washingtonmonthly.com - 1/6/2009
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OBAMA'S LEAP OF FAITH.... The president-elect sat down with bipartisan congressional leadership on the Hill yesterday, and made a pitch for an economic recovery package. Despite significant Democratic majorities in both chambers, Barack Obama gave every indication of taking Republican...
thenextright.com - 1/7/2009
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thenextright.com —
President-elect Barack Obama has talked the talk about
government transparency. But will he walk the walk? House...
Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stole the spotlight on the issue yesterday when congressional leaders sat down with Obama to discuss ...
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Cantor Outshines Obama on Transparency
philly.com - 1/9/2009
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philly.com —
While watching Barack Obama deliver his audaciously ambitious
speech on the economy yesterday, I was reminded of...
the scene in The Dark Knight when Batman decides to catapult himself from one skyscraper to another, high off the ground in a pitch-black ...
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A leap in the dark | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/09/2009
msnbc.msn.com - 12/31/2008
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msnbc.msn.com —
Microsoft said Wednesday that a Leap year issue
caused problems with the 30-gigabyte Zunes, following a flood...
of online customer complaints about the digital music players freezing up.
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Microsoft blames leap year for Zune freeze
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Tyranny of the Minority
Balloon Juice —
... This really is baffling to me. I understand that Obama needs to attempt to govern in a bipartisan manner, but after the last few years of GOP congressional shenanigans, you would think that the House and Senate Democrats would have a firm policy of telling the Republicans to shut up when they start their whining. By now you would think Reid and company would realize the GOP has no intent of acting in good faith, and have only one goal- getting back in the majority. Everything I did as a Democrat in Congress would keep that in mind. ...
Stimulus
The Reaction —
By Creature As with most things Obama, we have to wait to see what kind of compromises with Republicans he will make. The tax cuts announced were expected (and Democrat friendly). If anything, $300 billion in tax cuts as 40% of the total package may mean that the spending part of Obama's stimulus will be even bigger than expected. Maybe even hitting the trillion mark. Obama's playing politics and stroking egos right now. I don't think he's a Charlie Brown in waiting. His election campaign ...
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A leap of faith?
silentmajority09.blogspot.com 3/24/2009 — I have decided to take some time to cover the 28 principles outlined in W. Cleon Skousen’s book "The 5000 Year Leap" The founders believed these principles to be necessary to establish and maintain the form of government that has made this country the greatest bastion of freedom in the world. In ...
They never learn
dailykos.com 1/27/2009 — So Democrats have bent over backwards watering down the stimulus bill and even stripping out such "objectionable" material to Republicans as family planning funds for the low-income, all in the name of "bipartisanship". And how do Republicans repay ...
Barney Frank vs Eric Cantor on the Auto Bailout
videocafe.crooksandliars.com 12/23/2008 — Download | Play Download | Play A telling segment from Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition, although his motivations are a little murky for me. Inviting on House Minority Whip Eric Cantor to be the GOP balance to discuss the auto bailout, ...
LEAP on Repeal Day
theagitator.com 12/5/2008 — The gang at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition—a group of ex-cops, judges, and prosecutors who’ve come out against the drug war—will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the repeal of alcohol prohibition with an event tomorrow at ...
Shuffling the Deck Chairs on the Republican Party
thenextright.com 11/12/2008 — You might think the Republicans in the House of Representatives would be itching to appoint a successor who warned the party that it was losing its way, who challenged the party when it made error after discrediting error, someone who wasn’t ...
Blood on the Dance Floor
iamtrex.com 1/24/2009 —
Aw, shit!
So, like, Eric Cantor ( R-Dumbfuckistan ) was being, you know, Eric Cantor, whining about how President Obama isn’t taking the Republicans’ effort to obstruct his ecomonic stimulus bill seriously. “Waaaaah,” ...
The Republican Death Spiral
fivethirtyeight.com 1/29/2009 — It's not just the goose egg that the House Republicans laid on the Democratic stimulus package yesterday: Boehner's Boys have been equally uncooperative on other matters. Case in point: a bill yesterday to delay the transition to digital TV . This ...
Cantor’s Office Responds: Video Depicting AFSCME Members As Goons
theplumline.whorunsgov.com 2/11/2009 — This isn't going to make the big unions very happy. GOP House leader Eric Cantor 's office has come up with an intriguing response to the AFSCME ad bllitz targeting GOP leaders: Sending over a video that portrays AFSCME union members as 1970s-era ...
Cantor Continues To Lie About The CBO Analysis Of Recovery Bill
thinkprogress.org 1/28/2009 — Last week, ThinkProgress called out House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) for lying about the economic recovery bill, specifically for claiming that the bill would give more money to “grass” on the National Mall than to small ...
Short-timers in the Senate —
CNN Political Ticker 1/6/2009
Vice-President Dick Cheney will swear in VP-elect Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The disputes over the Illinois and Minnesota Senate seats are stealing the spotlight, but there'll be other drama on Capitol Hill during today's swearing in of ...
Richardson withdrawal disappoints Latinos —
CNN Political Ticker 1/6/2009
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Democratic presidential contender in the primaries.
(CNN) — Bill Richardson's withdrawal from his commerce secretary nomination Sunday didn't just leave a major gap in the new administration, but it also ...
Transition: How Panetta's playing —
First Read 1/6/2009
The Washington Post : “President-elect Barack Obama stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence experience, to serve as the ...
Agenda: Wooing Republicans —
First Read 1/6/2009
The L.A. Times plays up the positive comments Congressional Republicans made about the tax cut plans within Obama's stimulus plan.
The Washington Post also led with Obama's efforts to woo congressional Republicans. "Obama officials said they ...
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