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The Speech Obama Didn’t Give

This was, in many ways, Obama’s malaise speech — chiding a displeased nation for setting their expectations too high, and telling us we would need to do a lot of this “change” ourselves; blasting a Supreme Court for their recent decisions on campaign restrictions Obama glided past in his own multi-million dollar campaign for the White House; wagging his finger at Republicans who, now that they have a paper-thin one vote margin to block some of the president’s plans, are apparently expected to govern as equals.

Paul Krugman and the Future of the Marketplace

In the wake of a stunning political result in Massachusetts, it’s time to assess the future Scott Brown dictates for the market, for the Democrats, and for the country. It’s the third week of January 2010, and here’s the latest edition of Coffee and Markets, a weekly podcast from The New Ledger on politics, policy and the marketplace with Francis Cianfrocca, brought to you by BigGovernment.com.

“Now We Are Haggling About The Price.”

Mary Landrieu wants you to know that she didn’t decide to support health care reform simply because Louisiana was getting an extra $100 million.

Bribery

Mary Landrieu is getting $100 million to support health care reform.

- March 20, 2010 -

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