Obama Budget & More

WSJ: President Barack Obama delivered a $3.6 trillion budget blueprint to Congress Thursday that aims to "break from a troubled past," with expanded government activism, tax increases on affluent families and businesses, and spending cuts targeted at those he says profited from "an era of profound irresponsibility."  More...

AP: President Barack Obama unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan Thursday that would boost taxes on the wealthy, curtail Medicare, lay the groundwork for universal health care and leave a string of deficits dwarfing any in the nation's history.  More...

Reuters: U.S. congressional Republicans, having vowed to return to the conservative ideals of limited government, denounced President Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget on Thursday as excessive and misdirected.  More...

Reuters: Bill Clinton declared more than a decade ago "the era of big government is over." With his new budget, President Barack Obama has brought it back.  More...

Telegraph: $25, 573.48 - what Barack Obama's budget will cost each taxpayer.  More...

ABC: Obama's Budget - Almost $1 Trillion in New Taxes Over Next 10 yrs.  More...

Politico: Promises, promises - Obama's with list.  More...

Politico: Video of late-night comics on Obama speech.

Politico: Jindal's response - panned, seared.  More...

Politico: Democratic Senator Byrd says Obama in power grab.  More...

Roll Call: Senate passes D.C. Voting Rights Act.  More...

AP: Obama OKs about 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan.  More...

FoxNews: White House says Obama opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' revival.  More...

Politico: Senate adopts 'Fairness Doctrine' amendment.  More...

FT: Iran holds enough uranium for bomb.  More...

ABC: U.S. ready to respond to N. Korea missile.  More...

AP: Botched abortion outrages pro-life, pro-choice factions.  More...

KXMC: North Dakota passes abortion ban.  More...

ABC: Obama to seek new assault weapons ban.  More...

IHT: Bloggers and unions form group to push Democrats to the left.  More...

Roll Call: Tar Heel target.  Burr learns from Dole's 2008 defeat.  More...

OPINION:

Rove: Is the administration winging it?  More...

Friedman: Paging Uncle Sam.  More...

Friedman: No way, no how, not here.  More...

Frum: False advertising.  More...

Morris: It's Obama spreading panic.  More...

Will: Dark green doomsayers.  More...

WSJ: D.C. and the Constitution.  More...

Morris: Obama AWOL in terror war.  More...

Sowell: Upside down economics.  More...

Limbaugh: Uncanny, disturbing historical parallels.  More...

Barone: The real lessons of the great depression.  More...

Noonan: Remembering the dawn of the age of abundance.  More...

Krugman: Decade at Bernie's.  More...

Morris: Obama needs to talk the talk.  More...

Dowd: Oval newlywed game.  More...

Rush Limbaugh: Mr. President, keep the airwaves free.  More...

Friedman: Start up the risk-takers.  More...

Krugman: Banking on the brink.  More...

Brooks: Money for idiots.  More...

Rove: Obama's straw men.  More...

Herbert: Obama riding the wave.  More...

WSJ: The decline of California.  More...

Obama Signs Stimulus & More

WSJ: President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping economic package in decades, a rescue plan designed to create millions of jobs, spur consumer spending and revive the nation's outlook.  More...

Politico: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Tuesday unveiled a new bank rescue plan that includes a "new consumer business lending initiative to leverage up to $1 trillion dollars to kick start the secondary lending markets."  More...

Politico: Sen. Judd Gregg abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, telling Politico that he “couldn’t be Judd Gregg” and serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet.  More...

WSJ: Less than a month after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office, in part for allegedly trying to auction off a U.S. Senate seat, the man he finally appointed to that seat was forced to defend himself against calls for his own resignation.  More...

WSJ: There are 343 colleges playing Division I basketball. They're spread all over the map -- 24 in California, 13 in Louisiana, at least one in every state save Alaska. And yet, three of the very best hail from the same narrow strip of North Carolina tobacco country.  More...

Politico: Senate passes $787 billion stimulus bill.  More...

McClatchy: Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no.  More...

WP: Wall Street slams plan with sell-off.  More...

Bloomberg: U.S. taxpayers risk $9.7 trillion on bailout programs.  More...

AP: Fact check: Obama has it both ways on pork.  More...

N&O: Shuler hits Democratic leaders on bipartisanship.  More...

US News: Republicans trail Obama Dems by only one point in poll - anti-stimulus push is working.  More...

Reuters: Iraqis open arms to romance as violence fades.  More...

Times: Cloud of debris girdling earth after satellites crash.  More...

The Sun: Nuclear submarines collide under Atlantic.  More...

AP: Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela.  More...

NY Post: Chimp victim hanging onto life.  More...

IHT: Wi-Fi takes to the skies.  More...

Telegraph: Televisions to be fitted in contact lenses.  More...

Daily Telegraph: Bushfire inferno toll rises in Australia.  More...

AP: McDonald's January sales up 7.1 percent.  More...

AP: China monthly auto sales overtake US for 1st time.  More...

Telegraph: Obama throws Joe Biden under the bus.  More...

N&O: Obama not taking sides in UNC-Duke.  More...

OPINION:

WSJ: The real stimulus burden- We'll be paying for then for many years.  More...

