Robinson: StimPack Fight has Exposed Obama

February 7, 2009

Peter Robinson draws several parallels between President Obama’s support of the stimulus package, and President Bush’s support of Harriet Miers. The difference being, of course, that Miers didn’t happen until October. Of W’s second term.

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Kerry: Pakistan Shows Signs of Transforming

February 7, 2009

Showing the keen foreign policy mind that was his major selling point, John Kerry announces that the Pakistani Intelligence Services — founder and funder of everything from Kashmiri independence to terrorists in India to al Qaeda to the Taliban — is working spectacularly with a government it has regularly ignored and undermined since the 1980s.

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We Picked Obama: Why Do They Still Hate Us?

February 7, 2009

The BBC’s Katty Kay breaks it down: we did just what the world wanted, but they still don’t like us. Maybe we came on too strong? Or maybe they’re just not that into us?

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White House Considers Two Iraq Withdrawal Options

February 7, 2009

Option one: keep POTUS’s campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months. Option two: stretch it out to the W.-held recommendation (and one reportedly supported by SecDef Robert Gates) to 23 months. Either way you have to feel like two years from now, we’ll still be there.

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Swiss Ban Germans From Nude Hiking

February 7, 2009

Yes, you read that right. Apparently nude hiking is the big trend in the Alps these days – boots and a rucksack is all you need. Germany: Giving even Switzerland a serious reason to consider going to war against them.

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Bredesen Floated for HHS, Sparks Left Backlash

February 7, 2009

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is a fairly moderate policy-minded replacement for the lightning rod Tom Daschle. But groups already lash out from the left, criticizing his 2005 decision to cut about 170k from TN’s Medicaid program and the fact that health insurers donated $150k+ to the renovation of his mansion.

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NRDC: Do As We Say, Not As We Sue

February 7, 2009

If you’ve been following the lead/phthalate testing mess, Congress mandated that all products for children be lead and phthalate free. Then they forgot to make it remotely financially possible for everyone from ma-and-pa shops to small businesses to megacorps to comply. Catching the NRDC in the middle of this? Priceless.

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Experts on StimPack: Worth its Weight in Confetti

February 7, 2009

It’s not the spending, it’s not the tax cuts – it’s the spending AND the tax cuts. Following on his controversial WSJ piece, Harvard Professor Robert Barro sits down for an interview and describes how the Stimulus Package won’t solve our problems.

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Markets Rally Despite Concerns, Hope for StimPack

February 6, 2009

Stocks in New York registered late-day gains as chatter from Washington paired with promising housing numbers from earlier in the day offset financial woes, decreasing auto sales, and another batch of earnings.

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Panetta Takes Back Rendition Remarks

February 6, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will continue to hand foreign detainees over to other countries for questioning, but only with assurances they will not be tortured, Leon Panetta told a Senate committee considering his confirmation as CIA director.

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