My story on the negotiations on the bail out bill on the Hill. The point that Paulson and Bernanke made about pensions is interesting. Despite all the laments that Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement, this is a massive market: more than $1.9 trillion in DB pensions, $2.5 trillion in 401(k) savings and $4.75 trillion in IRAs …
Our colleague Justin Fox is live blogging the Senate Banking Committee hearing I’m at this morning on Capitol Hill. The main attractions are Paulson, Bernanke and Chris Cox. So far, the most colorful moment came before the hearing started when Code Pink – an anti-war group that haunts congressional hearings – heckled Senators …
They were never really going to compete in 50 states, but the changes also whittle down the number of swing states where Obama’s playing. Back in June, when Plouffe laid out his strategy they said they would compete in as many as 25 states – given their advertising priorities that list has dwindled to 17 at best. Almost uniformly, …
Putting aside the political nature of McCain’s statements, our colleague Justin Fox has an excellent analysis of McCain’s Fannie/Freddie arguement here.
Bush:
In our nation’s history, there have been moments that require us to come together across party lines to address major challenges. This is such a moment. Last night Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke and Chairman Cox met with congressional leaders of both parties, and they had a very good meeting. I appreciate the willingness
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The Obama folks have a new video out today with David Plouffe asking for money not just to defend against “McCain’s latest lies” but to fund their ground game. In the video Plouffe “opens up the hood a little bit” and tells supporters that they’re budgeting a whopping $39,300,000 for the state of Florida alone – just one of the …
First, a disclaimer: every Democratic member of Congress is absolutely committed to helping the U.S. economy recover and wishes that the down turn hadn’t happened.
That said, the economic crisis couldn’t have come at a better time as far as a lot of Democrats are concerned. Last week Dems were wringing their hands over the Obama …
The Obama campaign this morning is warning folks that they mean business – and they are taking the gloves off (again). As far as they’re concerned, the General Election starts today. In a memo, campaign manager David Plouffe says:
A debate about delivering change is a debate we’re happy to have. Because no matter how many times
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I woke up this morning and did a double take at my blackberry: only 20 new messages today? And then I remembered, it’s 911 and the Alex Conants and Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza’s of the world are taking the day off – at least publicly. No political tv commercials, no spam about what the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editorial board is …
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<p><em>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</em><br />
A <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838959,00.html">dispatch</a> from the road on how the Obama folks have handled, and are handling, the Palin surprise.</p>
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<p><em>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</em><br />
I’m watching McCain on TV, like most of America. I know the backdrop has been solid colors for most of the speakers, with a larger image above them, but that comes from watching the convention the past few days. For anyone tuning in tonight what they see, for the most part, is McCain in front of a blue screen — …</p>
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<p>In the Obama campaign’s first reaction (if you don’t count <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416581,00.html">Gibbs</a> and Biden on the morning <a href="http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/09/hotline_after_d_441.html">shows</a> and the traveling staff’s guffaws watching the speech last night) David Axelrod came back on the plane and <a href="http://i.timeinc.net/time/2008/podcast/axelrod_090408.mp3">gaggled</a> with us about Palin’s <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838553,00.html">speech</a> before taking off to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Obama watched part, but not all of Palin’s …</p>
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