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Governor Jindal, Governor Sanford... Mayor Bloomberg?

Betsy Gotbaum | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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Mayor Bloomberg refuses to extend federally funded benefits to hungry, out-of-work New Yorkers while they look for jobs. Though with his friends in the financial sector, he isn't so strict.

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The Stimulus Package and Beyond

Linda Schurman | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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We are asking the impossible of the new administration. Nobody can fix a catastrophe of this magnitude over night that is the result of deconstructing the rule of law in the financial sector for some 25 years.

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Congressional Democrats Made a Big Mistake Including Earmarks in the Spending Bill

Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Democrats in Congress could really use a lesson in the art of politics from President Obama. They have handed the Republicans a legitimate issue to complain about, and there isn't a single good reason for it.

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An Open Letter to David Axelrod

Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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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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A Progressive Approach to the Deficit

Mike Lux | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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There is a progressive way to bring fiscal responsibility back to our federal budget, a path that embraces progressive values of taking care of the poor and investing in a prosperous middle class.

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Snooks and Booker: Memories of Mardi Gras

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

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Rest in Peace Snooks. We lost New Orleans musician Snooks Eaglin this week, and when I asked my husband Jeff about his memories of their gigs back in...

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The 10% Solution

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green

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If each country can reduce defense spending by 10% each year, with the resultant savings being applied to renewable energy and climate change, that would be a nice start.

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Obama Needs an Economic Philosophy

Teryn Norris | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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

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Calling Jindal's Bluff

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

The desperation of the economic crisis and Jindal's own political ambitions certainly put him between a rock and a hard place.

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Stimulus To Create, Save Nearly 150,000 Illinois Jobs: White House

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago

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White House economists estimate the $787.2-billion federal stimulus plan will create or save 148,000 jobs in Illinois over the next two years, the Oba...

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It's Time to Treat America's Homeowners as Well as We've Been Treating Wall Street's Bankers

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

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"The banks are too big to fail" has been the mantra we've been hearing since September. But when you consider the millions of American homeowners facing foreclosure, aren't they also too big to fail?

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The Media Are the Message

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

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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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Obama Dislocates Shoulder Reaching Across the Aisle

Robert Lanham | Posted 03.18.2009 | Comedy

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"With all due respect to the president, he shouldn't have his arms and feet blocking the aisle," said Boehner, who sustained minor injuries. "Everyone knows he's lanky."

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Obama's Economic Paradox: Can You Have "Bailout" and "Stimulus" at the Same Time?

Randall Amster | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Perhaps the centerpiece of the current bill (at least for people's pockets in the short-term) is an actual weekly paycheck bump to the tune of about eight bucks.

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Obama On Republicans: 'I'm An Optimist, Not A Sap'

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

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After the trials and triumphs of his tumultuous first weeks, President Obama appears increasingly focused on ends, not means. In a conversation early ...

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Obama On Republicans: 'I'm An Optimist, Not A Sap'

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

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In an interview with columnists aboard Air Force One, President Obama talked about what he learned from the stimulus battle. Pronouncing himself impre...

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The Republican Calculus on Obama's Economic Plan

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

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This "finding our voice" stuff is all well and good for a few true believers among fiscal conservatives, but the political calculus motivating most of the Republican Party is deeply cynical.

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The Republican Bipartisan Myth

John Ridley | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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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

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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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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Fellow Republicans Attack Florida Gov. Crist For Stimulus Support

St. Petersburg Times | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Charlie Crist: statesman or sellout? Democrats may be lavishing praise on Florida's Republican governor for enthusiastically supporting the Democrats...

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