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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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David Rogers / The Politico:
Angry McCain slams Obama — Long delayed but not shrunken with time, a nearly $410 billion omnibus spending bill is fast becoming a great bone in the throat for Democrats and the White House, just when each hoped to put the past behind them and move onto President Barack Obama's new 2010 budget.
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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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.
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Coleman camp asks that election result be ‘set aside’ — Request was made as Franken's lawyers prepare to make their case. — For more than a month, Norm Coleman stressed flaws in Minnesota's election system. — And on Monday, Coleman lawyer Jim Langdon wrote the three-judge panel …
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Saeed Shah / Guardian:
Taliban rivals unite to fight US surge — • Taliban rivals unite to fight US troop surge — • Move by Pakistani militants prompts fears of escalation in Afghan violence — Three rival Pakistani Taliban groups have agreed to form a united front against international forces …
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