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...present Obama with their ideas for the stimulus bill. They weren't greatly encouraged, though, when Obama told them at that meeting in the Roosevelt Room that "elections have consequences, and I won." Over the weekend, the GOP leadership met, and by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on the legislation late Sunday, they were sure that nothing they had proposed was included in the measure...
...Union address President Obama had delivered the Wednesday before. "It was fantastic, so let me start with something nice," Beck said, then paused, staring blankly at the audience. "O.K., give me a minute, I'll think of something." The crowd roared. Likening Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "Ren and Stimpy, or Beavis and Butt-head" simply wasn't enough. Pelosi's plastic surgery, he says, must be getting to the point where "it must hurt when she blinks...
...leaves. I have no one to raise a fuss over my neckties and my haircuts, my shoes and my clothes generally." He still had plenty of friends left in Washington; it's just that he was finding, as every President finds, that many of them lose their minds. House Speaker Sam Rayburn warned him about it: "Sycophants will stand in the rain a week to see you and will treat you like a king," he said. "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive - but you know and I know...
...story. Juan Martinez, the governor's spokesperson, said Deval had not been involved in the decision to reject Crowley, and Daniel Zivkovich, executive director of the Municipal Police Training Committee, stated that the academy had not extended an invitation to Crowley, though he had been mentioned as a possible speaker. Crowley declined to comment on the issue...
Most of the attention has focused on the prospective Democratic candidacies of Andy Dillon, speaker of Michigan's house of representatives, and Denise Ilitch, a scion of the family that owns the Little Caesar's pizza chain and the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. The Democrats, says Michigan political analyst Bill Ballenger, are "holding their breath and saying, 'This is going to be a dogfight...