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8:55 PM ET, January 21, 2009

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New York Post:
CAROLINE KENNEDY ENDS SENATE SEAT BID  —  By FREDRIC U. DICKER IN ALBANY and MAGGIE HABERMAN IN N.Y.  —  Caroline Kennedy has told Gov. David Paterson that she is withdrawing her name from consideration to replace outgoing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate, The Post has learned.
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New York Times:
Kennedy Is Said to Withdraw Senate Bid  —  Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn from consideration for the vacant Senate seat in New York, according to a person told of her decision.  —  On Wednesday she called Gov. David A. Paterson, who will choose a successor to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Washington Wire:
McCain Lends Hillary Clinton a Helping Hand  —  Patrick Yoest reports on Congress.  —  Sen. John McCain unexpectedly lent a hand to Sen. Hillary Clinton on the Senate floor today, calling for her quick confirmation as secretary of State without a lengthy roll-call vote.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Clinton Is Approved, but Vote on Holder Is Delayed  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate as President Obama's secretary of state on Wednesday, but the new president will have to wait at least a week for a vote on his choice to lead the Justice Department.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   Clinton Confirmed  —  The U.S. Senate confirmed Hillary Clinton …
Washington Wire:
Clinton Confirmed for Secretary of State
James D. Besser / The Jewish Week:
Mitchell As Envoy Could Split Center … The expected appointment of a special envoy to breathe new life into Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could split the pro-Israel center while pleasing the Jewish left and outraging the right.  The schism could be particularly deep if …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Settlement Freeze  —  In the very early days of the Bush …
Discussion: Megan McArdle
CNN:
A major Bush rule gets scrapped by Obama  —  (CNN) — It's the same Oval Office.  The same desk.  Even the same curtains.  But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Holder confirmation delayed  —  Eric Holder's confirmation vote before the Judiciary Committee will be delayed for up to a week as Republican senators continue to press him on his views about interrogation and other Bush administration intelligence methods.  —  The Judiciary Committee …
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Jonn Lilyea / This ain't Hell …:
Obama blows off Medal of Honor recipients  —  According to TSO who was at the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, this newly sworn-in President for the first time in 56 years blew off the ball (that's 14 Inaugurations).  —  Some background on the ball;
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novinite.com:   Ten Balls Top Obama Inauguration Day
David Remnick / New Yorker:
GOING, GOING, GONE  —  The mood at the Inauguration was so joyful, so filled with unalloyed expectation and—there's that word again—hope, that it seems almost peevish (and historically repetitive) to sound a sour note, but here it unavoidably is: the hostility among some in the vast crowd toward …
Discussion: New York Times and The Fix
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Experts say Obama should retake the oath  —  (01-21) 04:00 PST Washington - — Several constitutional lawyers said President Obama should, just to be safe, retake the oath of office that was flubbed by Chief Justice John Roberts.  —  The 35-word oath is explicitly prescribed in the Constitution …
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Josh White / Washington Post:
After Flub, Experts Say, A Do-Over Couldn't Hurt  —  The presidential oath of office is required of a new president before he can execute his powers, and the Constitution is clear that its 35 words must be spoken exactly.  —  Which is what makes the oath President Obama took yesterday so interesting.
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Will Get His Blackberry  —  President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.  —  On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package. …
Discussion: Guardian and Silicon Alley Insider
USA Today:
On the new whitehouse.gov: ‘Pool’ reports to be public?  —  But a quick tour around its features indicates it will have some interesting features, along with the usual pages about the president's agenda, the White House and the federal government:  —  • Pool reports.
Discussion: The Opinionator
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MsUnderestimated:
Daily Show - What Differences Between Bush & Obama?  (VIDEO)  —  Tonight Jon Stewart rightly pointed out that there really are no differences when it comes to philosophy about national security, and he demonstrates it with sequential video clips, comparing Barack's speech with past Bush speeches.
