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9:25 AM ET, February 7, 2009

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Noel Sheppard / Fox News:
Senators Reach Tentative Deal on More Than $800B Economic ‘Spendulus’ Bill  —  Senators Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Susan Collins of Maine have signed onto the bill, giving Democrats enough votes to move it forward.  —  FOXNews.com  —  Senators have reached a tentative deal on a version …
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Fox News:
In Stimulus Debate, Obama Drifts Into Campaign Mode
Discussion: TPMDC and The Jawa Report
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
More On The “Bipartisan” Stimulus Negotiations
Discussion: Hullabaloo and BAGnewsNotes
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 …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
Newt: Obama speech was Carter-like  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich issued a sharp critique of President Barack Obama's speech before House Democrats in Williamsburg, Va.  —  “It shrinks his presidency,” said Gingrich Friday at the American Enterprise Institute.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Reporter restrained after hearing  —  Following Leon Panetta's confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room G-50 in the Dirksen Building.  —  There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a question …
Discussion: At-Largely and War and Piece
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 …
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 …
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Frank Greve / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Results in on Obama's grassroots appeal: It's a bust  —  WASHINGTON — Few supporters are answering President Barack Obama's call for nationwide house-party gatherings this weekend to build grass-roots support for his economic stimulus plan.  —  A McClatchy survey of sign-up rosters for a score …
Discussion: Moe Lane, Corrente and Riehl World View
Peter Robinson / Forbes:
Obama's ‘Naked’ Moment  —  The president stands exposed on the stimulus.  —  Every so often a president finds himself standing completely exposed—naked, so to speak—before the political class.  —  This first happened to George W. Bush in October 2005, when Bush nominated his White House counsel …
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
KBR wins contract despite criminal probe of deaths  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Playbook: Closing in on the stimulus  —  Good Saturday morning.  AP's Ben Feller: “Barack Obama, who has spent most of his nascent presidency in the White House compound, is shifting into travel mode.  The rundown: Saturday and Sunday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland …
Discussion: New York Times
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama meets with families of victims  —  President Obama's powers of persuasion seem to have won over some terrorism victims' family members who had been upset over his decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and suspend military trials for detainees there.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer / The Huffington Post:
No, Seriously: Republicans Don't Get It  —  With this latest attempt to strip bike finding from the recovery bill, Republicans have once again demonstrated how out of touch they are with their pathologically short-sighted attacks on bicycles.  To their detriment, they are continuing their trend …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Chris Frates / The Politico:
HHS rumors spark Bredesen backlash  —  Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is under consideration by the Obama administration for health secretary, sources familiar with the process say - but talk of his possible appointment has sparked an outcry from the same advocates Obama would need to pass universal health care.
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.
Agence France Presse:
Mamma Mia!  Putin denies mystery ABBA concert … Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's office moved on Friday to quash claims he attended a mystery concert featuring ABBA lookalikes singing to him from behind a veil at a military-style compound.  —  Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacted …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Corner
 
 
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CNN:
Sen. Kennedy expected to vote on stimulus bill
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Michelle Malkin:
The “compromise” is a crock of you-know-what; Sellouts on the …
Iain Murray / The Corner:
Mark-to-Market Suspension Monday?
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama vs McCain: ‘We had an election’
Discussion: TIME.com
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
AFTER GINSBURG  —  Like Thurgood Marshall (and very few …
Niall Ferguson / Los Angeles Times:
Keynes can't help us now
Discussion: Shadow Government and The Foundry
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
HEH.  REASON TV ON THE STIMULUS.
Discussion: Political Machine and TigerHawk
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