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Obama's Clueless Liberal Critics

Conservative economist Bruce Bartlett—who shocked the GOP establishment by backing Obama—now says the far left is being too hard on the president’s stimulus plan.

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When Barack Obama first proposed an economic stimulus package back in January, two of his top economists, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, warned that without it the unemployment rate would climb to 9 percent.

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