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5806 [lbo-talk] Congress' approval rating up -- rank: 1000

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114670/Congress-Approval-Rating-Jumps.aspx

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 12:34:28 PST 2009

5807 [lbo-talk] the new journalistic world -- rank: 1000

The Scoop Factory Inside Politico and the brave new world of post-print journalism. Gabriel Sherman, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 On the evening of January 22, a few hours after his administration's debut news conference, Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the cramped quarters of the White House press corps. It was meant to be a friendly event, and Obama glad-handed his way through reporters and cameramen, exchanging light banter as he went. But Politico reporte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 11:38:58 PST 2009

5808 [lbo-talk] BHO leaves Billlionaires speechless -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 16, 2009 <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/nyregion/17nyc.html> Bush s Exit Leaves Satire at Wit s End By CLYDE HABERMAN You ve already heard more than enough about collapsed stock portfolios, vanished fortunes, disappearing jobs and consumer confidence that is fading faster than the Knicks playoff hopes. Let s focus instead on a different crisis. What do you do when your raison d être starts looking more like a raisin d être kind of shriveled? If you ve a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 09:49:42 PST 2009

5809 [lbo-talk] Cheney drove Bush nuts on pardon -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_exvp_dick_cheney_outraged_president_bush.html > Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge. Sour ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 09:11:16 PST 2009

5810 [lbo-talk] Geithner's plan: a last-minute rethink -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601180.html > Late Change in Course Hobbled Rollout of Geithner's Bank Plan By Neil Irwin and Binyamin Appelbaum Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, February 17, 2009; D01 Just days before Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was scheduled to lay out his much-anticipated plan to deal with the toxic assets imperiling the financial system, he and his team made a sudden about- face. According to several sources i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 09:09:28 PST 2009

5811 [lbo-talk] billions for high-speed rail! -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] AP s brilliant Beth Fouhy takes a crack at how the states will decide how to spend their chunk of the infrastructure money. Ohio s Gov. Strickland has appointed an infrastructure czar to help determine what projects to fund. In Colorado, major decisions will be made by 11 transportation commissioners. In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick has named a real estate developer to oversee bidding for the stimulus money. The president s signature issue. There s a massive $8 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 09:05:09 PST 2009

5812 [lbo-talk] the consumer retrenchment -- rank: 1000

The collapse of the U.S. consumer: <http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/weakness-unmatched-in-35-years/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 09:02:05 PST 2009

5813 [lbo-talk] Roubini -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug, as you see below, Cockburn says there are major changes in > unemployment beancounting... > > Patrick Bond wrote: >> Doug Henwood wrote: >>>> Wasn't that # constructed rather differently back then? >>> Not really, no. > > http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02132009.html > > Every president since Reagan, particularly Clinton, has jimmied the > unemployment criteria to produce an underc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 08:50:01 PST 2009

5814 [lbo-talk] Politico: Axelrod hints pay limits not binding -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2009, at 2:34 PM, SA wrote: > Axelrod hints pay limits not binding Ha! Will there be a signing statement? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 15 12:23:32 PST 2009

5815 [lbo-talk] a fresh rant on the bailout -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote: > (I'm operating on the assumption that a nationalized BAC would be a > run-off affair, not a growth proposition) But why? That's not the way the Swedes did it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 15 05:50:18 PST 2009

5816 [lbo-talk] great movies -- was: "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2009, at 7:17 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > So, as long as y'all are on the topic of movies, if you want to tell > me about "great" movies of any type, I'll be reading and filing them > away to go rent some time. Dunno. I think the last thing I saw was "Elmo's Potty Time."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 14 20:29:49 PST 2009

5817 [lbo-talk] Notes Towards a Critiq8ue of Progress (1) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The poem contains the ideas of the poet. The child contains the > genetic information of the parents. Part of you is in Ivan. The poem > and the child didn't spring up ex nihilo. Sure. But the poem and the child end up external to their authors, living lives of their own. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 14 20:28:56 PST 2009

5818 [lbo-talk] Please help Iraqi Refugee Family Moving to New Paltz -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Mitchel Cohen wrote: > This is a very beautiful thing Yup indeed, but Mitch - you never answered the question about whether you think that blowing up electrical grids is a good idea. The world awaits your answer. Thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 14 18:41:10 PST 2009

5819 [lbo-talk] Notes Towards a Critiq8ue of Progress (1) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The Christian god stands in relation to the universe as creator to > created. The world is his idea. Moreover, he BECAME FLESH. > > You guys really need to read some theology. :) A poem isn't external to the poet? A child isn't external to his or her parent?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 14 18:05:01 PST 2009

5820 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 4:06 PM, SA wrote: > Yeah, but it's often forgotten that the collapse was the only thing > that (retrospectively) saved Reagan's reputation among a lot of > conservatives. There was an amazing amount of Reagan-hatred on the > right toward the end of his term. National Review ran a cover on the > INF Treaty: "Reagan's Suicide Pact." Then when the USSR collapsed, > they turned around and claimed credit on behalf of themselves and > Reagan, pretend ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 13:14:54 PST 2009