Looks like he's getting some flack, but not enough to apologize to the Congresswoman.

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Jonathan Chait's latest example from a Politico interview with Governor Mark Sanford:

Wrong Answer, Governor Sanford

Mark Sanford, interviewed by Politico:
Q: The president is going to promise to reduce the deficit by half. How realistic do you think that is?

A: What president hasn't done that in like the last 25, 30 years?

"[President Obama] issued an executive order to reverse the policies that -- in my view and the view of many in this agency -- caused America to fall short of its founding principles, and which gave al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool," Vice President Biden said before administering the oath. "As a result of these orders, we will close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. We will have a single standard across the government for interrogation in armed conflict. And we'll ensure the Red Cross access to all those who are detained in armed conflict."

Yet, the very next day, the Obama administration
siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.

In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention.

Given the international implications, the likelihood is that the USG will not take steps that could start cascading defaults without acting in concert with other governments.  

BAGHDAD - Iraq Electricity Minister Karim Wahid on Feb. 22 invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes.

"We have had very good relationships with French companies," the minister told AFP in an interview.

"I am willing to enter into contacts with the French nuclear agency and to start to build a nuclear power plant, because the future is nuclear," he said. "This is my perspective."

What's next contempt of congress?

McCain reciprocated, praising Obama for having the meeting, and then said, among other things:

"Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One.  I don't think that there's any more graphic demonstration of how good ideas have -- have cost taxpayers an enormous amount of money."

Said Obama, "I've already talked to (Defense Secretary Robert) Gates about a thorough review of the helicopter situation."

China is preparing to open a new phase in its race for the world's resources by using its huge currency reserves to buy foreign oil and gas companies.

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"Firms will be able to benefit from low-interest loans and, in some cases, direct capital injections," according to China Petroleum Daily.

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The possibility of a Chinese state subsidy for overseas acquisitions may ring alarm bells in Western economies. Four years ago, CNOOC tried to buy an American oil company, Unocal, and succeeded in outbidding its main US rival. But the Chinese firm eventually withdrew its offer amid opposition from American Congressmen. They opposed the idea of a private US firm falling into the lap of a state-owned company, bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party.

This time, China may calculate that Western governments are in a weaker position to object. They are, after all, spending billions on taking over their own companies, notably the banking sector.

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Still a mystery hovers over Iran's Jews. It's important to decide what's more significant: the annihilationist anti-Israel ranting, the Holocaust denial and other Iranian provocations -- or the fact of a Jewish community living, working and worshipping in relative tranquillity.

Perhaps I have a bias toward facts over words, but I say the reality of Iranian civility toward Jews tells us more about Iran -- its sophistication and culture -- than all the inflammatory rhetoric.

That may be because I'm a Jew and have seldom been treated with such consistent warmth as in Iran. Or perhaps I was impressed that the fury over Gaza, trumpeted on posters and Iranian TV, never spilled over into insults or violence toward Jews. Or perhaps it's because I'm convinced the "Mad Mullah" caricature of Iran and likening of any compromise with it to Munich 1938 -- a position popular in some American Jewish circles -- is misleading and dangerous.

You can type in a word and the site produces a graph showing if (and how many times) the word was uttered by a president (and by which ones) in various speeches.

I was surprised (a little) to see how the word 'god' played out down through our history. And the word 'treachery' which, for some reason, also came to my mind.

The main investigative committee in the House has not held a single hearing this year.

Despite the fact that the government is steering hundreds of billions of dollars to financial firms and has approved the spending of hundreds of billions more, the House Oversight Committee is one of two panels  in the lower chamber that have yet to hold a hearing in this Congress. The other is the Homeland Security Committee.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, now under the control of Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), is scheduled to have its very first hearing on Thursday.

Republicans charge that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) disarmed the committee -- and its investigative power -- in the wake of a Democratic White House. While President Bush was in office, Democrats on the committee held several investigations.

"Speaker Pelosi gutted this committee," said the panel's ranking member, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Issa defended Towns in the face of having "no money, no staff and no members," but he questioned Pelosi's commitment to rigorous oversight under the Obama administration.

"She could have gutted the ability for Henry Waxman to do oversight two years ago if she wanted to," Issa said. "But it wasn't until President Obama took office that she did so."

For Issa, the move is a dangerous one, and one that's indicative of taking the cop off the beat at a time of unprecedented federal spending.

"To neuter the only impartial committee right now is absurd," Issa said.

As chairman of the Oversight Committee from 2006 until last year -- when he forced Energy and Commerce panel Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) to give up his gavel early -- Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wielded significant influence, investigating everything from the Bush administration's use of e-mail to private security contractors in Iraq to steroids in Major League Baseball.

And when the financial crisis blindsided Washington last fall, Pelosi tapped her home-state colleague -- along with Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) -- to lead the initial investigations into what happened.

Waxman held six hearings over the holiday recess in between the 110th and 111th Congresses, including probes into the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the cause and effect of the bailout of American International Group (AIG), the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the role that hedge funds, federal regulators and credit rating agencies play in the financial sector.

The committee's scheduled topic for its first hearing of the year on Thursday: an examination of the Excluded Parties List System, a federal database intended to prevent persons and businesses ineligible to receive federal contracts due to past misconduct from receiving new awards, according to the committee.

Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate.

In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appointment would make it difficult for him to continue serving in the Senate. Durbin also expressed disappointment that Burris did not reveal his extensive contacts and his fund raising efforts for the ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who appointed him to the seat on Dec. 30.

"I told him that under the circumstances, I would consider resigning if I were in his shoes," Durbin said. "He said he would not resign. That is his conclusion. At this point, I suggested to him that he had to do everything in his power to bring all the facts out as completely as possible."

Durbin warned Burris that he would lose a Democratic primary if he were to run in 2010, but Burris said he has not made a decision on whether to run next fall.