Today’s must-reads:
- The Obama Coup (MoJo)
- What Is Nancy Pelosi Doing? (The New Republic)
- Dems playing hardball with insurance industry? Wha? (AP)
- White House pushing for big pay cuts at bailed-out firms (CNN)
- House moving towards more stimulus measures (WaPo)
- Torture Investigation Hindering Torture Transparency? (MoJo)
- Nixon won. The press lost. (Balloon Juice)
- Rattner and the bailout(s) (Marcy Wheeler)
- The Financial-Crisis Lit Cheat Sheet (New York)
- Republicans’ weakest reason for not supporting health care reform (Ezra Klein)
- “Is J Street evil or just stupid?” (The Economist)
- Yay Cheap Coal! (Funny or Die)
- TARP: The Pyrrhic Bailout? (MoJo)
- One Mother Jones reporter’s open letter to Michael Burnham & the New York Times RE: the US Chamber of Commerce (MoJo)
- University of Montana football coach Bobby Hauck sounds like a real douche. (Billings Gazette)
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