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U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms — Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy — The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers …
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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Dials Down Wall Street Criticism — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, after months of criticizing Wall Street, has been scrambling to woo top bankers and financiers to back its latest bailout plan. — In recent days, in spite of public furor over huge bonuses paid …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MUST READ — There's an eye-opening, perhaps eye-popping, article in tomorrow's Journal ("Obama Dials Down Wall Street Criticism"), the gist of which is that over the last three months Obama and his team have learned that they've got to start respecting Wall Street and the big banks if they want to get anything done.
John / Power Line:
HOW WOULD HE PRONOUNCE “CASSIOPEIA”? — Everyone knows that Barack Obama is lost without his teleprompter, but his latest blunder, courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via the Corner, suggests that the teleprompter may not be enough unless it includes phonetic spellings.
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The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann: I Want People “Armed And Dangerous” Over Obama Tax Plan — Controversial Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said this weekend that she wants residents of her state “armed and dangerous” over President Barack Obama's plan to reduce global warming “because we need to fight back.”
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:Bachmann urges ‘armed’ climate revolt
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Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:Michele Bachmann on D.C.: “I'm a Foreign Correspondent On Enemy Lines”
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:Bachmann: ‘I Want People...Armed And Dangerous On This Issue’ Of Cap And Trade
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Joe Dwinell / Boston Herald:
Poll of change: Obama's job approval slipping to ‘50-50’ — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio — The honeymoon is over, a national poll will signal tomorrow as President Obama's job approval stumbles to about 50 percent over the lack of improvement with the crippled economy.
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Jules Crittenden:
50-50 — Zogby poll due out in the morning will be reporting the Obama admin's latest grim milestone. As many people don't like him as do. Boston Herald: … Maybe, but the vast presidential gaffe repository Obama is amassing can't be helping. The guy's only been in 60-odd days and he's tripped more than Ford.
Megan Slack / The Huffington Post:
Tammy Bruce Calls The Obamas “Trash In The White House” — Tammy Bruce, guest host for Laura Ingram's radio show, had some harsh words for First Lady Michelle Obama. — Discussing the first lady's visit to a Washington D.C. classroom last week, Bruce incredulously recalled Obama's story …
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Eric Martin / Bloomberg:
Bank of America's Bernstein Says Sell Bank Stocks After Rally — Investors should sell bank stocks after they rallied 12 percent today because the Treasury Department's plan to buy toxic assets won't stop profits from dropping, Bank of America Corp.'s Richard Bernstein said.
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Jamil Anderlini / Financial Times:
China calls for new reserve currency — China's central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. — In an essay posted on the People's Bank of China's website, Zhou Xiaochuan …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Canadian defense minister to Greg Gutfeld and Fox News: Apologize; Update: Gutfeld apologizes — In which a YouTube grassroots brushfire explodes into a full-blown international incident. You make the call: Below you'll find the “Red Eye” segment that aired on March 17 followed by MacKay's demand for an apology this morning.
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Jessica Leeder / Globe and Mail:Fox News host apologizes to Canada - sort of
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Cuomo Says Most Huge A.I.G. Bonuses Were Returned — Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced late Monday afternoon that 9 of the top 10 bonus recipients at the American International Group were giving back their bonuses. — He also said 15 of the largest 20 bonus recipients …
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Paul Krugman:
Geithner plan arithmetic — Leave on one side the question of whether the Geither plan is a good idea or not. One thing is clearly false in the way it's being presented: administration officials keep saying that there's no subsidy involved, that investors would share in the downside. That's just wrong.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Attacks Me As A ‘Villain’ For Highlighting His Rape Comments — As promised, tonight, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly aired his segment alleging that ThinkProgress caused “pain and suffering” to rape victims. Our unspeakable offense was contained in a March 1 blog post …
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Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
Townhall: Michelle Obama is a Bitch, Get It? — Burt Perlutsky was a TV writer a long time ago. Then he aged out of it and became a crank. This wasn't one of those major loses like Steinbeck. Now he writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network.
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Adam Silverman / USA Today:
Same-sex marriage measure sails through Vt. Senate — The Vermont Senate on Monday evening overwhelmingly passed a bill that could legalize same-sex marriage in the state. — The state Senate voted 26-4 in favor of the measure introduced by Democratic state Sen. John Campbell.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Congress isn't feeling much heat from Obama's ‘army’ — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
It's Never Too Soon to Think About 2012 — President Obama has been in the White House for only two months and three days, but his strategists at the Democratic National Committee are already looking ahead to 2012. — Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the chairman of the D.N.C. …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney — Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. — Displeased with the former vice-president's recent media appearances …
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