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Late Night: Banks

Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey

Via Josh Marshall at TPM:
The Times has a piece in tomorrow’s paper coalescing the growing number of experts who believe that many of the big banks are insolvent and that — whatever you want to call it — the government is going to have to step in and really resolve the crisis, through some process [...]

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Filed under: Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Wall Street

Tom Daschle Withdraws His Nomination To HHS

Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill

From the Talking Points Memo (TPM):
Tom Daschle, former Majority leader of the House, has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary. That’s according to a joint White House statement from President Barack Obama and his former nominee.
Obama said Tuesday he accepted the withdrawal “with sadness and regret.” Daschle has been battling for [...]

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Filed under: In The News, MSNBC, Obama Administration, Stuart O'Neill

Bill Clinton Goes to Bat for Obama – Biden

Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey

Bill Clinton was on the stump today doing some “powerful campaigning in Florida for the first time on Obama’s behalf.” Clinton, Greg Sargent reports on TPM, “laid out an interesting argument against McCain-Palin, claiming that the economy will consume so much of the new president’s attention that the Veep will be forced to play a [...]

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Filed under: Bill Clinton, Credit Crisis, Democrats, Economy, Election '08, Foreign Policy, General Election, In The News, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Sen. Joe Biden, Senate, Wall Street