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The meme about Republicans running even or slightly ahead in generic Congressional ballot confuses the issue, Michael Barone writes: it’s a decrease on the left, not an increase on the right. “Democrats are less enthusiastic, less motivated than they were last November…we are in a period of what I call open field politics.”

“Countrywide’s CEO Angelo Mozilo granted sweetheart mortgages to a number of influential lawmakers” including Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd (D-CT), and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). Called “Friends of Angelo” loans, they’re referred to over and over again in emails obtained by House Oversight Committee. Good friendships are based on hiring the money.

Children of Men wasn’t so bad: “Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact.” Gordon Brown’s leading green advisor warns Britain cut the population drastically in order to stop hurting the environment.

Being Treasury secretary is usually not a job that calls for great political skills. But with a banking crisis crippling the economy and threatening to turn a recession into a depression, Tim Geithner has been plunged into the center of politics–as both the person responsible for what the administration should do, and as the main […]