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Congress is fighting with both the administration that is leaving and the one that is coming about what should happen to the $350 billion left in the TARP. Most legislators do not seem to be happy about how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spent the first $350 billion. Too much of it got invested in banks and car companies. Not enough went to help mortgage holders...
...just because it's right but also because it's necessary. The show's moral center, coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) puts it best when a former player asks him why he insists on trying to help him get his life together: "Because I need something good to happen." Is there anybody in America who disagrees...
What will happen next on Citigroup's board or among the ranks of its senior management involves a guessing game...
...President asserted that he wasn't feeling sorry for himself, and that to do so would be unseemly. He raised the most recent crisis to hit the country - the economic crisis - and said he scorned the idea of the "burden of office." "Why'd the financial collapse have to happen on my watch?" he mocked. "It's just pathetic, isn't it, self-pity?" (Read "Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck...
...Emotionally, the same thing happened to us today,” Delaney-Smith said. “Everyone panicked. That doesn’t need to happen...