skepticians.com - 2/3/2009
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Wasting no time, President Obama began quickly overturned standing Bush executive orders in an effort to end nearly a decade of, what President Obama called on the campaign trail, “Bush cronyism.” Among his first moves were orders to freeze senior White House staffer’s pay and to toughen ethics ...
pollingreport.com - 2/9/2009
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pollingreport.com —
Thinking about some of the specific actions Barack
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President Obama
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 2/9/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
Here's an interesting dynamic: The yawning gap between
what the pundits say about who's winning the stimulus...
war and what the polls say the public thinks has created an opening for the Obama team to reclaim Obama's campaign outsider mantle, which ...
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Obama Aides Rip Cable News, D.C. Media And Political Elite
openleft.com - 2/5/2009
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openleft.com —
Back in August, presidential candidate Barack Obama made
his commitment to the concept behind "Buy America" legislation...
very clear in a series of campaign statements and ads lambasting John McCain for opposing such pragmatic laws. Obama even ...
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Will Obama Keep His "Buy America" Promise?
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President Barack “Loophole” Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... aren’t just part of the system in Washington, they’re part of the problem.” Indeed, lobbyists aren’t just part of the system in Washington: Lobbyists are a welcomed, institutionalized element to Obama’s White House.
American voters will soon awake to the sad reality that the candidate who offered the prospect of “change,” a new way of governing, and the ideal of post-partisanship, remains deeply rooted in the ways of the past.
*Cross-posted at Skepticians.com* ...
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