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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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India Miffed By Obama's Bond With Beijing

Perceived slights complicate PM Singh's DC visit next week

DAVID BROOKS

 Geithner Got It Right 

Treasury secretary's pragmatic approach to financial crisis paid off

NATE SILVER & CO.

Senators See Upcoming Vote on Obama—Not Health

Eye constituents' votes in 2008, not polls on health care

 Obama 
 Approval
 Rating Dips 
 Below 50% 

Americans sour on handling of economy, Afghanistan

 GOP Reps. Pin 
 Fort Hood on Obama 

Hoekstra hints at administration missteps, wants probe

Interview

 Clinton: I Didn't Want The Job 

Obama gave his secretary of state the hard sell

DETENTE?

 Fox News Lands 
 Obama Interview 

Prez will sit down with Garrett in Beijing

Paterson Rips Obama for Putting 9/11 Trials in NYC

NY governor among few Dems to criticize move

KATHA POLLITT

Stupak Is the Last Straw—No More Caving!

Women should not 'take one for the team' on abortion coverage

Prosecutors Hope Plea Deals Will Close Gitmo Cases

Federal, Military prosecutors fight for rare testimony

 New White House 
 Counsel Scares 
 GOP, Other 
 Lawyers 

Bauer is a skilled, controversial Democratic veteran

 9/11 Plotters Will 
 Face Death: Holder 

New York trial represents proper US tradition, AG says

Republicans Decry Decision to Try 9/11 Planner in NYC

GOP slams AG's 'dangerous mentality'

UPDATED

 White House Counsel 
 Craig Stepping Down 

He's taken flak over Guantanamo Bay policy

No Leverage dept.

US to Karzai: Clean Up Corruption or ... Nothing

Threatening troop withdrawal like threatening suicide: 'stupid'

 White House 
 Eyes TARP Cash 
 to Slash Deficit 

Administration debating options for leftover $200B

KARL ROVE

 Obama: 
 Forget 
 Bush's 
 Playbook 

Making 2010 a referendum on prez won't work for Dems

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Gone in 2010: Frank 

Repeal will be part of next year's defense authorization bill

TURNOVER DEPT

 White House's 
 Fox News Foe 
 Stepping Down 

Communications director Anita Dunn leaving as planned

Senate Dems Say Obama Plans Don't Fix Spending

Say legislation isn't aggressive enough on fee-for-service model

STAND BY YOUR MAN

 I Agree With 
 Beck—Obama's 
 Racist: Murdoch 

Asked about Beck brouhaha, News Corp. chairman is unrepentant

Obama to Honor Veterans During Alaska Visit

First visit to chilly 49th state a refueling stop en route to Asia

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Flags at Half-Staff Through 
 Veterans Day: Obama 

President calls the move a 'modest tribute' to Fort Hood victims

OPINION

Kiss Dem Agenda Goodbye, Say Hello to Job Worries

Pelosi will try to ram health care through before Blue Dogs bolt



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

15
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium. I’d like to revise that line: Books are evil. They’re pernicious. They represent themselves as being one thing, when they’re insidiously the opposite. Sarah Palin, for instance, did not write her... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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