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Crooks and Liars — Vagabond Scholar: If BUSHCO were a football team, they'd be the 0-16 Detroit Lions, but would insist they'd actually won every game - except for a couple losses -  which weren't their fault. The Reaction: Charm offensive The Big Picture: Time to fire Ken Lewis of Bank of America alicublog: Warning! The Liberal Arts are about to get Liberaller! Discourse.net: $1.2 Trillion and we can't be told who got it, what we got as collateral, or how it's doing ANNALS OF ...

Bursting Obama’s Bubble
The Moderate Voice — You heard about his dinner with conservatives and his meeting with “liberals”*, but, just as much, one of the more intriguing meetings Obama has had recently was with Lee Hamilton and a group of foreign policy experts, mostly on the Middle East and South Asia, who work outside “the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him,” as Laura Rozen put it. It is, needless to say, astonishingly difficult for a president to avoid being trapped in the bubble, but it does seem that Obama is determined to try. Which is extremely ...