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Candidates Diverge on How to Save Social Security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2008/ 07/ 07/ AR2008070702773....
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, taking on the financially fragile "third rail of American politics" that Congress and recent presidents have been unable to repair.
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Get The Message
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012812.phpby Steve Soto Weve got two pieces in the NYT today that point to internal conflicts within the McCain campaign. Michael Coopers piece points out that McCains economic agenda reflects a division and lack of cohesion between two camps inside the same
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Candidates Diverge
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/candid...by hilzoy This is a very puzzling article. Here's the lede: "Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, taking on the financially fragile "third rail of American politics" that Congress and
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Marcus Brauchli Has, I Think, Made a Big Mistake (Washington Post Death Spiral Watch)
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/marcus-brauchli.htmlFormer WSJ executive Marcus Brauchli has agreed to take over the Washington Post: The Post's New Executive Editor Once Headed Wall Street Journal: Brauchli's challenge is particularly acute because he has never lived in Washington, a city with a unique
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Washington Post Editorializes on Front Page Against Social Security
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?mo...Actually, the article was fine, the problem was the headline "Candidates Diverge on How to Save Social Security." Do the candidates diverge on their plans to "save" the Defense Department, the Justice Department, the Energy
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Saving Social Security
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/savi...Saving Social Security 08 Jul 2008 08:58 am One issue on which Barack Obama and John McCain differ is Social Security. McCain would like to replace Social Security as we currently understand it with a very different kind of retirement program that
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Candidates Diverge
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/candid...by hilzoy This is a very puzzling article. Here's the lede: "Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, taking on the financially fragile "third rail of American politics" that Congress and
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On saving Social Security, Obama and McCain do more than just diverge
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16123.htmlJohn McCain has been struggling with Social Security for a while now. He was, for example, in favor of privatizing the system, only to reverse course soon after and oppose privatizing the system, only to discover that his new position was actually the
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On saving Social Security, Obama and McCain do more than just diverge
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16123.htmlJohn McCain has been struggling with Social Security for a while now. He was, for example, in favor of privatizing the system, only to reverse course soon after and oppose privatizing the system, only to discover that his new position was actually the
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Setting the Record Straight
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/setting_the_rec.phpThis is what a real energy plan looks like: Not just a bear hug of Bush's energy policies, which is what McCain offers. UPDATE: More info on the Bush-McCain energy bear hug right here.
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Marcus Brauchli Has, I Think, Made a Big Mistake (Washington Post Death Spiral Watch)
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/marcus-brauchli.htmlFormer WSJ executive Marcus Brauchli has agreed to take over the Washington Post: The Post's New Executive Editor Once Headed Wall Street Journal: Brauchli's challenge is particularly acute because he has never lived in Washington, a city with a unique
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McCain and Social Security
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/mccain_and_soci.phpHe has no plan, anymore, that he's willing to publicly admit to. In the past, he called his plan "privatization," and it was the same plan as the incredibly unpopular Bush proposal which would dramatically reduce benefits and divert payroll taxes into
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Campaign Outrages
http://snunes.blogspot.com/2008/07/campaign-outrages_08.htmlSince there is NO Social Security crisis, privatizing-leaning candidates McCain and Obama aren't worth shit on this issue. The only thing is if McCain gets in there and there's a Democratic congress to keep him in line, the privatizers won't get their
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