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Karzai Backs Obama AfPak Plan
The Afghan president shows support for the president's plan in a presser Saturday, particularly the idea of talks with the Taliban. "It is exactly what the Afghan people were hoping for and we were seeking."
Obama Gets Tough With Bank Bosses
The president tells CBS News' that banker CEOs agreed in Friday's meeting they needed to make sacrifices in this economic crisis, show "restraint." "Now the proof of the pudding is in the eating.'' Watch excerpt clip above. Full interview to air on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
POTUS Focuses on Another Crisis
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY0VnBPqKaA&w=360] The president uses his weekly radio/video address to reach out to those in the Midwest threatened by flooding, remind them he's there to help. "Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond -- and respond [...]
"This Is Not Your Father's O.M.B."
NY Times profiles Obama budget director Orszag, a "dedicated policy wonk" and the youngest member of the administration holding Cabinet rank. Chief of Staff Emanuel: “He's made nerdy sexy."
Budget Buster
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Xk30-Kybs&w=260] Former Commerce nominee Sen. Judd Gregg delivers the weekly Republican address blasting the president's spending plan. "In the next five years, President Obama's budget will double the national debt. In the next 10 years, it will triple the national debt."
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I've known Newt Gingrich for about 20 years now and I've always enjoyed him intellectually, but detested him politically. The reason for the latter is his now-anachronistic first resort to anger; again and again, he cheapens public discourse through exaggeration and wild claims. One imagines that if John McCain were President and Paul Krugman had [...]
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