With Stimulus, Democrats Shift Tone on Katrina

February 20, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic stimulus signed by President Barack Obama will spread billions of dollars across the country to spruce up aging roads and bridges. But there’s not a dime specifically dedicated to fixing leftover damage from Hurricane Katrina.

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CNBC's Rick Santelli and the New Tea Party

February 20, 2009

Earlier today, Kathryn posted a link to the video of CNBC’s Rick Santelli giving voice to what he described as a groundswell of discontent over the president’s new mortgage plan. I caught up with Santelli just moments ago and talked to him about what he says has been “kind of a crazy day.”

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Self Defeating Stimulus

February 20, 2009

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — “the stimulus bill,” as the newspapers say.

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David Cameron's Policy Platform: More Radical than Predecessors

February 20, 2009

David Cameron’s path towards power has been long and winding, and may twist and turn yet more before the general election. Tony Blair’s march to Number 10 between 1994 and 1997 was relatively linear. Mr Cameron, in contrast, was underdog in his party’s leadership race in 2005, wobbled badly in the summer of 2007, recovered […]

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On Anniversary, China and Tibet Tensions Rise

February 20, 2009

KALIMPONG, India — Nearly 50 years after the Dalai Lama fled Tibet with his followers to India, his older brother lives on a quiet hilltop here just beyond his Himalayan homeland, like an exile among exiles.

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President and First Lady Meet with Progressive Groups, Ask for Help Driving Agenda

February 20, 2009

At a private White House cocktail reception last night for leaders of major progressive groups, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle appealed to these leaders and signaled that their groups would play a key role in driving the big progressive changes at the heart of the White House’s legislative agenda, an attendee tells me.

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A-Rod's Cousin Identified

February 20, 2009

MIAMI (AP) — The cousin who Alex Rodriguez claims repeatedly injected him with a substance from the Dominican Republic has been found living in Miami.

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Rauch: Real Reaganites Would Raise Taxes

February 20, 2009

That heavy feeling in the pit of conservatives’ stomachs this week was more than just indigestion brought on by the pork and fat in the Democrats’ giant fiscal stimulus bill. Conservatives suspected that something irreversible was happening: that the sheer immensity of President Obama’s fiscal and financial interventions may permanently change the size of government […]

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Five Things Worth Knowing About Obama's Housing Fix

February 20, 2009

A week after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plan to resurrect the financial system landed with a thud, President Barack Obama called his own number Wednesday to unveil the new administration’s ambitious effort to rescue the housing market.

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Has Goldman Sachs Lost its Swagger for Good?

February 20, 2009

Once the premier firm on Wall Street—and the finishing school for future Treasury secretaries and other D.C. power brokers—Goldman Sachs no longer has its pull in Washington. Charlie Gasparino analyzes the firm’s midlife crisis.

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