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11:25 AM ET, March 2, 2009

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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Pelosi's list: Who's on her bad side?  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  Nancy Pelosi likes to keep lists.  —  As a young political protégé of her father, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, the preteen speaker-to-be would spend hours leafing through …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Political Machine
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Emanuel says Limbaugh GOP leader, Cantor rejects ‘fail’ remark  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Rush Limbaugh is the face of the GOP.  —  “He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party …
New York Times:
A.I.G. Reports $61.7 Billion Loss as U.S. Gives More Aid  —  The federal government agreed Monday morning to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group and loosen the terms of its huge loan to the insurer, even as the insurance giant reported a$61.7 billion loss …
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New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Offer Another $30 Billion in Funds to A.I.G.
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
Feds Throwing Another $30 Billion Into AIG Black Hole
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Maureen O'Donnell / Chicago Sun Times:
Pastors rally behind Burris  —  Sen. Roland Burris went to his base Sunday with an appearance at a black church.  —  He arrived at New Covenant Baptist Church in a flying wedge of supporters and avoided reporters by leaving through a side door.  —  Ministers gathered at the church …
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Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps  —  Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration's Effort to Foster Instant Communication  —  The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government.
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Budget gamble: Why Obama went big
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
RNC Chair Michael Steele on Limbaugh: 'Yes, it's incendiary.  Yes, it's ugly.'  —  Last night, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on D.L. Hughley's show on CNN and disputed Hughley's statement that Rush Limbaugh “is the de facto leader of the Republican Party.”  “I'm the de facto leader of the Republican Party!”
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Covering Obama, Pushy Jake Tapper Presses His Points  —  One year after joining ABC News, Jake Tapper kept pushing his bosses — “annoyingly, irritatingly, incessantly,” he says — to let him cover the unfolding 2004 presidential campaign.  —  “I might not have been ready,” he admits now.
Matthew Rosenberg / Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Afghans Criticize Call for Early Elections  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai's move to advance elections to early spring from summer drew a sharp response from the U.S. and outcries from potential political challengers, who said an early vote would undermine …
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CNN:   Gates says Obama more ‘analytical’ than Bush
CNN:   Gates calls Pakistan ‘most worrisome’
Anne Bayefsky / Forbes:
The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel  —  Anti-Semitism, ‘Islamophobia,’ Durban II and the U.N.  —  Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire.  On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that the president had decided …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Revenge of the Glut  —  Remember the good old days, when we used to talk about the “subprime crisis” — and some even thought that this crisis could be “contained”?  Oh, the nostalgia!  —  Today we know that subprime lending was only a small fraction of the problem.
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Iran, the Jews and Germany  —  So a Jerusalem Post article says that I'm “hardly the first American to be misled by the existence of synagogues in totalitarian countries.”  —  The Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg finds me “particularly credulous,” taken in by the Iranian hospitality and friendliness that …
Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Hatch's secret drug firm links  —  Drugmaker money to Utah senator's charity escaped disclosure  —  The pharmaceutical industry that long has benefited from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch's legislative efforts has directed large sums of money to a charity he helped found …
Michelle Singletary / Washington Post:
Hey, Bailout Snivelers: Hush.  You Don't Need It.  —  In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama declared that he was going to “speak frankly and directly.”  —  That's what I want to do as well.  I want to speak frankly and directly to the many people who have written …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Cafe Hayek
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Obama faces test on gay military ban  —  It is precisely the sort of knife fight no president wants to get into, especially in his first 100 days.  But it seems that President Barack Obama is about to get dragged down the same dark alley as Bill Clinton when he was forced to confront …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama kicks up White House entertaining  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.  —  Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state.  Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
Discussion: GayPatriot and Townhall.com
James Baker / Financial Times:
How Washington can prevent ‘zombie banks’  —  Beginning in 1990, Japan suffered a collapse in real estate and stock market prices that pushed major banks into insolvency.  Rather than follow America's tough recommendation - and close or recapitalise these banks - Japan took an easier approach.
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Transcript: Adm. Mullen on ‘FOX News Sunday’  —  WASHINGTON — The following is a rush transcript of the March 1, 2009, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace.”  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: President Obama …
 
 
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Henry C. Jackson / Associated Press:
Visclosky's ties to troubled PMA Group run deep
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Moderate Dems confront Pelosi
Discussion: Congress Matters and Daily Kos
August Cole / Wall Street Journal:
Founder, CEO of Blackwater Steps Aside, ‘Worn Out’
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Tamara Audi / Wall Street Journal:
Proposition 8 Goes Back to Court
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Excerpt
Discussion: Green Sheet
David Charter / Times of London:
New ‘Iron Curtain’ will split EU's rich and poor
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Brownback backs Sebelius
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by Shrinking Press Corps
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