Ideas for an Auto Plan - GM Edition w/ Poll

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 2:23 PM PST

2008/11/14 · 14:23

It now looks like the Senate will debate an auto industry rescue package next week. The outline is a bit fuzzy but the bill is being prepared by Sen. Levin (D-MI), maybe with the help of Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) who is the co-chair of the auto caucus. Are we in favor of a rescue plan for the autos. Why? My premise is to help prop up the economy and preserve the few remaining good jobs that exist in the auto firms. So what should such a bill entail? Certainly there must be more than just a big check to GM, Ford and/or Chrysler.

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Should Congress Do an Auto Rescue Package?

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Should Congress Do an Auto Rescue Package?

Yes

19 votes

15 votes

Maybe, if the terms are correct

29 votes

Alaska Senate Numbers Closing Fast

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 3:17 PM PST

2008/11/12 · 15:17

The Elections Division in Alaska has updated totals for the Senate race between convicted felon Ted Stevens and Mayor Mark Begich. The new count has them just under 1000 votes apart. So in today's counting Mayor Begich has picked up over 2000 votes.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 3:24 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 15:24

Some random thoughts on numbers and storylines as I finally relax and let things sink in after an incredible campaign season.

Can Republicans count? Looking at the numbers why on earth did McCain and Palin get sent so much to Pennsylavania in the closing weeks of the campaign when Ohio and Virginia were so much closer? McCain and Palin went to the suburban and exurban counties and still lost in Bucks and Montgomery Counties by big margins. This was an impressive victory in PA for Obama. What did they think was going to happen there?

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What is the first issue for the new team?

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What is the first issue for the new team?

Forget everything else its the transition. Good people make a big difference.

7 votes

It's the economy stupid. Create some jobs.

10 votes

Planning to end the war.

2 votes

Health care reform task force to make the Obama Plan a reality now.

0 votes

Trim the deficit.

0 votes

Financial regulation to steady the markets for debt, equity, mortgages, etc...

3 votes

Other (explain below)

3 votes

Ohio Part III and Barack in Cincy

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 12:43 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 12:43

The last 30 hours have been a whirlwind as we end our visit to the battleground of Ohio. Sitting in the Dayton airport heading back to New England and reflecting on the last day and a half of closing the deal for Senator Obama.

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 4:50 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 16:50

Sitting outside the public library in Germantown (Montgomery County) Ohio because my snowbird in-laws do not have wifi in their home. Tired after running around my wife's hometown and neighboring town, but the door knocking has been going well. We are just a few days and some hard work away from victory. I am sure of it. Come here and see why this is so important.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 2:46 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 14:46

Two Massachusetts liberals flew into Dayton this morning to begin a weekend of GOTV in my wife's hometown. First up, a 1000 person strong rally for Jill and Joe Biden in Kettering, OH.

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 6:18 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 06:18

My wife and I live in a small town north of Boston in a neighborhood full of Obama signs (and a few McCain). We have heeded the call on a few occasions to travel north into New Hampshire to knock on doors for Obama and the Democratic team. Because my wife is from a small town just outside Dayton, OH we are doing our swing state project there. Tomorrow we will travel to Ohio to spend Saturday, Sunday and Monday working for Obama.

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 10:23 AM PDT

2008/10/23 · 10:23

My analysis has nothing to do with the pitching of Hamels or Lidge or the clutch hitting performance of Rollins, Howard and Utley. First let's go back in time.

To borrow a phrase from Dickens....1980...it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a long suffering sports fan from Philadelphia it had been a remarkable run. The Phillies with Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton rose quietly during the mid to late 1970's. They added Pete Rose in 1979. Then they put it all together in 1980. After a classic playoff with Houston that had one's heart jumping and falling then jumping again they made it to the World Series against the KC Royals.

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 11:03 AM PDT

2008/10/19 · 11:03

Fareed Zakaria has just announced that he is voting for Barack Obama. At the conslusion of his show GPS on CNN the essayist and commentator made a serious analysis of the strengths and wekanesses of both candidates. His conclusion is that Senator Obama is the candidate of the future. Maybe we can use this as an open thread on endorsements?

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Saturday October 18, 2008 · 7:34 PM PDT

2008/10/18 · 19:34

I have shaken my head in dispair at the silly season of the campaign now that McCain and the Republicans have decided that the election forcasts are so dire that they must go beyond merely lying to trying to create a parallel universe of political fantasy. I speak of course of the charges that Obama's policies are socialist. The charge by McCain reminds me of the old story told by Michael Harrington (The Other America) about testifying before a Senate Committee in the late 1970's about the Humphrey-Hawkins Full employment Bill. He was asked by Senator Humphrey if the Bill was socialist. Harrington responded. "No Senator, it isn't half that good." We could really use Mike (who passed away from cancer twenty years ago) today to set the record straight.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 7:37 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 19:37

Here are some thoughts on the debate tonight.

McCain has praised the corporate tax rate of Ireland on the same day that their government announced they are officially in recession. Obviously, the corporate tax rate within a reasonable range has little to do with the health of an economy. Does he really know anything about economic stimulus? Not likely, because McCain has adopted the Republican orthodoxy that stimulus is through tax cuts and federal reserve interest rate cuts. Unfortunately, that is why we have huge deficits and why people made crazy loans because their costs of capital were low when interest rates were near zero.

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 6:52 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 18:52

...to the companies that got themselves into this mess without some sort of guidelines strikes me as a recipe for disaster for working families in this country. Perhaps you could call it the PR China Full Employment Act of 2008. Let me explain.

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