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...White House - the earliest such visit for a President-elect ever - and on Monday Obama met with his former rival John McCain in Chicago. But just because the Republicans are proving to be good losers doesn't mean that they are willing to get rolled in this week's lame-duck session of Congress, and that's apparent in the deadlocked talks to help the auto industry...
Congress returns to Washington this week for a five-day lame-duck session, and Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for the first skirmishes in what promises to be a war to remake the U.S. economy. Fights are breaking out within the parties too. Liberal and centrist Democrats are arguing over how fast to push their agenda. Republicans in the Bush Administration and Congress are split over whether to continue deep intervention in the markets. (Read "10 Things to Do with Your Money Right...
Times sure have changed. Fiscal stimulus is Topic A in Washington. Congress is returning for a lame-duck session with plans to pass a spending bill in the $100 billion range. An even bigger effort is likely in January, when Barack Obama moves into the White House. And it's not just Washington: China has announced a $586 billion stimulus plan, although it's not clear how much of that will be new spending. Germany has approved $29 billion in spending and tax cuts. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tax cuts soon...
...Bush to host and attend such a summit was cause for hope. Just maybe, the thinking went, the severity of the crisis would force even American free-market fundamentalists to rethink their aversion to additional rules - especially to multilaterally binding measures enforced by international organizations. But since then, the lame-duck Bush Administration has signaled its opposition to any significant change to the current system of national regulations. And though President-elect Barack Obama's decision not to attend the event disappointed Sarkozy and other European leaders, some hope he'll be attentive to the concerns and proposals aired...
...sausage. At this point you have several options. Invite those tourists taking pictures of the trees in the Canaday courtyard—they must be up to fun stuff if they’ve got those cameras all the time! Simply leave the party for another equally lame event, with the other similarly disappointed partygoers in the Yard, like so many nomads on the Silk Road. You can start frantically calling everyone in your phonebook, assuring them that the party is awesome while secretly hoping your FOP buddies stop rehashing your bout with IBS on Mt. Washington. Finally, there...