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...find a way to provide $14 billion in short-term loans to keep the companies on life support until a new Congress and the incoming Obama Administration can hammer out a comprehensive solution next year. The White House had been dead set against the Democrats' original entreaties to use money from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, known as TARP, passed by Congress in September to stabilize the teetering banking system, but now it may have no choice. (See TIME's top 10 financial collapses...
...failed compromise bill crafted by Senate Democrats and the White House would have taken $14 billion from a green modernization fund passed by Congress earlier this year - a move at first ardently opposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "We think the legislation we negotiated provided an opportunity to use funds already appropriated for automakers and presented the best chance to avoid a disorderly bankruptcy while ensuring taxpayer funds only go to firms whose stakeholders were prepared to make difficult decisions to become viable," said Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, responding to the vote. "We will evaluate our options...
...industry. But most Republicans realize they can't afford to be blamed for letting hundreds of thousands of more Americans lose their jobs at the holidays, and many in their ranks believe that the outgoing leader of their party should take the political hit by authorizing the use of TARP funds himself...
...Davis and McInturff said that the choice not to use Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory comments as a campaign issue was an easy...
...Holmes believes the aging Mugabe is in denial and that efforts to change the regime - be they targeted sanctions, threats of prosecution at the Hague, negotiations or even the use of force - should be targeted at his lieutenants, to "separate them from him, and from each other." As for Mugabe, Holmes says, "His reality rarely intersects with that of the 12 million people in his country. There is a zero-percent chance of a pragmatic response from him." Even the fact that scores of Zimbabweans are dying every day from a disease contracted by ingesting fecal matter in water - which...