inthesetimes.com - 12/5/2008
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Views October 3, 2008 Web Only Saying No Deal to This New Deal By David Sirota The marriage of American capitalism and democracy has always been a Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee affair — stormy and erratic since its hasty wedding. But during the debate over a Wall Street bailout this week, we ...
slate.com - 12/11/2008
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slate.com —
Bam Sandwich? Yikes . 1) Rezko's talking
; 2) The FBI's been asking about the house
deal (an Election Day story I'd missed). ... 1:44 A.M. ___________________________ . The Trouble With the Bailout Deal: Here's the key passage from ...
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The Trouble With the Bailout Deal
politico.com - 11/30/2008
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politico.com —
It’s finally official: President-elect Obama will appear with
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Chicago on Monday as
he names her secretary of state.
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Clinton, Obama seal the deal
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The Persistence of Dear Leader-ism
Open Left - Front Page —
Back in October, I wrote a column about how the economic pressure to compete against foreign autocracies was pushing our political system to subjugate democracy in favor of a kind of czarism - one justified by the need for quick action in international financial markets. That was the theory behind the bailout legislation giving Henry Paulson czar-ish power to spend taxpayer money as he sees fit - on a global stage where Saudi princes and Chinese communists can move trillions without so much as a press release, Paulson was arguing that congressional oversight or the incremental ...
David Sirota: The Mystifying Persistence of Dear Leader-ism
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Back in October, I wrote a column about how the economic pressure to compete against foreign autocracies was pushing our political system to subjugate democracy in favor of a kind of czarism - one justified by the need for quick action in international financial markets. That was the theory behind the bailout legislation giving Henry Paulson czar-ish power to spend taxpayer money as he sees fit - on a global stage where Saudi princes and Chinese communists can move trillions without so much as a press release, Paulson was arguing that congressional oversight or the incremental ...
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