WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's transition team is resisting Bush administration overtures to coordinate more on the financial-sector rescue, convinced t...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 01.04.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama's refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confront...
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN and DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
CHICAGO - Barack Obama decried the state of the economy Wednesday for the fifth time in 10 days. But the president-elect and his team are resisting ov...
Yahoo! News | Matthew Benjamin and Julianna Goldman | Posted 12.14.2008 | Home
President-elect Barack Obama is pushing Congress this year to approve as much as $50 billion to save cash-starved U.S. automakers and appoint a czar o...
Politico | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
There may be just one president at a time, but when it comes to the $700 billion bailout package, Barack Obama's team is getting a toe in the door. T...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain accused Barack Obama of "phoning it in" when it came to hammering out a bailout package for Wall Street, a day after his campaign rel...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
With members of Congress, President Bush and John McCain each taking various amounts of blame for the failure to pass a financial bailout package, a q...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
A prominent GOP strategist said on Monday that John McCain handled his role in the bailout process poorly and would ultimately be hurt politically by ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
John McCain strategist Steve Schmidt and Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod went head to head on "Meet The Press" Sunday morning. Here they are tal...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
The progressive wing of the House Democratic caucus reacted angrily Thursday evening to the news that Barack Obama opposes attempts to add bankruptcy ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama rejected the proposal -- put forward by John McCain today -- that the two presidential candidates leave the campaign trail, delay Friday'...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home
The bailout bill will enable Obama to assume one of his favorites stances -- the progressive who bridges differences. He can claim that the unified Democrats dramatically improved a flawed and self-interested Republican bill.
Bloomberg | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
For the first time since 1932 a presidential election is taking place in the midst of a genuine financial crisis. The reaction of the candidates was r...
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN and DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 01.07.2009 | Home