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6:20 AM ET, March 18, 2009

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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?
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Fury over AIG fuels clawback bills  —  Lawmakers channeled their raw outrage Tuesday into a competition to see who could hammer AIG the hardest for doling out $165 million in bonuses after getting a $170 billion taxpayer bailout.  —  AIG dominated the day at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue …
Discussion: The Politico
The Politico:
Fallout: Dems in disarray over AIG
Discussion: Associated Press
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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National Review:
The Stimulus Bill Explicitly Guarantees Contractual Bonuses Executed …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and RedState
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 …
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Obama to Appear Sunday on ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: TIME.com
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
President's Budget Strategy Under Fire  —  Tactic May Break Obama's Bipartisan Pledge, GOP Says  —  Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president's signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes …
Discussion: TIME.com
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
National debt hits record $11 trillion
Discussion: MyDD
Danny / The Note:
Obama Budget Chief: Numbers Looking Worse
Discussion: The Politico and Political Punch
Conn Carroll / The Foundry:   Morning Bell: Accelerating Us Off a Cliff
Associated Press:
Begorra!  Irish PM trips over White House speech  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar.
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Kenneth T. Walsh / US News:
President Obama  —  Home > Nation & World > President Obama
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and The Swamp
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
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 …
Discussion: Wizbang and Infidels Are Cool
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 …
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.
Iqbal Khattak / Pakistan Daily Times:
Female shoppers still elusive in Swat  —  MINGORA: It has been more than a month since the government and the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) signed a peace deal in Swat but the shopkeepers at Cheena Market, once the busiest in Mingora city, are still waiting for female shoppers.
Discussion: Infidels Are Cool
Anne McIlroy / Globe and Mail:
Minister won't confirm belief in evolution  —  Researchers aghast that key figure in funding controversy invokes religion in science discussion  —  Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.
Discussion: Pharyngula
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 …
Jules Crittenden:
Deference Denounced  —  The Gumby-like self-adulator also known as Glenn Greenwald has worked himself into a multiply updated state because some media members were taken aback by White House flak Gibbs' snide remark about Cheney ... “I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy.”  —  Hyperventilating highpoints:
Discussion: Brian Beutler, Salon and Boing Boing
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 …
Discussion: MyDD and Swing State Project
Alice Gomstyn / ABCNEWS:
AIG CEO to Testify Before Congress Today  —  Edward Liddy to Testify in Wake of Bailout, Bonus Outrage  —  ABC NEWS Business Unit  —  As outrage continues to swell around bailed-out insurance giant American International Group, the company's chief executive will take the hot seat today …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Spin Cycle
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
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Kim Ghattas / BBC:
Iran shift  —  The Obama administration is finalising its policy for engaging Iran.  —  The approach is likely to involve a combination of small steps to initiate contact between the two countries and may include an overture in the form of a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei …
Discussion: Informed Comment
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Bush refuses to criticize Obama in Canada  —  CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama “deserves my silence,” and says he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Dean's World
Peter Foster / Telegraph:
North Korea launches perfect Italian pizza  —  North Korea has opened its first pizzeria after a decade of clandestine international research.  —  It has taken almost 10 years of work, but North Korea has acquired the technology to launch a project very dear to its leader's heart - the nation's first “authentic” Italian pizzeria.
 
 
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