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Around the Web in 80 Seconds, 02.04.09
The Latest on Air America — ... and 15,000 layoffs. Michael Kinsley think Tom Daschle should have read the Washington Post and not the Times--and that he should not have withdrawn . Here's the Christian Science Monitor on the mortgage crisis (remember that?) and how some banks may ...

Around the Web in 83 Seconds, 02.04.09
The Latest on Air America — ... and 15,000 layoffs. Michael Kinsley think Tom Daschle should have read the Washington Post and not the Times--and that he should not have withdrawn . Here's the Christian Science Monitor on the mortgage crisis (remember that?) and how some banks may ...

Morning Skim: Post-Daschle; Stimulus and Despair; Saving Media
Opinionator — ... . Post Partisan : Michael Kinsley on Daschle’s demise : [T]he main reason that Geithner survived while Daschle didn’t is that Daschle came second. Second is exactly the wrong place to be. The malefactor who comes first gets away with it because the issue is new and we’re not entirely sure how angry we are supposed to be about it. The one who comes fourth or fifth likely gets away with it because we’ve started to get bored with the story line and, anyway, our bloodlust has been satisfied. But the malefactor who comes second feels the full fury of our wrath. FiveThirtyEight : ...