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Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?
There's a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don't seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar? Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush ...
House Dem: 'Growing consensus' among liberals to dump Geithner
thehill.com — A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) said Wednesday that there is a "growing consensus" among... the liberal bloc to force Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to step down. {mosads}Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said that he and other ... (more) House Dem: 'Growing consensus' among liberals to dump ...
Rep. DeFazio: Fire "Timmy" Geithner
huffingtonpost.com — Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama's top two economic aides on Wednesday... for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Street's favor. The Oregon Democrat told MSNBC's Ed Schultz that he was dismayed ... (more) Rep. DeFazio: Fire "Timmy" Geithner
Geithner Resignation Calls May Increase as 2010 Election Nears
bloomberg.com — Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner , as part of a grilling on Capitol... Hill yesterday, was asked by a Republican lawmaker to resign. It is a call he is likely to hear again and again as next year’s election campaign heats ... (more) Geithner Resignation Calls May Increase as 2010 Election ...
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Now, Democrats join Dick Cheney's dithering, amateurism critique of Obama
Top of the Ticket — ... unable to make a decision about the way forward here, that raises serious doubts. Nobody wants to volunteer to participate in that kind of operation. There's more of that on this video and Cheney also calls the Fort Hood shootings terrorism outright. But that's not the only.... ...incoming fire the president is taking now. Here's a piece of what Huffington just posted: There's a Category 5 storm about to ...

Right And Left Join To Reform Criminal Justice System
The Hollywood Liberal — ... If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial markets will… Arianna Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama’s Katrina? There’s a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don’t seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar? Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is ...

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama’s Katrina? “Just as Katrina exposed cr…
Instapundit — ... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama’s Katrina? “Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House.” ...

Exit Ramps: Democrats Grow Restless on Afghanistan Strategy
The Note — ... Don't forget jobs: "Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House," Arianna Huffington writes. ...

The jobs solution is war?
MyDD — If it's true that the administration has settled on sending 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, you have wonder if the disconnect get any more pronounced? Arianna Huffington: ...

Arianna Huffington: Is Unemployment Obama's Hurricane Katrina?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... 50 percent, his devoted followers in the media also appear to be losing that loving feeling. Over the weekend it was Chris "Tingles Up My Leg" Matthews calling the former object of his affection "Carteresque." On Tuesday it was Arianna Huffington asking an astoundingly dangerous question for such an unashamed minion:  "Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?" Yep. In her recent HuffPost column, Arianna used the K-word (h/t Hot Air): There's a Category 5 ...

Playing politics with lives
Comments from Left Field — ... by not giving General McCrystal all the troops he asked for, therefore Obama can claim to the left, “Hey, I didn’t cave in and give the military everything they wanted!”  And to the right, Obama can claim “Hey, I did what you wanted and I put more troops in Afghanistan!”  And like any bad political decision, Obama’s half-assed measure here will piss everybody off.  I don’t want to be grandiose in my statements, but between this decision that an unemployment crisis that keeps looming, we could be observing Obama’s undoing. ...

Lefties Worry Obama Has Ignored Rising Unemployment
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney — ... Shuster was answering a question from libtalker Stephanie Miller during yesterday's show regarding an equally blunt column written by Arianna Huffington: ...

Obama supporters should quit their whining
PARSLEY'S PICS — ... accuses Geithner of being “Obama’s Rumsfield.” Arianna charged Geithner and Larry Summers of “turning unemployment into ‘Obama’s Katrina, ’” "In a Daily Beast post called ‘ ...

What Will Be President Obama's Katrina?
The Caucus — ... ’s Katrina ? As Mr. Obama endured his first hurricane season in office (it ended Monday), political forecasters were inflicting a deluge of “Katrinas” on the weather-beaten commander-in-chief, making the term “Obama’s Katrina” a Category 5 cliché. “Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House,” Arianna Huffington declared on her eponymous Web site last week. “Will unemployment be Barack Obama ’s ...

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