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My Bipartisan Stimulus — Let's cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like. — There's a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years.
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How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus? — For a similar amount of money, we could give workers $1,500. — Congress and the Obama administration seem near to deciding the details of an economic stimulus package. Unlike the efforts of President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush …
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An $800 Billion Mistake — As a conservative economist, I might be expected to oppose a stimulus plan. In fact, on this page in October, I declared my support for a stimulus. But the fiscal package now before Congress needs to be thoroughly revised. In its current form …
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Weekly Standard
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1993 All Over Again? — One of the goals of the unanimous Republican “no” vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York Times. … And we all know what happened in 1994. Still, I don't think the analogy holds up. — 1. The Obama stimulus package is popular.
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Weekly Standard, FiveThirtyEight.com, Matthew Yglesias, Eunomia, Washington Post and The Politico
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GOP defies Obama overtures — House Republicans have proposed an alternative that leaders say would create 6.2 million jobs for only $478 billion. — “What Member can't go back his or her District and explain: Rather than voting for a bloated bill, ... I voted for an alternative …
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Hollow victory: Republicans deliver slap in the face to Barack Obama — President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2 trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House of Representatives but the 244 to 188 vote is a hollow victory indeed. Without a single Republican voting for the bill …
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Townhall.com, The Politico, Don Surber, Sadly, No!, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Fox News and Balloon Juice
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Missing in Stimulus: Bipartisanship
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CBS News, Power Line, Boston Globe, The Caucus, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and TIME.com
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GOP holds the line: 244-188. This crap sandwich is all yours, Dems
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The Moderate Voice, NewsBusters.org, alicublog, culturekitchen, GayPatriot and Sister Toldjah
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The Obama White House May Be a Crowded Mess — There will be four people in my old office. — On the campaign trail, Barack Obama criticized Washington for being “obsessed with the perpetual campaign.” As president he is the first occupant of the Oval Office to give his director of political affairs …
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White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code — WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
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JustOneMinute, The Swamp, marbury, Wonkette, Mudville Gazette, Green Inc., The Huffington Post, Rising Hegemon, TIME.com, Gawker, Lost in Transition and The BLT
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With Al Due Respect, We're Doomed — The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it. — What the Goracle saw in the future was not good: temperature changes that “would bring a screeching halt to human civilization …
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Obama's Open Records Pledge Tested Over Citigroup Guarantees — Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — U.S. government guarantees on securities totaling $419 billion for bank bailouts provide an early test of President Barack Obama's pledge to be open with taxpayers about what they have at risk in the credit crisis.
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Revealed: the letter Barack Obama's team hope will heal Iran rift — Officials of Barack Obama's administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, the Guardian has learned.
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Israel Matzav, TIME.com, Hot Air, Jules Crittenden, Reuters, Sister Toldjah, Telegraph, Pajamas Media and Power Line
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Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Security Firm — U.S. Embassy's Preferred Contractor Accused of Killings — The Iraqi government has informed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that it will not issue a new operating license to Blackwater Worldwide, the embassy's primary security company …
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WHAT A GUY — Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) revealed more of himself than anyone cared to see, at the expense of Salon's Joan Walsh, this evening on “Hardball.” In a debate with Walsh over tax policy, Armey let loose with this chauvinistic gem: “I am so damn glad …
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Salon
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ABC Said to Consider ‘Kimmel’ in ‘Nightline’ Slot — ABC's television entertainment division has held discussions about moving its late-night comedy star Jimmy Kimmel to the 11:35 time period now occupied by the ABC News program “Nightline” to compete directly with Conan O'Brien …
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Public Support for Economic Recovery Plan Slips to 42% — Public support for the economic recovery plan crafted by President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped a bit over the past week. At the same time, expectations that the plan will quickly become law have increased.
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Weekly Standard
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Birth Control Belongs in the Stimulus Bill — To the outrage of many feminists and family planners, yesterday Democrats heeded President Obama and dropped from the stimulus bill a provision that would have made it easier for states to offer contraception through Medicaid to low-income women not covered by Medicaid now.
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The defense doesn't rest — Blagojevich pulls surprise, will go today to deliver closing argument at trial — SPRINGFIELD — His career tattered but his dramatic flair intact, Gov. Rod Blagojevich reversed course Wednesday and accepted the Illinois Senate's challenge to explain in person …
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The power of Obama's hand — Joe Lieberman has felt it. So has Joe the Plumber. — It's the Obama Touch — the squeeze on the biceps, the pat on the shoulder or the tap on the back that signals the displeasure of the commander in chief. Let others turn on the deep freeze or lose their cool when they're annoyed.
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marbury
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Drinks Are On the (White) House — Here's the list of President Obama's invited guests to the White House cocktail party tonight — essentially the bipartisan bicameral leadership of the House and Senate. — Six House Democrats, six House Republicans, six Senate Democrats, six Senate Republicans.
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In China, a Grass-Roots Rebellion — Rights Manifesto Slowly Gains Ground Despite Government Efforts to Quash It — SHANGHAI — When Tang Xiaozhao first saw a copy of the pro-democracy petition in her e-mail inbox, she silently acknowledged she agreed with everything in it but didn't want to get involved.
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The Peking Duck