firedoglake.com - 1/6/2009
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For a long time progressive and conservatives alike have been reading the tea reads trying to figure out what Obama's priorities are. Is he a hidden progressive or is he a conservative in sheep's clothing, or does he mean what he says about being a post-partisan figure.
Chalk another one up ...
spectator.org - 1/7/2009
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spectator.org —
"Obama Eyes $310 Billion in Tax Cuts" the
headline blares . The Obama team comes to town...
to start the new year, and the run-up to his inauguration, with this announcement. How sly. This Obama tax cut package is to be part of the broader ...
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Tax Cut Mirage
crookedtimber.org - 1/11/2009
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crookedtimber.org —
One of the safer predictions I’ve made in
recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):...
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
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Change.gov against Obama
huffingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that
the nation's recession could "linger for years" unless Congress...
acts to pump unprecedented sums from Washington into the U.S. economy, making his highest-profile case yet on an issue ...
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Obama Economic Speech: Warns Of Dire Consequences ...
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Progressive Breakfast: Tax Cut Pushback
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... FDL's Ian Welsh criticizes Obama for conceding before the negotiations starts: "In order to get those 80 votes, Obama has pre-compromised his stimulus bill, which will define the first year of his administration more than anything else, loading it up with 310 billion of tax cuts, making up 40% of the total. (I will also note that he and his team seem to have flunked negotiation 101, because you don't pre-compromise if you know how to negotiate..." ...
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