Rove: Obama's legislative victory comes at high cost.  More...

Brooks: The worst-case scenario.  More...

Krauthammer: Iraq- Good news is no news.  More...

WSJ: Obama's antiterror progress- he embraces bush policies.  More...

Friedman: The open-door bailout.  More...

Brooks: Showing some discipline.  More...

Ferrara: Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics.  More...

Schiller: Obama's rhetoric is the real catastrophe.  More...

Noonan: Is 'Octomom' America's future?  More...

Morris: Our deadly debt- How stimulus prolongs pain.  More...

Morris: Benedict Arnolds of the GOP.  More...

Limbaugh: No concensus on stimulus bill.  More...

Frum: The wrong war at the wrong time.  More...

Kibbe: Obama should channel Harding, not FDR.  More...

WataugaWatch: Shuler speaks out against his party's leadership.  More...

Stimulus Bill Moving Towards Senate Vote & More

WP: Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal yesterday with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtually guaranteeing Senate passage of the legislation but also ensuring arduous final negotiations with the House.  More...

Politico: With a deal filed Sunday night and growing business support, President Barack Obama must next overcome two 60-vote Senate hurdles Monday and Tuesday before plunging into final negotiations with Congress over the final shape of his economic recovery plan.  More...

AP: President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans bickered Saturday over his economic recovery plan after states and schools lost billions of dollars in a late-night bargain to save it.  The $827 billion measure is likely to pass next week despite stiff opposition from the GOP and disappointment among Democrats, including the new president who labeled it imperfect.  More...

WT: President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.  More...

Politico: President Obama is taking responsibility for underestimating the public impact of tax underpayment issues that led to the withdrawal Tuesday of his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle.  More...

Politico: McCain blasts Obama.  More...

AP: Nearly 600K jobs lost in January; more pain ahead.  More...

FT: US car sales below 10m despite discounts.  More...

Times: President Obama waters down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat.  More...

Politico: Cheney warns of new attacks.  More...

Politico: Burr shows TMZ his thing.  More...

WataugaWatch: NC Senator Steve Goss goes after free speech of bloggers.  More...

Clusterstock: The two cows analogy to why AIG imploded.  More...

OPINION

WSJ: The stimulus tragedy- Obama bets that we can spend our way to prosperity.  More...

Romney: Stimulate the economy, not government.  More...

Krauthammer: The fierce urgency of pork.  More...

Rove: Democrats try trickle-down economics.  More...

Morris: Keynesian fallacy.  More...

Armey: Washington could you less Keynesian and more Hayek.  More...

Brooks: The gang system.  More...

Morris: Obama at the crossroads.  More...

Noonan: Bracing ourselves.  More...

Dowd: Well, that certainly didn't take long.  More...

Sen. Lieberman: Afghanistan will be a quagmire for al Qaeda.  More...

Friedman: Don't try this at home.  More...

Frum: What went wrong in Iraq- the definitive account.  More...

Will: In a D.C. state of mind.  More...

GOP Elects First Black Chairman & More

AP: The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new party," declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.  More...

AFP: Angry Republican senators vowed Thursday to put up a fight against President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill after the package passed the House of Representatives with no opposition support.  More...

Politico: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he sees support for the stimulus package “eroding” in the Senate.  “I think the more people around the country see it, the angrier they get because it’s very wasteful,” Kyl said on “Fox News Sunday,” calling for the package to be completely revamped.  More...

AP: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.  More...

AP: Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Daschle apologized Monday for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes and appealed to former Senate colleagues to approve him all the same. President Barack Obama said he was "absolutely" sticking with his nominee for health secretary.  More...

AP: The world's most famous groundhog saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting this already long winter will last for six more weeks.  More...

ESPN: Holmes' grab secures Steelers' record sixth Super Bowl title.  More...

ESPN: Nadal tops Federer for first Aussie title.  More...

News of the World: Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe.  More...

AP: Obama gives first TV interview to Arabic network.  More...

WSJ: After jabs at Cheney, Biden pursues an activist role.  More...

AP: Feds allege plot to destroy Fannie Mae data.  More...

USA Today: Burgeoning gangs behind 80% of U.S. crime.  More...

NYT: A penny for your thoughts, and 1.4 cents for the penny.  More...

Vanity Fair: Is Obama the most famous living person ever?  More...

NYT: Mirror, mirror on the wall (pictures of the Bush presidency).  More...

OPINION

WSJ: A 40-year wish list- you won't believe what's in that stimulus bill.  More...

Brooks: Cleaner and faster.  More...

Limbaugh: My bipartisan stimulus.  More...

Morris: GOP, push free enterprise.  More...

WSJ: The Jack Bauer exception.  More...

Congressman Inglis: An emissions plan concervatives could warm to.  More...

Friedman: Win, win, win, win, win...  More...

Krauthammer: Outreach, yes. Apology, no.- We've never been Islam's enemy.  More...

Friedman: Abdullah II: The 5-state solution.  More...

Noonan: Look at the time- failure to recognize a new era.  More...

Adams: My new spread the wealth grading policy.  More...

Buchanan: A neo-Reaganite inaugural.  More...

Barone: The GOP should go upscale.  More...