tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/29/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Women's health advocates were dismayed this week to
see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress' economic...
recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. ( Time has some good ...
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Source: Obama Plans to Get Family Planning Aid Done Soon
washingtonindependent.com - 1/27/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
President Barack Obama has signaled he will not
go to bat for birth control in the economic...
stimulus bill — a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful forces in the Democratic Party. Obama has asked House Energy and Commerce Committee ...
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Obama Begs Waxman to Yank Birth Control from Stimulus
time.com - 1/29/2009
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time.com —
Early Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed
President Obama's $819 billion plan to stimulate the struggling...
U.S. economy . But while the package that passed on a 244-188 near-party-line vote (and didn't garner a single Republican ...
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Comments from Left Field —
... is being accomplished without much debate under the cover of providing stimulus. Of course, there is nothing stimulative about this. The health care industry is not the sector of the economy where we have to worry about unemployment. This isn’t about stimulus, but about changing the relationship between health care and the government. And there will be nothing temporary about it. We’ll be on the hook for all this promised spending.
And Ed Morrissey:
Rahm Emanuel once advised that crisis means ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Billions on welfare, not a cent for defense"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
[image] 200 Top Economists: "Stimulus" Won't Work : Gateway Pundit Teetering on Complete Collapse : Organized Exploitation Aboard Air Force One : The Anchoress My bi-bartisan stimulus : WSJ (Rush Limbaugh) New anti-Limbaugh attack ad to air : Radio Equalizer Olbermann bloviates his way to ratings oblivion : Age of Pericles Nationalized Health Care arrives via "Stimulus" Porkfest : Hot Air Britain awakens : Ace o' Spades Change! Obama sends $20 Million to Hamas : JWF Voter Identification Laws Were a ...
The sound of MSM silence (glug-glug)
Wizbang —
... the press show zero curiosity about this "stimulus" package. They don't appear to even know what is in it, or want to know. They're not asking "the tough questions." The thing is Obama's baby so it must be brilliant and right and they are promoting it with all their might, unquestioningly. Just as they promoted Al Gore's Global Warming Traveling Salvation Show without asking a single hard question, without wondering about a "rush to toxic lightbulbs," the press is now pushing an extremely dubious ...
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