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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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Obama Photo Album Subtly Digs GOP, Says They Asked For His Autograph

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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The Obama White House has put out a slideshow of 23 pictures documenting the process by which the President and Congress forged a voting coalition in ...

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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'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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Dems Fed Up With McCain: "Angry Old Defeated Candidate"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

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Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with the brash political attacks Sen. John McCain has launched against Barack Obama in the weeks since t...

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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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Obama: Stimulus Bill "Major Milestone On Our Road To Recovery" (VIDEO)

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, savoring his first major victory in Congress, said Saturday that newly passed $787 billion economic stimulu...

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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

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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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Gregg: Obama Never Could Get GOP Support On Stimulus (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Appearing on CNBC the day after he abruptly withdrew his nomination for Commerce Secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg made a rather blunt admission about the pa...

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What's In The Stimulus Bill For You: Tax Breaks And Benefits

New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

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All the talk the last couple of days about the stimulus bill was about compromise and slimming down. What is left, though, is a huge spending bill, wi...

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15 Stimulus Expenditures That Could Matter Most

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.15.2009 | Business

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The final outline of the landmark stimulus bill poised to be passed by Congress is basically done. All that is left is putting pen to paper before bot...

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DSCC To Go After Republicans On Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez will go after vulnerable Senate Republicans on Thursday for their failure to su...

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Is Stimulus Victory Obama's Opening Act Or Sign Of Reduced Expectations?

New York Times | RICHARD W. STEVENSON | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON �" It is a quick, sweet victory for the new president, and potentially a historic one. The question now is whether the $789 billion econo...

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Stimulus Deal Reached: $789 Billion

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Moving with lightning speed, the Democratic-controlled Congress and White House agreed Wednesday on a compromise $790 billion econo...

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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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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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Steele's Bling Bling Talk: Kaine Levels The Axe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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For what seems like the first time since he took over the reins of the DNC, Tim Kaine is taking the axe to the opposition. The Virginia Democrat calle...

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The Voice Of American Pragmatism

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Decades of Reagan, Bush and now Limbaugh Republicanism have created such a toxic environment for American pragmatism that anyone who dared to step in that direction has been ridiculed and silenced. That ended last night.

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House vs. Senate Stimulus Bills

ProPublica | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Some highlights: The House version would spend $60 billion more on education -- the Senate version adds more than $100 billion for tax cuts to individuals and families.

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Republicans Build a Roadblock to Nowhere

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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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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$3 trillion! _ Senate, Fed, Treasury attack crisis

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — On a single day filled with staggering sums, the Obama administration, Federal Reserve and Senate attacked the deepening economic c...

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Obama's Press Conference Answers Three Formal Grade-Levels Higher Than Bush's First

Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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I copied each transcript into separate Word documents, deleted the intros and all reporter questions, leaving just the unscripted answers to all questions. Then I ran Word's readability tool.

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Stimulating

Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

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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