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Progressive Breakfast: Empty Criticisms Of Econ Recovery
Republicans Increasingly Critical Of Economic Recovery Plan W. Post lists Republican complaints about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan: "Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who gave Vice President Biden a 17-page list of spending requests, said he opposes the...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/23/2009
Republicans Increasingly Critical Of Economic Recovery Plan W. Post lists Republican complaints about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan: "Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who gave Vice President Biden a 17-page list of spending requests, said he opposes the...
Progressive Breakfast: More Short-Term Punch?
Does Econ Recovery Need More Short-Term Punch? Time reports some Senators want to pack more short-term punch: "Not helping matters is a report from the Congressional Budget Office which came out Tuesday showing that only 38% of the $350 billion in appropriated funds...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/22/2009
Does Econ Recovery Need More Short-Term Punch? Time reports some Senators want to pack more short-term punch: "Not helping matters is a report from the Congressional Budget Office which came out Tuesday showing that only 38% of the $350 billion in appropriated funds...
Is Budget Office Being Used To Derail Stimulus?
Conservative leaders are using news of a Congressional Budget Office report released this week to argue that much of what is in President Obama's economic recovery plan is a waste of money because most of the money can't be spent before at least 2011, and thus won't...
Obama: Follow the Philosophical Footsteps of Abraham
Symbols of the 16th president of the United States surround the 44th. And they did so from the beginning. Barack Obama, formerly a Senator from Illinois, announced his plan to run for president on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday from the steps of the Old State Capitol in...
Obama's Summons
"A man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath." It was not the words, but this transcendent reality that evoked the tears at Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday. The...
Progressive Breakfast: Post-Inaugural Hangover Late Breakfast
What Now?
America's Mountaintop Moment
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountain top. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/21/2009
What Now?
