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Obama: ‘I screwed up’ in Daschle withdrawal — Insists 'there aren't two sets of rules' for elite and for other Americans — WASHINGTON - “I screwed up,” President Barack Obama told NBC's Brian Williams Tuesday in the wake of his nominee to be secretary of health and human services …
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Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Why Daschle Withdrew His Nomination — Tom Daschle and his team went to bed last night believing they had had a good day after a horrible weekend. — Monday's Senate Finance Committee meeting was not easy. (Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley pushed Daschle hard on his relationship …
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Analysis: Daschle debacle humbles Obama — WASHINGTON - Two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama proved that even a clearly gifted politician cannot escape the gravitational pull of Washington forces that have humbled many of his predecessors. — The new president, seen by some as arrogant, was anything but on Tuesday.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama on Daschle: I take responsibility
Obama on Daschle: I take responsibility
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Kevin Duchschere / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Recount trial: Judges rule thousands of ballots can be considered — The court order applies to about 4,800 rejected absentee ballots and indicates that any that complied with state law should be counted. — Nearly 4,800 rejected absentee ballots may be reconsidered in the U.S. Senate recount trial …
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Patrick Condon / Associated Press:
5K rejected Minn. Senate ballots get another look
5K rejected Minn. Senate ballots get another look
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Times of London:
President Obama to water down ‘Buy American’ plan after EU trade war threat — Obama seeks Russia deal to slash nuclear weapons 80 per cent — The European Union warned the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting a planned “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Obama Wants “Buy American” Out Of Stimulus Bill — That's what I'm reading in the transcript of the President's interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson tonight. Obama also concedes that the appearance of a double standard for his nominees is a valid complaint, and he says he takes full responsibility for it.
New York Times:
U.S. Plans to Curb Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to impose a cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money, according to people familiar with the plan.
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CNN:
GOP leaders list ‘waste’ in Senate stimulus bill — (CNN) — On Monday, House Republican leaders put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill that is being debated: — • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
McCain Sends Out E-Mail Petition Against Stimulus Bill
McCain Sends Out E-Mail Petition Against Stimulus Bill
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The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Czar Mitt — President Obama could do worse. Romney has a bad reputation among Congressional Democrats, so I can't imagine they'd cotton to this. In fact, it's highly unlikely. But what Romney, in a bipartisan fashion, was able to do in Massachusetts — even with caveats …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Did WH encourage defiance of Pelosi? — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) — one of the lead Blue Dogs — made a startling admission to lefty Liberadio today, suggesting the White House quietly encouraged him to buck House leadership on the stimulus. — Cooper was one of 11 Dems to vote no — joining every GOP House member.
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The Politico:
Lynch names Newman to Gregg's seat — J. Bonnie Newman knows a thing or two about short-term gigs. — In 2006, she was plucked from retirement and brought back to the University of New Hampshire, the school where she began her professional career, to serve as its interim president.
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Nathan Hodge / Danger Room:
U.S. to Get the Boot from Central Asia Base? — Stunning news from Moscow: Russian news agencies are reporting that the government of Kyrgyzstan will close Manas Air Base, a vital conduit for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. — RIA-Novosti quotes Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev as saying that his government …
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Mike Eckel / Associated Press:
Kyrgyzstan closing US base key to Afghan conflict
Kyrgyzstan closing US base key to Afghan conflict
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHO KILLED DASCHLE? — I think Steve Clemons gets this wrong. Daschle wasn't taken down by Republicans. No senators, to my knowledge, came out against his appointment. Major columnists didn't have time to attack his ethics. Moreover, these revelations didn't come from Republican oppo researchers.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Ward Three Morality — I've become increasingly concerned about the rising number of rich people who are being caught unawares by shifts in the sumptuary code. First, there were those auto executives who didn't realize that it is no longer socially acceptable to use private jets for lobbying trips to Washington.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Naked Obama Unicorn-A-Rama — Via Boing Boing comes the single most disturbing Naked Obama/Unicorn pic yet. In fact, it's so “right up against the line” that I'm actually going to stick it beneath the fold. If you click through, don't say you weren't warned.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Vitter: GOP Senators are “scared to death” of Obama and his polling numbers — A quickie from this morning's chat with Laura Ingraham courtesy of her producer, Tom Elliott. [...] Read the rest »
Tom Gjelten / NPR:
U.S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre ‘Decimated’ — Listen Now — · CIA-directed airstrikes against al-Qaida leaders and facilities in Pakistan over the past six to nine months have been so successful, according to senior U.S. officials, that it is now possible to foresee a …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Yepsen Leaves The Register — Every presidential year since 1975, one political reporter — just one — catapults himself to the top of the profession. David Yepsen, 58, spent twenty years as the chief political reporter for the Des Moines Register, 33 years as the host of Iowa's top television chat show …
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Obama Justice Department Re-Hires Attorney Fired By Goodling Because Of Lesbian Rumor — In October 2006, Leslie Hagen, who was working as the liaison between the Justice Department and the U.S. attorneys' committee on Native American issues, was informed that despite her “outstanding” …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate votes to give a tax break to new car buyers — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Tuesday to give a tax break to new car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stimulus bill with a price tag approaching $900 billion.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India — Big Blue wants to help redundant U.S. employees relocate to developing markets, according to an internal document. — The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom.
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Jeff Poor / The Culture and Media Institute:
The Godless Stimulus — Bill Language Would Forbid Practice of Religion in College and University Buildings Given Renovation Money — Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...unless your institution of higher learning …
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
Day 15 of Obama's honeymoon — One doesn't have to break a sweat searching for examples of the news media's ongoing love affair with our president. In this, he is like FDR. — Barack Obama and his supporters have been relentlessly comparing the new president to Franklin Roosevelt.
Tim Johnson / Burlington Free Press:
Ben Stein responds to UVM flap — Calls commencement flap ‘pathetic,’ denies he's anti-science — Ben Stein described the brouhaha over his selection as commencement speaker at the University of Vermont as “laughable” on Tuesday called the whole episode “pathetic.”
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Connecticut attorney general eyes Lieberman challenge — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced Monday he will seek a sixth term, is mulling a challenge against Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2012. — Multiple Connecticut Democrats, speaking on condition of anonymity …
Lanny Davis / Fox News:
Biden Fumbles Clinton Oath — Vice President Biden learned on Monday how hard it can be to deliver an oath of office, when he slipped during the mock swearing-in of Secretary of State Clinton. — FOXNews.com — Mockery of and apologies to the Supreme Court chief justice aside …
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