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Anthony McCartney / Associated Press:
Book: Treasury Secretary ignored Obama directive — NEW YORK (AP) — A new book offering an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis says that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama calling for reconstruction of major banks.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Suskind's ‘Confidence Men’ Details Recession Dissension — WASHINGTON — A new book claims that President Obama's response to the economic crisis was hampered by a White House economic staff plagued by internal rivalries, a domineering chief adviser and a Treasury secretary who dragged …
Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Latest Lame Obama Excuse: “Geithner Blew Me Off”
Latest Lame Obama Excuse: “Geithner Blew Me Off”
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CANNONFIRE, Corrente and Business Insider
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Abbas Says He Will Seek Palestinian State at the Security Council — The Palestinian president announced Friday that he will seek statehood through the Security Council at the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States and likely to provoke a major conflict …
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Outside the Beltway, Truthdig, UN Dispatch and Balloon Juice
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama Tries to Look Beyond Palestinian Bid at UN
Obama Tries to Look Beyond Palestinian Bid at UN
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The Politico
The Politico:
Palestinian officials: Jews welcome
Palestinian officials: Jews welcome
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ThinkProgress, USA Today, Elder of Ziyon and Associated Press
Nancy Pelosi / democrats.foreignaffairs.house.gov:
Hoyer, Pelosi, Berman, Lowey, House Democrats Send Letter Calling on Heads of State to Oppose …
Hoyer, Pelosi, Berman, Lowey, House Democrats Send Letter Calling on Heads of State to Oppose …
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Ben Smith's Blog and Washington Post
Rick Perry / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.
The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.
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Ben Smith's Blog
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Popularity Prompts Buyer's Remorse — The most popular national political figure in America today is one who was rejected by her own party three years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third are suffering …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Poll: Americans optimistic about Hillary Clinton presidency
TRENDING: Poll: Americans optimistic about Hillary Clinton presidency
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CANNONFIRE and Politics
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
You Don't Make Social Security More Solvent By Eliminating Its Funding Base — Television hosts who like to ask Republican Party members politically charges questions about Social Security (you know who you are) really ought to take 10-20 minutes to think about how Social Security works …
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Washington Monthly, Don Surber, Campaign 2012, Corrente and Eschaton
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Perry “Ponzi Scheme” Remark Doesn't Faze Most Republicans — Solid majority believe Social Security should be preserved — PRINCETON, NJ — Texas Gov. and presidential candidate Rick Perry's comments on Social Security, which include calling it a “Ponzi scheme,” appear to be a non-issue for most Republicans.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Ponzi scheme that should be fixed
A Ponzi scheme that should be fixed
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The Atlantic Online and Liberal Values
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Free to Die — Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the genial economist identified laissez-faire economics with personal choice and empowerment …
New York Post:
Weiner gets 'brush'off — By S.A. MILLER in Washington and CARL CAMPANILE in NY — Scrub out the stench of Weiner! — Newly sworn-in Republican Rep. Bob Turner's family ordered a thorough cleaning of the House office space he inherited from his disgraced predecessor, Anthony Weiner …
Justin Fishel / Fox News:
General Reported He Was Pressured on Testimony About White House-Backed Project, Sources Say — Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, told House members in a classified briefing earlier this month that he was pressured to change prepared congressional testimony …
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Daily Kos, Big Government, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mediaite, Pajamas Media, Scared Monkeys and The Daily Beast
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems slam Obama for going ‘AWOL’ on mortgage crisis
Dems slam Obama for going ‘AWOL’ on mortgage crisis
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and JammieWearingFool
David Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court halts Texas execution — Justices act on an emergency appeal for a murderer sentenced to die after jurors were told he posed a greater danger because he is black. Gov. Rick Perry and state judges had refused to intervene. — Duane Edward Buck, 48, was sentenced to die …
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NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn't create more jobs — Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn't get serious about generating jobs. — “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.
