usnews.com - 2/2/2009
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Most of the bill is "mystery meat." How it helps the economy anytime soon is a mystery.
reuters.com - 2/2/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing opposition from Republican lawmakers
to parts of his economic recovery plan, President Barack
Obama called Democratic Congressional leaders to a meeting on Monday to drive home his message of urgency. With hundreds of ...
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Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/3/2009
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Remember last week, when Republicans were beating their
chests over a Congressional Budget Office report that showed
64% of the money in the House stimulus bill would be spent during the first 18 months after its enactment? After all, the GOP told ...
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CBO Report Debunks GOP's Stimulus Talking Point
washingtonmonthly.com - 2/4/2009
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A STRUGGLING STIMULUS.... President Obama probably thought this
would be easier. He won a sweeping victory in
November, and entered office with a huge approval rating. His party enjoys big majorities in both the House and Senate. In the midst...
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A struggling stimulus
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Betsy's Page —
... something that will not propel the economy but will soften the blow of recession on parties injured by the recession in various ways. 'Agenda' is the pursuit of polices endorsed by the administration that are not clearly linked with helping the displaced or with cushioning the blow, although admittedly most dollars spent will have some positive role of cushioning the impact on somebody. You might quarrel here and there with his allocation of the spending, but it's in that ballpark. James Pethokoukis had this metaphor . Let's say your house is burning down, and you have a water ...
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politics.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 —
Just 15 years ago, President Clinton's $16.3 billion economic stimulus package was backlogged in the Senate because moderate Republicans and Democrats refused to go along with roughly $12 billion in new spending. Like Obama, ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 2/2/2009 — Have spent some time today talking to Republican and Democratic members of the Senate, as well as political strategists, about what is coming with the stimulus bill. The first thing is that the Republican critique of the bill, as passed by the House, ...
Senators predict stimulus bill will change
thehill.com 2/2/2009 — A number of senators from across the ideological spectrum staked out varying positions on the House-passed economic stimulus bill, but all agreed on one point: the bill will change before it gets to President Obama. On the first round of Sunday talk ...
A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/8/2009 — Claire McCaskill seems to be softening her line on the Senate stimulus deal. She Tweets “Just saw Krugman’s comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900.” ...
Reichert on the "Stimulus"
soundpolitics.com 2/5/2009 — Guest column in today's P-I: Quite simply, the House "stimulus" bill didn't do what it was supposed to -- to help hurting families and small businesses. That's precisely why I was disappointed to see my vote against last week's "stimulus"...
Broadband Stimulus
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/1/2009 — Lots of people are wary about the stimulus bill, and on broadband there was a good deal of concern that it would end up simply funding the incumbents to do what they were going to do anyway, without really taking the opportunity to bring in new ...
Stimulus Passes House With NO Republican Support -- Zip, Zilch, Nada
fivethirtyeight.com 1/29/2009 — The House version of the $819 billion stimulus bill just passed 244-188. But in a minor surprise, the bill apparently passed without ANY Republican member voting for it. Twelve Democrats voted against the bill, meanwhile, based on the C-SPAN tally. So ...
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 2/13/2009 — A day of waiting turns into night. And perhaps into dawn for the full language of the stimulus bill.
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First Read 2/2/2009
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Mark MurrayThis morning, tapping into his 13 million-strong email list for the first time since becoming president, Obama urged supporters to "spread the word and build support" for his economic stimulus plan.
In particular, ...
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