Wall Street Journal, February 14 2009:

The administration is concerned the rules will prompt a wave of banks to return the government’s money and forgo future assistance, undermining the aid program’s effectiveness. Both Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, who heads the National Economic Council, had called Sen. Dodd and asked him to reconsider, these people said.

The Obamas will plant a garden at the White House, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden during WWII. Now that is some change I can fully believe in…

• The POTUS has had better weeks.
• Oops.
• I’m angry, sure — but I don’t like mobs.
• Blowback from political posturing.
• Maybe more yellow ribbon stickers will help?
• Seriously — go to hell, Willard.
• Nate doesn’t like the bonus tax.
• Stoller does.
• The Anchor Baby blocks Tbogg.

Six years since the latest in Iraq Wars began.

Sam & Dave backed by Booker T. and the MG’s and The Mar-Keys on the 1967 Stax-Volt European Tour – Hold On, I’m Comin’.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Conservatives think it’s just so very hysterically funny that President uses a teleprompter. Which is weird, not least because if they couldn’t get the nation to give a rat’s ass about a Democratic president getting oral sex, what on earth makes them think anyone not as nuts as themselves cares about a teleprompter?

public diplomacy vs results in Israel

It looks like the rich profit coming and going in the morass of bailouts.

The Senate recount contest isn’t the only legal action Norm’s been involved in recently. MinnPost’s Cynthia Dizikes reminds us that the Kazeminy lawsuits are still very much out there and lying in wait for the former Senator Coleman once he’s done burning through his donors’ money here in Saint Paul. Speaking of which, is money the reason why has Norm been at the Election Contest Court every single day of the contest, pray tell? Perspiring minds want to know!

300 — hot damn! — civilians on their way to Afghanistan. This is good counterinsurgency stuff right here.