Day: January 26, 2009

He presents a conciliatory face in Al-Arabiya interview.

The Obama administration knows how to use the bully pulpit.

Some GOP-ers enlist an unlikely ally to derail stimulus.

What will the historians think?

Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-26/the-sacking-of-bill-kristol/

“His conservative ideas were cutting edge and influential,” I was told. “But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”

…But now the Washington Post is going to publish Kristol every month. So, even Dubya has a “job”.

But, what will the historians think? Or even AEI? …Could not even get the menu right…Oh? They had coffee?

Obama is courting votes for his recovery program.

In the party’s first organized attempt to embarrass Obama, GOP-ers voted in unexpectedly heavy numbers against Geithner.

Blago’s media blitz.

Since Brooks joined NYT in 2003, there has typically been another conservative or libertarian columnist.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate on Monday backed Timothy Geithner to be Treasury secretary, setting aside misgivings about his failure to pay some taxes in light of his experience battling the financial crisis.

Rove also was subpoenaed during the last Congress but refused to appear.