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Obama Needs to Show Less Paucity of Audacity

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

So far the only people Obama seems willing to make mad are the activist base of the Democratic party who helped him defeat Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters Gives President Obama An "A"

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

He inherited a horrible situation with this economic crisis, but he has not flinched. And his confidence inspires us and helps to generate confidence because we see him carrying on.

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Finally, a Bridge to Somewhere

Lawrence Baxter, Bill Brown and James Cox | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business

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Lawrence Baxter, Bill Brown and James Cox

Behind Obama's declaration that the federal government will carefully monitor lending and bank management is the notion of conservatorship, not nationalization.

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An Open Letter to David Axelrod

Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Robert Kuttner

It will take much stronger medicine to avert a depression than the measures taken to date, and the president needs to rally public opinion if he is to persuade Congress to act at the necessary scale.

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Republicans Propose 'Infiniti Stimulus Package' for the Already Wealthy

Jerome Halligan | Posted 03.26.2009 | Comedy

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Jerome Halligan

The entirety of the bill's language is a two-column table -- the names of the 20 men in the left column, and the portion of the $800 billion each of them will receive in the right column.

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Obama Needs an Economic Philosophy

Teryn Norris | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Teryn Norris

Obama and his advisors made a critical miscalculation by allowing the political goal of bipartisanship to trump urgent economic necessity and the need for a new economic philosophy.

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Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession

Thomas Frank | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Thomas Frank

Never has Beltway orthodoxy looked as clueless and futile as it does today.

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How Government Spending Stimulates Private Investment

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez

To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.

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Good Money After Bad

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

The only valid criticism to be made of the stimulus bill that Obama signed Tuesday with deserved pride of authorship is that it is too small for the enormous problem at hand.

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Will John Boehner Really Say "Thanks But No Thanks" To Stimulus Funds?

James Boyce and Paul Abrams | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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James Boyce and Paul Abrams

As we say on the sandlots, it's time for Boehner to put up or shut up.

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The Media Are the Message

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

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Marty Kaplan

From the commentariat to the White House chief of staff, the lesson to be learned from the last two weeks, we are told, is that the Obama administration let the Republicans frame the debate over the stimulus.

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The Republican Bipartisan Myth

John Ridley | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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John Ridley

Shangri-la and Brigadoon and Bipartisan. Three mythical places. One of which few Republicans have seemingly ever heard.

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Doing What Works for the Short and Long Term

Dean Garfield | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

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Dean Garfield

Congress should be commended for passing a plan that has the potential to be stimulative as well as smart. Investments in IT will help lead the way to economic recovery.

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GOP Dogma Clouds Recovery Act Debate

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Jeffrey Feldman

The idea the Republicans want us to believe the "economy" only includes for-profit businesses. Anything that involves investment in public agencies is, therefore, not the economy.

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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.

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It's Time for Obama to Potty Train Congressional Republicans

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Obama can act like Community-Organizer-In-Chief and, along with grassroots movements from around the country, force Senate Republicans to allow the majority to vote on, and pass, an improved Stimulus Bill.

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Republicans Build a Roadblock to Nowhere

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Robert J. Elisberg

Republicans stand near-united to fight the President of the United States out of one side of their mouths - and cry for bi-partisanship out of the other.

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Stimulating

Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

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Zachary Karabell

As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.

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Obama and The Economy: How It's Going to Play Out

Ian Welsh | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Ian Welsh

The only people in this debacle who acted in the interests of ordinary Americans are House Democrats, but in the end they're going to be forced to choose between no bill and a fatally compromised bill.

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Bipartisanship Fetishism vs. What's Best for America: Obama Needs to Choose

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

When Galileo became convinced of the truth about how the solar system works, he didn't decide to just split the difference with the Pope so he could get a few nice editorials about "common ground" and "working together." Obama needs to stop trying to appease the bipartisanship fetishists. READ MORE Why is Obama Reluctant to Kill the Zombie Banks Threatening Our Economy? The plan laid out -- or, more accurately, sketched out -- by Tim Geithner makes it very clear that he is on the wrong side of the issue, more worried about the banking industry than the American people. Like Hank Paulson before him, Geithner appears more concerned about saving particular banks than saving the banking system. READ MORE

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Oh, About That "End" of the Obama Honeymoon ...

William Bradley | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

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William Bradley

Where Obama may have made a mistake is in being too substantively accommodating with people who are basically not going to support him except in the event of an extraterrestrial invasion.

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Republicans Say They'd Support the "Right" Stimulus Bill, But Stimulus for Them Is Only More Tax Cuts

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

If you look closely at what the Republicans are saying, this isn't a debate on the merits of this stimulus legislation, but rather another round of policy battles fought during last year's campaign.

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Just imagine: What if McCain Had Won the Election and Obama had Shafted him During the Stimulus Debate?

John Amato | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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John Amato

Um, are McCain's feelings after losing an election the big question on people's minds in the nation? I think the stimulus package is the focus of the country right now, don't you?

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Patriotic Extortion

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Imagine if the Democrats had not pre-capitulated to the Republicans on the stimulus bill. Imagine if they had forced the Republicans to actually mount a filibuster.

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Our Phone Calls Are Working, Don't Let Up!

Bill Scher | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Bill Scher

If representatives know that's what their constituents want, they will be both more inclined to keep that critical public investment from the House bill, and act with the speed.

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