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Conservatives too. There was an AM radio guy, he said, "Yes, this guy's right. He's right that Obama and the leftist media are trying to make you feel like things are worse than they really are. He's right that Obama needs to stop with the stimulus package." It's not at all what I meant. But he grabbed onto it and so did all these other conservatives and some websites, saying this guy has to be a conservative. This is a conservative point of view...
...yourself to schedule a ‘luncheon’ with someone from the A.D.? Or to have dinner with a Delphic member? These weren’t just to-do lists I’m talking about, Alana. These were plans of social action more intricate than the Stimulus Package.” As daybreak approached, I left Lamont. Heading down Mount Auburn Street back to Winthrop, I couldn’t help but see the outline of a boy knocking on the door of the Phoenix. As I moved closer, the pounding grew louder and more desperate, echoing...
...when it came to the stimulus package, an urgently necessary and popular measure, it took significant concessions to get three Republicans (all from states where Obama is wildly popular) on board to clear the filibuster, and, aside from them, no Republican even came to the table. This may only be the beginning of a long series of filibusters to Obama initiatives and judicial appointments that continue through the off-year 2010 elections, when the party out of power would ordinarily be expected to win back some seats. Even if Obama’s personal popularity may be hard to overcome...
Still, as Democrats weigh another bank bailout and a potential second stimulus bill, the global-warming legislation may get knocked another rung down the ladder - a terrible waste of a rare opportunity for dramatic action, in the eyes of U.S. environmentalists still smarting from the Bush Administration's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol. "Right now we have a degree of flexibility [regarding] what we need to do and what other countries are willing to do," says David Doniger, policy director at the NRDC's Climate Center. "That tremendous opportunity may be lost at this moment if this drags...
...chairman Chris Dodd suggested one of the more severe solutions: that the government tax 100% of the bonuses, thereby recouping the losses. It may have been overcompensation, so to speak, on Dodd's part. The National Republican Senatorial Committee was quick to point out that Dodd had amended the stimulus plan to make a specific "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009." That exception gives cover to the AIG bonuses - though it should be noted, as Dodd's aides do, that the Senator did not know about the AIG bonuses at the time the bill...