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 Barack Obama, Budgets and Spending, Economy, Elections and Election reform, Financial regulation, Foreclosure and Housing, Labor issues/Worker's rights, Obama/Progressives relationship, Social Security & Medicare  1 Response »
Jan 262011
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION: NOT “SATISFYINGLY PROGRESSIVE.” (Reuters) (The Nation) The Nation’s John Nichols grades the president’s State of the Union and finds some things to applaud but many more that ought to be troubling for progressives. What Nichols calls Obama’s “Dwight Eisenhower speech” was big on unity, hopeful rhetoric and a supposedly [...]

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“Centrist” Obama Will Propose Spending Freeze in State of the Union

 Barack Obama, Budgets and Spending  3 Responses »
Jan 252011

Breaking before President Obama delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night is the revelation that he will propose a spending freeze on all non-security and non-”entitlement” portions of the federal budget, keeping a major chunk of domestic government spending at the level pf the budget for fiscal year 2011. While the [...]

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