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Conservative Belle —
... No one live blogs it better than Greg. Oh, and I loved this little gem that I heard President Obama say last night. (emphasis mine) And I think that both sides are going to have to acknowledge we're going to need more money for new science labs, to pay teachers more effectively, but we're also going to need more reform, which means that we've got to train teachers more effectively, bad teachers need to be fired after being given the opportunity to train effectively, that we should experiment with things like charter schools ...
Don't Underestimate Mutual Respect
democracyarsenal.org —
... and President Obama over the past 24 hours could be an important and positive step. After 30 years of missed opportunities and hostile language, you don't just hop into direct talks about cooperation and uranium enrichment programs. You start with some very basic confidence building steps. Dialing back the heated rhetoric is an important part of that. The term "mutual respect" is especially important for a country like Iran, which views itself as a serious regional player and wants to be treated as such - instead of being condescendingly ...
Take Aways From President Obama's First Prime Time Press Conference
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Christine Bowman Here's the full transcript, courtesy of CBS. And here are the parts that most struck me: From President Obama's Opening Remarks: "... at this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life. It is only government that can break the vicious cycle where lost jobs lead to people spending less money which leads to even more layoffs. And breaking that cycle is ...
Obama: 'The Lesson I Learned'
The BRAD BLOG —
... At Monday night's prime-time press conference (transcript) at the White House, President Obama was asked by NPR's Mara Liasson what he'd learned from his "experience with the stimulus" package, in regard to "future challenges" he will face, legislatively. ...
No Pork to See Here
Weekly Standard Blog —
Obama on the stimulus at Monday night's press conference:
What it does not contain, however, is a single pet project, not a single earmark
The Washington Times's S.A. Miller reports:
Talk about a pet project. A tiny mouse with the longtime backing of a political giant may soon reap the benefits of the economic-stimulus package.
Lawmakers and administration officials divulged Wednesday that the $789 billion economic stimulus bill being finalized behind closed doors in Congress ...
Straw Men
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... You can forgive President Obama, struggling with Congress
for the first time as the Oval Office occupant, for resorting to a debating tactic
that would make my high school forensics teacher, Dean Rhoads, scowl. Of a large basket of his opponents, the President said: ...
Michelle Rhee Threatens End-Run Around Teachers' Union
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Barack Obama has also signaled his support for Rhee's challenge to the union and to the D.C. education bureaucracy, pointedly noting in his February 10 press conference that "there are areas like education where some in my party have been too resistant to reform, and have argued only money makes a difference." Earlier, in an October 17, 2008, debate with John McCain, Obama ...
Michelle Rhee Threatens End-Run Around Teachers' Union
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Barack Obama has also signaled his support for Rhee's challenge to the union and to the D.C. education bureaucracy, pointedly noting in his February 10 press conference that "there are areas like education where some in my party have been too resistant to reform, and have argued only money makes a difference." Earlier, in an October 17, 2008, debate with John McCain, Obama ...
Spain Opens Criminal Probe of Bush Torture Program
Library Grape —
... government leaders could make a similar, extremely uncontroversial statement -- credible allegations of lawbreaking by our highest political leaders must be investigated and, if warranted, prosecuted? In a country with a minimally healthy political culture, that ought to be about as uncontroversial as it gets. Instead, what we have are political leaders and media stars virtually across the board spouting lawless Orwellian phrases about being "more interested in looking forward than in looking backwards" and ...
Spanish Court Opens Torture Inquiry Against Gonzales, Addington, Yoo, Others
Political Animal —
... got to be investigated." Wouldn't it be nice if our government leaders could make a similar, extremely uncontroversial statement -- credible allegations of lawbreaking by our highest political leaders must be investigated and, if warranted, prosecuted? In a country with a minimally healthy political culture, that ought to be about as uncontroversial as it gets. Instead, what we have are political leaders and media stars virtually across the board spouting lawless Orwellian phrases about being "more interested in looking forward than in looking backwards" and ...
