December 2010
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therealsaisai asked: Re: your last post on public opinion of health care reform: what do you think about the relative lack of people in the "somewhat unfavorable" category? That's the most interesting statistic, imo.
links to a few of the best things i've read in a...
Heilemann: Why the Tax Fight Is Obama’s Pivotal Moment
On why the Democrats should stop whining about Obama’s alleged compromise wrt to the tax deal:
“they [the Democrats] are primarily to blame for putting Obama in the position where he had to make the trade he did. Although the White House didn’t push the matter hard, the president is correct when he says that he preferred to...
zing? →
“Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years - which just happen to be the two...
This is cool.