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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!
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Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:
Cut Kristol: As Era Ends at ‘NYT,’ Some of Bill's Greatest Bloopers — As you surely know by now, Bill Kristol wrote his final column today for The New York Times, sparing the paper any further embarrassment. But, as usual, he did not spare us all a good belly laugh: The news of his demise came …
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The Sacking of Bill Kristol — Why The New York Times Sacked Bill Kristol by Scott Horton — Blogs and Stories — The famous neoconservative published his final New York Times column today. Scott Horton reports on real reasons the Gray Lady didn't renew his contract.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KRISTOL LEAVES THE TIMES.... At the end of an otherwise uninteresting New York Times column from Bill Kristol, there are six heartening words: … There's been some question as to whether Kristol's one-year contract with the paper of record would get an extension, and today, we get our answer: he's done.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
JOB SECURITY FOR THE PERPETUALLY WRONG.... We learned this morning that the New York Times is finally letting go of Bill Kristol, who wrote his final column for the paper today. What we didn't know is where Kristol is headed. — Keep his career trajectory in mind.
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.
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Jane Mayer In / New Yorker:
BEHIND THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS — On Thursday, President Barack Obama consigned to history the worst excesses of the Bush Administration's “war on terror.” One of the four executive orders Obama signed effectively cancelled seven years of controversial Justice Department legal opinions authorizing methods …
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
There's More To Fear Than Fear — No, we haven't turned the corner on the banking crisis—we can't even see the corner. What's needed is a bold, massive jolt to the system. … From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009 — Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address is now known …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
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David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks
Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks
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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.
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.
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Three Crises In One — We all want President Obama to succeed …
Three Crises In One — We all want President Obama to succeed …
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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 …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Initial Approval Ratings in Historical Context — Rank among the best for a newly elected president since World War II — USA - Government and Politics - Leadership - Presidential Job Approval - The Presidency - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ …
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
New, Transparent WhiteHouse.gov Forgoes Press Briefing Transcripts? — Barack Obama's administration may be promising the “greatest ethical standard ever administered to an executive branch,” and increased transparency over his predecessor, but it seems to be forgoing at least one transparency practice …
Newsday:
Rep. Peter King calls on Paterson to justify Senate pick — While U.S. Senate designee Kirsten Gillibrand met Sunday with the state's top political power brokers in Manhattan, forces opposed to her began plotting against upstate congresswoman. — Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
For $10, Fuld Sold Florida Mansion to His Wife — Housing prices are falling around the country, but this one sounds hard to believe: A seaside mansion on Jupiter Island in Florida, bought for more than $13 million five years ago, was just sold for $10. — That's right, 10 bucks.
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Adam Green / Open Left:
Krugman shows why we need more progressive voices on TV — When I was at MoveOn, media reform was one of my main issues. I had substantial dialogues with the folks at ABC's This Week about the right-wing skew of some of their Sunday roundtables. — To his credit, George Stephanopoulous …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Feingold Introduces 28th Amendment — I hope you'll excuse the hubristic headline. Constitutional amendments are introduced all the time in the Congress. Most of them are used to make a political point of one kind or another and stand little chance of becoming law.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
History's Forgotten Fiascos — JoeJoeJoe commented in yesterday's Commerce Secretary post: “More Spanish Flu blogging please. That was a huge public health event in our history and it's rarely discussed.” — Indeed. Most of what I know about the episode comes from John M. Barry's excellent book …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Secretary Clinton names climate czar — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday will name Todd D. Stern, a trusted top aide in her husband's White House, to serve as a special envoy for climate change, Democratic officials said. — Climate was largely ignored by President George W …
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Guardian:
Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ... Alan Greenspan, chairman of US Federal Reserve 1987- 2006 — Only a couple of years ago the long-serving chairman of the Fed, a committed free marketeer who had steered the US economy through crises ranging from the 1987 stockmarket collapse through …
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Washington Post:
Franken Has the Lead, but Coleman Has His Day in Court — The longest-running Senate campaign in the nation heads into the home stretch this week. We think. — Today in St. Paul, Minn., a three-judge panel will kick off a trial featuring Norm Coleman, the incumbent Republican senator who …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Early to Rise — Camaraderie Remains the Key to Top-Rated ‘Today’ Show's Morning Glory — Matt Lauer kept complaining that he was warm in the small studio with the majestic Capitol behind him, so when he was joined at the anchor desk by NBC's Natalie Morales, he was surprised that her hands felt cold.
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New York Post:
SWISS HISS FOR THE GOV — ALL SIDES RIP TRIP — By BRENDAN SCOTT and FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany and SALLY GOLDENBERG in New York — Gov. Paterson was blasted by Republicans, Democrats and good-government groups for plans to jet off on a European junket this week …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Ready-for-Disaster Republicans — Beneath the warm pledges of bipartisanship and the earnest calls for cooperation in the midst of a grave crisis lurks an unpleasant fact: From the moment it loses power, the opposition party turns to the task of getting it back. — Party politics has not been suspended.
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