nytimes.com - 3/7/2009
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Barack Obama has only been president for six weeks, but there is a surprising amount of ire, anger, even outrage that he hasn’t yet solved the problems of the U.S. economy, that he hasn’t saved us from the increasingly tragic devastation wrought by the clownish ideas of right-wing conservatives ...
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
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Country On Fire; Republicans Have a Hangnail
Hoffmania! —
... Bob Herbert has a simple message to the GOP obstructionists: Try sweating the big stuff, jackasses. Earmarks. More than 4.4 million
jobs have been lost since this monster recession officially got under
way in December 2007, and we’ve got people wigging out over earmarks.
Folks, get a grip. Some earmarks are good, some are not, but
collectively they account for a tiny, tiny portion of the national
budget — less than 1 percent. Freaking out over earmarks is
like watching a neighborhood that is being ...
The Grand Obstructionist Party Has Some Plans Too
DownWithTyranny! —
... -- to perpetuate it. The venal forces are attacking him with all their considerable might, on every front and with every weapon available to them. As Bob Herbert reminded us in Friday's NY Times, Miracles Take Time. ...
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