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8:55 PM ET, February 21, 2009

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Washington Post:
Obama to Unveil an Ambitious Budget Plan  —  President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill  —  WASHINGTON — After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week to cut the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, administration officials said.
Discussion: Riehl World View, TIME.com and Truthdig
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half
Discussion: Reuters
Jamison Foser / Media Matters:
Nice job on the Stimulus, Madame Secretary.  But shouldn't you be changing some diapers?  —  US News & World Report's Washington Whispers page currently features a poll asking readers who they would prefer to run a daycare center for their kids: First Lady Michelle Obama, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Alan Keyes stokes Obama birth certificate controversy  —  The controversy over the validity of Barack Obama's birth certificate is back on a burner with firebrand conservative Alan Keyes making serious new charges.  —  In a video (see below) released Friday Keyes, who lost to Obama …
Michelle Malkin:
Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows  —  Seattle on Monday.  Denver on Tuesday.  Mesa AZ on Wednesday.  Overland Park, Kansas today.  What a week, huh?  We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli's call for a …
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Brendan / The Conservative Revolution:
How to Organize Your Own “Tea Party” Protest
Discussion: Riehl World View and Moe Lane
David Hogberg / Investor's Business Daily:
Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up
Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Elude Some Bush Ex-Officials  —  The jobless rate is hanging high — for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush.  Finding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected.  —  “This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Gov. Rendell skeptical about stimulus potential  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) backed the $787 billion stimulus but said Saturday that he isn't sure whether it will actually fix the economy.  —  Rendell, at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Hold the Eulogies, Kennedy Says  —  WASHINGTON — After the president of Harvard hailed him as a “national leader but a local servant,” after the pastor read the “Let us now praise famous men” passage from the Bible and after the cellist Yo-Yo Ma honored him by performing a Gershwin prelude …
Discussion: TIME.com
Fox News:
U.S. Officials Outraged at U.N. Over Hamas Letter to Obama  —  Sen. John Kerry will not be visiting Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal during his trip to Syria Saturday and U.S. officials in Jerusalem are furious at the United Nations Relief and Works agency for its handling of the letter.  —  FOXNews.com
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
Chicago Sun Times:
Federal authorities question Burris about appointment  —  Federal authorities questioned U.S. Senator Roland Burris today at his lawyer's office — a long-awaited interview involving his U.S. Senate seat appointment — the Sun-Times-NBC/5 team has learned.  —  Burris is not accused of wrongdoing …
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Gideon Levy / ‘Antiwar’ film Waltz with Bashir is nothing but charade  —  Everyone now has his fingers crossed for Ari Folman and all the creative artists behind “Waltz with Bashir” to win the Oscar on Sunday.  A first Israeli Oscar?  Why not?  —  However, it must also be noted that the film …
Discussion: Commentary
Teddy Davis / The Note:
Palin Ribbed by Montana Guv for Being No Show  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer ribbed Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin Friday for announcing at the last minute that she will not be attending a Sunday discussion of energy policy that the two governors …
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Governor's rift with GOP grows wider  —  After his turnaround on taxes in the budget battle, he won't be attending a state party convention — and many won't miss him.  —  Reporting from Sacramento — After five years as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger came full circle on Friday …
Discussion: Calitics, The Note and The Mahablog
Frank James / The Swamp:
Maybe Burris should sleep with eye open  —  When we heard White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs talking during his media briefing yesterday about how Sen. Roland Burris, aka, “The Real Roland,” should spend his weekend, a few of us reporters heard what we thought sounded like an ominous warning:
Discussion: The Politico
New York Times:
Obama Expands Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan  —  WASHINGTON — With two missile strikes over the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside Pakistan, attacking a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's hope: ‘Because of what we did’  —  “Because of what we did,” President Barack Obama says today, things will get better.  He says so, repeatedly.  —  So this is as good a time as any to ask if the president's good speechwriting is getting in the way of good policy.
Discussion: The Politico
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:   In Address, Obama Highlights Tax Reductions
 
 
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