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John Ward Anderson / The Politico:
Pot-related questions deluge W.H. — When the White House put out a call for town hall questions, it might not have been expecting this. — The more than 92,000 people who responded either have Cheech and Chong senses of humor or there is a deep concern in America — undetected by the media …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Assessing The Obama Online Town Hall Meeting — I've been critical of the White House New Media office before, but I think they deserve kudos today for instigating and executing the President's first online town hall meeting. (Macon Phillips, the new media director, and Jesse Lee …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Obama Jokes About Pot-Brained Online Audience — Says the President: “I don't know what this says about the online audience,” he says... “No, I don't think legalizing marijuana is a good way to grow our economy.” Incidentally, a White House spokesman says that Obama was not given …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting — President Obama conducted an Internet version of the question and answer sessions he has been holding around the country on Thursday. The event was the latest example of efforts by the Obama team to replicate its creative use of the Internet during the election campaign.
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The Politico:
GOP gloves off for budget brawl — House Republicans have begun unveiling detailed alternatives to President Barack Obama's policies — a concerted effort to push back against Democratic efforts to label them “the Party of No.” — On Wednesday, it was a housing plan.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Bad blood: GOP infighting on budget — House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) raised objections to an abbreviated alternative budget “blueprint” released today — but were told by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) they needed to back the plan, according to several Republican sources.
Elana Schor / TPMDC:House GOP Unveils Its Budget Shiny Packet of Goals
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bachmann Introducing Bill to Ban Use of Made-Up Global Currency — The madness continues as Michele Bachmann introduces legislation that “would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency.” — What the Chinese were proposing, of course, was to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Dan Raviv / CBS News:
U.S. Accused Of Killing 39 In Sudan Strike — A government minister in Sudan is accusing the United States Air Force of killing dozens of people in that north African country this past January - but the semi-official American version of the story is very different.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems split over how to push health agenda — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have a major disagreement over how to handle healthcare reform, one of President Obama's biggest priorities. — Baucus wants to win Republican support …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:Pelosi defiant on fast-tracking health care
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Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Bayh: My Group Of Blue Dogs ‘Literally Has No Agenda’ Other Than Blocking Obama's — Yesterday, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, and several other progressive groups began running ads urging “moderate” Democratic members of Congress to “get on board with the president's budget.”
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
WSJ Says Bayh Wants to Shake Up Status Quo By Protecting Business Interests — Here's a curious report from The Wall Street Journal's Naftali Bendavid and Greg Hitt: … The presumption here being that over the past eight years, the political powerhouses in Washington were insufficiently solicitous …
Chicago Tribune:
Rahm Emanuel's profitable stint at mortgage giant — Short Freddie Mac stay made him at least $320,000 — Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up …
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Rachel Gordon / San Francisco Chronicle:
DEA raids pot dispensary in SF — (03-25) 22:05 PDT San Francisco — Federal agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco Wednesday, a week after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled that the Obama administration would not prosecute distributors of pot used …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The Times Plans Temporary Pay Cuts — Facing a steep drop in revenue, The New York Times Company plans to cut the pay of most employees by 5 percent for nine months, in return for 10 days' leave, and will lay off 100 people and make other budget cuts, executives said on Thursday.
Kevin Yamamura / Sacramento Bee:
Schwarzenegger says he's not running for another office — Kill the Arnold Schwarzenegger-for-U.S. Senate rumors - for now. — The Republican governor said Wednesday in his clearest language yet that he is not running for Senate, Congress or dogcatcher. — Schwarzenegger …
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Geithner pulls his punches — The Obama administration's new financial reform proposal has been described as a sweeping step to crack down on Wall Street excesses, even denounced by critics as a “power grab.” But in fact, the administration didn't go as far as many on Wall Street expected …
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Dems warn against first lady bill — House Republicans are pressing for a change in federal law that could force Michelle Obama and future first ladies to do more of their policy work in public. But Democrats warn President Obama may take the attempt personally “as an attack on his wife.”
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www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Expanded Americorps has an authoritarian feel — With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion.
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Rep. Barney Frank / The Huffington Post:
Why I Called Justice Scalia A Homophobe — While responding to questions from journalists about my characterization of Justice Antonin Scalia as a homophobe, I realized that the fact that I made that comment in conjunction with a potential lawsuit about the Defense of Marriage Act created …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Bid Business Adieu — Barack Obama meets with a flock of nervous bankers at the White House tomorrow to reassure them he understands their interests. Good luck. There has always been tension between the Democratic Party and the private sector. That tension is over.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Learning How to Think — Ever wonder how financial experts could lead the world over the economic cliff? — One explanation is that so-called experts turn out to be, in many situations, a stunningly poor source of expertise. There's evidence that what matters in making a sound forecast …
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CNBC:
AIG London Execs: Returning Bonuses Is Blackmail — American International Group executives in Europe are adamant they should not have to return their controversial bonuses and some feel that pressure on them to do so may amount to blackmail, according to a company employee and internal emails.
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Bartle Bull / Prospect Magazine:
No, he can't — 157 » Features » No, he can't — The wheels are already coming off Obama's Trojan horse revolution. Will he, like Jimmy Carter, be seen as a one-term disaster? — Discuss this article at First Drafts, Prospect's blog — Barack Obama was always going to disappoint.
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
Commercial Property Faces Crisis — Delinquency Rate at 1.8%, Near Peak of Last Recession; Parallels to S&L Debacle — Commercial real-estate loans are going sour at an accelerating pace, threatening to cause tens of billions of dollars in losses to banks already hurt by the housing downturn.
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