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Democrats try to lower economic expectations
AP on MSNBC ^ | 25 Jan

Posted on 01/25/2009 7:11:20 PM PST by flowerplough

The White House warned Sunday that the country could face a long and painful financial recovery, even with major government intervention to stimulate the economy and save financial institutions.

“We’re off and running, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Vice President Joe Biden, taking the lead on a theme echoed by other Democratic officials on the Sunday talk shows.

At the end of the Obama administration’s first week, the party in power at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue sought to lower expectations for a quick fix despite legislation expected to pass by next month that would pump billions of dollars into the economy. Democrats also opened the door for even more government aid to struggling banks beyond the $700 billion bailout already in the pipeline.

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Republicans want the recovery package tilted more toward tax cuts and have questioned whether government spending programs will revive the economy in the short-term.

“I just think there’s a lot of slow-moving government spending in this program that won’t work,” House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said. “We can’t borrow and spend our way back to prosperity.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bho44
Ask not what Obama can do for you?
1 posted on 01/25/2009 7:11:21 PM PST by flowerplough
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To: flowerplough
I only wish that O’bummer had tried to lower expectations
BEFORE his election.
2 posted on 01/25/2009 7:14:16 PM PST by topfile
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To: flowerplough
America, YOU'VE BEEN PUNKED!
3 posted on 01/25/2009 7:17:20 PM PST by tobyhill (Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
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To: flowerplough

B-b-b-b-but The One said that all he had to do was waive his hand and would be well.


4 posted on 01/25/2009 7:20:53 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: flowerplough

funny!


5 posted on 01/25/2009 7:21:10 PM PST by ken21
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To: flowerplough

“Nice to meet ya! Can I call ya ‘Joe’? Because I’ve got a few ZINGERS I wanna get in later.” ~ Tina Fey as ‘Our Beloved Sarah’

The JOKES just write themselves, don’t they? ;)

I warned ya!

Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Joe Biden:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

NARAL: 100%
Planned Parenthood: 100%
National Right to Life: 0%
Sportsmen and Animals Alliance: 0%
The Humane Society: 100%
National Tax Limitation Committee: “F” Grade
Americans for Tax Reform: 10%
National Association of Manufacturers: 0%
ACLU: 92 - 100%
NAACP: 100%
Iranian American PAC: 100%
NEA: A+ Rating (Teacher’s Union)
League of Conservation Voters: 100%
Family Research Council: “O” Rating
Citizen’s for Global Solutions: A+ Rating
Jews for Peace in Palestine & Israel: -1%
Brady Campaign: 95-100% (Gun Grabbers)
NRA: “F” Rating
American Immigration Lawyers Association: 100%
AFL-CIO: 100% (Near 100% ratings on ALL Unions)
Center for Security Policy: 21%
Population Connection: 100% (These are the ‘Zero-Growth’ freaks)
All “End Poverty Now By Throwing Money Down a Rathole” groups: 100%

This guy is to the LEFT of Obama, if you can imagine it!

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279

Man, I WISH we were bitchin’ about McCain/Palin right about now...Elections MATTER, People. Win them, and then YOU can write History...or destroy America, as it were. *SHRUG*


6 posted on 01/25/2009 7:21:21 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: topfile
"I only wish that O’bummer had tried to lower expectations BEFORE his election. "

This woman is going to be so disappointed...she'll probably use the 'N' word on Obama eventually.

7 posted on 01/25/2009 7:23:30 PM PST by blam
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To: flowerplough

Here ya go, Present Obamalamadingdong. Just print a bunch of these and everything will be just hunky-dorey(sp?).

8 posted on 01/25/2009 7:25:56 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: flowerplough
Ask not what Obama can do for you?

Ask what you can do for Obama.

We've come a long way baby!

9 posted on 01/25/2009 7:26:20 PM PST by mort56
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To: flowerplough
1st line says it all

The White House warned Sunday that the country could face a long and painful financial recovery, even with major government intervention to stimulate the economy and save financial institutions.

...passing the problem off as being the solution...
10 posted on 01/25/2009 7:32:37 PM PST by just-brad
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To: flowerplough

Total bs.
the dems know this is a disaster, just like fdr. They don’t care as long as they make people poor and dependent on governmental largess.


11 posted on 01/25/2009 7:51:42 PM PST by genghis
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To: flowerplough

Slight correction...

long and painful financial recovery BECAUSE OF major government intervention


12 posted on 01/25/2009 8:47:09 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: flowerplough

“The White House warned Sunday that the country could face a long and painful financial recovery, even with major government intervention to stimulate the economy and save financial institutions. “

YES WE CAN! Oh wait.......


13 posted on 01/25/2009 8:56:35 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: flowerplough

14 posted on 01/25/2009 8:59:23 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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