Is the EXECUTIVE BRANCH out of control?
HP….No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a “self-entangling giant” who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills [...]

Is Reid in trouble?
WSJ-As Senate majority leader, Harry Reid stands with President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as part of a triumvirate that rules Washington. But back home in Nevada, the Democratic lawmaker is just another incumbent with a bull’s-eye on his back.
Mr. Reid, 69 years old, is facing mounting criticism [...]

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Is it dead?
WSJ-A bipartisan Senate vote swept aside demands by liberal Democrats for a government-run health insurance plan, delivering a potentially lethal blow to the most controversial measure of the proposed U.S. health-care overhaul.
Dramatizing Democratic divisions on the issue, five Democrats joined with all Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee to defeat 15-8 [...]

Who does Schumer represent?
Politico-Wall Street has showered nearly $11 million on the Senate since the beginning of the year, and more than 15 percent of it has gone to a single senator: Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York.
Schumer’s $1.65 million take from the financial services industry is nearly twice that of any other senator’s [...]

Why should he not face the legal system?
DB-Roman Polanski’s surprise arrest at the Zurich airport could lead to a happy ending for the Polish filmmaker, The Washington Post reports. Polanski’s legal team has filed a motion to dismiss the charges that have followed him for 31 years, since he fled the United States after [...]

Will this be a jobless recovery?
NYT-Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse.
Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in [...]

What would OX cut?
AJC-Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010, is the first hopeful out of the gate Monday with a news release denouncing cuts in bonuses for the state’s more 2,000 national board certified teachers.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this weekend that national board certified teachers are seeing the 10 [...]

Can we not do better?
T….Zimmerman-Stein is 48. She and her two youngest daughters have Stickler’s syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes joints to dissolve and retinas to detach. Zimmerman-Stein lost her right eye at 16 and now sees only enough light through her left eye to tell night from day. She and her children [...]

Why is this even an issue?
HP-Republicans have been in an uproar recently over video footage of children at a New Jersey elementary school singing the praises of President Barack Obama. The outrage has been fueled mainly by a constant drumbeat from conservative media. But on Friday it boiled over into the realm of [...]

Busted!
HP-Congressmen always insist that campaign contributions have no influence on their policymaking. On Friday, the New York Times published a report that reminded LobbyBlog why so many people reject that argument on a knee-jerk basis.
Four Democratic members of Congress from the great state of New Jersey, after receiving campaign contributions from executives of [...]

What is his point?
…”I don’t need maternity care,” Kyl said. “So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.”
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), interrupted Kyl: “I think your mom probably did.”…..

HUH?
TP-On C-Span’s Washington Journal this week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the godfather of global warming deniers, said that he will travel to the climate change summit in Copenhagen this fall to present “another view.” “I think somebody has to be there — a one-man truth squad,” he said. Throughout the program, Inhofe went [...]

Time for more rational voices!
Politico-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today’s angry political climate could cause people to cross the line from heated talk to dangerous actions.
Republicans sharply rejected her claim, with House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) saying Pelosi is “living in another world.” [...]

Where does all the electronic refuse our society generates end up? Some of it is shipped illegally from the U.S. to China, reports Scott Pelley, where it is harming the environment and people.
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