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Runnin' Scared, Wonkette, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider and JammieWearingFool
CBS Denver:
2 Men Accused Of Taking Dead Friend Out For Night On The Town — DENVER (CBS4) - Two men are facing charges in a crime that has family members shocked. — They are accused of putting their deceased friend into a car and then heading out for a night of bar hopping. — Jeffrey Jarrett died last month.
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The Daily What, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mediaite
New York Post:
Devout taxi drivers allowed to veto strip-club roof ads — The great religious war, waged on top of yellow cabs, has ended. — Devout Muslim hacks — who were crouched behind their steering wheels in shame while driving with ads for strip clubs atop their taxis — won a major victory yesterday in their war on roof smut.
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americanthinker.com, New York Magazine and Atlas Shrugs
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Noah Rosenberg / New York Times:
Some Cabbies Given Right to Say No to Racy Ads
Some Cabbies Given Right to Say No to Racy Ads
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Gothamist
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Planning Fallacy — When the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was a young man, he led a committee to write a new part of the curriculum for Israeli high schools. The committee worked for a year, and Kahneman asked his colleagues how long they thought the rest of the project would take.
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ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, Sadly, No! and Booman Tribune
Glenn Kessler / Associated Press:
John Boehner's misfire on pending federal regulations — “At this moment, the Executive Branch has 219 new rules in the works that will cost our economy at least $100 million. That means under the current Washington agenda, our economy is poised to take a hit from the government of at least $100 million — 219 times.”
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, A plain blog about politics, Speaker, Firedoglake and Business Insider
Allison Kopicki / The Caucus:
Approval of Congress Matches Record Low — Congress faces historically low approval ratings as it wades into the debate over the $447 billion jobs package proposed by President Obama, with just 12 percent of Americans now approving of the way Congress is handling its job, matching its all-time low …
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, Weasel Zippers, The Monkey Cage, ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Joshua Green / Business Week:
Teaparty.com Could Make a Rock Band Rich — Political operatives may pay top dollar for the domain name, owned by a Canadian rock band that pioneered a style called “Moroccan roll” — There's no hotter name in politics right now than the Tea Party. But anyone seized with a desire …
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Ballot Box and Mediaite
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
A dose of reality for the HPV debate — If Republican presidential candidates want to debate sexual health and hygiene, it would be nice if they displayed more collective knowledge and judgment than your average eighth-grade family-life class. During the Tampa debate, a viewer longed for a blunt …
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Little Green Footballs, The Atlantic Online and Business Insider
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Perry on TARP support: No 'Ma'am' — After an appearance in Newton, Iowa today, Rick Perry denied to an unidentified woman that he'd ever supported the 2008 bank bailout known as TARP. — “No Ma'am,” he told her. — “I thought I saw a letter where you had written encouraging the support of TARP legislation,” he persisted.
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Steve Deace, ThinkProgress and American Thinker
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama team pushes back at suggestions he's in trouble — Despite a growing storm cloud hovering over his presidency and reelection hopes, President Obama is in strong shape and Americans stand by his plan for jobs, Obama's top campaign adviser said Friday. — In a memo to Sunday news show producers …
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Weasel Zippers, Questions and Observations and Ben Smith's Blog
unionleader.com:
Tom Ridge to endorse Huntsman at St. Anselm — CONCORD — Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman will announce the endorsement of former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Gov. Tom Ridge Friday in an event at St. Anselm College in Goffstown. — Ridge, a former governor of Pennsylvania …
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US News:
Ford TV Ad Slams Obama Auto Bailouts — America is still fighting over President Obama's costly bailout of Chrysler and General Motors. Especially the owners of Ford, the only member of Detroit's “Big Three” who rejected the government dole and emerged perfectly healthy.
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Slate, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Investor's Business Daily:
Living Miserably — Economy: What's a six-letter word that describes what you get when you combine spiking jobless claims and rising inflation? Answer: M-I-S-E-R-Y. And as new reports show, Obama is dishing out heaping portions of it. — The two reports out of the Labor Department are troubling enough on their own.
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Politisite and Hot Air