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Would he work for the ultimate insurgent, Obama, if this last-ditch effort on Hillary's behalf falls short? Ickes says he would, "although not with the same intensity." As if, for Harold Ickes, that were even possible...
...Union address on Jan. 28, things will be sounding a bit more normal. Congress will soon take up the far more contentious question of domestic eavesdropping. Last summer, it passed the Protect America Act (PAA), which was designed to modernize the 1978 law controlling electronic surveillance of Americans. After initially trying to block the bill, which expanded the government's ability to track suspect individuals, Democrats caved. But in a last-ditch effort to placate civil libertarians, the Democrats attached a six-month sunset on the old law. That six-month extension ends Feb. 1 and the pressure...
...Most Geordies, though, remain anxious about the bank's future. In a last-ditch effort to avoid nationalization, the U.K. government on Monday hatched plans to convert into bonds the $50 billion Bank of England loan it used to prop up Northern Rock. That makes a private sale of the bank more likely: those interested in bidding before the February deadline - including a consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group - will no longer need to front up for a big slice of that loan. The bank's battered shares climbed more than 40% on the news...
Other x-factors wait in the wings. Fred Thompson, the onetime darling of southern conservatives with an endorsement from National Right to Life, has mounted an aggressive bus tour across the state as a last-ditch effort to save his foundering campaign. If he regains momentum, he could eat back into Huckabee's support among the pro-life base of the party. Similarly, Romney retains a well-funded operation, with heavy television ad buys and near daily direct mail drops. "It's still bunched up," said Warren Tompkins, Romney's consultant in the state, putting an optimistic spin...
...Iraq was neither going to help Iraqis nor help stop global terrorism. It’s time that the U.S. realized the same. I believe in the exit strategy suggested by New York Times opinion writer Thomas Friedman—that is, a set withdrawal date accompanied by a last-ditch, United Nations-led effort to get the Iraqi political parties to reconcile. As Friedman argues, fear of U.S. withdrawal and of an all-out Iraqi civil war may be the only thing that will actually motivate Iraqi factions to resolve their differences. When M-11 took place...