WP: Democrats Among Stimulus Skeptics

Alice M. Rivlin, who was President Bill Clinton's budget director, suggested splitting the plan, implementing its immediate stimulus components now and taking more time to plan the longer-term transformative spending to make sure it is done right.

"Such a long-term investment program should not be put together hastily and lumped in with the anti-recession package. The elements of the investment program must be carefully planned and will not create many jobs right away," said Rivlin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution. The risk, she said, is that "money will be wasted because the investment elements were not carefully crafted."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703655.html

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Fox: Palin to Come to Washington in Hopes of Talk With Obama

 She said 'no', her SarahPac does not commit her to running for president; she IS going to the prestigious Alfalfa dinner to meet Obama. ]

"No. Not at all. Not at all. No. It's helpful to have a PAC so when I'm invited to things, even like to speak at the Lincoln Day dinner in Fairbanks, to have the PAC pay for that instead of have the state pay for that because that could be considered quasi-political," she said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/29/palin-come-washington-hopes-talk-obama/comments/#AddComments

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UK paper: Arrogant at home, naive abroad. America is already suffering 'buyer's regret' over Obama

During the transition from the Bush administration to the new administration - that is, during the weeks in which Obama kept near-quiet and had to do nothing - his ratings in the Gallup opinion poll were 83 percent. After just three days in office, Gallup showed his support had already dropped by 15 points to 68 percent.

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Iranian president Ahmadinejad replied .... with a fierce demand that he wouldn't talk to Obama until the Americans had issued an apology - ie, grovelled - for unspecified 'crimes' and had withdrawn all their troops from all other countries.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1131552/MARY-ELLEN-SYNON-Arrogant-home-naive-abroad-America-suffering-buyers-regret-Obama.html#comments

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1131552/MARY-ELLEN-SYNON-Arrogant-home-naive-abroad-America-suffering-buyers-regret-Obama.html

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ABC: Obama Signs Equal Pay for Equal Work Bill

Calling pay equity not a women's issue but a family issue, President Obama today signed a new bill seeking to end decades-long pay disparities between men and women.

abcnews.go.com/GMA/President44/story?id=6757817&page=1

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politico: Senator Schumer Standing Up for Gillibrand..

Paterson made the final call on Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, a blonde-bobbed 42-year-old former corporate lawyer with right-of-center positions on guns and immigration. 

But Schumer never made a secret he admired Gillibrand's fundraising prowess

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18143.html

politico: Press, public need to keep Obama open

The public and the press have been at odds lately. Yet when it comes to pressing Obama on coupling transparency with public interaction, as the saying goes, we are the ones we've been waiting for.

politico.com/news/stories/0109/18044.html

LAT: The GOP countdown to 2012: Sarah Palin forms a PAC

The creation of such a financial entity commits her to nothing. But such a political action committee will allow Palin to position herself to compete by legally collecting donations to travel and speak on her own behalf (Iowa is a long snow machine ride from Wasilla). 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/sarah-palin-pac.html?cid=146454330#comments

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Chi Trib: SarahPAC

After catapulting to fame last year as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Palin is widely believed to be eyeing a presidential bid in 2012. Aides said that SarahPAC will help serve as a vehicle for her political activities going forward.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-sarahpac-090127-ht,0,6390407.story

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Staten Island paper: Voters blame Caroline Kennedy for Senate controversy

Forty-nine percent of those polled felt she and her aides were to blame, while 15 percent pointed the finger at Gov. David Paterson and his team. Twelve percent of voters surveyed felt both camps mishandled the situation. [says Quinnipiac poll]

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/voters_blame_caroline_kennedy.html

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ABC: Secretary Clinton Greets the Press - EASY POST

 Then, the woman who seems far more comfortable with policy talk than small talk sat down at a small table with reporters and took questions for fifteen minutes.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/01/secretary-clint.html?cid=146411428#comment-146411428

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