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nytimes.com - 2/7/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: Watch the Tone in Washington

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So much for bipartisanship. The gloves came off during the final days of negotiating the stimulus bill. The public has noticed the tonal shift, or lack thereof. >

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nytimes.com - 2/6/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: On the Edge

— nytimes.com — Washington has lost any sense of the reality that we may well be falling into an economic... abyss, and that if we do, it will be very hard to get out again. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: On the Edge

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nytimes.com - 2/1/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: Herbert Hoover Lives

— nytimes.com — No one expects the Republicans to give the new president carte blanche to pass his stimulus plan,... but the opposition might want to pitch in and play a serious role at a time of national peril. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: Herbert Hoover Lives

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nytimes.com - 2/6/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: The Gang System

— nytimes.com — The moderates — who are not a party, but a gang — could be the lever by... which President Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: The Gang System

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Ten Ways Obama Can Get a Grip
Pajamas Media — ... . And, if he tries, he only creates the aura of hypocrisy and confusion. (Reagan is better, by the way, if he’s interested in a second term.) The effort to up the partisan bile hasn’t benefited him. As Charles Blow of the New York Times noted:“In a Gallup poll released Wednesday, a slightly larger percentage of Americans said that since Obama was elected, the level of civility between Democrats and Republicans in Washington had gotten worse, not better. And, as one would expect, nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats thought that the tone had gotten worse. (Half all of ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — Saturday punditry. And not exactly consensus about the tone in DC. Well, this will be written up as an Obama victory, even though the bill is nothing to be proud of. Bob Herbert: It was good to see the president, ordinarily so cool, so accommodating, exhibiting some real fire the other night. It seems to have done some good. Charles Blow: Republicans are trying to draw Democrats into a screaming match because they know they’re better at it. They are the masters of shrill — ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... destroy America and capitalism while making us all vulnerable to terrorists, do you? ...Oh, sorry: yes, we do. Republicans are making exactlythe same arguments they made during the campaign. Republicans are still in campaign mode. (Republicans are always in campaign mode, aren't they?) How come that's not a terrible, horrible, bad, ungracious, risky strategy that's doomed to failure? Well, they can simply get away with and Democrats can't, says Charles Blow on the op-ed page of The New York Times: ... Republicans are ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Times op-ed page: ... the prince got distracted, seeing Lincoln in the mirror, and ... gave the kiss of life to a bunch of flat-lining Republican tax-cut fetishists. In his first weeks padding around a White House..., Barack Obama could not locate the bully pulpit and ended up being bullied. Republicans, pulled out of their existential lethargy and re-energized by the president's charm offensive, immediately mounted an offensive against him.... Charles Blow on yesterday's New York Times op-ed page: ... Republicans are ...