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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The dishonest “Blame Dodd” scheme from Treasury officials — (updated below - Update II) — There is a major push underway — engineered by Obama's Treasury officials, enabled by a mindless media, and amplified by the right-wing press — to blame Chris Dodd for the AIG bonus payments.
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Eliot Spitzer / Slate:
It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full. — Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?
Rich Edson / FOXBusiness.com:
Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In — Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG) bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Treasury Attempts to “Blame Dodd” for AIG Bonuses — As Geithner tries to get out of the way of the AIG bonus train wreck, it looks like the designated sin eater is going to be Chris Dodd: … So Treasury says Chris Dodd did this? In a word. . . no. — What they're talking about is a clause …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Cuomo Details Million-Dollar Bonuses at A.I.G. — Seventy-three employees were paid more than $1 million in the latest bonuses at the insurance giant American International Group, according to the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo. — The attorney general provided some new details …
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Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Will Make Grab to Recoup AIG Bonuses
Treasury Will Make Grab to Recoup AIG Bonuses
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Mary Kate Cary / US News:
Obama's Jay Leno Tonight Show Gig Will Diminish His Presidency — By Mary Kate Cary, Thomas Jefferson Street blog — When I was writing speeches for President Bush #41, we'd start working every Spring on the annual “joke” dinners—the Gridiron Club, the Alfalfa Club, and the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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Jorr / Christian Science Monitor:
Obama to appear on Leno - will he bring a teleprompter? — The news that President Obama will appear on Jay Leno's show Thursday night could be told in a couple ways depending on what type of site you're on. — More right-leaning: Faced with plummeting polls and Boston Tea Party …
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Agence France Presse:
Canadians throw shoes to protest Bush — OTTAWA (AFP) — Three Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush on Tuesday when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch. — The footwear was tossed at an effigy …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
JournoList: Inside the echo chamber — For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList. — Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
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Fox News:
ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census — The U.S. Census Bureau is working with several national organizations to help recruit 1.4 million workers to produce the country's 2010 census, including one with a history of voter fraud charges: ACORN. — FOXNews.com
Alan Scherstuhl / Runnin' Scared:
“Off With Those Pants”: Bill O'Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook — Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. — Those Who Trespass audiobook
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Limbaugh"s Favorable Rating: 19 Percent — Limbaugh's Favorable Rating: 19 Percent — Over the past few weeks, the White House has been casting right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the head of the Republican Party, and based on a new CBS News poll, it appears they may be on to something.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web Research Upends Trials — Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge's instructions and centuries of legal rules.
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Danny / The Note:
Obama Budget Chief: Numbers Looking Worse — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — President Obama's budget chief said Tuesday that he expects a forthcoming government revenue estimate to reflect a worsening economic picture. — “The numbers will be more negative than anticipated,” …
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
McCain Refuses To Condemn Ingraham's Attacks On His Daughter — Last week, ThinkProgress reported that hate radio host Laura Ingraham responded to Meghan McCain's criticism of right-wingers like Ann Coulter by calling her “plus-sized.” Meghan shot back, telling Ingraham, “stop talking about my body.”
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Tauscher to State — Word is that Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces and a staunch superdelegate for presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, is in line for a top post at the State Department …
David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Citi Losing Economist to Treasury — Citigroup Inc.'s chief economist is leaving the company for a job at the Treasury Department, according to an internal Citigroup memo. — Lewis Alexander, who has been at Citigroup since 1999 and before that worked at the Federal Reserve …
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
THE TRUTH ABOUT SWEDEN'S VOUCHER PROGRAM. — In the wake of President Obama's education speech last week, a few proponents of school vouchers are suggesting that the old sawhorse shouldn't be left off the reform table. The New York Times is featuring a video op-ed by Pacific Research …
New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike Into Pakistan — WASHINGTON — President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan …
Ameet Sachdev / Chicago Tribune:
Federal judge scolds prosecutor — Appeals Judge Richard Posner cites misconduct as conviction overturned — U.S. Appeals Judge Richard Posner is known for his provocative opinions, but his harsh criticism of a Chicago federal prosecutor surprises even close court observers.
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The Wrap:
AOL Leaps Into Original News Content With PoliticsDaily.com — This story has been updated from its original version. — New Media is about to meet Old Media. But not in the way you'd think. — AOL is about to launch a politics site, hiring well-respected political journalists …
The Huffington Post:
Dems Fuming Over White House Plan To Make Vets Pay For Service Injuries — Democrats in Congress are organizing to squash a White House proposal that would require veterans to use private insurance to pay for treatment of their combat and service-related injuries.
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Fox News apologizes for dishonest splicing of Biden clip. — Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Fox News spliced a six-month old clip of Vice President Biden to misleadingly imply that he recently said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” Today, Fox News's Martha MacCallum apologized …
Washington Times:
Guns on a plane — Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns — After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control …