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...satirist of the social uses and misuses of language, Carlin might have had fun with these cliché-ridden TV lovefests too. But he would have had a tough time putting down this one. It's the heartfelt but hard-headed tribute he always deserved...
...companies still had to compete with bicycle manufacturers. The auto business is tough enough already...
...TARP money - including some well-run banks that did so at the "urging" of the government so there wouldn't be a stigma attached to the crippled banks that needed the money - won't have to give anything back to fly under the federal paydar. "We need to be tough and strict but sensible," President Obama said. "We do not want to deny companies the ability to attract the talent pool they need." That's not good enough for some Senators, like Missouri's Claire McCaskill, who want to make the pay caps retroactive and intend to make that part...
None of the restrictions the President is proposing will stop the Wall Street pay wagon, and a number of folks argue that they shouldn't. An Administration source admitted as much, sort of: "We have to, in governing, be tough in protecting the public trust, making sure money is not inappropriately used. But to do measures that would make it impossible for one of these companies to actually have the talent pool and function to survive, and pay the government back, would be self-defeating in any responsible policy." (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
These are certainly tough battles - against Democratic interest groups, in some cases - and tougher still when they are considered slowly, deliberately, rather than rushed through. But Obama promised a new day, a more efficient government. If he is wise, he can still deliver...