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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
The Geithner Plan FAQ — Q: What is the Geithner Plan? — A: The Geithner Plan is a trillion-dollar operation by which the U.S. acts as the world's largest hedge fund investor, committing its money to funds to buy up risky and distressed but probably fundamentally undervalued assets and …
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Associated Press:
Top GOP senator losing confidence in Geithner — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - Shaky ground. That's what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT'-nur) is on these days with Congress and many in the country, according to the Senate Banking Committee's top Republican.
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Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
Are Independents Hedging Their Bets? — IF REPUBLICANS REALLY HAVE PULLED EVEN AMONG INDEPENDENTS, IT'S AN OMINOUS SIGN FOR DEMOCRATS. — Just as the economic news was relentlessly negative until the last few days, poll numbers for Republicans were horrific for months.
Scott / Power Line:
WHY I AM DEPRESSED — Victor Davis Hanson asks why so many Americans are depressed. Suggesting five themes that might provide an answer, he thinks it might be more than the economy that explains our state of mind. I agree, but none of Dr. Hanson's themes accounts for my despair.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived? — A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won't fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers' bonuses won't fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner won't fix it. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Spitzer's road back — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — Eliot Spitzer re-emerged last week as an early critic of AIG — he had forced the company's founder, Hank Greenberg, out for unrelated issues — and left many wondering if he's looking at a return to public life.
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. missile strikes take heavy toll on Al Qaeda, officials say — Predator drone attacks in northwest Pakistan have increased sharply since Bush last year stopped seeking Pakistan's permission. Obama may keep pace as officials speak of confusion in Al Qaeda ranks.
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Associated Press:
VP adviser: AIG bonus tax may go too far — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden's economic adviser warned Sunday that a congressional plan to tax American International Group Inc. executives' bonuses may go too far in using the tax code as a tool for retribution.
Associated Press:
Sen. Gregg says Obama budget will bankrupt US — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee says the Obama administration is on the right course to save the nation's financial system.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day — This is a clip from a few days ago, and in this case, it's not so much what he says as the obvious fact that he got lost on his Teleprompter while saying it. Watch President Obama look nervously left and right trying to find the thread of his remarks …
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Military hangs ‘Help Wanted’ sign in Afghanistan — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - The military buildup in Afghanistan is stoking a surge of private security contractors despite a string of deadly shootings in Iraq in recent years that has called …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Conservatism As Water — Via Dreher, Stewart Lundy talks of the nature of things and the lost art of living: … Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
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Balloon Juice
wRitErsbLock / Pereiraville:
Orlando Tea Party 032109 — Additional pictures now posted at Bakerstreet. — I have more than a hundred pictures already cropped, so I'll put them all in the extended entry. Rough estimate of 3,000 people showed up, and two people from the media that I saw. — Clearly I need a “Got Glock?” shirt!
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Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
MORE ORLANDO TEA PARTY PICS HERE: Also, Rachel Pereira has posted over 100 pictures.
MORE ORLANDO TEA PARTY PICS HERE: Also, Rachel Pereira has posted over 100 pictures.
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