nytimes.com - 3/7/2009
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The renegade clowns who ruined this economy, the Republican right in alliance with big business and some feckless Democrats, have no basis for waging war against efforts to get us out of their mess. >
nytimes.com - 3/3/2009
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We moderates are going to have to assert
ourselves and take a centrist tendency that has been...
politically feckless and intellectually vapid and turn it into an influential force. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: A Moderate Manifesto
nytimes.com - 3/9/2009
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The Obama administration’s economic policy is already falling
behind the curve, and there’s a real, growing danger...
that it will never catch up. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Behind the Curve
nytimes.com - 3/6/2009
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When it comes to dealing with banks, the
Obama administration is dithering. And the result could be...
an economy that sputters along for a very long time. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Big Dither
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Daily Kos —
Saturday, and the punditry is going strong as Republicans take it on the chin. Bob Herbert: In the midst of the craziness, conservatives are busy trying to blame this epic economic catastrophe — a conflagration of their own making — on the new president. Forget Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush and George Herbert Hoover Bush and the Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth and Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich and all the rest. The right-wingers would have you believe this is Obama’s downturn. ...
Reading the entrails
The Sideshow —
... Bob Herbert: "In the midst of the craziness, conservatives are busy trying to blame this epic economic catastrophe - a conflagration of their own making - on the new president. Forget Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush and George Herbert Hoover Bush and the Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth and Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich and all the rest. The right-wingers would have you believe this is Obama's downturn." ...
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Op-Ed Columnist: Barack Be Good
nytimes.com 12/26/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama has said that he wants to “make government cool again.” Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it good. >
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nytimes.com 2/24/2009 — The Obama administration sees this economic crisis as an opportunity to expand its reach, but I fear that in trying to do everything at once, it will do nothing well. >
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nytimes.com 2/27/2009 — President Obama’s budget represents a huge break from policy trends. If he can get it through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course. >
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