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6:20 PM ET, February 6, 2009

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Latest Cuts To The Stim Package: Head Start, Child Nutrition, Food Stamps Public Transit  —  I've just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPer Susan Collins.  Here is what's being eyed in the bill right now:
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The Huffington Post:
Reid Proposes His Own Stimulus Cuts, Collins Disappointed  —  Sens. Ben Nelson and Susan Collins just wrapped up a meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic leadership meant to hammer out details of a compromise stimulus package.  —  Asked how she was feeling as she left …
The Politico:
Pelosi dismisses bipartisanship calls  —  In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.
Elana Schor / TPMDC:
The Stimulus Plot Thickens: Tax Break Changes Now on the Table  —  The complicated state of the Senate stimulus debate just got more intense.  —  Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME), one of the four Republicans considered genuinely open to cooperation with Democrats on a workable economic recovery bill …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Obama Calls Delay on Stimulus Bill ‘Inexcusable’  —  WASHINGTON — Spurred by a dismal unemployment report for January, senators were close to reaching an accord on Friday evening on an economic stimulus program of some $800 billion sought by President Obama to pull the country out of the worst recession in years.
Trish Turner / Fox News:
Economic Stimulus Update: Senators Await Outcome of Compromise
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
On the Edge  —  A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery.  Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans spouting …
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Krugman: How Can There Be Bipartisanship When GOP ‘Take Their Marching Orders From Rush Limbaugh?’  —  Today on MSNBC, the Morning Joe team — many of whom have been having a tough time with the facts of the economic recovery plan — hosted Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to discuss the bill.
Discussion: MyDD
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   KRUGMAN TACKLES BIPARTISAN COOPERATION.... Former Rep. Joe Scarborough …
Think Progress:
REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Dem Lawmakers By Almost 2 To 1 In Cable News Stimulus Debate Again  —  Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO LIBERALS ON THE TEEVEE, REDUX.... In late January …
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama hitting the road to sell stimulus
Discussion: Weekly Standard
God & Country:
Exclusive Interview: Conservative Evangelical Leader Tony Perkins Sours on the GOP  —  Doing some reporting on how the religious right is greeting the election of Michael Steele—who's been portrayed as squishy on some social issues—as Republican Party chairman, I called Family Research …
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
THE GOP'S WAR ON SOLIS.  —  Republican senators have a modest proposal for Hilda Solis: that if she's confirmed as Labor Secretary, she recuse herself from any advocacy for the Employee Free Choice Act.  —  That's quite the suggestion.  Rather like asking Robert Gates not to advocate for the armed forces …
Discussion: AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
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Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:
Obama's Preemptive Strike  —  President Obama's desire to talk — and talk, and talk — to the American public could cost broadcast networks millions, and millions, and millions of prime-time TV dollars.  —  Broadcasters are bracing themselves for the likelihood of three prime-time interruptions …
Andrea Seabrook / NPR:
Earmark-Free Stimulus Bill Lacks Spending Direction  —  Listen Now  —  · When congressional leaders began to assemble the mammoth economic stimulus bill, top Democrats and the Obama administration decided that there would be no earmarks: no “special projects,” no pork-barrel spending.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:   Obey on Stimulus Waste: ‘So What?’
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January  —  WASHINGTON — The United States lost almost 600,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent, its highest level in more than 16 years, the Labor Department said Friday.  —  It was the biggest monthly job loss since the economy tipped …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Fierce Urgency of Pork  —  “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.”  —  Catastrophe, mind you.  So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.”  Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan's Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson  —  HAMADA, Japan — The Hamada Marine Bridge soars majestically over this small fishing harbor, so much larger than the squid boats anchored below that it seems out of place.  —  And it is not just the bridge.  Two decades of generous public works spending …
Ross Douthat:
Liberals, Ideology, and Big Government  —  Several years ago, in a piece that's long since vanished into The New Republic's world-devouring archives, Jon Chait suggested that liberalism was, by its very nature, more pragmatic and less ideological than conservatism.
Rep. Aaron Schock / The Huffington Post:
Thank You, Readers  —  Thank you to the readers of the Huffington Post for voting me the “Hottest Freshman” of the 111th Congress.  It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
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 …
Discussion: Firedoglake and DealBook
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
AFTER GINSBURG  —  Like Thurgood Marshall (and very few other Justices in the recent history of the Supreme Court), Ruth Bader Ginsburg had secured a major place in American history before she was even appointed to the high court.  As a principal architect of the legal strategy to end discrimination …
Discussion: Democracy in America
The Huffington Post:
GOP Opposes Pay Limits On Bailed-Out Bankers  —  Wall Street bankers, with their $18 billion in bonuses, private jets and gaudy conferences, are causing headaches for the GOP.  —  President Obama has proposed capping compensation for executives at banks that take taxpayer bailout money at $500,000.
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Grammy award-winning singer and Academy award-winning actress Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed” her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican.
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Dr. Melissa Clouthier:
Diane Feinstein “Reserves The Right To Vote Against” Stimulus Bill—UPDATED  —  Is Diane Feinstein an obstructionist?  —  It occurs to me that Barack Obama campaigned in language that made him sound like a small government guy.  No wonder people hate the Stimulus Bill.
Discussion: Hot Air, The Corner and Moe Lane
Mark Blumenthal / pollster.com:
Is Support for the Stimulus Plan Falling?  —  Is support for the economic stimulus legislation falling?  Three polls provide data on point this week: Gallup says support is flat, while CBS News and Rasmussen Reports say support is declining.  —  While it is easy to plot the trends in a chart (as above), caution is in order.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Mass Layoffs Hit RNC  —  Newly-elected RNC Chairman Michael Steele cleans house.  (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)  —  One week after Michael Steele won a hotly contested race to be the chairman of the Republican National Committee, he has cleaned house and laid off almost the entire RNC staff.
Discussion: NPR and TIME.com
Reed Hastings / New York Times:
Please Raise My Taxes  —  I'M the chief executive of a publicly traded company and, like my peers, I'm very highly paid.  The difference between salaries like mine and those of average Americans creates a lot of tension, and I'd like to offer a suggestion.  President Obama should celebrate our success …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama vs McCain: ‘We had an election’  —  One curious contretempts of the stimulus debate is the conflict between Sen. John McCain, the losing Republican nominee for president, and President Barack Obama, the winner of an electoral landslide in an election which Obama portrayed as a matter of “change.”
Manu Raju / The Politico:
McCain blasts Obama  —  Sen. John McCain took his most direct shot at Barack Obama since the presidential campaign on Friday morning, using a Senate floor speech to criticize the president for mocking the Republican concerns over the massive economic stimulus package.
Discussion: RedState and BAGnewsNotes
Jonathan Rauch / National Journal Online:
A Far From Unimpeachable Impeachment  —  BLAGOJEVICH'S OUSTER WAS NOT A RAILROADING, BUT IT LOOKED LIKE ONE.  —  Suppose, at least for the time it takes to read the next several paragraphs, that the ousting of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was a political railroading.
MSNBC:
2 face death over Quran translation  —  4 more jailed over pocket-size book deemed a mistranslation of God's word  —  KABUL - No one knows who brought the book to the mosque, or at least no one dares say.  —  The pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison …
Discussion: A Blog For All
 
 
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