openleft.com - 2/16/2009
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Back on Friday, John Judis and Glenn Greenwald both published articles decrying the lack of concerted, effective, institutional left-wing pressure on President Obama. The specific context of their complaints was the smaller than needed size of the stimulus / jobs package. The argument was that ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/13/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
In the history of the Obama Administration, Judd
Gregg's decision to pull out of the Commerce job...
will seem a pinprick. After all, how important is Commerce? Gregg himself voted to shutter the place--which was probably an early sign that he wasn't ...
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Don't Trust, But Conciliate
reuters.com - 2/13/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain said on
Friday that President Barack Obama should include Republicans in...
his plans sooner if he really wants their support after the bitter debate over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. McCain, who ...
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McCain says Obama needs to work on ...
pajamasmedia.com - 2/20/2009
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Defending The "Left Flank?"
TalkLeft —
Chris Bowers provides a strange defense to "the Left" against Glenn Greenwald's charge that it allowed itself to be coopted by then-candidate Obama's Presidential campaign: In this passage, [Greenwald] is explicitly accusing a large number of unnamed progressive organizations of cynically exploiting support for Obama--support which the leaders of these organizations apparently did not share--into increased traffic, membership and revenue. This argument is in unfair. It accuses the leadership of many progressive organizations of actually being on ...
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