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11:00 AM ET, March 2, 2009

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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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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
RNC Chair Michael Steele on Limbaugh: 'Yes, it's incendiary.  Yes, it's ugly.'  —  RNC Chair Michael Steele on Limbaugh: 'Yes, it's incendiary.  Yes, it's ugly.' »  —  Last night, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on D.L. Hughley's show on CNN and disputed Hughley's statement that Rush Limbaugh …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Offer Another $30 Billion in Funds to A.I.G.  —  The federal government agreed Sunday night to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group and loosen the terms of its huge loan to the insurer, which is preparing to report a $62 billion loss …
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New York Times:
A.I.G. Reports $61.7 Billion Loss as U.S. Gives More Aid  —  The federal government agreed Monday morning to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group and loosen the terms of its huge loan to the insurer, even as the insurance giant reported a$61.7 billion loss …
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
AIG Receives Up to $30 Billion in New Bailout Funds
Discussion: MSNBC
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) …
Discussion: Progress Illinois and TIME.com
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Maureen O'Donnell / Chicago Sun Times:
Pastors rally behind Burris
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.
CNN:
Gates calls Pakistan ‘most worrisome’  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The “most worrisome” part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
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CNN:   Gates says Obama more ‘analytical’ than Bush
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 …
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 …
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
David Charter / Times of London:
New ‘Iron Curtain’ will split EU's rich and poor  —  Eastern European countries gave an apocalyptic warning yesterday of hordes of unemployed workers heading west as a new Iron Curtain divides rich from poor inside Europe.  —  Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall …
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New York Times:
Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe
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
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
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 …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama kicks up White House entertaining  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.  —  Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state.  Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
Discussion: GayPatriot and Townhall.com
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.
 
 
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August Cole / Wall Street Journal:
Founder, CEO of Blackwater Steps Aside, ‘Worn Out’
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Tamara Audi / Wall Street Journal:
Proposition 8 Goes Back to Court
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Excerpt
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Budget gamble: Why Obama went big
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Huntsman takes aim at GOP
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Note
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John Harwood / New York Times:
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Brownback backs Sebelius
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by Shrinking Press Corps
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