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On the Iraq War, reconstruction, and torture in the 2006 news
, see James Glanz, “Iraq Utilities Are Falling Short of Prewar Performance,”
New York Times
, February 9, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/international/middleeast/09hearing.html
;
Brian Knowlton, “Army Cancels multibillion-dollar Halliburton deal,”
New York Times
, July 12, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/world/americas/12iht-rebuild.2184705.html
;
Associated Press, “CIA's final report: No WMD found in Iraq,”
msnbc.com
, April 25, 2005,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/cias-final-report-no-wmd-found-iraq/#.TxAUNWA0g_o
;
“Investigation into U.S. Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners,” NPR, May 7, 2004,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1870746
;
“The buck stops where? Calls are growing for the resignation or sacking of Donald Rumsfeld,” The Economist, May 10, 2004,
http://www.economist.com/node/2663793
;
and James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,”
New York Times
, Decembver 16, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html
.

For Karl Rove
, see the transcript for the November 7, 2004, edition of “Meet the Press,”
NBC
,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6430019/#.TxAX6mA0g_o
.

For the 2006 elections
, see Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty, “The Democrats Savor Their Victory,” TIME, November 8, 2006,
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1556335,00.html?cnn=yes
.

For the Obama speech at the 2004 DNC
, see “Barack Obama Speech at 2004 DNC Convention,”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWynt87PaJ0
, transcript at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19751-2004Jul27.html
;
for number of people at Obama rallies, see “Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 18, 2008,
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/18/obama-rally-draws-100000-in-missouri/
.

George Clooney on popcorn
, see “Clooney Tackles Corruption in ‘Ides of March,'” on
Popcorn with Peter Travers
, Oct. 14, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/clooney-tackles-corruption-ides-march-14738771
.

For the Recovery Act
, see
http://www.recovery.gov/About/Pages/The_Act.aspx
.

For the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
, see Shahien Nasiripour, “Obama to appoint consumer finance watchdog,”
Financial Times
, January 4, 2012,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61910576-36e6-11e1-9ca3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1jLlIQeLW
.

For the auto industry bailout
, see Chris Isidore, “Stimulus added jobs—but not enough,” CNNMoney, September 8, 2011,
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/08/news/economy/stimulus_jobs_record/?cnn=yes
;
and Sean McAlinden, Kristin Dziczek, Debbie Maranger Menk, and Joshua Cregger, “The Impact on the U.S. Economy of the
Successful Automaker Bankruptcies,” Center for Automotive Research, November 17, 2010,
http://www.cargroup.org/publications.html
.

For the cost in dollars and the U.S. lives of the Iraq War
, see Conor Friedersdorf, “Some Iraq Hawks Still Haven't Learned the War's Horrific Costs,” The Atlantic, October 24, 2011,
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/some-iraq-hawks-still-havent-learned-the-wars-horrific-costs/247232/
.

For U.S. troops in Afghanistan
, January 2012, see Matt Millham, “U.S. troop drawdown beginning in Afghanistan,”
Stars and Stripes
, December 27, 2011,
http://www.stripes.com/u-s-troop-drawdown-beginning-in-afghanistan-1.164576
.

About Don't Ask Don't Tell
, see Elisabeth Bumiller, “Obama Ends ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy,”
New York Times, July
22, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23military.html
.

On the Sotomayor appointment
, see “Senate confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court,”
CNN.com
, August 6, 2009,
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-06/politics/sonia.sotomayor_1_judge-sotomayor-hispanic-supreme-court-third-female-justice?_s=PM:POLITICS
.

On the Affordable Healthcare Act
, see “Obama Signs Historic Health Care Legislation,” NPR, March 23, 2010,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125058400
;
and Greg Stohr, “Obama Lawyers Defend Health-Care Law at U.S. High Court,”
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
, January 12, 2012,
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-12/obama-lawyers-defend-health-care-law-at-u-s-high-court.html
.

For education jobs saved through the stimulus
, see “Testimony: Proposed Budget for K-12 Education,”
NYSUT
, February 2, 2010,
http://www.nysut.org/legislation_14392.htm
;
and “Making College More Affordable,”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education
.

About the Environmental Recovery Act
, see “Recovery Through Retrofit,” Middle Class Task Force Council on Environmental Quality, October 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Through_Retrofit_Final_Report.pdf
;
and “Recovery Act Announcement: President Obama Announces Over $467 Million in Recovery Act Funding for Geothermal and Solar Energy Projects,” U.S. Department of Energy, May 27, 2009,
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts.cfm/pa_id=173
.

On mercury emissions standards
, see Ayesha Rascoe and Timothy Gardner, “U.S. Rolls out tough tules on coal plant pollution,” Reuters, December 21, 2011,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-usa-coal-mercury-idUSTRE7BK1DI20111221
; and Steve Hargreaves, “Obama backs off tough clean air regulation,” CNN Money, September 2, 2011,
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/news/economy/regulations/index.htm
.

On the post-BP oil spill regulations
, see John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss, “Regulation of Offshore Rigs is a Work in Progress,”
New York Times
, April 17, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/politics/17regulate.html
;
Brian Merchant, “Obama Announces $4 Billion Initiative to Upgrade Energy Efficiency of Nation's Buildings,”
Treehugger.com
, December 2, 2011,
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/obama-announces-4-billion-effort-improve-energy-efficiency-buildings.html
;
and “Obama unveils mpg rule, gets broad support,”
msnbc.com
, May 19, 2009,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30810514/ns/us_news-environment/t/obama-unveils-mpg-rule-gets-broad-support/#.TxVRMmA0g_o
. See Carolyn Kaster, for “Obama Proposes Overtime Initiative for Home Care Workers,”
AP/AccreditedNursing.com
, December 2011,
http://www.accreditednursing.com/2011/12/obama-proposes-overtime-initiative-home-care-workers/
.

