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Taxpayers Get Golden Shower
Talking Points Memo | 22 m ago
We're focusing today on Mack "MackDaddy" Whittle, longtime CEO of South Financial Group, who pushed up his retirement last month so he could cash out with a $18 million Golden Parachute just before sending his bank hat in hand to the Feds to get $347 million in choice Grade A Prime...

Pritzker Withdraws From Cabinet Consideration
NYT: The Caucus | 34 m ago
A close Obama ally faces scrutiny for her business dealings, and won't be considered for a Cabinet post.

Fire Limbaugh and his ilk: columnist
The Swamp | 35 m ago
by Frank James Many Republicans have been rethinking what their party should do to regain its political mojo. Morton Kondracke has a provocative column today in which he says the GOP needs to essentially chew off its leg. That leg would be conservative broadcasters who have done so...

Get ready for another lame duck session
NBC: First Read | 46 m ago
From NBC's Ken Strickland and Mike ViqueiraAccording to sources, Congress will return sometime next month to revisit an auto bailout plan, making it "highly unlikely" there will be a vote on a bailout plan this week. That would mean another lame duck session. Members were unhappy with...

The right's bogus Fairness Doctrine fears
Salon: War Room | 48 m ago
Shortly after Democrats retook Congress in 2006, conservatives began sounding the warning bell -- the left was salivating over the prospect of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, and its restoration was surely imminent. And if the democrats had their way, conservative talk radio as we...

GOP Governor Pickup
NRO: The Corner | 1 h ago
If Napolitano does take the DHS job, her successor will be Arizona's Republican Secretary of State, Jan Brewer. Geraghty relates these thoughts from a state party source: Since Arizona is experiencing a budget crisis, how much of this was a desire to "get out of town" before a...

Zogby won't duplicate Obama poll
The Politico | 1 h ago
Zogby has rejected a conservative commentator’s offer to sponsor a poll to test McCain voters.

How many Clinton loyalists are there in Obama's White House?
Slate | 1 h ago
As President-elect Obama forms his administration, he's including a lot of familiar faces. Many of Obama's picks--for his transition team, his staff, and his Cabinet--are people who worked in the Clinton administration. Where else is a Democratic president going to find people with...

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Who's who in the Obama Administration
PoliticalFilter | 21 m ago
A new administration in the US means a whole new cast of cast of characters on the stage. Follow along as we track who's rumored to be going where and who lands the final positions in the Obama Administration. Cabinet: Secretary of State: possibly Hillary Clinton supposedly weighing...

Kevin Grandia: Will Waxman the Big Tobacco fighter take on Big Oil?
Huffington Post: The Blog | 26 m ago
There's no doubt that it's new day for climate policy in the United States with Rep. Henry Waxman, a leading champion in Congress of laws to protect the environment and fight global warming, beating out Dingell who spent the last two years more interested in boosting the Big...

Is Obama Wooing McCain?
Taegan Goddard | 35 m ago
Christopher Orr speculates that by making nice with Sen. Joe Lieberman, President-elect Obama gives "a kind of peace offering to John McCain, a sign that there are no hard feelings and that Obama is serious about working with the 'other' side... Assuming he's on the list of Republicans...

Carl Jeffers: Obama Wins -- For Black and White Americans... What's Next?
Huffington Post: The Blog | 38 m ago
The Presidential victory of Barack Obama now seems to have settled in, and we are in the midst of a kind of Presidential "lull" as much of the country waits impatiently for one president to leave (and he seems quite anxious to do so), while they wait equally as impatiently for a...

Franken nets six more votes in Minn. Senate race
USA Today On Politics | 58 m ago
The recount continues in Minnesota, where Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's lead over Democrat Al Franken has narrowed some more, the Star Tribune reports. When the day began, Coleman was ahead by 174 votes. The Star Tribune updates the news with...

Pritzker: 'I am not' a candidate for Commerce secretary
USA Today On Politics | 1 h ago
Billionaire Penny Pritzker, who had been reported to be among those who might become Commerce secretary in the Obama administration, has released a statement saying she won't be getting that job. USA TODAY's David Jackson forwarded it to us. He...

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