Dionne: StimPack Fight is Being Won by the Defeated

February 5, 2009

The irony of President Barack Obama’s Blue Tuesday is that the wall-to-wall television interviews he granted were designed not to apologize for Tom Daschle’s fall from grace but to fight back against the Republicans’ success in tarnishing his stimulus package.

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Obama's Five Day Rule: Really More of a Guideline

February 5, 2009

Congress today passed a bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, allocating an additional $32.8 billion in funding for the program over the next four and a half years. President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill into law in a White House ceremony later this afternoon.

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Madoff's Client List Released

February 5, 2009

The names of several thousand clients who lost money investing with Bernard Madoff have been released in a court filing that reads like a Who’s Who: former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, actor Kevin Bacon and even Madoff’s defense lawyer.

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Progressives Wonder: Whose Side is Obama on?

February 5, 2009

The stimulus bill has suffered a major setback. Lacking the 60 votes to pass the bill, Senate Democrats have moved to a conference off-site, delayed the vote, and seem to have ceded negotiations on the plan to a gang of twenty or so center-right Senators who aim to cut $200 billion or so of spending […]

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Frum: The Stimulus Maw

February 5, 2009

A zombie is a mindless creature, controlled by sinister forces outside its body, which subsists by devouring everything in sight. Frankly, that sounds a lot more like Shrum’s stimulus-hungry Democratic majority than like the Republican opposition.

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Barone: Virginia Not as Blue as Some Thought

February 5, 2009

Barack Obama carried Fairfax County, Va., 60 percent to 39 percent . In a special election yesterday for chairman of the County Board of Supervisors to replace Gerald Connolly, who was elected to Congress in November, Democrat Sharon Bulova beat Republican Pat Herrity by only 51 percent to 49 percent.

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Losing Control

February 5, 2009

The new President came in with incredible momentum – but you can forget 100 days, he started stalling after 10. The lesson to Michael Hirsh and many of Obama’s supporters? POTUS was wrong to start off talking about post-partisanship. It’s time to play the same old game.

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The Economy: We'll Be Honest, This Doesn't Look Good

February 5, 2009

The good news about the latest economic reports: Health care and insurance did better. The not-as-good-news: Every other service sector declined less than expected. The bad news: There’s no sign of light yet, and retail took it on the chin.

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Carter Tried to Take Gavel from Rangel

February 5, 2009

Republican Rep. John R. Carter of Texas offered legislation Wednesday that would require Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel to relinquish his gavel until the ethics committee completes an investigation into Rangel’s finances.

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Google's Data Hording Raises Privacy Concerns

February 5, 2009

The tradeoff with all of Google’s apps is sacrificing a degree of privacy – a large one – for their free use. But in the case of their latest release, Google Latitude, some tech observers are saying it goes a step too far.

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