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Car Dealer in Chief — Some companies are in the steel business, some are in the cookie business, but General Motors is in the restructuring business. For 30 years, G.M. has been restructuring itself toward long-term viability. — For all these years, G.M.'s market share has endured a long, steady slide.
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President Obama's auto plan throws lawmakers — President Obama's new ultimatum to U.S. auto manufacturers threw Capitol Hill into turmoil Monday as lawmakers worried about the effects the plans could have on their districts. — Michigan's senior Democratic senator, Carl Levin …
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U.S. Threatens Bankruptcy for GM, Chrysler — Plan Would Separate ‘Bad’ and ‘Good’ Assets of Two Companies; Historic Intervention Carries Big Political Risk for Obama — President Obama, who announced the plans Monday with Treasury Secretary Geithner, said the U.S. would not let the auto industry “simply vanish.”
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Most Americans Don't Blame Obama for Economy, Poll Finds — The number of Americans who believe that the nation is headed in the right direction has roughly tripled since Barack Obama's election, and the public overwhelmingly blames the excesses of the financial industry, rather than the new president …
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Washington Monthly, The Note, The Swamp, MSNBC, Gateway Pundit, TIME.com, MyDD and Real Clear Politics
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U.S. voters don't blame Obama for economy — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama benefits from a broadly held perception that others bear the bulk of responsibility for state of the U.S. economy …
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Donklephant
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‘New York Times’ Spiked Obama Donor Story — Congressional Testimony: ‘Game-Changer’ Article Would Have Connected Campaign With ACORN — A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 …
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Atlas Shrugs, Don Surber, Stop The ACLU, Conservatives4Palin.com, QandO, Political Machine, Gateway Pundit and Townhall.com
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NY Times deliberately killed ACORN-Obama stories to thwart “game changer”
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RedState
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Bashing J Street — Follow the Jewish Week on Twitter! Click here to start. And we're on Facebook; become a fan today. — What is about J Street, the pro-peace process lobby and political action committee, that has the leaders of major Jewish groups in such a snit?
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WHY IS AIPAC SO AFRAID OF J STREET? — James Besser asks why the major Jewish groups have responded to J Street with so much more fury and fear than, say, the formation of Americans for Peace Now, or the Israeli Policy Forum. One Jewish leader, speaking off the record, confides to Besser that he feels …
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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Financial Rescue Approaches GDP as U.S. Pledges $12.8 Trillion — The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.
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Ex-Commerce Nominee Now Top Budget Critic — Standing beside President Obama at the White House as he accepted the nomination to be commerce secretary two months ago, Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H), a stalwart Republican about to join a Democratic administration, said: “This is not a time when we should stand …
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Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay — Don't ask us how or why we came across this — and the British home secretary's husband did not bring it to our attention — but the latest entry on the blog of the reigning Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, has a sort of eye-catching dateline: “March 27, 2009, Guantánamo Bay.”
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Jules Crittenden, The Huffington Post, Don Surber, This ain't Hell …, Firedoglake and The Jawa Report
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Building Russian-U.S. Bonds — MOSCOW — It is hard to dispute the pessimistic assessments of the Russian-American relationship that prevailed at the end of last year. Unfortunately, relations soured because of the previous U.S. administration's plans — specifically …
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TIME.com
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Michelle's Image: From Off-Putting To Spot-On — At first, they didn't like the way she was talking about her husband's dirty socks. Then, they said she always looked angry. Later, they questioned her patriotism when she commented that she only recently became proud of her country.
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TIME.com
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NANNY STATE: GOVERNMENT WEBSITE TO WARN OF SADNESS/CRYING OVER ECONOMY — The U.S. government is set to offer an online emotional rescue kit! — “Getting Through Tough Economic Times” will launch Tuesday with a media push across all platforms. — The site is meant to help people identify …
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Pirate's Cove, The Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Fausta's Blog, Connecting.the.Dots, Don Surber and Dr. Helen
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DNC chair infuriates abortion backers — Tim Kaine, the Virginia governor and President Barack Obama's hand-picked choice as the head of the Democratic National Committee, infuriated abortion-rights groups Monday by signing legislation that gives abortion foes an important symbolic win.
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Obama takes step over the line that separates government from private industry — His automaker bailout plan wades into ‘industrial policy,’ in which government officials, not business executives or the free market, decide what products a firm makes and how it charts its future.
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OBAMA'S MOST PERILOUS LEGAL PICK — JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal “norms.” Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an “axis of disobedience” along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.
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How a Modern Depression Might Look — If the U.S. Gets There — In the wake of the biggest financial shock since 1929, economists say the odds of a depression are less than 50-50 — though still uncomfortably high. But even if a depression comes to pass, a 21st-century version would look very different from the one 80 years ago.
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The New Republic
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Party leaders stressed about Dodd — Interviews with a dozen Democratic state legislators, party officials and operatives in Connecticut indicate there is deep concern back home over whether the incendiary American International Group bonuses issue has delivered a mortal blow to Sen. Chris Dodd …
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Google to Commit $100 Million to Venture Capital Fund in its First Year — Google Inc. is expected to Tuesday announce more details about its highly anticipated venture-capital fund, including its plan to commit roughly $100 million to the endeavor in its first year, said people familiar with the matter.
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Fire kills child, 3, and parents as police prevent neighbours from trying to rescue them — A pregnant woman, her husband and their three-year-old son were killed in a house fire early yesterday as police who arrived before the fire brigade prevented neighbours from trying to save them.