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First up - fights from the right!
Republicans have been heating up and sounding off this week. Everyone from Karl
Rove taking on Vice President Biden to Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) accusing 17
members of Congress of being secret Socialists. What exactly is going on here?
The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and the Atlantic Media's Ron Brownstein
will weigh in.
For more, go to:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/04/a_brief_history_of_the_bush-ob.html
Plus, anti-war Democrats aren't too pleased with the President's $83.4 billion
dollar request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And according to General
Odierno, we may even miss our deadline to start withdrawing U.S. combat troops
from Iraqi cities this June. As the wars drag on, is the President at risk of
losing support from the left? That's what we'll ask Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) and
former Congressman and National Director of Win without War, Tom Andrews
(D-ME).
For more on funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040904299.html
On the bright side, according to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal
the recession could be over a whole lot sooner than expected. Is the light at
the end of the tunnel really starting to appear? CNBC's Chief Washington
correspondent John Harwood and Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of "The Age of the
Unthinkable," will gives us their takes.
For more on the light at the end of the economic tunnel, go to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123921340472201877.html#mod=article-outset-box
And remember those GOP Governors who didn't want in on the bailout funds for
their states? Well it looks like they threw in the towel! We'll talk to MSNBC
Political Analyst Jim Warren and the Politico's Ken Vogel about that and more
in tonight's Politics Fix.
For more on the Governors giving in, go to:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21086.html
And sure, President Obama has accomplished a lot in his life so far - just not
enough for an honorary degree from Arizona State University ... where he'll be
giving the commencement speech next month! That's in tonight's Hardball
Sideshow.
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