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Kristol on the Republican Opportunity
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Bill Kristol's first contribution to the Washington Post "Post Partisan" group blog is on the GOP's stimulus opportunity. A taste: ...
Obama's Action Item
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Bill Kristol responds to the president's oped: President Obama has given Republicans a golden opportunity: Insist on splitting the legislation being debated on the Senate floor into a true short-term stimulus, which can pass quickly, and long-term policy proposals, which require serious debate. Republicans should stop trying to improve the unimproveable with small-bore amendments to the current legislative package. Instead, they can point out that Obama is supporting under the guise of emergency legislation a bloated catch-all of stimulus, pork and (often bad) policy. They ...
Kristol starts at WaPo
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Bill Kristol begins his new job today at the Washington Post, writing on the "Post Partisan" blog about "the Republicans opportunity" in the stimulus debate. ...
Obama must pare-down stimulus: Kristol
The Swamp —
by Frank James
Bill Kristol, the conservative pundit, has a response to the President Barack Obama's Washington Post op-ed in which the president argued for Congress to pass his economic stimulus plan.
Kristol's point is that if the president wants Republican help to quickly pass a stimulus bill, Obama should subtract all the spending in the bill that's more about the Obama Administration or congressional Democrats' agenda, whether it's energy or health-care and leave in only truly stimulative spending. The ...
Without A Diagnosis It Is Harder To Find A Cure
JustOneMinute —
... relentless cheerleading for the housing market from Washington. George Bush's push for an ownership society and the Democrats push to see FNMA and Freddie Mac extend home ownership to groups normally closed out of that part of the American Dream made it unlikely that any regulator would crack down on the mortgage market. This time the twin towers were "Housing always goes up" and "Washington will bail us out if it doesn't". The rest is history. My history, anyway. Wiliam Kristol advises the Republicans on how to counter-punch - separate the real stimulus from the ...
Instead of a slightly less awful bill, pass a real emergency stimulus bill
Betsy's Page —
... do for the American people, they've got another thought coming." Holding the president hostage? This caused the workhorses to rear up. "Oh, goodness, no," said Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as he returned to the dealmaking table in Dirksen. "I'm for human rights." And Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) chuckled at her leader's accusation. "A little dramatic, don't you think?" Instead of nibbling around the edges to cut a few billion here and there, I wish they'd take the advice of Alice Rivlin which Bill Kristol distills here. âThis plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... William Kristol: Thought you were done with me, huh? Not so fast. let me tell you a brilliant way for Senate Republicans to gain the high ground with the jobs and safety net bill: obstruct it. Heh. Who'd have thought of that, eh? ...
Time to Play "Name That Stimulus Bill!"
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... Conservative "columnist" Bill Kristol suggested yesterday that the GOP strip everything that isn't a tax cut out of the stimulus package and call it the "The Emergency Economic Growth Bill of 2009." ...
