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9:55 AM ET, February 10, 2009

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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
At His First Prime-Time News Conference, Obama Is Serious and Expansive  —  In a prime-time debut for the new Oval Office occupant and a press corps often accused of being too enamored of him, President Obama faced journalistic skepticism from the opening question.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blogs:
Schultz gets front row seat  —  What if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh were up front at Bush's press conferences in the East Room?  —  Well, as network correspondents sat in the second row, liberal radio host Ed Schultz managed to snag a seat up front, right next to Helen Thomas.
Discussion: Washington Times and The Seminal
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
New Media Breaks in, but Tradition Lives On  —  WASHINGTON — It was a bookend moment.  —  President Obama on Monday evening became the 10th American president to call on Helen Thomas at a White House news conference.  And he was the first to call on Sam Stein, a reporter for The Huffington Post …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Live-blogging Obama's first press conference.
Discussion: TigerHawk and TalkLeft
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Liveblogging The Obama News Conference
New York Times:
Geithner Said to Have Prevailed on the Bailout  —  WASHINGTON— The Obama administration's new plan to bail out the nation's banks was fashioned after a spirited internal debate that pitted the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, against some of the president's top political hands.
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Washington Post:
New Bailout May Top $1.5 Trillion  —  Plan Aims to Aid Banks, Spur Lending, Push Private Investors to Buy Toxic Assets  —  The gravity of the financial crisis confronting the Obama administration will come into stark focus today when officials unveil a three-pronged rescue program that may commit …
New York Times:
Calls for Clarity in New Bailout for U.S. Banks
Discussion: Prairie Weather
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Obama Backs Off a Reversal on Secrets  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a panel of federal appeals judges on Monday by pressing ahead with an argument for preserving state secrets originally developed by the Bush administration.
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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Backs Rendition in Case
Discussion: Law Blog
Darren Lenard Hutchinson / DISSENTING JUSTICE:
Just As I Predicted: Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets …
Discussion: Political Machine and Moe Lane
CNN:
Transcript: Obama takes questions on economy  —  (CNN) — President Obama held the first evening press conference of his presidency Monday, with the financial crisis as the main topic.  Before taking questions, he gave a brief speech.  Here is a transcript of the speech and news conference:
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama warns GOP he's no pushover  —  Yes, there will be time to change the politics of Washington and to give people wondrous examples of bipartisanship.  —  But, no, not now, President Barack Obama made clear at his first White House news conference—not if it gets in the way of passing …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Harvard Dean, Chosen as Solicitor General, Goes Before Senators  —  When Harvard Law School hosted a huge dinner a few years ago for the conservative Federalist Society, the school's dean, Elena Kagan, received such long and enthusiastic applause that she felt compelled to hold up her arms in mock protest.
Discussion: TIME.com and SCOTUSblog
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:   Is solicitor hearing a trial balloon?
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Offers ‘Dialogue With Respect’ With U.S.  —  TEHRAN — After the icy mutual hostility of the Bush era, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Tuesday made a conditional offer of dialogue to the Obama administration, saying Tehran was ready for “talks based on mutual respect and in a fair atmosphere.”
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Chess Master  —  It was just a week ago that the bad-mouthing of Barack Obama seemed to be reaching a fever pitch.  —  The president was taking heat for the tax problems of Tom Daschle, Timothy Geithner and other appointees and nominees.  Liberal supporters of the president were upset …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Bush Faithful Rewarded With Jobs  —  On the Way Out, He Placed Aides and Big-Money GOP Donors  —  Fred F. Fielding, Emmet T. Flood, William A. Burck and Daniel M. Price worked together at the White House under George W. Bush.  Less than two weeks before leaving office …
Discussion: The Raw Story and Prairie Weather
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama has it both ways on pork  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - At least Route 31 is a road to somewhere.  —  President Barack Obama had it both ways Monday when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana.  He bragged about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Why Obama Wants Control of the Census  —  Counting citizens is a powerful political tool.  —  President Obama said in his inaugural address that he planned to “restore science to its rightful place” in government.  That's a worthy goal.  But statisticians at the Commerce Department …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Betsy's Page
Wall Street Journal:
There's No Stimulus Free Lunch  —  It's hard to spend wise and spend fast.  —  How much will the stimulus package moving in Congress really stimulate the economy?  —  The evaluations to date have been incomplete, so we looked at the likely stimulative effect from the spending parts …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Left silent on Social Security, Medicare  —  President Barack Obama plans a busy February.  The new administration hopes to have a stimulus package passed by Congress, a new plan in place to shore up ailing banks and, by month's end, to hold a “fiscal responsibility” summit.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Stuart Rothenberg / Real Clear Politics:
This Can't Be What Obama, Pelosi and Reid Expected  —  Either Congressional Democrats went from undeniably brilliant to unbelievably inept in just a few weeks, or being in the majority in Congress isn't nearly as easy as being the opposition.  —  Those seem to be the two obvious alternatives …
Discussion: Don Surber
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Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image  —  In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis …
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Obama, Crist team up in Florida  —  President Barack Obama and Gov. Charlie Crist sharing a stage in battleground Florida to stump for the same economic stimulus plan might seem like an unusual alliance.  —  But the Democratic president and the Republican governor are more similar …
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect leads police on low-speed pursuit in a Bentley, kills self during standoff  —  A businessman of Pakistani origin who led police on a more than three-hour chase in a luxury Bentley sedan shot himself to death early today after more than a dozen police cruisers surrounded …
Discussion: Scripting News and On Deadline
 
 
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