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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Steele to Rush: I'm sorry — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: (Re)Defining Rush — Democrats are engaging in a concerted campaign to link the national Republican Party to conservative talk-radio show host Rush Limbaugh, an effort that will ramp up over the next few days in the form of another round of television ads …
CNN:
Jindal says Obama is the better speaker — (CNN) — CNN's Larry King talked with Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal in a prime-time exclusive interview Monday night. — Jindal gave the Republican response after President Obama's address to Congress last week. Jindal received negative reviews …
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org:CNN Host D. L. Hughley: Republicans ‘Literally Look Like Nazi Germany’
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter — WASHINGTON — President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia's president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:Clinton says U.S. diplomacy unlikely to end Iran nuclear program
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Barack Obama cancels press conference with Gordon Brown “because of snow” — Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown's visit to Washington. — No sooner had the Prime Minister's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word …
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Times of London:
White House cancels Brown press conference in Rose Garden — Gordon Brown's attempts to portray himself as a global leader in a time of crisis have been dealt a blow by White House planners. — Downing Street officials discovered last night that the Prime Minister would not, as had been expected …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:Obama kicks up White House entertaining
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The Huffington Post:
Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks — If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. — According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense, Mississippi has won the earmark contest in the omnibus budget package.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Analysis: Obama-McCain relationship deteriorates — The rollercoaster-like relationship between President Obama and John McCain has taken a dive in recent weeks, culminated by the Arizona Republican's scathing Monday speech on the Senate floor. — McCain's diatribe on the Obama administration's decision …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:Obama beats early retreat on promise to fight pork
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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Moderate Manifesto — You wouldn't know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation.
Washington Post:
Post-9/11 Memos Show More Bush-Era Legal Errors — The number of major legal errors committed by Bush administration lawyers during the formulation of its early counterterrorism policies was far greater than previously known, according to internal Bush administration documents released …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
More on earmarks: Obama's chief of staff has some in bill — WASHINGTON — Even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about $8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is scheduled to begin debating Tuesday.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
THE DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE since the passage of the stimulus bill. Looks like a vote of “no confidence” to me. — UPDATE: Can you say “going John Galt?” Upper-Income Taxpayers Look for Ways to Sidestep Obama Tax-Hike Plan. “A 63-year-old attorney based in Lafayette, La. …
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Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Blacks, whites hear Obama differently — On his pre-inaugural visit to Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark for Washington's African-American community, President Barack Obama was asked by a cashier if he wanted his change back. — “Nah, we straight,” Obama replied. — The phrase was so subtle some listeners missed it.
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy — As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame. — As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic.
Henry Blodget / Clusterstock:
How Low Can The Market Go? — On days like today, it helps to look at the silver lining. Here it is: The farther stocks fall, the cheaper they get—and the higher the expected long-term return becomes. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we don't have a long way to go on the downside.
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Rick Santelli / CNBC:
I Want to Set the Record Straight — First of all let me be clear that I have NO affiliation or association with any of the websites or related tea party movements that have popped up as a result of my comments on February 19th, or to the best of my knowledge any of the people who organized the websites or movements.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Mortgage Crisis: “You Gotta Speak Up” — Senior citizens in this country — especially elderly women — are a big chunk of the folks who were preyed on by unscrupulous lenders in search of a quick buck: … And attorneys who are working with the at risk folks to try and forestall foreclosures?
Washington Post:
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes, Probe Says — The CIA got rid of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations and confinement of “high value” al-Qaeda suspects, government lawyers disclosed yesterday, as a long-running criminal probe of the tapes' destruction inched toward a conclusion …
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