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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Some Speculation on Zinni  —  I just had a conversation with one Republican who speculated that Richard Holbrooke may have been at the center of the current mess over who will serve as U.S. ambassador in Iraq.  According to the scenario he laid out, despite Jones having offered the job to Zinni …
Discussion: Kausfiles and Riehl World View
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Losing Control  —  Obama needs to reassert command of the agenda in Washington  —  Barack Obama began making his comeback on Wednesday, apparently aware that he has all but lost control of the agenda in Washington at a time when he simply can't afford to do so.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama could break 5-day rule  —  Obama appears poised to break his campaign pledge to give the public five days to review a bill before he signs it.  —  Obama scheduled a bill signing for 4:35 p.m. Wednesday, even though the House has yet to vote on the legislation expanding a children's health insurance program.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's five-day rule: Broken again
Discussion: The Politico and Daily Pundit
Associated Press:   Obama signs kids' health insurance bill
Glenn R. Simpson / Wall Street Journal:
Panetta Earned $700,000 in Fees  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008, with some of the payments coming from troubled financial firms …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
CIA Panetta's fees: Defense, banking
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi  —  CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt's capital.  He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here …
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Stimulus Package Falls to 37%  —  Support for the economic recovery plan working its way through Congress has fallen again this week.  For the first time, a plurality of voters nationwide oppose the $800-billion-plus plan.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found …
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Stimulus Setback: Which Side Is Obama On?  —  Sorry for my absence today—I was on jury duty (not selected though)  —  The stimulus bill has suffered a major setback.  Lacking the 60 votes to pass the bill, Senate Democrats have moved to a conference off-site, delayed the vote …
Media Research Center:
Bozell to ABC President: You Must Publicly Address Stephanopoulos' Apparent Conflict of Interest  —  Open Letter Demands Public Resolution to Daily Strategy Calls  —  Alexandria, VA - Media Research Center (MRC) President L. Brent Bozell, III has written a letter to ABC News President David Westin calling …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Carter tries to push Rangel out  —  Republican Rep. John R. Carter of Texas offered legislation Wednesday that would require Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel to relinquish his gavel until the ethics committee completes an investigation into Rangel's finances.
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog
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The Charlotte Observer:
Change we cannot and do not believe in  —  When Barack Obama was running for the Democratic nomination last year and then for the presidency in the fall, one of the most attractive things about his candidacy was his promise of change that we all could believe in.
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Stumbling on Their Sense of Entitlement
Discussion: The Big Picture, Salon and Neptunus Lex
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Advances Tax Break for Homebuyers  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday voted to expand the economic stimulus package with a tax credit for homebuyers of up to $15,000, a provision championed by Republicans as addressing a root cause of the recession.
Tony Mauro / The BLT:
Florida Student Asks Scalia a Question — and Gets Scolded  —  Where others fear to tread, a 20-year-old college student from Tequesta, Fla.,boldly stepped forward Tuesday to ask Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a question he did not like during a public appearance in West Palm Beach.
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George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:   Scalia on 2000: ‘Get over it’  —  WEST PALM BEACH …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Solis Lingers; Acting Secretary Appointed
Discussion: The Hill and Political Machine
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
PHIL BREDESEN AS DASCHLE'S REPLACEMENT?  —  He's not the only candidate.  But an array of sources say he's a serious candidate.  And he'd be a very risky choice.  —  Phil Bredesen is the governor of Tennessee.  Before he was the governor of Tennessee, he made his money in the managed care revolution …
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Bredesen for Health Reform?! (Updated With Alarm Bells)
Discussion: TPMDC, The Plum Line and D-Day
Max Blumenthal / Blogs and Stories:
Rush Limbaugh Loses a Popularity Contest  —  America to Rush: Drop Dead by Max Blumenthal  —  Blogs and Stories  —  Congressional Republicans have turned to Rush Limbaugh to lead the battle against Obama.  One problem: A poll says he's less popular than Jeremiah Wright.
Discussion: Don Surber
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
RFK Jr.: Hog farms bigger threat than Osama  —  WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said he thinks hog farmers are a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden.  —  Mr. Kennedy, son of the the slain New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is an environmental law attorney …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Murray Waas / TPMMuckraker:
U.S. Attorney Scandal: Feds Probe Domenici for Obstruction of Justice In Iglesias Firing  —  A federal grand jury probe of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration is focusing on the role played by recently retired Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and former senior Bush White House aides …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Emptywheel
Fox News:
Obama Justice Nominee Used to Represent Playboy  —  David Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy — in one case paving the way for the blind to enjoy the magazine at the Library of Congress.  —  FOXNews.com  —  Senators might want to hold David …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image … NEW YORK (AP) - On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Labor victims of Madoff scheme  —  The 163-page, tightly spaced list (.pdf) of Bernard Madoff's victims, released today after a bankruptcy hearing and posted online tonight by the New York Post, makes pretty compelling reading and searching.  —  The Post focuses on the ballplayers …
Discussion: New York Post
Byron York / The Corner:
Republican Momentum  —  On Capitol Hill, you can feel the Republicans' growing sense of confidence.  They've scored a lot of hits on the stimulus bill, and now they're aiming higher.  “We'll try to make the bill better,” Sen. Jim DeMint said a few moments ago, “but this bill is so bad …
David Leonhardt / Economix:
Do Tax Rebates Work?  —  The conventional wisdom is that the tax rebate signed by President Bush last year failed to stimulate the economy.  But there is now pretty good reason to question that wisdom.  —  The argument that the rebate didn't work is based on the notion that it didn't lift consumer spending very much.
Discussion: Megan McArdle
Peter Wehner / The Corner:
Have Mercy on This Spinner  —  Yesterday I was thinking that Robert Gibbs, President Obama's press secretary, reminds me of another recent one: Scott McClellan.  I was reassured, then, to read this comment by Victor Davis Hanson: … It's possible, of course, that Gibbs gets better as time goes on.
Discussion: Commentary and American Power
 
 
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