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1846 [lbo-talk] Democrats drop the collective bargaining issue in the recall campaigns -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > It is not only cowardly, but also > suicidal - with the unions gone, the Dems will be reduced to a junior > affiliate of the Republican Party if they survive at all. Adolph Reed nailed it years ago: the Dems' strategy is to seize the center and let the Reps become a collection of right-wing nuts.

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Date:	Fri Jul 15 10:31:50 PDT 2011

1847 [lbo-talk] blog post: Scabbing at the Huffington Post -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2011, at 11:31 AM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > Doug: > > "I wonder how Nathan is defending Obama these days." > > If you can defend Gore/Lieberman, you can defend anybody. I didn't doubt that he was - I was just wondering how. Nathan used to be the gold standard for Dem apologetics. Doug

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1848 [lbo-talk] blog post: Scabbing at the Huffington Post -- rank: 1000

> Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2011/07/15/scabbing-for-the-huffington-post/ > I have a Facebook friend who is a prominent liberal activist and writer. He tells us on his website that My labor experience dates back to working as a staff organizer in Las Vegas for the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) International Union starting in 1988, then serving on the Executive Board of UC-Berkeley s Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE/UAW) in the early ...

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1849 [lbo-talk] the bookmaker's POV -- rank: 1000

[press release from an Irish bookie] PADDY POWER PRESS RELEASE OBAMA FEELING THE HEAT AS MOODY S THREATENS DOWNGRADE (14 July 2011) US President Barack Obama is beginning to feel the heat after credit rating agency Moody s formally put the US rating under review for a possible downgrade. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is now quoting just 9/2 that the US will lose its AAA status while the good news for the States is the debt ceiling is odds-on at 1/8 to be raised before the August 2 deadline. By dow ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 14 05:58:14 PDT 2011

1850 [lbo-talk] budget drama: Reps "checkmated"? -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] Good Thursday morning. BEHIND THE CURTAIN - The office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) provides its account of yesterday afternoon's testy meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, which ran from 4:24 p.m. to 6:16 p.m.: "Over the last several days, the White House has been walking back the savings on the Biden number. Thursday it was $2 trillion, Monday it was $1.7-1.8 trillion, Tuesday it was $1.6-1.7-1.8 trillion. This morning, our staff met with White House ...

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1851 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:18 PM, brad wrote: > Didn't exit polls show that people were more worried about McCain's > age than Obama's race? And the man is *scary*. A friend of mine stood next to him in an elevator once and said he vibrated with anxiety and rage. That came across. Obama was serene and hopeful. Doug

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1852 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:14 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > What I'm saying is this: if Obama had run based on the program he actually implemented, he would not have won. You may be giving voters too much credit. Three-quarters of Bush voters in 2004 thought he supported the Kyoto protocol. They voted for Obama because he was not-Bush, and to a lesser extent because McCain was an annoying asshole. Doug

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1853 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 2:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Woj, this is a deeply racist country. You're telling me they elected a black man president because he was more republican than the republicans? > > I don't think so. They wanted a change. To the left. And were willing to vote for black man to get it. You know, maybe it's not as racist as you think. Lots of people did vote for the black guy with the funny name. Doug

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1854 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Except for the little point that it was that left constituency that elected him. > He ran on a progressive platform. That was his base, but they would have voted for any Democrat - probably even Joe Lieberman. But the swing votes were all the independents who were just anti-Bush. His platform was rather vague, but did include a pledge to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Doug

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1855 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > And it is not there not because O chooses to ignore it, but > because its impact on electoral outcomes is negligible. Not sure what you mean about the left, but there's strong opposition - 60% or more - to cutting Medicare and Social Security. Most people would like to get the hell out of Afghanistan. But they'll vote for him in 2012 anyway. So it's not that their numbers are negligible - it's that they keep pulling that lever, or filling in t ...

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1856 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:20 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> > > The other thing to consider is this: if Summers *had* been for more > stimulus back then, don't you think we would have gotten it? > > ------- > Yes, I do. I'm sure that Obama & his political advisors said that nothing bigger - esp over the magic trillion mark - could get through Congress. As it is, he had to ...

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1857 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug writes: > >> Summers was an advocate for stimulus. > > And yet: he was only an advocate for doing "the bare minimum" -- and Romer says he was a bully, and got his way. He claims otherwise. Via Brad de Long: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/07/01/am-jeremy-hobsons-full-interview-with-larry-summers/ HOBSON: Well you mentioned payroll taxes. You recently called for a new stimulus in the form of a ...

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1858 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:57 AM, // ravi wrote: >> OK, here's an unprofessional speculation: maybe it's personal. Maybe the president just doesn't like the kind of people who tell him counterintuitive things, who say that the government is not like a family, that it's not right for the government to tighten its belt when Americans are tightening theirs, that unemployment is not caused by lack of the right skills. Certainly just about all the people who might have tried to make that argument h ...

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1859 [lbo-talk] what makes America great -- rank: 1000

[from Politico's Morning Money] TALKER: DOLLAR COIN BOONDOGGLE - NPR has another great piece on dollar coins airing on Morning Edition. The gist: People are ordering dollar coins from the U.S. Mint to rack up frequent flier miles on their credit cards then depositing the coins back in the bank to pay their credit card bills. The result: Free plane tickets! http://n.pr/oP9YIW

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1860 [lbo-talk] crx -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News ------------------------------------------------- CORRECTED: President Barack Obama's reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised a combined $86 million between April and June, blowing past the combined $60 million goal set by both groups at the start of the fundraising quarter. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina announced the total in a video released before dawn Wednesday, touting the 552,462 donors who contributed as "more grassroots support at ...

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