ourfuture.org - 1/16/2009
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Conservative leaders in the House have promised "innovative solutions" to help the Obama administration revive the economy, but what they actually offered on Thursday on Capitol Hill was the intellectual equivalent of well-used stuff put up for bid on eBay in a desperate bid for pocket change. ...
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Progressive Breakfast: Back To Ohio
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole suffers through the hearing: "Conservative leaders in the House have promised 'innovative solutions' to help the Obama administration revive the economy, but what they actually offered on Thursday on Capitol Hill was the intellectual equivalent of well-used stuff put up for bid on eBay in a desperate bid for pocket change ... It was the same old song: Tax cuts will be what will save the economy. Public sector spending to create jobs and enhance the public commons is largely wasteful. But when dollars are put into the hands of the corporate sector, ...
Bill Scher: First You Don't Succeed, Lie and Lie Again
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But no one with any expertise and credibility is advocating another around of conservative tax cut rehash that amounts to, as my colleague Isaiah Poole put it, "used junk on eBay." ...
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