
... According to this LATimes article, President Obama has changed tactics in an attempt to get the stimulus bill passed. Here’s what the Tribune’s Peter Nicholas is reporting: ...
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