Obama announces the end of 'an era of profound irresponsibility' (2)
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Download | Play Download | Play President-elect Barack Obama laid out his case for an economic-stimulus package this morning, warning that the current recession could "linger for years" unless Congress acts to pump historic sums of federal cash into the economy. He added that the current economic crisis is “unlike any we have seen in our lifetime.” We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime - ...
Obama on Panetta: 'Breaking with ... the past' (2)
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Download | Play Download | Play [H/t Dave] It's been assumed that Barack Obama's planned nomination of Leon Panetta as CIA chief was intended to send a signal to the intelligence community about the use of torture. And Obama made that explicit in his press conference today: REPORTER: Some are questioning Leon Panetta's lack of intelligence -- lack of experience on intelligence matters. Sorry about that. I know this is tricky for you since you ...
Burris turned away at Senate door, but it may not be for long (1)
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Download | Play Download | Play Roland Burris makes his stand in defiance of Harry Reid today. MSNBC's Chris Matthews talks it over with a panel including Howard Fineman, Pat Buchanan, CNBC's John Harwood, Brian DuBose of the Moonie Times, and Ann Kornbluth of the WaPo, and it's unanimous: Reid really doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. Being a right-winger, DuBose clearly relishes this mess: No, the conservatives don't have to cause any ...
MSNBC's Warren: Blago and Burris have cynically cornered Reid (1)
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Download | Play Download | Play MSNBC analyst Jim Warren, discussing the Rod Blagojevich-Roland Burris mess, sounded a deeply cynical note yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times. Cynical, but probably right: Warren: And one vision you didn't -- along with, you know, Lynn's vision of what might happen tomorrow, one we should have that would make us slightly dyspeptic, is that of Rod Blagojevich back there grinning like ...
Sen. Al Franken ... Has a nice, drive-the-wingnuts keerazy ring to it, don't it? (1)
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Oh, how the wingnuts writhe and hiss at the prospect of Sen. Al Franken ... especially now that it's about to come true: A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday. The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN. However, Coleman's campaign, ...
Conservatives Whining About Their Loss of Power (1)
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Get out your handkerchiefs: Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical policies to come. "It is disturbing," said Roger Clegg, a conservative opponent of Lee's appointment who is now watching the Obama advisers at the Justice Department. "The transition team as described to me was made up of nothing but people on the far left. Though Obama is more ...
Happy New Year! It's the End of the World As We Know It! (1)
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Download | Play Download | Play [H/t Heather] So it seems there's this Rooskie professor who thinks the United States is going to wind up following the path of the old Soviet Republic: For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the ...
Cheney curls his lip at the public one last time (1)
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Download | Play Download | Play [H/t Heather] A lot of the discussion around Dick Cheney's exit interview on Fox News with Chris Wallace yesterday focused -- appropriately enough -- on his war-powers grab and his continuing defense of telling Patrick Leahy "Go f--k yourself" on the floor of the Senate. There was much remarkable in the interview, but this exchange particularly stood out for me, because I think it's telling and symbolic of the ...
Is George Bush off the wagon? Or was he ever really on it? (1)
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Watertiger notices that the Preznit had himself a drinky-poo at this weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Lima. It's described in this AFP report too: Even teetotalling US President George W. Bush, who famously quit drinking at 40, was spotted apparently sipping a pisco sour during the summit on Saturday. It was unclear whether he actually drank any, or whether it was an alcohol-free version. The White House rebuffed questions about the matter. Libby Spencer ...
