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Barack Obama: Still Acting Like a Wimp, Refusing to Fight for Jobs

Michael Tomasky wonders whether Obama is willing at long last to fight for policies he believes in.

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Boy, do I get depressed when I read things like this, from White House press spokesman Jay Carney the other day: “The president hopes that members of Congress of both parties, having returned from their August recess, will come back imbued with the spirit of bipartisan compromise, and imbued with...

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