All day: Biden celebrates his 66th birthday
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Taxpayers Get Golden Shower
Talking Points Memo | 42 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...
Fire Limbaugh and his ilk: columnist
The Swamp | 55 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 | 1 h 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 | 1 h 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...
 
Grassley "Gets" Why the Holder Nomination is Just a Dumb Idea
Firedoglake | 20 m ago
Senator Charles Grassley weighed in on the Holder nomination with an insightful comment: "It's going to be much more controversial than a new administration ought to try to put forth," Grassley said, according to a transcript on his Web site. The other day I had a post wailing in dismay...
Mike Sheehan: Peace Gnome to the Rescue
Huffington Post: The Blog | 38 m ago
Who says donkeys and elephants don't mix?
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) -- a principled, stalwart defender of the downtrodden whom we around here affectionately refer to as the "Peace Gnome" -- is urging the L.A. City Council to free a captive elephant languishing in a...
Who's who in the Obama Administration
PoliticalFilter | 41 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...
Is Obama Wooing McCain?
Taegan Goddard | 55 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...
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