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Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
AP: Clinton acted on concerns of husband's donors — WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.
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In Foreign Policy, a New Trio at the Top — With Hearing Today, Clinton, Kerry and Obama Begin to Realign Their Roles — When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) gavels the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order today and welcomes Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to her confirmation hearing …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Getting Specific — Sometime Tuesday morning, the incoming Obama administration's favorite slogan, “We only have one president at a time,” gets thrown into the pre-inaugural bonfire. — Mr. Obama and his aides have used that line to avoid becoming specific about how they would deal differently …
Wall Street Journal:
The Clinton Business — Bill out-negotiated Barack on financial disclosure. — These columns have long believed that a President deserves the cabinet members he wants, barring some major dereliction. So if Barack Obama wants to make Hillary and Bill Clinton part of his governing team, that's his business.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:Live from the Clinton Confirmation Hearing
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Marc Ambinder:Clinton: Obama FoPo Will Be Marriage of Principles And Pragmatism
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Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:Bill Clinton's policies may echo at hearing
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote — WASHINGTON — In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama — (updated below - Update II- Update III) — Barack Obama's announced intentions on ABC News this Sunday regarding Guantanamo sparked substantial objections from civil liberties and human rights advocates. The result of those objections?
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Olmert Claims to Control US Foreign Policy — Ehud Olmert, harcore anti-Zionist, Israeli Prime Minister, and Jew-hating bigot seems to feel he has a lot of political clout in the United States: … The State Department has some not-terribly-convincing denials out.
New York Times:Obama's Plan to Close Prison at Guantánamo May Take Year
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Kate Beckinsale / Esquire:
The Governor Strikes Back: Five New Quotes from Sarah Palin — Last week, the former vice-presidential candidate lashed out at the media's coverage of her campaign. In a brand-new “What I've Learned” interview with Esquire, excerpted here in advance of the March issue, Palin goes even further.
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Palin slams ‘bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie’ — (CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.” — The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream …
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Anchorage Daily News:
Full text of the Palin-ADN email exchange — Gov. Palin's press office claims that she has pointed out errors in Daily News coverage that we have refused to correct. The only such complaints of which I'm aware are below, in an email from Gov. Palin to the publisher and me.
Monday / Monday Morning Clacker:
Meghan McCain Sits Down With MMC To Talk Blogs, Bikers, Politics & Why She Only Takes Off Her High Heels To Swim — Meghan McCain is an American blogger and daughter of the 2008 Republican nominee for President, John McCain. — Most recently, Ms. McCain spent almost two years …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Where Some See Mistakes, He Sees Disappointments — “This is the ultimate exit interview,” President Bush told the White House press corps yesterday as he faced it for a final time in the briefing room. — And the interviewee had come with well-rehearsed lines for any question his interviewers could devise.
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:Emanuel to Bolten: 'I'll Miss You'
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
For Senate GOP, 2010 Losses on Top Of the 2008 Losses — Voinovich Is Latest to Say He'll Resign — A spate of retirement announcements by Senate Republicans this year have further complicated attempts by GOP strategists to begin rebuilding a party devastated by across-the-board losses in recent elections.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
UK: BLOOD LIBEL HORROR: JEWS EATING DEAD BABIES — This is horrible. I ask men of reason, civilized men to see what is happening. Look at what is happening. We are on a terrible course, a collision course of the worst order. This is beyond the pale. And the media is ignoring it.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Obama Shelves Jobs-Credit Proposal — Democrats Said $3,000 Tax Incentive Could Be Abused by Businesses — Bowing to widespread Democratic skepticism, President-elect Barack Obama will drop his bid to include a business tax break he once touted in the economic stimulus bill now taking shape on Capitol Hill, aides said last night.
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Clemente Lisi / New York Post:
O TO ARRIVE IN A ‘LINCOLN’ — INAUGURAL THEMES WILL HARKEN BACK TO GREAT EMANCIPATOR — They're going to party like it's 1861! — In what will be a Lincoln-themed inauguration from top to bottom, Obama won't only follow in the footsteps of the former president - he'll also eat like him, it was announced yesterday.
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Obama taps Corr for HHS deputy — President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Bill Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, to be deputy secretary of health and human services. — Corr, one of the leaders of Obama's HHS transition team, was an anti-tobacco lobbyist …
The Politico:
44 to reverse 43's executive orders — President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said …
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Governor dishes on Caroline — ALBANY - Gov. Paterson said Caroline Kennedy “impressed” him in her interview for the U.S. Senate seat, but he's not ready to declare the front-runner just yet. — In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Paterson said he has interviewed 15 people …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
DOJ IG TAKES DOWN SCHLOZMAN — The long-awaited inspector general report on the politicization of the Bush DOJ Civil Rights Division has been released, and our old friend Bradley Schlozman is firmly in the cross-hairs: … Interestingly, the report is dated July 2, 2008, but was only released today.
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Does “Black Hawk Down” Portray an American War Crime? — At least nine hundred people, maybe half of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza so far, the overwhelming majority presumably killed by Israel (some people, more than we probably know right now, have been killed by Hamas, mainly Fatah activists in revenge killings).
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