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8:55 PM ET, February 6, 2009

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Latest Cuts To The Stim Package: Head Start, Child Nutrition, Food Stamps Public Transit  —  I've just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPer Susan Collins.  Here is what's being eyed in the bill right now:
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The Politico:
Pelosi dismisses bipartisanship calls  —  In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.
The Huffington Post:
Reid Proposes His Own Stimulus Cuts, Collins Disappointed  —  Sens. Ben Nelson and Susan Collins just wrapped up a meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic leadership meant to hammer out details of a compromise stimulus package.  —  Asked how she was feeling as she left …
New York Times:
Senators Agree to $780 Billion Stimulus After Jobs Report  —  WASHINGTON — Spurred by a dismal unemployment report for January and prodded by President Obama, senators reached an accord on Friday evening on an economic stimulus program of some $780 billion.
Dana Bash / CNN:
$780 billion stimulus deal reached, sources say  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic and Republican senators have reached a tentative agreement for a $780 billion stimulus package, according to two Democratic sources and a GOP negotiator.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has taken the list …
Elana Schor / TPMDC:
The Stimulus Plot Thickens: Tax Break Changes Now on the Table  —  The complicated state of the Senate stimulus debate just got more intense.  —  Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME), one of the four Republicans considered genuinely open to cooperation with Democrats on a workable economic recovery bill …
Washington Post:
Senators Appear to Reach Tentative Deal on Stimulus Package
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
More On The “Bipartisan” Stimulus Negotiations
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Bristol”  —  I've given up counting, but I should note that none of her defenders on the right have really dealt with the documented fact of her repeated self-refutations and delusional assertions of “facts” that are indisputably non-facts.  Her unstable grip on reality, taken for granted in Alaska …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Think Progress:
REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Dem Lawmakers By Almost 2 To 1 In Cable News Stimulus Debate Again  —  Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO LIBERALS ON THE TEEVEE, REDUX.... In late January …
Discussion: Spin Cycle
ABCNEWS:
CEOs, Bankers Used Corporate Credit Cards for Sex, Says New York Madam  —  Wall Street Exposed as Convicted Escort Boss Reveals Client List of 9,800  —  Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes …
Discussion: Firedoglake, DealBook and The Impolitic
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Wall Street CEOs, investment bankers charged prostitutes on …
Discussion: Hot Air and Pam's House Blend
Karen Tumulty / Swampland:
How Bad Is It?  —  This bad, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office shows us:  —  If you are having trouble reading the fine print: The blue line shows job losses in the 1990 recession; the red line is 2001, and the green line is the path we are on now.  —  UPDATE: To clarify, these are not projections.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, D-Day and Eschaton
God & Country:
Exclusive Interview: Conservative Evangelical Leader Tony Perkins Sours on the GOP  —  Doing some reporting on how the religious right is greeting the election of Michael Steele—who's been portrayed as squishy on some social issues—as Republican Party chairman, I called Family Research …
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Grammy award-winning singer and Academy award-winning actress Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed” her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican.
Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:
Obama's Preemptive Strike  —  President Obama's desire to talk — and talk, and talk — to the American public could cost broadcast networks millions, and millions, and millions of prime-time TV dollars.  —  Broadcasters are bracing themselves for the likelihood of three prime-time interruptions …
John M. Donnelly / CQ Politics:
Congressman Twitters an Iraq Security Breach  —  A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret.  —  But the cat's out of the bag now, thanks to a member of the House Intelligence Committee who broke an embargo via Twitter.  —  A delegation led by House Minority Leader John …
Discussion: Emptywheel
THE WEEK - Online:
Captives in our homes  —  In democracies the people get what they want.  In America, we've always dreamed of owning a house—a 1,500-square-foot stake in the community.  We demand roots—with a rec room.  So over the past decade our government obligingly delivered a heady brew of monetary policy …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Will Wilkinson
Rep. Aaron Schock / The Huffington Post:
Thank You, Readers  —  Thank you to the readers of the Huffington Post for voting me the “Hottest Freshman” of the 111th Congress.  It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama vs McCain: ‘We had an election’  —  One curious contretempts of the stimulus debate is the conflict between Sen. John McCain, the losing Republican nominee for president, and President Barack Obama, the winner of an electoral landslide in an election which Obama portrayed as a matter of “change.”
