weeklystandard.com - 2/2/2009
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Republicans need to propose one since Congressional Democrats haven't. by Matthew Continetti 02/09/2009, Volume 014, Issue 19
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/2/2009
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
Should we be upset about the buy-American provisions
in the stimulus bill? Is there an economic case...
for such provisions? The answer is yes and yes. And I do think it's important to be honest about the second yes. The economic case against ...
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Protectionism and stimulus (wonkish)
huffingtonpost.com - 1/31/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
There is, in fact, some significant bipartisan support
for Barack Obama's recovery package -- at least beyond...
the halls of Congress. In recent days, some of the nation's more moderate Republican governors have bucked their fellow party members in ...
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Obama Wins Stimulus Support From Republican Governors
reuters.com - 2/2/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing opposition from Republican lawmakers
to parts of his economic recovery plan, President Barack...
Obama called Democratic Congressional leaders to a meeting on Monday to drive home his message of urgency. With hundreds of ...
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Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on ...
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The Right Stimulus?
The New Editor —
The Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti on the Dems' stimulus plan:
What the Democrats have done is write down every single item on their liberal wish list, append dollar amounts next to the items seemingly at random, and call it "stimulus." The president wanted the bill to be free of pet projects and include business tax cuts. But no one told Pelosi's appopriators. They are using the current troubles to push through a decades-old domestic policy agenda. The spending--$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $400 million for global warming ...
Dissecting Leftism —
The Asian influence in Australia I originally wrote the post below for my personal blog but I think it has enough general interest to post here too. On some estimates, the population of Australia is now about 10% East Asian As a conservative, I treat people primarily as individuals, regardless of any group to which they may or may not belong. I leave obsession with race and class to Leftists. From Marx up until shortly after the Hitlerian catastrophe, Leftists were very pro-racist. Now they are very anti-racist but the obsession with race remains. They seem unable to treat people as individuals and can only talk about people ...
Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Who Doesn't Like Barack Obama? -- Part 1
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Part 1: Criticism from the Right
These days everyone loves Barack Obama, right? Well actually no. Even though Obama's job approval and personal popularity ratings are very high for an incoming president, some people hold a negative view, and many commentators in newspapers and blogs are offering advice to the new president that crosses the line into criticism. From both the right and the left, there are thoughtful people who disagree with the new "post ideological" President largely on ideological grounds.
Given that one of the greatest shortcomings of the outgoing administration was its inability to hear and learn ...
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Read the Stimulus!
hotair.com 1/27/2009 — My friend Rob Neppell at Truth Laid Bear and Kithbridge has literally made a career out of building on-line tools to break down barriers between people and organizations, and he’s done it once again with Read the Stimulus . Rob has transformed ...
Main Street Stimulus: Stimulus in the News
usmayors.org 2/9/2009 — MainStreet Economic Recovery Report (Public Safety Programs) Option 1: Download a PDF version of the full report , including the executive summary, list of participating cities and then projects, sorted by project type or by city. + Click to download ...
How the stimulus might help Illinois -
chicagotribune.com 2/3/2009 — WASHINGTON — If the Obama administration's economic stimulus package is passed and signed into law, the first way most working people in Illinois would feel it would be a small increase in their take-home pay, through a tax cut of about $10 per week ...
A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/8/2009 — Claire McCaskill seems to be softening her line on the Senate stimulus deal. She Tweets “Just saw Krugman’s comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900.” ...
The Point of the Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — Ron Brownstein writes (I think it's a temporary link):
To call the economic legislation now moving through Congress a stimulus bill obscures its full implications. The measure represents the most ambitious effort in decades to swell public spending ...
Does Anyone Know How Big the Stimulus Is?
corner.nationalreview.com 2/7/2009 — From a Senate source:
Sen. Reid: "Keep in mind, it's approaching a trillion dollars."
NYT: even the senators behind the compromise were uncertain of the number.
Roll Call: The uncertainty made it difficult to predict whether the final bill ...
Whither Stimulus?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/4/2009 — by Ryan Avent
The story of the morning is that the stimulus bill may have run into serious trouble in the Senate. Democrat leaders have more or less said that they don’t have the votes to pass their version of the package. This, of course, ...
The Stimulus and Health Care
corner.nationalreview.com 2/3/2009 — The massive amount of spending in the so-called "stimulus" bill is startling, yes--but entirely predictable given the way the bill was set in motion.
In the weeks after his election, president-elect Obama told the country and the Congress, that ...
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