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Obama Stimulus Speech: "Time For Action Is Now" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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UPDATE 2/5 at 7:00PM: Despite reports of tension between Obama and congressional Democrats, Nancy Pelosi emphasized that they remain the president's ...

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Stimulate Me!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

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Experts seem relatively unified, if such a thing is possible, on the issue of direct economic stimulus to every taxpayer. They're against it.

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Stimulus: Dems Don't Have The Votes To Pass

AP/Huffington Post | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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The cost of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan is now above $900 billion after the Senate added money for medical research and tax breaks...

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House Dems, Republicans Brandish Results Of Same Stimulus Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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House Democrats brandished a Gallup poll out Tuesday showing that 75 percent of Americans want Congress to pass some version of President's Obama's st...

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House GOP Releases Ridiculous List Defending Stimulus Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

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So, House Republicans, they just hates themselves some stimulus package! And they've made it clear with their unanimity of opposition and the holy sn...

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House Republicans Want Senate Colleagues To Block Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama's stimulus package, as they themselves did in the l...

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Will The Stimulus Do the Job? What Should we Do?

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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We have to recognize we do not live in a perfect world or a world of our choosing. There is no question that the government must act. But how -- and what is the likely impact?

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Courting the Jester: The Slippery Right's Love Affair With Limbaugh

Jane Devin | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

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Limbaugh isn't just a barker, but a godhead with a loyal legion of followers hailing from the furthest backwoods shacks to the hallowed halls of Washington.

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Lessons from the Losers -- How Not to Cave

Matt Stewart | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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It's essential to draw a distinction between rigidly opposing a terrible idea and opposing good one. The Iraq War is a terrible idea based on a lie. By turn, the stimulus package is a pretty good one.

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Dem Senator Blasts Post: 'Absolutely Absurd'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Byron Dorgan, a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, blasted the Washington Post editorial board as "absolutely absurd" Thursday for its object...

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GOP Rep: We Can't Be "The Party Of No"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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In an editorial in Politico, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor says that Republicans can't simply be the "no" party. At a moment when the country nee...

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Recovery.Gov: Obama Putting Stimulus Package Online

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

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In an address Wednesday, President Obama said that, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes (as it presumably will), taxpayers will be ...

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Experts: Obama Stimulus Plan Should Boost Economy

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Economists think the stimulus plan that the House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday, while far from perfect, will help stimulate the moribund ...

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All Tax Cuts are Not Created Equal

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Is Obama so intent on his goal of passing his economic stimulus plan with at least 20-25 Republican votes in the Senate that he will sacrifice good policy for consensus?

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Obama Offers Proposals In Stimulus Plan That "Appear Designed Specifically To Attract Republicans"

Washington Post | Paul Kane, Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

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President Obama ramped up his personal lobbying campaign for an economic recovery package that would cost at least $820 billion, holding his first bip...

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'Cash for Clunkers' Finds its Congressional Sponsors

Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

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How's this for a stimulus plan? A trio of senators introduced legislation today allowing owners of gas-guzzlers to trade their vehicles in for thousa...

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Obama Team Using Campaign Tactics To Sell Stimulus Plan

Bloomberg | Lorraine Woellert and Hans Nichols | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama's top political aides are transplanting their campaign tactics to the policy arena, using data from polls and focus group...

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Obama To Ban Earmarks From Stimulus Bill

MSNBC | Domenico Montanaro | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are goin...

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How to End the Recession

Alan Schram | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

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What should be intuitively clear is that spending is no way to repair our woes. Indeed, spending irresponsibly is exactly what got us in the current lugubrious position.

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Weekly Audit: Curbing Decline in 2009 (Economy NewsLadder)

The Media Consortium | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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The first step in rebuilding a government that actually responds to problems before they reach the bailout stage will be Obama's highly anticipated economic recovery package.

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The Change We Need

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

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A big time recovery plan for Main Street focused on the investments we need is one key element of the change we need. And one that President Obama surely supports.

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Paul Krugman: "It Looks As If The Economy Is Really Falling Off A Cliff"

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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In 1999, economist Paul Krugman wrote a book entitled "The Return of Depression Economics," which examined the string of economic crises that plagued ...

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House Preparing $500 Billion Stimulus Bill For Obama

Reuters | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met leading governors on Monday to discuss the size and shape of an economic stimulus package that ...

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New Stimulus Goal: Move From Big Negatives To Zero Growth

New York Times | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

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Now that the government has spent nearly $1.4 trillion to stabilize the financial system, economists and policy makers -- and the president-elect -- a...

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Democrats Scale Back Stimulus Plan

Washington Post | Paul Kane | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

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Congressional Democrats yesterday abandoned plans to offer a wide-ranging economic stimulus plan next week, putting off any chance that the federal go...

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