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Trade Barriers Toughen With Global Slump
The Hollywood Liberal — Trade Barriers Toughen With Global Slump Only a few weeks after world leaders vowed at a Washington summit to reject trade protectionism and adhere to free-market principles as they combat the global financial crisis, a host of nations are already breaking that promise. [image] [image] Howard Dean, a Victim of His Own Success? Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, the man regarded by many sharp political operatives as the progenitor of President-elect Barack Obama’s successful 2008 campaign, finds himself without an obvious next job as his tenure as head of the Democratic National Committee comes to an end. [image] [image] Cheney, Biden Disagree on VP’s ...

Dean Left Out
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Howard Dean, "the man regarded by many sharp political operatives as the progenitor of President-elect Barack Obama's successful 2008 campaign, finds himself without an obvious next job as his tenure as head of the Democratic National Committee comes to an end," the Washington Post reports. ...

Remainders: Biden
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama works out on a military base in Hawaii. Bloomberg leans on Paterson to make up his mind. Howard Dean's getting nothing from Obamaland. (What ever became of that surgeon general chatter?) Biden says Blago isn't capable of governing. Cuomo says he's fond of Kennedy, denies he's frustrated by her campaigning. Ars technica wonders what Julius Genachowski is all about. Chris Matthews now looks like he'll return to NBC. Markos, and others, hit CAP. An intervention ...

For Howard Dean, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... and his DNC chairmanship argued not only that the former governor’s presidential bid lay the technological foundation for Obama’s successes but also that the chairman’s unbending enforcement of the primary rules—stripping Florida and Michigan of their delegates and their meaningfulness—played a large role in Obama’s victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton. “I guess it proves that no good deed goes unpunished,” the source said. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Pia Sawhney: Big Pharma's 2009 Christmas Stockings
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... This year pharmaceutical companies may have something to celebrate. Besides the financial gains they've made since 2006, they now have Tom Daschle, a lifelong senator who has consulted for pharma clients in the past, speaking their interests as Secretary of Health and Human Services. It could be a coup for them. Had Governor Dean, the prickly, plucky, progressive doctor from Vermont not been sidelined for the role, their Christmas stockings in 2009 would not end up as overstuffed or comfortable as before. Now, however, one can't be completely sure. ...

Pia Sawhney: Between Gupta and Daschle, Who Will Fix Health Care?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... This year pharmaceutical companies may have something to celebrate. Besides the financial gains they've made since 2006, they now have Tom Daschle, a lifelong senator who has consulted for pharma clients in the past, speaking their interests as Secretary of Health and Human Services. It could be a coup for them. Had Governor Dean, the prickly, plucky, progressive doctor from Vermont not been sidelined for the role, their Christmas stockings in 2009 would not definitely not end up as healthy or overstuffed as before. Now, however, we can't be completely sure. ...