Day: February 10, 2009

Her husband, Sam Sayyad, paid around $6,400 to settle tax liens against his auto-repair company.

Poll finds 51 percent of Connecticut voters probably won’t vote for him; 42 percent say they likely would.

Huck points to a provision in the bill banning higher education funds from being used on ‘divinity’ schools.

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Senate’s bill sets the stage for negotiations.

Geithner calls the new move a ‘Financial Stability Plan.”

The GOP is circulating a pretty foot-in-mouth Chuck Schumer clip from the Senate floor yesterday.

SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD (D-CONN.): Good morning. Twenty-one days ago today, as he articulated the challenges we American face, President Obama asked all of us to participate in a new era of shared responsibility and cooperation.

‘Yeah right, Robert,” says Scarborough of a Senate bid. “Absolutely not.”

For 68 years, ever since Pearl Harbor, Americans have dealt with fear – fear of Germany, communism and more recently al Qaeda. Today neither the President, the opposition party, nor those on the street are mentioning security issues. Why the sudden lack of fear? People on the street rather than entrenched experts once worried about China threatening a financial meltdown in order to get its way in the world, and before illegal Hispanics began going home because they suddenly couldn’t find work, some usually unpolitical Americans theorized about a conspiracy to take over US culture. So the lack of fear now spread from the top down and the bottom up is something almost none of us ever experienced.