“Osama bin Laden killed
in US raid on Pakistan hideout,”
Guardian UK
, May 2, 2011,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-pakistan
.

For Hurricane Irene
, see Noah Buhayar, “Irene's Estimated Cost for Insurers Falls,”
Bloomberg.com
, August 29, 2011,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-28/hurricane-irene-s-estimated-u-s-cost-for-insurers-declines-to-3-billion.html
.
See also
Mike Elk,

“EFCA's Dead
, but Fear of It Still Driving Anti-Worker Measures,”
In These Times
, August 24, 2010,
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6361/big_business_using_efca_defeat_to_pass_anti-worker_measures_define_pol/
.

About deportations
, see Frank James, “Deportations Higher Under Obama Than Bush,” NPR, July 26, 2010,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/07/26/128772646/deportations-higher-under-obama-than-bush
.

On the National Defense Authorization Act
, see E. D. Kain, “President Obama Signed the National Defense Authorization Act—Now What?”
Forbes
, January 2, 2012,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/
.

About the Morning After pill
, see Jennifer Corbett Dooren, “Obama Health Chief Blocks FDA on Morning After Pill,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 8, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577084560710472558.html
. About the savings and loan crisis, see William Kurt Black,
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), 13.

On the TARP/bank bailout of 2008
, see “Where's the Bank Bailout Money,”
CNN.com
, Dec. 22, 2008,
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-12-22/us/bailout.accountability_1_tarp-money-bailout-money-troubled-assets-relief-program?_s=PM:US
;
Neil Barofsky, “Where the Bank Bailout Went Wrong,”
New York Times
, March 29, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/opinion/30barofsky.html
;
Mary Bruce, “Obama Tells Super Committee to ‘Bite the Bullet,'”
ABC News
, November 14, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/obama-tells-super-committee-to-bite-the-bullet/
;
and “Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future,” Factsheet from
Whitehouse.gov
on President Obama's Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/joint_committee_reportfact_sheet.pdf
.

CHAPTER 2: FROM HOPE TO HEARTBREAK

For election results 2010
, see
the New York Times
,
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/senate
and
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house
;
and Robert
Creamer, “Obama's Secret Weapon: OFA,”
Huffington Post
, January 5, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/obamas-secret-weapon-ofa_b_411605.html
.

On OFA statistics
, see Ari Melber, “Noting Setbacks, Plouffe Returns in New Obama Video,”
The Nation
, February 2, 2010,
http://www.thenation.com/blog/noting-setbacks-plouffe-returns-new-obama-video
;
“Your Thoughts on 2010,” a report by Organizing for America; Ari Melber, “Year One of Organizing for America,” techPresident special report, January 2010,
www.techpresident.com/ofayear1
; James Vega, “Progressives need an independent movement, but not because Obama ‘failed' or ‘betrayed' them,”
Democratic Strategist
, June 8, 2010,
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/06/progressives_need_an_independe.php
.

On the stimulus bill
, see Paul Krugman, “The Story of the Stimulus,”
New York Times
, October 5, 2009,
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/the-story-of-the-stimulus/
;
Christina Romer, “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,” report with Jared Bernstein, Office of the Vice President–elect, January 9, 2009,
http://otrans.3cdn.net/45593e8ecbd339d074_l3m6bt1te.pdf
;
and “Economic Recovery Watch,”
Chart Book: The Legacy of the Great Recession, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
,
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3252
.

Obama as a socialist/communist
, see “The Limbaugh Wire for 10/23/2009,”
http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/2009/10/23
;
and “Recap of Saturday, September 12, 2009,” FOX News, September 14, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550040,00.html
.
See also
“Obama wants cap and trade passed,”
msnbc.com
, June 25, 2009,
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2009/06/25/4424051-obama-wants-cap-and-trade-passed
.

On the Koch brothers
, see Jane Mayer, “The Billionaire Koch Brothers' War Against Obama,”
New Yorker
, August 30, 2010,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
.

For the Tea Party
, see “‘Tea Party Express' Takes Protests Cross-Country,” NPR, August 30, 2009,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112377549
;
“Tea Party Protestors March on Washington,”
ABC News
, September 12, 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120#.Tx7cHGA0g_o
;
“G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats,”
New York Times
, January 19, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/us/politics/20election.html
. Jason M. Breslow, “President Obama, Democrats Pass Historic

Health Care Bill
. Now What?”
PBS.org
, March 22, 2010,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/03/president-obama-democrats-pass-historic-health-care-bill-now-what.html
. “Banking Industry Insiders Call for

Breaking Up Giant Banks,”
Washington's Blog, April 7, 2010,
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/banking-industry-insiders-call-for-breaking-up-giant-banks.html
;
and Louis Uchitelle, “Volcker has Obama's Ear, but Not on Overhaul of Banks,”
New York Times
, October 20, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/business/21volcker.html
. Stiglitz and Hoenig were quoted in Colin Barr, “Let Big Banks fail,
bailout skeptics say,” CNN Money, April 21, 2009,
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/21/news/too.big.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009042112
.

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