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Governors Have Eyes Only for Obama II
Following up on Matt’s nice post about the states tapping Obama for help with enormous budget shortfalls…
Few are saying it out loud, but the issue has a ring of class distinction surrounding it. That is, the White House has been quick to secure hundreds of billions of dollars for white-collar workers on Wall Street, but [...]
Secretary of State: A Woman’s Job, Huh?
My friend Megan Carpentier at Jezebel watches in horror as Carol Jenkins, president of the Women’s Media Center, reacts to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pending arrival at Foggy Bottom by saying “Secretary of State has become the women’s spot — a safe expected place for women to be.” As Megan writes:
We Are All Subprime Now, R.I.P.
Financial bloggers are in mourning today for Tanta, at Calculated Risk, who died on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. As the tributes to her throughout the blogosphere make clear, her analysis of the mortgage crisis was closely followed and influential. She had spent 20 years in mortgage banking — she knew what she was talking about, [...]
Governors Only Have Eyes For Obama
President-elect Barack Obama is often cautious to remind reporters that there is only one president at a time — and for the record, it’s still, sigh, President George W. Bush — but as far as the nation’s governors are concerned, Obama is the guy to talk to.
Obama is scheduled to attend a meeting of the [...]
Someone at CNN Should Really Be Punished for This
Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress has a screencapture from CNN’s presentation of United Nations Ambassador-designate Susan Rice at the Obama national-security team rollout this morning.
In Georgia, Palin Stumps For Chambliss
Most folks around the country have had a few privileged weeks to recover from the drone of election-year politics. Not in Georgia, where tomorrow’s run-off vote will decide whether one-term GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss can make it two. And the big guns are out — at least on the Republican side.
Sen. John McCain visited the [...]
Jones’ Problematic Energy-Policy Views
Via Matt Yglesias, ThinkProgress’s Brad Johnson takes a look at National Security Adviser-designate James Jones’s work on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s energy task force and finds it to be pretty disturbing stuff:
Obama Transition Team Releases Donors
The Obama-Biden transition team today released its first monthly list disclosing the names of donors to the transition and the size of their contributions. The list can be found here.
As of November 15, the transition has raised $1,170,937.44 from 1,776 donors, for an average donation of $659.31. The contributions range in size from $5 to [...]
The Rangel Question
Well, House Democrats managed to get through the whole John Dingell/Henry Waxman scrum without too much fallout (or so it appears). But questions linger over how party leaders will handle the Charlie Rangel mess.
Plenty of Praise for Eric Holder as new AG
Things are looking good for Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, formally announced today.
In addition to the highly flattering portrait of Holder as a young man in today’s New York Times, he’s getting praise from some of the most serious critics of the Attorney Generals under George W. Bush.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), for [...]
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