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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high — NBC/WSJ poll shows gap between popularity of president and his policies — WASHINGTON - After Barack Obama's first six weeks as president, the American public's attitudes about the two political parties couldn't be more different, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Gets Strong Support in Poll
Obama Gets Strong Support in Poll
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
GOP Seeks Balance With Conservative Icon Limbaugh
GOP Seeks Balance With Conservative Icon Limbaugh
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SteveK / TVNewser:
White House Knocks Jim Cramer For Calling Obama Budget “Greatest Wealth Destruction By a President” — NBC's Tom Costello, on duty at the White House today, asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about some comments made by his CNBC colleague Jim Cramer. On the Today show this morning …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
How media sucks up to White House — In a profile last month, The Washington Post described deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina as a “low-profile aide” who begins “fixing President Obama's problems” before 7 a.m., works 14 hours straight and then hits the gym.
David Gergen / CNN:
Obama: A course correction needed? — CNN Senior Political Analyst — Barack Obama last week set forth the most ambitious reform agenda of any president since Lyndon Johnson, and a large majority of Americans have rallied behind him. Yet, as the economy continues its downward plunge …
Washington Whispers:
GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired — Apology to Rush Limbaugh aside, new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is coming under fire from his own GOP troops to shut up and focus on his job of organizing the party and raising money, not fighting with his own political kind.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Rush Refuses To Say Whether Successful Obama Fix Of Economy …
Rush Refuses To Say Whether Successful Obama Fix Of Economy …
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Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Pence: ‘You Bet’ We Want Obama's Policies To Fail
Pence: ‘You Bet’ We Want Obama's Policies To Fail
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama Officials Defend Budget — Republicans Criticize Tax Increases, Plan to Cap Pollution — Two of the administration's top economic officials defended President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget plan yesterday, arguing that the proposal would finance a historic investment in critical economic priorities …
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Alan K. Ota / CQ Politics:
Democratic Revolt May Slow Obama Agenda — Democratic Reps. Jim Matheson of Utah and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona have joined a quiet revolt in the House that could slow some of President Obama's fast-moving priorities. — The two are among 49 Democrats from congressional districts …
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Robert J. Barro / Wall Street Journal:
What Are the Odds of a Depression? — International evidence suggests there is a 20% chance our stock-market crash will lead to much worse. — Central questions these days are how severe will the U.S. economic downturn be and how long will it last? — The most serious concern …
Newsdesk / Clout St:
Quigley claims Democratic nomination in race to replace Rahm Emanuel — Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley is poised for a promotion to Congress after claiming the Democratic nomination Tuesday in the race to replace Rahm Emanuel, overcoming disadvantages in campaign cash and union support.
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Dan Mihalopoulos / Chicago Tribune:
How Quigley claimed Democratic nomination in Rahm Emanuel race — Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley claimed the Democratic nomination to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress by carrying liberal areas close to the lakefront and doing well enough in many Northwest Side precincts …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans — CALABASAS, Calif. — Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation's economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans …
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CNN:
Palin foe gets administration job — (CNN) - Alaska State Sen. Kim Elton, one of the leading officials to pursue an investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin during the heat of the presidential campaign, has taken a high-level job in the Interior Department. — Palin reacted in a short statement Monday …
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
Wall Street on the Tundra — Iceland's de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Emblems to Stamp Projects Funded by the Stimulus Package — ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: — Put a stamp on it — that's what the White House says. — President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus package …
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Permanent and Transitory Components of Real GDP — Sigh. Greg Mankiw writes: … Mankiw is here arguing that the Obama administration's forecast is too high, and so forecasts future deficits that are smaller than the deficits are in fact likely to be. Mankiw is arguing that future economic growth …
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh declares Ed Henry a “butt boy,” but “Jake Tapper is the one guy that's outside of the butt boy bubble in the White House press room” — You are right, I dont hear you saying any of those things. But what I do hear you saying is things are better than they are. — You are wrong Rush.
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
Former HP leader diagnosed with cancer — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer, a top aide said Tuesday. — Fiorina was diagnosed with the disease Feb. 20 and underwent surgery Monday at Stanford Hospital …
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Kyle E. Moore / Comments from Left Field:
Please Help One Of Our Own — I've been writing here for about four years now, and over the course of those four years, we've asked you guys to open your wallets on several occasions. We've asked you to give some of your hard earned cash to politicians who have taken hard stands …
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Sippican Cottage:
My Father Asks For Nothing — My father asks me for nothing, really. Every three months or so, I take him to his doctor, who pokes about him wondering what keeps him animated, and that's about it. He's grown frail, and has discovered the joys of “Not Going.”