nytimes.com - 3/10/2009
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The Democratic response to the economic crisis has its problems, but let’s face it, the current Republican response is totally misguided. The House minority leader, John Boehner, has called for a federal spending freeze for the rest of the year. In other words, after a decade of profligacy, the ...
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 - 3/10/2009
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With the economy in free fall, Americans have
an opportunity to reshape the society, and then to...
move it in a fairer and ultimately more productive direction. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Reviving the Dream
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Riehl World View —
You might as well read through Jules post here and find the cartoon. Aside from this item, it's one of very few intelligent things I'm finding from the Right on the Web today.
Useful idiot David Brooks takes first prize for stupidity. He'd rather poke and lecture Republicans who have no real power in DC just now and starts by suggesting, The Democratic response to the economic crisis has its problems.
Has it's problems? It's not an economic response, it's a willful economic and social re-engineering of America and this allegedly conservative moron thinks it "has problems"?
If Brooks had any character at all the least ...
Omnibus Budget Bill Passes-- After A Week Of Hackish And Mostly Pointless Obstructionism
DownWithTyranny! —
... : "[T]he fact that Boehner’s idea of economics is completely insane matters." (Even conservative pundit David Brooks agrees that Boehner is part of the problem, not the solution. ...
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