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John Cushman / The Caucus:
From the White House Briefing Room, a Swan Song — President Bush's last press conference opened with cordial words for the reporters who have covered his remarkable eight years in office. — Acknowledging that relations have been strained at times - that some had “misunderestimated me …
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CNN:
Bush admits mistakes in his final news conference — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Addressing reporters in his final news conference before leaving office, President Bush admitted Monday to several mistakes during his tenure in office. — “Clearly putting a ‘Mission Accomplished’ (banner) on an aircraft carrier was a mistake,” Bush said.
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blogs:
Portman running to succeed Voinovich — Former Republican congressman Rob Portman will announce that he is running for the Senate soon after Ohio Sen. George Voinovich's retirement announcement, according to multiple Republican sources. — Portman's official announcement is expected to take place on Wednesday.
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Signorile / The Gist:
RNC Chair Candidate: “Homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed.” — Yes, that's what Ken Blackwell, the sketchy former Ohio Secretary of State who now has a good shot at running the Republican National Committee, told me a few months back, among some other very interesting and kooky things.
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Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
Officials turn down Franken request in Minn. race — ST. PAUL, Minn. - Democrat Al Franken was quickly turned down Monday when he asked Minnesota's governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama climate czar has socialist ties — Group sees ‘global governance’ as solution — Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society …
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buffalobeast.com:
THE BEAST 50 MOST LOATHSOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA, 2008 — 50. Barack Obama — Charges: Beyond a few token acts of bipartisan marketing, Barry's major duty in the Senate was to avoid legislating, so he could pretend Washington-outsider status and nullify attacks on his non-existent policy positions.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House Republicans Invite Obama to Address Them — House Republicans have invited President-elect Barack Obama to speak before the entire GOP conference, hoping to set a different tone to the partisan wars of the last two years in which congressional Democrats battled President Bush.
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal — Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday. — The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama — White House reporters for The New York Times predict that the market collapse will force President-elect Barack Obama to abandon for now many of his campaign promises. — If his stimulus plan “doesn't work out, he may very well be a one-term president …
Mariana Cook / New Yorker:
A COUPLE IN CHICAGO … MICHELLE OBAMA: There is a strong possibility that Barack will pursue a political career, although it's unclear. There is a little tension with that. I'm very wary of politics. I think he's too much of a good guy for the kind of brutality, the skepticism.
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Wonkette
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ideas for Obama — Last week President-elect Barack Obama was asked to respond to critics who say that his stimulus plan won't do enough to help the economy. Mr. Obama answered that he wants to hear ideas about “how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy.”
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Associated Press:
Israel bans Arab parties from running in upcoming elections — The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court.
Rachel Abramowitz / Los Angeles Times:
The bleeping Golden Globes — Some of the acceptance speeches were saltier than usual this year, thanks to Mickey Rourke, Tina Fey and others. — The Golden Globes are supposed to be loose, but so loose that it could spur FCC sanctions? The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn …
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans to Keep Estate Tax — Democrats Want to Freeze Levy at Current Levels Instead of Letting It Expire Next Year — President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might outlive the …
White House:
Press Conference by the President — James S. Brady Press Briefing Room — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Tapper. We have been through a lot together. As I look through the room, I see Jake, Mike, Herman, Ann Compton. Just seemed like yesterday that — that I was on the campaign trail …
James Fallows:
Refining the point about GW Bush's final press conference — I mentioned a few minutes ago, while GW Bush's final press conference was underway, that the president seemed unusually “self-aware.” — That's not quite right. On matters of policy, he revealed himself to be as isolated …
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
Pro-Joe: Plumber's Trip to Israel Scares the Establishment Media — After all, some of the best reporting of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War came from a cook. (Watch Joe's first report here) — Pajamas TV is turning Joe the Plumber into a journalist, and the media class doesn't like it one bit.
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