Word: progressives
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...This is riskier for taxpayers," says Andrew Jakabovics, an associate director at the Center for American Progress. Worse, it's not clear the program would do anything to boost the economy. Yes, consumer spending is dropping, but some economists think that is a function of confidence, not credit. "Paulson seems to be working under the impression that when it comes to consumer spending liquidity is the issue," says Dean Baker, who co-founded the Center for Economic Policy Research. "People aren't buying because they just lost a lot of money and might be about to lose their job." Lastly...
...statement to the Department of Justice that Canary had "kept up with every detail of the [Siegelman] case." If true, Conyers told Mukasey, this raises "serious concerns" because "it is difficult to imagine the reason for a recused [U.S. Attorney] to remain so involved in the day-to-day progress of the matter under recusal...
...answers, I decided to check in with the Center for American Progress (CAP) - the think tank run by Obama's transition chief, John Podesta - which has drafted a green-energy stimulus plan of its own. "We identified $50 billion in programs that are ready to go immediately," says Bracken Hendricks of CAP. "The package would create 2 million jobs across the skill spectrum, from blue collar to high tech, and in almost every area of the country. There was huge congressional appetite for this even before the economic crisis...
...Obama's nonconfrontational response impede progress on resolving the dispute with Moscow over missile defense? Probably not. Given the Democrat's ambiguous position on the issue, Russia is unlikely to accept any U.S. deal offered in the interregnum after his election. Yet Obama's "no drama" reaction at least avoided confrontation and bought him some time to pull together a foreign policy team and decide where he really stands on the deployment of missile defense to Europe. As former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage used to say, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while looking...
...sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...