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Obama’s Right-Wing Dinner Friends Rip His Stimulus Package: Worst Bill In ‘Galactic History’
Think Progress —
Several days before taking office, President Obama traveled to George Will’s home to dine with a handful of conservative media elites. The beltway conventional wisdom suggested that Obama’s aim was to “neutralize potential adversaries” by way of a “charm offensive.” After the dinner, Bill Kristol explained on Fox and Friends that while “no one’s mind was changed,” he would “end up supporting [Obama] on some things.” Charles Krauthammer joked about Obama’s apparent goals, “I am brainwashed entirely. I’m in the tank.”
Just one week later, Obama’s ...
GOP Leaders, Including McCain, Reject Stimulus Plan
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Leading Republicans Sunday indicated that they would oppose passage of the stimulus package as it is currently written. While there is bi-partisan acknowledgment that some sort of stimulus package needs to be passed to provide a jolt to the economy, Democrats are attaching a sense of urgency to the situation that Republicans do not seem to share. The economic picture shows no signs of improving, as investors brace for the biggest plunge in GDP in 26 years.
Originally, Democrats wanted to have a stimulus plan ready for Obama to sign on his first day in office. That was, perhaps, an unrealistic goal, but it is now unlikely that any kind of plan will be passed before ...
GOP Leaders, Including McCain, Reject Stimulus Plan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Leading Republicans Sunday indicated that they would oppose passage of the stimulus package as it is currently written. While there is bi-partisan acknowledgment that some sort of stimulus package needs to be passed to provide a jolt to the economy, Democrats are attaching a sense of urgency to the situation that Republicans do not seem to share. The economic picture shows no signs of improving, as investors brace for the biggest plunge in GDP in 26 years.
Originally, Democrats wanted to have a stimulus plan ready for Obama to sign on his first day in office. That was, perhaps, an unrealistic goal, but it is now unlikely that any kind of plan will be passed before ...
McCain's New Role: Obstructionist-- And, Of Course, The Scary Benjamin Button Cameo
DownWithTyranny! —
I solemnly swear I did not Photoshop McCain into this photo from Benjamin Button I couldn't imagine that there was a film that could beat Slumdog Millionaire for Best Picture this year. But yesterday I went to see The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button which stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. It should give Slumdog a real run for its ...
Now let's see just how far Obama's "I won" stance goes
Brilliant at Breakfast —
While I've been pleasantly surprised by the amount of stones Barack Obama has shown in dealing with the Republican obstructionists in Congress, who subscribe to the Rush Limbaugh doctrine of "It's better for the nation's economy to completely collapse than for Obama to succeed", I'm becoming increasingly concerned about the fate of the stimulus package. It's bad enough that the package contains far too much in yet MORE tax cuts for the wealthy, put in as a gesture to placate conservatives for whom compromise is a dirty word, but the more the package is tinkered with in order to please John Boehner, the less effective it's likely to be. This is the first real test of Obama's ...
Obama's Fifth Day: GOP Signals Opposition To Stimulus, Obama Announces New Environmental Policy
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
President Obama on January 25th, his fifth day in office, received strong signals from leading Republican politicians and intellectuals that they would oppose his stimulus package as it is currently written.
House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senator John McCain voiced their opposition to the current stimulus plan on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Think Progress compiled a video of prominent conservative intellectuals Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer slamming the bailout as well. Watch the video below.
The other big news that emerged from Obama's fifth day in office ...
