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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Emanuel says Limbaugh GOP leader, Cantor rejects ‘fail’ remark  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Rush Limbaugh is the face of the GOP.  —  “He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party …
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Andrew Breitbart / Washington Times:
Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  The mood at the Omni Shoreham Hotel late Saturday afternoon was off the electrical meter when Rush Limbaugh took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  —  Hundreds of revelers packed …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Revenge of the Glut  —  Remember the good old days, when we used to talk about the “subprime crisis” — and some even thought that this crisis could be “contained”?  Oh, the nostalgia!  —  Today we know that subprime lending was only a small fraction of the problem.
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Iran, the Jews and Germany  —  So a Jerusalem Post article says that I'm “hardly the first American to be misled by the existence of synagogues in totalitarian countries.”  —  The Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg finds me “particularly credulous,” taken in by the Iranian hospitality and friendliness that …
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Obama faces test on gay military ban  —  It is precisely the sort of knife fight no president wants to get into, especially in his first 100 days.  But it seems that President Barack Obama is about to get dragged down the same dark alley as Bill Clinton when he was forced to confront …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Anne Bayefsky / Forbes:
The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel  —  Anti-Semitism, ‘Islamophobia,’ Durban II and the U.N.  —  Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire.  On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that the president had decided …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Covering Obama, Pushy Jake Tapper Presses His Points  —  One year after joining ABC News, Jake Tapper kept pushing his bosses — “annoyingly, irritatingly, incessantly,” he says — to let him cover the unfolding 2004 presidential campaign.  —  “I might not have been ready,” he admits now.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Brownback backs Sebelius  —  A setback to the attempt to rally conservative Catholics against Kathleen Sebelius at HHS: Conservative Catholic Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas voices his support, in a joint statement with fellow Kansas Republican Pat Roberts:
Discussion: The Treatment and MyDD
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Obama Pick Gets a 2nd Chance on Health Care
James Baker / Financial Times:
How Washington can prevent ‘zombie banks’  —  Beginning in 1990, Japan suffered a collapse in real estate and stock market prices that pushed major banks into insolvency.  Rather than follow America's tough recommendation - and close or recapitalise these banks - Japan took an easier approach.
Washington Post:
Snow Blankets Washington Area  —  Region Braces for What Could Be Largest Winter Storm in Three Years  —  A significant winter storm shuttered schools, disrupted train and bus service and left thousands of people without power in the Washington area this morning, as hundreds of plows struggled …
Gordon Brown / Times of London:
The special relationship is going global  —  Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began.  —  The scale and the speed of the global banking crisis has at times …
Discussion: TIME.com, Don Surber and Fox News
Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Hatch's secret drug firm links  —  Drugmaker money to Utah senator's charity escaped disclosure  —  The pharmaceutical industry that long has benefited from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch's legislative efforts has directed large sums of money to a charity he helped found …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Michelle Singletary / Washington Post:
Hey, Bailout Snivelers: Hush.  You Don't Need It.  —  In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama declared that he was going to “speak frankly and directly.”  —  That's what I want to do as well.  I want to speak frankly and directly to the many people who have written …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Cafe Hayek
CNN:
Gates says Obama more ‘analytical’ than Bush  —  (CNN) — President Obama is more analytical than his predecessor, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.  —  Gates, the only Cabinet holdover from the Bush administration, initially paused when asked what the difference is between working with President Obama and President Bush.
Chicago Breaking News:
Durbin: Race factored in Burris seating  —  Sen. Dick Durbin, who advised Sen. Roland Burris last week to step down from the Senate, acknowledged today that racial considerations were at play in the decision by majority Democrats to seat Burris.  —  U.S. Sen. Roland Burris (center) …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Budget gamble: Why Obama went big  —  The latest theme of pundit commentary on the Obama administration is overload.  —  A cartoon in Sunday's Washington Post shows a chopper dropping the president's massive agenda on the Capitol, ready to crush the dome.  New York Times columnist David Brooks warned …
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New York Times:
Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe  —  PARIS — The leaders of the European Union gathered Sunday in Brussels in an emergency summit meeting that seemed to highlight the very worries it was designed to calm: that the world economic crisis has unleashed forces threatening to split Europe into rival camps.
 
 
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