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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/24/2009
The Party of Ideas
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Hot new press release: “Boehner, House Republican Leaders Call for Federal Spending Freeze to Address Growing Budget Deficit” Sounds like a winner to me, but it’s not enough. What if this was boxed together with fresh new ideas like a corporate income tax cut, a promise to ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/3/2009
Zombie financial ideas
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — Calculated Risk looks at the latest plan floated by the Treasury - to make low-interest, non-recourse loans... to private investors who buy bad assets - and immediately gets it: this is a plan to drive up the prices of toxic assets by creating a lot of ... (more) Zombie financial ideas
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washingtonpost.com - 2/18/2009
The Party of No
— washingtonpost.com — It would have been hard to predict, as the stimulus debate began, that President Obama would end... up losing more Democratic votes than gaining Republican ones. More than twice as many, actually: Seven House Democrats voted against the measure, three ... (more) The Party of No

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balloon-juice.com - 3/1/2009
Out of Ideas. No, Really. They Are Just Out of Ideas.
— balloon-juice.com — Yesterday at Outside the Beltway, James Joyner, who is attending CPAC , listed Newt Gingrich’s 12 point... plan for the GOP to recapture the hearts of America (and I have cut the descriptions of the items down, you can visit OTB for the full ... (more) Out of Ideas. No, Really. They Are Just Out of Ideas.

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Wonk Room:  Republicans Revive McCain’s Debilitating Spending Freeze

Ross Douthat:  Re-Running McCain

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Republicans Revive McCain’s Debilitating Spending Freeze
Wonk Room — ... it was six months ago when McCain was touting it. The economic stimulus package’s main purpose is to close the GDP gap and jumpstart the economy by spurring spending by households, government and the private sector. A spending freeze would act as an “anti-stimulus,” cutting spending precisely when it’s too low and the economy is moving too slowly. Are these Republicans trying to ensure that the stimulus fails? Or is it that this group simply has no new ideas? ...

Re-Running McCain
Ross Douthat — Like I said, I'm trying to be patient with the Obama-era GOP: It's a leaderless party in an awfully tough spot. But that doesn't mean that Fairbanks, Yglesias, and Weigel aren't making good points about the weirdness of a battered political party deciding to re-run the none-too-successful tactics of its just-defeated Presidential candidate.

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