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William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Obama Save Liberalism? — All good things must come to an end. Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era. — Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too!
ABCNEWS:
Blago Says He Thought of Oprah for Senate — Blago Goes on ‘GMA’ and Skips His Impeachement Trial — Illinois' beleaguered Gov. Rod Blagojevich said today that when he was deciding who would take President Obama's Senate seat he considered appointing talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look — WASHINGTON — Only five days into the Obama presidency, members of the new administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are already dancing around one of the most politically delicate questions about the financial bailout …
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David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks — Top Beneficiaries of Federal Cash Saw Outstanding Loans Decline 1.4% Last Quarter — Lending at many of the nation's largest banks fell in recent months, even after they received $148 billion in taxpayer capital that was intended to help the economy by making loans more readily available.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bad Faith Economics — As the debate over President Obama's economic stimulus plan gets under way, one thing is certain: many of the plan's opponents aren't arguing in good faith. Conservatives really, really don't want to see a second New Deal, and they certainly don't want to see government activism vindicated.
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New York Times:
Obama's Order Is Likely to Tighten Auto Standards — WASHINGTON — President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday.
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Drudge Report:
PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Financial Institutions May Need Additional Funds, Biden Says — Banks and other financial institutions may need more than the $700 billion in public money that has already been approved to repair the nation's feeble credit system, Vice President Biden and congressional Democrats said yesterday.
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New York Post:
JUST PLANE DESPICABLE — ‘RESCUED’ CITI BUYING $50M JET — Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet - only this time, it's the taxpayers who are getting screwed. — Even though the bank's stock is as cheap as a gallon of gas …
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Senate Seat Is Latest Stop On Bennet's Unlikely Ride — Learning on the Job Has Become Coloradan's Hallmark — Michael Bennet has been sleeping in his mother's Woodley Park house and taking the Metro to a borrowed conference room in the Hart Senate Office Building to meet with staff members, who are also on loan.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Holder Continues to Claim that He Knew Nothing About Rich — After Eric Holder's confirmation hearing nearly two weeks ago, senators on the Judiciary Committee submitted follow-up questions for him to answer in writing. In his hearing testimony, as in 2001 when Congress investigated …
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Top Dem: No comprehensive health reform this year — A prominent House Democrat said he doesn't expect a comprehensive healthcare reform bill to pass Congress in 2009, saying an incremental approach to covering the uninsured would be better “than to go out and just bite something you can't chew.”
Wall Street Journal:
The Stimulus Time Machine — That $355 billion in spending isn't about the economy. — The stimulus bill currently steaming through Congress looks like a legislative freight train, but given last week's analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, it is more accurate to think of it as a time machine.
CNN:
Paterson: ‘No signal from me’ for Kennedy to quit — NEW YORK (CNN) — New York Gov. David Paterson said Sunday that Caroline Kennedy received “no signal from me that she had to withdraw” from her campaign to fill Hillary Clinton's vacant U.S. Senate. — Appearing at a news conference …
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CBS News:
Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution? — 60 Minutes: Growing Number Of Israelis, Palestinians Say Two-State Solution Is No Longer Possible — (CBS) Getting a peace deal in the Middle East is such a priority to President Obama that his first foreign calls on his first day in office were to Arab and Israeli leaders.
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Fox News:
Pelosi Shrugs off Alcatraz as Possible Terror Detention Facility — Republicans opposing an Obama administration order to close Guantanamo Bay prison facility within a year suggest sending terror detainees to House Speaker Pelosi's district. — FOXNews.com
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