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washingtonmonthly.com - 17 days ago
The predictable hand-wringing
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THE PREDICTABLE HAND-WRINGING.... We should probably keep our "Profile in Courage" Award nominations on hold for Congress' center-right Democrats. Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want their leaders to skip the party's controversial legislative agenda for next year to help save...
thehill.com - 18 days ago
Democrats feeling angst over 2010
— thehill.com — Vulnerable Democrats want their leaders to skip the party’s controversial agenda to help save their seats in Congress. Read more... (more) Democrats feeling angst over 2010

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Matthew Yglesias:  What Does a Focus on Jobs Mean?

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What Does a Focus on Jobs Mean?
Matthew Yglesias — ... I’m more sympathetic to this idea than is Steve Benen. Realistically, the viability of progressive governance is going to be determined by the state of the economy in 2010 and 2012. But where my sympathy vanishes is with the fact that the very same people who are so eager to throw Obama’s agenda overboard in order to focus on jobs and the economy don’t seem to have any actual ideas for boosting the labor market. ...

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