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Washington Post:
Lawmakers Reach Accord on Huge Financial Rescue — House Expected to Vote Today on $700 Billion Bailout — Congressional negotiators said they were close to agreement yesterday on a $700 billion plan aimed at shoring up the U.S. financial system, and were meeting late into the evening …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich: Bush doesn't understand fiscal crisis, and treasury secretary should resign — Former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich, whose criticism helped spark a GOP revolt against the bail-out of Wall Street proposed by the Bush Administration, predicted Saturday that House Republicans …
Associated Press:
Congress, White House reach financial bailout deal — WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative deal early Sunday on a landmark bailout of imperiled financial markets whose collapse could plunge the nation into a deep recession.
Amanda / Think Progress:
McCain on financial bailout: 'Just like Iraq, I'm not afraid to go it alone.'
McCain on financial bailout: 'Just like Iraq, I'm not afraid to go it alone.'
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Barack Obama: We'll never forget what's-his-name — From the presidential debate Oxford, Miss. Sept. 26, 2008, between Sens. John McCain, Republican, and Democrat Barack Obama.
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The Politico:
Negotiators reach tentative rescue plan deal — House and Senate negotiators have reached tentative agreement on Treasury's $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets after a marathon Capitol negotiating session that started Saturday afternoon and stretched into early Sunday morning.
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Newsweek:
A Freddie Mac Money Trail Catches Up With McCain — Few advisers in John McCain's inner circle inspire more loyalty from him than campaign manager Rick Davis. McCain and his wife, Cindy, credit the shrewd, and sometimes volatile, Republican insider with rescuing the campaign last year …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN-PALIN (DAVIS MANAFORT) — In that Newsweek piece (noted below), which details Rick Davis's continuing financial ties to mega-lobby firm Davis Manafort, Mike Isikoff reveals that in addition to paying Davis's salary directly to Davis Manafort, the McCain campaign has paid almost …
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Grasping Reality …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HAVING SLEPT ON IT — In my initial reaction last night, I wrote that while I thought the debate was basically a draw, that amounted to a narrow win for Obama since foreign policy is supposed to be John McCain's forte. Now, after half a day, with more time to think about it and the benefit …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
McCain camp prays for Palin wedding — The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate's pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign — In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one …
New York Times:
McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry — Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m. …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIV: What Trade Missions To Russia? — By now, the pattern is familiar. Palin responds to a question she fears reveals something she wants to conceal and lies: … There is no evidence of her conducting any trade missions with Russia:
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Missouri governor goes nuclear on Obama for using prosecutors on campaign “truth squad” — Oh, now. Would people really refrain from criticizing Obama just because they fear being, er, sent to prison for it? … More at the link. Needless to say, no one actually has to be prosecuted for this to work.
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The Huffington Post:
Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Katie Couric SNL Skit (VIDEO) — Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live to reprise her widely hailed impersonation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The sketch focused on an interview Palin recently gave to CBS News' Katie Couric, including an exchange about Russia.
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Bailout failure ‘will cause US crash’ — The US stock market could suffer a devastating crash with shares losing a third of their value this week if Hank Paulson's financial bailout plan fails, US Treasury officials have warned. — The financial system could face a meltdown …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Genuine and Immediate Crisis — What Congress has to do now. — I've received phone calls in the last hour from two economists I respect, one of them Larry Lindsey, the other in a position where he'd prefer not to be named. Both have government experience, neither is alarmist by nature, and they say this:
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
House GOP rejects latest bailout proposal; Update: Pelosi wants deal …
House GOP rejects latest bailout proposal; Update: Pelosi wants deal …
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Ryan Grim / The Crypt's Blogs:
ACORN issue fueling bailout opposition — Earlier today, when House Republican leadership framed its opposition to the bailout bill as it currently stands, a principal objection focused on the group ACORN, which the e-mail alert called “the scandal-tarnished ‘community organizing group’” — with scare quotes in the original.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Dealing — Some details to work out, but I'm told there is a deal in the works, minus ACORN.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 5-Point Lead — Momentum in his favor going into debate — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain, 49% to 44%, when registered voters are asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update.
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