Manu Raju / The Politico:
McCain blasts Obama  —  Sen. John McCain took his most direct shot at President Barack Obama since the presidential campaign on Friday morning, using a Senate floor speech to criticize the president for mocking the Republican concerns over the massive economic stimulus package.
CNN:
Sen. Kennedy expected to vote on stimulus bill  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A working coalition of members of the U.S. Senate have reached a deal on an economic stimulus plan and a vote is expected some time Friday night, Senate sources said.  Ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy, the Democratic senator …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
THE GOP'S WAR ON SOLIS.  —  Republican senators have a modest proposal for Hilda Solis: that if she's confirmed as Labor Secretary, she recuse herself from any advocacy for the Employee Free Choice Act.  —  That's quite the suggestion.  Rather like asking Robert Gates not to advocate for the armed forces …
Discussion: AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Mark Blumenthal / pollster.com:
Is Support for the Stimulus Plan Falling?  —  Is support for the economic stimulus legislation falling?  Three polls provide data on point this week: Gallup says support is flat, while CBS News and Rasmussen Reports say support is declining.  —  While it is easy to plot the trends in a chart (as above), caution is in order.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Ross Douthat:
Liberals, Ideology, and Big Government  —  Several years ago, in a piece that's long since vanished into The New Republic's world-devouring archives, Jon Chait suggested that liberalism was, by its very nature, more pragmatic and less ideological than conservatism.
Michelle Malkin:
The “compromise” is a crock of you-know-what; Sellouts on the Senate floor; Show us the bill  —  Scroll for updates...Sellouts on the Senate floor 7:30pm Eastern...  Gold-plated poop.  —  Details of GOP Sen. Susan Collins' “compromise” “stimulus” proposal are coming out.
Andrea Seabrook / NPR:
Earmark-Free Stimulus Bill Lacks Spending Direction  —  Listen Now  —  · When congressional leaders began to assemble the mammoth economic stimulus bill, top Democrats and the Obama administration decided that there would be no earmarks: no “special projects,” no pork-barrel spending.
Discussion: The Corner, Don Surber and NO QUARTER
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Discussion: Political Machine and TigerHawk
Reed Hastings / New York Times:
Please Raise My Taxes  —  I'M the chief executive of a publicly traded company and, like my peers, I'm very highly paid.  The difference between salaries like mine and those of average Americans creates a lot of tension, and I'd like to offer a suggestion.  President Obama should celebrate our success …
Dr. Melissa Clouthier:
Diane Feinstein “Reserves The Right To Vote Against” Stimulus Bill—UPDATED  —  Is Diane Feinstein an obstructionist?  —  It occurs to me that Barack Obama campaigned in language that made him sound like a small government guy.  No wonder people hate the Stimulus Bill.
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Krugman: How Can There Be Bipartisanship When GOP ‘Take Their Marching Orders From Rush Limbaugh?’  —  Today on MSNBC, the Morning Joe team — many of whom have been having a tough time with the facts of the economic recovery plan — hosted Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to discuss the bill.
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
How Theresa Hatt Caused The Financial Crisis  —  Last month, Theresa Hatt died at 52, after a brief struggle with cancer.  —  Hatt, who lived in Portland, Maine, and worked for the city of Scarborough, had had several credit cards in her name.  So, shortly after her death, Hatt's son …
Wall Street Journal:
Bracing Ourselves  —  America prepares for the worst, and Republicans suddenly seem serious.  —  All week the word I kept thinking of was “braced.”  America is braced, like people who are going fast and see a crash ahead.  They know huge and historic challenges are here.
 
 
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Iain Murray / The Corner:
Mark-to-Market Suspension Monday?
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
AFTER GINSBURG  —  Like Thurgood Marshall (and very few …
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