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Remainders: Signing
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama's sending more troops to Afghanistan.
House Republicans wanted for Obama's autograph.
A colorful alleged Texas fraudster was a big Dem donor.
Bipartisanship has always (mostly) been a figment.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff gets antsy.
Recovery.gov is up and running.
NRO says Obama is legitimizing Durban II.
And Karl Rove blames the economic crisis on Obama.
Obama Sends Two More Brigades to Afghanistan
Boots and Sabers —
... Couple thoughts ... President Barack Obama has authorised the deployment of up to 17,000 extra US troops to Afghanistan, saying they are to “meet urgent security needs”. Two brigades - one army and one marine - are to be sent, Mr Obama said in a statement released by the White House. This first major troop deployment under Mr Obama comes as his administration reviews US policy in Afghanistan. [...] The additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan had originally been scheduled to go to Iraq. I’m not going to argue against sending more troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban has ...
Day 28: Obama’s war on terror may resemble Bush’s
What is Obama doing? —
... In related news, The President finally OK’d the awaited boosting of troops to Afghanistan.
Story on BBC
In other news, while Obama signed the Stimulus bill his press secretary stated “while there are no particular plans at this point for a second stimulus package, I wouldn’t foreclose it.”
Bill Clinton took the opportunity for some limelight on CNN to say “It’s quite a good bill!” as well.
Maybe we’re progressing from Obamania ...
