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SECRETARY OF STATE
No Fireworks This Time
Hillary should have an easy road to confirmation
Hillary should have an easy road...
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January 10, 2009
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH
Pay-to-Play Edition
"Pay to play" sank Blagojevich and now Bill Richardson. That's what happens when complicated corruption gets an alliterative name.
Obama
Bumps in the road as Dems in Congress feel their oats and start grandstanding. Get real.
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Blago
Likes reciting poetry. Try this: I never thought I’d see/A haircut as ugly as a tree.
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Burris
Old CW: Puffed-up has-been will never get Sen. seat. New CW: Right this way, senator!
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Brainy, handsome CNN medical star tapped for surgeon general. But will he miss TV?
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Gaza invasion might play at home, but it’s hurting everywhere else. How does it end?
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BUSINESS
I don't want to run auto companies. I don't want to run banks. I've got two wars I've got to run already. I've got more than enough to do.
President Obama, attempting to allay fears about the federal government exercising significant and lasting control over companies in which it is now a major shareholder because of the federal bailout
MY TURN
Because of Dad's Alzheimer's, I had to come out of the closet twice. We got it right the second time.
News/Week
- Dead on arrival to the Senate Sen. Lindsey Graham on House bill CBS
- We did what we promised Rep. Steny Hoyer on passing health-reform NYT
- That was easy Nancy Pelosi after passing health care bill PLTCO
- Germany unity is not yet complete Angela Merkel on Berlin Wall anniversary CNN
- This one is for The Boss Joe Girardi on the Yankees’ 27th World Series titleNYDN