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12:00 PM ET, January 30, 2009

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New York Times:
Democrats Set Sights on Republican Senators Who Oppose Stimulus Plan  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Judd Gregg awoke to the bad news on Thursday morning that a coalition of Democratic groups had planned to run television advertisements in his state to pressure him to support President Obama's economic recovery plan.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Care Now  —  The whole world is in recession.  But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catastrophe — in which millions of people will lose their health insurance along with their jobs, and therefore lose access to essential care.
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Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Stealth Care  —  With the nation preoccupied by the financial crisis, Democrats have been quietly working to nationalize health care.  —  Tom Daschle is still waiting to be confirmed as secretary of health and human services, not that he's in any rush.
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
CHANGE FOR THE WORSE  —  WASHINGTON - Buried deep inside …
Discussion: Townhall.com and JammieWearingFool
Newsday:
Clinton critic Samantha Power gets White House job  —  Samantha Power, who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a “monster” while working to elect Barack Obama president, will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House, The Associated Press has learned.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Hardball politics stays in the Oval  —  Despite his past denunciations of the “perpetual campaign” — and “political hacks like Karl Rove” — President Barack Obama's version of change doesn't include banishing hardball politics from the environs of the Oval Office.
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Economy shrinks at 3.8 percent pace in 4Q
Discussion: D-Day and AMERICAblog News
Joe Biden / USA Today:
Time to put middle class front and center  —  For years, we had a White House that failed to put the middle class front and center in its economic policies.  —  President Obama has made it clear that is going to change.  And it's why he has asked me to lead a task force on the middle class.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Cleaner and Faster  —  Throughout 2008, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist, built the case for a big but surgical stimulus package.  Summers warned that a “poorly provided fiscal stimulus can have worse side effects than the disease that is to be cured.”  So his proposal had three clear guidelines.
BBC:
Turkish PM given hero's welcome  —  Turkey's PM has received a hero's welcome on his return to Istanbul after he stormed out of a debate about Gaza at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  —  Recep Tayyip Erdogan had reacted angrily when he was refused the chance to respond to Israeli President Shimon Peres' defence of the operation
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims  —  Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew.  Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward …
Washington Post:
GOP Stakes Its Claim With Stimulus Vote  —  The unanimous vote by House Republicans against President Obama's stimulus plan provided an early indication that the GOP hopes to regain power by becoming the champion of small government, a reputation many felt slipped away during the high-spending Bush years.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News, Daily Kos and MSNBC
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Candidate Linked to Obama Parody Song Leaves Race for G.O.P. Chairman  —  WASHINGTON — Chip Saltsman, the candidate for national Republican Party chairman who came under fire late last year for distributing a holiday CD with the parody song “Barack the Magic Negro,” dropped out of the contest Thursday on the eve of the vote.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Five file for RNC chairman post
Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal:
Option ARMs See Rising Defaults  —  Woes Mount in $750 Billion Home-Loan Market; Analysts' Dim Views  —  Defaults on a popular form of mortgage that gave home buyers a choice of how much to pay each month are rising and could rival those on subprime loans, potentially causing more trouble for investors and banks.
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Blagojevich Makes a Day of It on Way Out  —  CHICAGO — As the nine-seat airplane raced through the skies on Thursday somewhere between Springfield and here, an onboard telephone began to ring.  —  Rod R. Blagojevich, the soon-to-be ex-governor of Illinois, instructed his aides not to answer.
Lynnley Browning / New York Times:
A Rich Income in '06 Was $263 Million  —  The income of the 400 wealthiest Americans swelled in 2006, soaring nearly 23 percent from the previous year, to an average of $263 million, according to data released Thursday by the Internal Revenue Service.  Since 1996, this group has nearly doubled …
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Obama Taps a General as the Envoy to Kabul  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has picked Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, a former top military commander in Afghanistan, to be the next United States ambassador to Kabul, an administration official said Thursday.
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Proof that all debate is now over  —  Imagine that.  The most expensive social experiment in American history — one that will cost taxpayers more than both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined — was allotted less than a single day of debate in Congress.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Townhall.com
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Border War  —  Geithner-Summers psychodrama, Round 1.  —  Larry Summers has a cutting sense of humor.  For example, when he thinks a proposal calls for government heavy-handedness, he will dismiss it as “Putinesque,” a reference to the statist Russian leader.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Kausfiles
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Judge Refuses to Delay a Case at Guantánamo  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration hit an unexpected rough patch on Thursday in its plan to give itself time to decide how to prosecute Guantánamo detainees.  —  A military judge in the case of one of the best-known terrorism suspects declined …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Are you with Obama or Rush?  —  President Obama and a key outside ally are stepping up efforts to ensure passage of the massive economic stimulus package, reaching out to Congress with both carrots and sticks.  —  While the president and his top aides are using all the trappings of the office …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US puts up $20 million for Gaza relief  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday made an emergency contribution of more than $20 million for urgent relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, a day after the United Nations launched …
Discussion: Reuters
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
What Israel Gained in Gaza  —  Israel's recent operations in Gaza began in an atmosphere of criticism, including the widespread prediction that the use of force wouldn't “solve anything.”  Since, in this view, a negotiated peace is the only eventual answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict …
 
 
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