themoderatevoice.com - 2/8/2009
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SNL skewered Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the stimulus plan via a satire that could reflect a growing perception that might not be helpful to the Democrats. The big news: it centered on the assumption that Pelosi is a mega-partisan who looks down ...
thehill.com - 2/5/2009
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thehill.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters
Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a...
more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of the Senate. Reid said he believes at least two Republicans of "good will" would support the ...
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Sen. Reid: We’ve got votes on stimulus
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/6/2009
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You know the stimulus bill is bad when …
Sister Toldjah —
Saturday Night Live is ripping Democrats over the stimulus plan:
Now, once you get done laughing at that, Jack Dunphy at Patterico’s has a flashback video of Milton Friedman in 1979 laying the law down to Phil Donahue on the merits of capitalism and free markets. That one will get your motor runnin’.
We need more Milton Friedmans speaking out today, and a lot less Phil Donahues.
This all brings to mind another debate ...
SNL Reid-Pelosi Satire Not Funny
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Harry Reid - Nancy Pelosi press conference: To the extent this was funny, it seemed to be in poking fun of the idea of bipartisanship and taking the position that the Democrats should be more Pelosi-like in their attitude toward Republicans. (An impression bolstered during the Weekend Update segment when Seth Meyers dismissed the tax problems of Obama appointees on account of how Bush “broke the world.”) This isn’t good satire but rather hackish commentary. Professional entertainer Joe Gandelman had quite a different takeaway: SNL skewered Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid ...
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