Meet Our Failing Economy!
Congratulations, America! More experts than ever agree we have entered a recession. [ Wall Street Journal ]
Top policymakers unveiled a "plan" to prevent the credit-market meltdown that happened, uh, last year. [ Washington Post ]
In related economic news, America's newest booming profession: debt collection. [ New York Times ]
Did Governor Eliot Spitzer use campaign funds for his sexy sex trysts, or was he self-funded? [ New York Times ]
President Bush himself intervened to weaken EPA ozone rules. [ Washington Post ]
South by Southwest officials are trying to curb an explosion of free unaffiliated parties during the event, calling them "undemocratic." [ Wall Street Journal ]
Barack Obama tries a novel approach to Pennsylvania's closed Democratic primary: Because only registered Democrats can vote in it, he's trying to get more independents and Republicans to register as Democrats. Crazy enough to work? [ Politico ]
The National Republican Congressional Committee said it had mountains of cash on hand, but that was before it knew its former Treasurer had stolen nearly three-quarters of a million dollars from them. [ The Hill ]
Conservatives who used to hate Hillary Clinton now find her much more palatable, at least in comparison to that elitist Barack Obama. [ New York Observer ]