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Richard Burr Stimulus Hypocrisy: Opposes Recovery, Then Flaunts Funds

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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When Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earlier this year, only three Republican senators voted in favor of the legislation. N...

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Susan Collins: Fellow Republican Senator Backstabbed Me

US News and World Report | Katherine Skiba | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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When Maine's two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, broke ranks with all but one other Republican and voted "Yes" on President Barack Oba...

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Ryan Grim

Schumer To GOP Govs On Stimulus: Take It Or Leave It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) has a message for Republican governors hemming and hawing over whether to accept the stimulus money Uncle Sam is mailing t...

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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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GOP Rep. Cao Faces Recall Petition For Voting Against Stimulus

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Bayou Buzz reports that Rep. Joseph Cao, the Republican who replaced scandalized Democrat William Jefferson, now faces a recall petition over his stim...

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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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South Carolina's Sanford Hedges: We Might Take The Money

AP | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — South Carolina's Republican governor says his state may accept money from President Barack Obama's stimulus plan even though he is ...

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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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House GOP Checks Out

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Jim Jaffe

While it makes a lot of sense for individual House Republicans to oppose Obama initiatives, claims that such self-interest somehow comprises a national comeback strategy is delusional.

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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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Ryan Grim

Specter: Republicans Support Stimulus, Don't Want 'Fingerprints' On It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who broke with his party to support President Obama's stimulus package last week, said before the final vote Friday that mo...

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Fighting the New Deal All Over Again

Kim Phillips-Fein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Kim Phillips-Fein

As the idea of the New Deal comes back in style, so does opposition to the vision of activist government.

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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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Sam Stein

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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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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GOP Group Threatens To Campaign Against Republican Stimulus Backers

Fox News | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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A GOP group is putting Republican lawmakers "on notice," threatening to campaign against anyone who breaks ranks to vote for the more than $800 billio...

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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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