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12:20 AM ET, February 9, 2009

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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Saturday Night Live Lampoons Reid Pelosi On Stimulus Plan  —  SNL skewered Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the stimulus plan via a satire that could reflect a growing perception that might not be helpful to the Democrats.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Politico
Jack Dunphy / Patterico's Pontifications:
Feeling Unstimulated? Watch This.
Discussion: Right Wing News
NY Daily News:
Celebrity side dish: Ann Coulter under investigation  —  Iman wants the world to stand up to Somalian pirates.  The supermodel is pained that her homeland remains so lawless that kids there can't get AIDS drugs from Keep a Child Alive's “Mother Africa” campaign.
The Huffington Post:
Steele Confuses Stephanopoulos: Claims Government Jobs “Aren't Jobs,” Private Sector Jobs Never Go Away  —  There is certainly a political debate to be waged over whether or not government spending can effectively create jobs.  But in his interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday …
John Hawkins / Pajamas Media:
How the Internet Damages Our Culture  —  America is ruder, cruder, and more paranoid than it once was.  The anonymity of the Web bears much of the blame.  —  American society as a whole, and politics in particular, has become considerably ruder, cruder, and more paranoid than it used to be.
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Disagreeing With Paul Krugman  —  Paul Krugman doesn't believe that the stimulus bill is likely to be enough to get the job done and seems almost despondent about the fact that the compromise that will allow something to pass the Senate made it even smaller.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Paul Krugman
The Hill:
Senators pressure Pelosi on stimulus  —  Senators are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to embrace most of the stimulus bill they hope to pass early next week, claiming that adopting too many House provisions will doom the measure in the upper chamber.  —  After two years of showdowns …
Martina Stewart / CNN:
SC Governor: We're moving close to ‘a savior-based economy’  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - As many state and local officials clamor for their share of the billions of dollars in federal aid in the stimulus bill under consideration in Washington, South Carolina's Republican governor is sounding a note …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Sen. Ensign: It's ‘Fearmongering’ To Suggest That Any Teachers Would Lose Their Jobs  —  On Meet the Press this morning, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) slammed proposed cuts in aid to the states in the stimulus bill, explaining that states are slashing their funding for vital public needs.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Senator Ensign Thinks States Can Cut Back Without Cutting Anything Back
Alaa Al Aswany / New York Times:
Why the Muslim World Can't Hear Obama  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA is clearly trying to reach out to the Muslim world.  I watched his Inaugural Address on television, and was most struck by the line: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”
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Andrew G. Bostom / American Thinker:
Mr. Obama, Speak First at Touro
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Geithner postpones unveiling TARP plan  —  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will postpone until Tuesday his new plan to boost the financial system with the rest of the $700 billion bailout money, one of President Obama's top economic advisers said on Sunday.  —  Lawrence Summers …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Corner
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: ‘Top man on the economy’
Discussion: Commentary and The Politico
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Treasury to Unveil Bailout Plan Tuesday
Discussion: TIME.com and The Politico
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
WILL FERRELL'S BUSH LEAGUE SHOW  —  HE'LL DO ANYTHING FOR A LAUGH — EVEN INSULT DEAD TROOPS  —  Is it too much to ask for Hollywood's leading comic actor not to use the deaths of our troops in combat for a giggle?  Stay classy, Will Ferrell.  —  In his new (almost) one-man Broadway comedy …
Los Angeles Times:
Mohammad Khatami to run in Iran's presidential election  —  After weeks of rumors, the former president, considered a moderate, made the formal announcement that he will run against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  —  Reporting from Tehran — Iran's former president, Mohammad Khatami …
Floyd Norris / New York Times:
U.S. Bank Bailout to Rely in Part on Private Money  —  Wall Street helped produce the global financial and economic crisis.  Now, as the Obama administration prepares to unveil a revised bailout plan for the banking system, policy makers hope Wall Street can be part of the solution.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword  —  FOR the backers of Proposition 8, the state ballot measure to stop single-sex couples from marrying in California, victory has been soured by the ugly specter of intimidation.  —  Some donors to groups supporting the measure …
Tim Blair:
FIRE LATEST  —  The Victorian bushfire death toll now stands at 93:  —  • At least four of the dead are children.  —  • 25 fires remain uncontrolled.  —  • 750 homes are destroyed.  —  • Fatalities are recorded at 22 sites.  —  • 3733 people seeking shelter have registered with the Red Cross.
CNN:
President Obama looking at Sebelius to head HHS  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - In a sign that she is getting a close look for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius recently met with senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, according to two Obama administration officials.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:   Official: Sebelius near top for health post
 
 
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