Discussion: Lean Left and Betsy's Page
Sean Meade / Thomas P.M. Barnett:
Deleted scenes: Chapter 1  —  A grand strategy grading sheet  —  On articulation, President Bush gets a “T” for “trying”—as in, too hard.  As Jacob Weisberg argues in his 2008 book, The Bush Tragedy, George W. Bush was determined to succeed where his father had failed in articulating …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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Nathan Gardels / The Huffington Post:   Obama Should Quit War on Terror, Talk to Hamas and Taliban
Tom Gralish / Scene on the Road:
Found - AGAIN - the Poster Source Photo  —  The photographer is MANNIE GARCIA, a Washington DC freelancer for the Associated Press.  —  Driving home from Washington after the inauguration, cruising on adrenalin from covering the historic event and then stopping two or three times for coffee …
Discussion: Swampland and Extreme Mortman
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Reject Pornography Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider attempts to revive a 1998 law intended to protect children from Internet pornography, ending a legal conflict dating to the administration of President Bill Clinton.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog, The Swamp and ACSBlog
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Anti-porn online law dies quietly in Supreme Court
Andy Levy / Big Hollywood:
My “To Don't” List for the Right  —  The only thing worse than bad winners are sore losers, and we've had enough of them for the past eight years.  So with that in mind, in the wake of today's historic inauguration, here's my Handbook For The Loyal Opposition, 2009 edition - a “To Don't List,” if you will.
Washington Post:
Treasury Secretary Nominee Urges Changes to Current Bailout Plan  —  Timothy Geithner Apologizes for Failing to Pay $43,000 in Taxes  —  Timothy F. Geithner, President Obama's nominee to be secretary of the Treasury, said today that the economic bailout program crafted by the Bush administration …
Discussion: D-Day
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David A Nakamura / Inauguration Watch:
Inaugural Committee Apologizes for Ticket Fiasco  —  The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which was responsible for planning and executing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony yesterday, apologized today for keeping thousands of ticket-holders outside the security gates, causing them to miss the ceremony.
Julian Borger / Guardian:
President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran ‘without preconditions’  —  The new Obama administration is willing to talk to Iran “without preconditions” and will work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, the White House said today.  —  The Obama foreign policy agenda that appeared …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Senate Progressive Media Summit Liveblog  —  digg it  —  Marcy and I are at the Hart Senate Office Building with Atrios, Jerome, Bowers, David Corn, Mike Rodgers, Natasha Chart, Chris Hayes, Brownsox and others listening to various Senators come in and talk about their issues.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Juan Williams / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Obama on Performance Alone  —  Let's not celebrate more ordinary speeches.  —  With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States.  On one level, it was a simple matter of political process — the symbolic transfer of power.
Discussion: The Radio Equalizer
Daniel W. Drezner:
Have you met the French, Mr. Obama?  —  God bless France.  You knew, once Obama was sworn in, that Paris would welcome the new president with open arms and not get all passive-aggressive-y ike they [always] [frequently] occasionally do.  —  What's that?  There's a Reuters story about this?
Reihan Salam / The American Scene:
Worshipping Obama  —  Churlish right-wingers will likely keep complaining about the “cult of Obama.”  I won't indulge in that easy cynicism.  I will note, however, that as I stumbled home, tired and scotch-afflicted for the first time in my life, I talked to one of my best friends …
Haaretz:
Supreme Court revokes ban on Arab parties from national elections  —  Israel's Supreme court overruled on Wednesday a parliamentary panel which had decided to bar Israeli Arab parties from running in next month's parliamentary election.  —  The court issued its decision in response …
 
 
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Murtha Says He'd Take Guantanamo Prisoners in His District
Associated Press:
Kennedy Released From Hospital
Discussion: Reuters
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Newspapers In Demand Again! Inauguration Sparks Press Run Boost
Dennis Sanders / The Moderate Voice:
Who's Afraid of the Big Tent?
Nancy Gibbs / Time:
Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush?
Discussion: The Daily Dish
George Packer In / New Yorker:
LET US NOW SET ASIDE CHILDISH THINGS
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Liberty Street
Brad Plumer / The New Republic:
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
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Megan McArdle:
America's drinking problem
Discussion: The Nation
KRQE-TV:
Iglesias to prosecute terror cases
Discussion: Think Progress and TIME.com
Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
WHouse stops pending Bush regulations for review
Scott Collins / Show Tracker:
Alone among networks, Fox News gives Bush homecoming cheer
Discussion: Think Progress and Salon
Denver Post:
Is dissent still patriotic?