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When the Republicans in Congress promise us oversight, they’re not kidding. They built a major oversight right into the stimulus bill.

First Republicans said FDR made the Depression worse. Now they’re saying the Depression made America better (wouldn’t that mean that FDR made America better?). Exhibit A, Michael Gerson.

Why does supreme billionaire egomaniac Pete Peterson have so much access to the White House? The NYT offers some clues:

Asked about the balance of power between them, Mr. Geithner told the story of having gotten his last job, the presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, because Peter G. , then the bank’s chairman, saw him as the one who had been “willing to say no to Larry Summers.”

Can Iraq get away without punishing the cult hero who threw his shoes at Shrubya?

The Huff Po’s Sam Stein picks up on the White House response to the CNB reporter Rick Santelli’s irresponsible diatribe against the Administration’s efforts to reduce the the avalanche and misery of mortgage foreclosures.

This morning the conventional media has been all excited about the latest quarterly IEAE report – too bad they didn’t bother to read it. Of course, they missed the real story.

As I indicated yesterday in the post “Why American Industry (And Its Future) Matters”, we have the privilege of having author William J. Holstein today at Emptywheel and Firedoglake.

Red carpet attendees may have a new accessory this Sunday, a knotted white ribbon showing support for marriage equality.

I want to draw attention to an article this morning in the New York Times by Robert Pear on the ongoing discussions of healthcare reform for the United States: Since last fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. It is not a great plan they appear to be cooking up.