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Exit polls: Livni's Kadima leads in 2009 elections — Exit polls by Israel's three main television stations on Tuesday night showed Kadima as the leader in the 2009 general elections, with Likud coming a narrow second. — Channel 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10 polling of voters as they left …
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Livni may not be able to form gov't due to large right-wing bloc — With voting stations officially closed, exit polls at 10 p.m. suggested that Kadima would win Tuesday's general elections. — However, due to the dramatic rise in support of the Likud and Israel Beiteinu compared …
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Netanyahu: Right wing, led by Likud, won a clear victory — By Haaretz Service and News Agencies — Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory in Tuesday's parliamentary election as he addressed supporters in a speech early Wednesday, despite exit polls that predicted …
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Israel Matzav, Blogs and Stories, Firedoglake, Ynetnews, American Power, AmSpecBlog and Matthew Yglesias
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Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research — typo and all … During the February 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that “the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan — its version of it, anyway. We thought we'd take a look back at the bill …
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Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, Comments from Left Field, The Reaction, The BRAD BLOG and AMERICAblog News
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Because They Hate Shepard Smith and Want Him to Fail — Shep Smith leads the happy warriors of Fox News into a new political age. — Shepard Smith has a face made for television, a face seemingly created not just for the cameras but by them, a brand-name face that could be made into a mask and worn on Halloween.
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Don Surber
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Why Obama's new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks — Has Barack Obama's presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it.
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naked capitalism, Power Line, Clive Crook, MyDD, RBO, The Huffington Post, Matthew Yglesias, Spin Cycle, Flopping Aces and Talking Points Memo
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Administration Officials Met With Laughter At Bailout Briefing — Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new financial-sector bailout project, according to people who were in the room.
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Hillary's incredible, shrinking role — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is finding that her job description is dissolving under her feet, leaving her with only a vestige of the power she must have thought she acquired when she signed on to be President Obama's chief Cabinet officer.
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Riehl World View
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The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate — If all goes as expected today, the Senate will pass an $838 billion economic stimulus plan that follows a compromise reached over the weekend. But before the package can go to President Obama's desk, the Senate will have to resolve differences with the House and its $819 billion version.
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The Rorschach plan (wonkish, or at least hard to read) — An old joke from my younger days: What do you get when you cross a Godfather with a deconstructionist? Someone who makes you an offer you can't understand. — I found myself remembering that joke when trying to make sense of the Geithner financial rescue plan.
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Eight arrested in Michael Phelps case — Updated: — COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - New details have emerged about a party where Olympic champion Michael Phelps was spotted. — On Feb. 2, a British tabloid published a picture of the 14-time Olympic gold medalist using a water pipe to smoke marijuana.
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What happened to Clive Crook? — Clive used to be a reasonable guy; in his mind he probably still is a reasonable guy. But he has misunderstood what it means to be reasonable. He now apparently believes that it means declaring, in all circumstances, that Democrats and Republicans are equally …
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Marginal Revolution
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Mr. Franken Comes to Washington — Entertainer Al Franken (D-Minn.) will spend the next two days in Washington readying himself to serve in the Senate, a move that comes even as the contested Minnesota Senate election plods on. — Franken arrives in town tonight and will be here through Thursday …
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TIME.com
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Senate recount trial: Rejected absentee ballots of 23 voters can be counted
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The Caucus
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“War of Northern Aggression”? — According to Republican State Rep. Bryan Stevenson, the proposed pro-choice “Freedom of Choice Act” is the biggest federal power grab since the “War of Northern Aggression.” — And I thought Scott Rupp was overly dramatic.
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Political Fix
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Will Geert Wilders Be Arrested at Heathrow? — This morning Lord Malcolm Pearson, a member of the British House of Lords, announced that he has invited Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, to show the movie Fitna (see it here) in a committee room of the House of Lords next Thursday (12 February).
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Busy Sarah Palin Backs Out of CPAC; Rush Limbaugh Is Still Speaking — The opening-day headliner for the annual CPAC conservative convention February 26-28, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has pulled out, citing state business in Juneau. “We're obviously disappointed,” said a CPAC official.
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Obama allies attack GOP leadership — The labor-backed, pro-stimulus group Americans United for Change and the public workers' union AFSCME are going up with a national cable spot, also airing in Washington D.C., with the sharpest attack yet on Republican leaders in the House and Senate.
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Obama: ‘There Is No Easy Out’ for Wall Street — In Exclusive Interview, President Warns of ‘a Perfect Storm of Financial Problems’ — On the same day his treasury secretary detailed a $2 trillion plan to stabilize the U.S. banking systems and the Senate narrowly passed …
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Rahm Emanuel — WHAT a strange surname! It appears Spanish, easy to pronounce, but it's not. Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands. — Where does it come from? I wondered. Over and over, the name came to mind …
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Huckabee: Stimulus is ‘anti-religious’ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.” — In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate's passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling …
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Stocks Slide as New Bailout Disappoints — Investors had been expecting the Obama administration to unveil a shock and awe solution on Tuesday for the nation's hobbled banking system. But the main reaction was disappointment as the new plan raised more questions than it answered …
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Lobbyist Inquiry Appears to Be Widening — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are looking into the possibility that a prominent lobbyist may have funneled bogus campaign contributions to his mentor, Representative John P. Murtha, as well as other lawmakers, two people familiar with the investigator's questions said Tuesday.
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Public Rejects Obama Stimulus Bill According to New ATI-News/Zogby Poll — 90 Percent of Republicans and 60 Percent of Independents Oppose Obama Economic Recovery Plan — Amidst all the rhetoric surrounding President Barack Obama's first signature piece of legislation, a massive $800 billion economic …
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Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy — Last summer, Mel Karmazin was rattling off his trademark one-liners to talk up the future of Sirius XM Radio, the combined company he ran that had just been blessed by regulators. — He was planning to cut costs and expand a business …
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What do we do if the “two-state” solution collapses? — Lots of smart people have been focusing on the Israeli elections and trying to make sense of their immediate implications for the peace process. I can't improve on the analyses provided by Glenn Greenwald, Yossi Alpher, Bernard Avishai …
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Key Party Switch in Virginia? (UPDATE: Report: Switch Averted) — A well-connected source in Virginia tells me that at least one Democratic state senator is leaving the party's caucus . . . “Not sure yet if he's going Republican or Independent.” This is significant because the Democrats currently …
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GOP won't derail Solis on hubby — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — Republicans aren't going to derail Labor Secretary-nominee Hilda Solis' nomination over her husband's tax problems, but they still have serious reservations about her ties to labor unions.
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Obama must do more to get GOP on board — President Obama is on track to score a huge victory by winning congressional passage of an $800-billion-plus stimulus package, but it will come at the high cost of failing to achieve his goal of bringing a new spirit of bipartisanship to Washington.
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The Moderate Voice