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President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech — detailed outline

This is the second of two posts. Here is the first, a much shorter high-level version of the outline contained here.

This is my attempt to build a detailed outline of the economic speech President…

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President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech — high-level outline

This is the first of two posts.

Here is my attempt to outline the meaty 53 minute economic speech President Obama gave yesterday in Cleveland. I built this outline to help myself analyze the…

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The President repeats the “blank check for autos” falsehood

Kudos to the Washington Post’s Charles Lane for his column debunking the President’s recent false claim:

THE PRESIDENT: In exchange for help — see, keep in mind, that the administration before us, they…

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PolitiFact rates WH COS Rahm Emanuel’s statement False.

PolitiFact.com looked into White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s claim that President Bush gave the U.S. auto manufacturers a blank check, and at my response.

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Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s auto breakdown

This morning on ABC’s This Week, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told Jake Tapper:

In the case of General Motors, the prior administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change. We said: Without a…

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Oil spill crisis as opportunity

Here is Rahm Emanuel’s famous quote, from November 19, 2008. You don’t need to watch more than the first minute.

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Cliff Notes: The President’s Carnegie Mellon economic speech

Last Wednesday the President spoke about the economy at Carnegie Mellon University. Administration officials billed this as a major economic address, the follow-up to his speech last April at Georgetown. I think the most…

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Not a blank check

Here’s the President on the Michael Smerconish radio show today:

THE PRESIDENT: The auto interventions weren’t started by me — they were started by a conservative Republican administration. The only thing that we did was rather than just write GM and Chrysler a blank…

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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed me to be a member of a new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. I thank the Leader for the appointment, and will do my best to contribute thoughtful, open-minded, rigorous and responsible…

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Six month economic policy status update

We’re less than two weeks away from the six month mark of the Obama Administration. Here is a summary I would give to someone who had missed the past six months. I think the groupings are particularly important.