swampland.blogs.time.com - 7/2/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
I have a new story about the White
House effort to keep the Stimulus popular and on...
track in the next newsstand issue of TIME (with value-added eye-popping pictures and charts that you can't get online, so subscribe, $1.99 for six weeks). It starts ...
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Fighting For The Stimulus Story
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Video: Press corps now openly laughing at Obama’s backtracking on taxes
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Video: Press corps now openly laughing at Obama’s backtracking on taxes posted at 7:26 pm on June 29, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly It’s a laugh riot, isn’t it? Actually, they might be laughing more at Gibbs’s feeble way of ducking the question than The One’s looming broken promise, but in Gibbs’s defense, what’s he supposed to say? Obama pounded McCain for wanting to pay for health care by taxing benefits, rode into D.C. promising Change, and now he’s going to eat a crap sandwich by reversing himself because it turns out personal charisma doesn’t work on hard economic numbers. So ...
Obama Administration Announces That They Can Now, Officially, Be Held Responsible For The Economy
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No more blaming Bush. The economy is Obama’s baby now.
I actually thought Obama could probably get away with squeezing explanations and deflections for another two or three months worth of bad economic news out of blaming Bush before even the most sycophantic of reporters and talking heads began to get glassy-eyed, but I guess Obama decided that enough was enough now.
Though given that the economy’s poor performance has outstripped even his adminisation’s own projections, I really think it’s been his baby all along. ...
Video: Gibbs tells MS-NBC that Obama’s ready to take responsibility for economy
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Video: Gibbs tells MS-NBC that Obama’s ready to take responsibility for economy posted at 3:05 pm on June 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Gee, and it only took six months! Yesterday, MS-NBC’s Chuck Todd asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs when the time will come to judge the success of the stimulus package Barack Obama pushed Congress to pass. Gibbs says we can start now: Now that we can actually hold Obama accountable, what has the stimulus done? Joblessness has gone to 9.4%, and even Barack Obama admits that it’s on its way to double digits. While Obama ran re-runs for ...
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