commentarymagazine.com - 2/12/2009
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Barack Obama has been President for just over three weeks. But even this early into the Age of Obama, we can, I think, make a valuable assessment on where things stand. On the plus side for Obama, by later this month he will have achieved, in almost record time, a huge legislative victory: ...
firedoglake.com - 2/5/2009
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firedoglake.com —
photo by nmfbihop The story of the morning
seems to be that the Obama team is unhappy
with Nancy Pelosi and the House committee chairs for delivering up such a liberal, pork-laden bill that they themselves really had nothing to do with. ...
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Rahm Throws Pelosi Under The Bus To Save Stimulus Bill
blackenterprise.com - 2/11/2009
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blackenterprise.com —
In an exclusive one–on-one interview President Barack Obama
discusses the recovery package, his expansive economic agenda, and
his administration’s plans to provide jobs and opportunities to millions of Americans.
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Obama: ‘Help Is on the Way’
hosted.ap.org - 2/12/2009
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hosted.ap.org —
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After hitting four states in
four days, President Barack Obama is going back on
the road next week to convince Americans his economic stimulus plan will get the job done. The president is planning stops in Denver and Phoenix on ...
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Up is Down--Or Please Go Away--III
Swampland —
... Karl Rove:
House Republicans had the wisdom to continue to talk to the Obama White House. This made them look gracious, even as the president edged toward a "my way or the highway" attitude.
Pete Wehner:
Right now President Obama and his team look at times amateurish and somewhat overmatched by events.
The Bush Administration is gone, but the jingle lingers on...Any wonder that these two guys, Rove and Wehner, worked together for six amateurish and overmatched years?
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Whose bipartisanship is it anyway?
neo-neocon —
... W. Stevenson:
In cobbling together a plan that could get through both the House and the Senate, Mr. Obama prevailed, but not in the way he had hoped. His inability to win over more than a handful of Republicans amounted to a loss of innocence, a reminder that his high-minded calls for change in the practice of governance had been ground up in a matter of weeks by entrenched forces of partisanship and deep, principled differences between left and right.
And then there’s Peter Wehner of Commentary:
It’s not simply that Obama gained no ...
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Why Should He?
newshoggers.com 2/11/2009 — Commentary By Ron Beasley
The headline reads:
Obama must do more to get GOP on board
My question is: why should he want them on board ? Why should any of us care if they are onboard since we all know that their only agenda is to sabotage ...
Obama’s first weeks: who would have done better?
neoneocon.com 2/11/2009 — Here’s an apologia for Obama’s first three weeks, from Ruth Marcus.
Her final question:
So if you’re feeling jittery about Obama’s start, ask yourself this: Is there another president in recent memory who would have done ...
Boehlert: Obama, the press, and the "bipartisan" trap
mediamatters.org 2/4/2009 — I'm not sure how many thousands of
questions have been asked over the years at White House press briefings, but I
would suggest NBC's Chuck Todd may have recently asked one of the most
inane.
The history-making
moment unfolded in the White ...
More On Daschle
obsidianwings.blogs.com 2/4/2009 — by hilzoy As you are all undoubtedly aware, Tom Daschle has asked that his nomination as Secretary of HHS be withdrawn, and Obama has agreed. As I wrote a few days ago, I think this is a good thing. I think Daschle would have been an immense ...
More On Daschle
washingtonmonthly.com 2/4/2009 — More On Daschle As Steve noted earlier, Tom Daschle has asked that his nomination as Secretary of HHS be withdrawn, and Obama has agreed. As I wrote a few days ago, I think this is a good thing. I think...
This is More Like It
dailykos.com 2/7/2009 — Nancy Pelosi, today : In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against ...
Revenge of the Village
balloon-juice.com 2/5/2009 — Obama has been humbled ! Obama can not live up to his ethical standards ! Obama is fleeing the White House ! A scalp is claimed, and the Victor Davis Hanson at the NRO predicts the end of the Obama administration :
We are quite literally after ...
Breaking: Obama Heading To The Hill Tomorrow
huffingtonpost.com 1/13/2009 — Barack Obama will head to the Hill tomorrow for perhaps the final time before he takes the oath of office.
The president-elect will be attending the Senate's weekly Democratic caucus meeting on Tuesday, a Senate aide tells Huffington Post. A ...
Obama blames himself for mishandling Daschle - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 2/3/2009 — WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is taking responsibility for mistakes in the handling of the tax controversy that led to Tom Daschle's withdrawal as President Barack Obama 's nominee to be health and human services secretary, saying: "I screwed up." ...
Barack Obama admits 'I screwed up' over Daschle |
World news
guardian.co.uk 2/4/2009 — The US president talks to NBC news about taking responsibility for the controversy over Tom Daschle's tax affairs Link to this video Barack Obama has admitted that he "screwed up" over the botched appointment of Tom Daschle as health secretary after ...
Obama administration selects 'drug czar' —
CNN Political Ticker 2/12/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration has offered the position of "drug czar” to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
Kerlikowske has accepted the nomination for the ...
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