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The Early Word: Stimulating Reading
The Caucus — ... in the package. “They keep comparing this to Eisenhower, but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they’re going to put $30 billion” in roads and bridges, said Representative John L. Mica, the ranking member on the House Transportation Committee. “How farcical can you be? Give me a break.” And Politico reports on another controversial aspect of the stimulus bill to fall by the wayside . Funds for birth control, first included by Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, have now been stripped at the request of President Obama, Lisa Lerer reports. Though a ...

The oldest con game in DC
The Reaction — ... Yes it's the myth of bi-partisanship and for some inexplicable reason the GOPers get to set the rules whether or not they're in power. I understand the lofty ideal that Obama is striving for here, but face it Mr. President, the GOPers cheat. They marked the cards and they're pulling the oldest bluff in the book. So you can pull all the sensible provisions they demand be eliminated, like money for family planning and they're still going to pull that royal flush out of their sleeve when it comes to the roll call. ...

About that Much-Maligned Birth Control Provision In the Stimulus...
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... You know, the one that the White House had removed from the bill after everyone on the Right mocked it for funding condoms instead of economic recovery. Turns out, it would have saved the states $200 million annually that they could budget for other things. Here's the ...

What did we learn this week?
The Reaction — ... he reversed several of the Bush executive orders that have been considered unfriendly to Labor. 6. Darfur? Presidential appointee, Susan Rice, U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, has had a powerful passion about the situation in Darfur for quite some time. See the Washington Times—"Susan Rice offers Obama promise of ‘cooperation’" regarding Darfur. 7. Left Dems? Women's groups reportedly were somewhat upset by President Obama's move to get family planning funds removed from the House stimulus package ...