firedoglake.com - 2/5/2009
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The story of the morning seems to be that the Obama team is unhappy with Nancy Pelosi and the House committee chairs for delivering up such a liberal, pork-laden bill that they themselves really had nothing to do with.
"Anonymous staffers" are fanning out ...
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 2/5/2009
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 No, No, NO! by
digby I wrote the other night about that Blue...
Dog ass Jim Cooper and how he stuck the shiv into Obama and the stimulus. And I noted this important piece by Mike Lux about Cooper's important role in the ...
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Hullabaloo
hotair.com - 2/4/2009
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hotair.com —
Did Barack Obama encourage Blue Dog Democrats to
abandon the stimulus bill in the House? That’s the...
claim of Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper, who told Liberadio Sunday that Obama encouraged him to vote against the bill. [...] Read the rest ...
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Has Obama gone to war with Nancy Pelosi?
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Hullabaloo —
... As to Greg's question as to whether or not Obama listened to the veterans, Jane Hamsher has some intriguing insights into the legislative sausage making today. If what she says is true, it means that Rahm was being cleverly Machiavelian and is now trying to deflect the blame for his own bad call. ...
If only the czar knew
Corrente —
Go read Jane, says Digby. Read more…
Jane Hamsher: Obama Undermines Jobs Mandate For the Sake of Bipartisanship
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... If this becomes the template for all future sausage making between the White House and the Hill, progressive interests will continue to be offered up in sacrifice every time the Republicans decide they don't like something so the administration can appear to "rise above it all." And rather than being forced to defend their propositions, dithering "centrists" will continue to be ...
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