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...Friday morning comes, in part, from the ideological anomie he feels at the massive government intervention in a once major part of the American economy. But what must hurt even more for Bush - who has always had a keen sense of political reality, whatever his other shortcomings - is the self-image of a President stepping before the podium in his last days to announce a stopgap rescue for two giant, collapsing pillars of American industry. The auto companies may have gotten their shot at a rebound today, but Bush's place in history got at best a dead-cat bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Rescue Plan for Detroit: Passing the Buck | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

Blagojevich, Rod •eagerness of to explain self, and excitement of public at the prospect of hearing the unexplainable attempted to be explained by •need of to have special hairbrush within reach at all times •photo of with - of all people! - Richard Nixon surfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...return over inflation. We already have a national pension system called Social Security, which is going bankrupt. All pension plans, regardless of the form, depend on real economic growth. You would better serve your readers by educating them to these realities rather than indoctrinating them with the obfuscations of self-serving Democratic politicians. There are real solutions out there. TIME should uncover and report them. Thomas Maskell, Poland, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...From my point of view, they are the antichrist of the world." -To a Colorado Springs television station in April 2006, about James Dobson's Focus on the Family group. He later said, "I regret having used that term. I meant to say this approach was un-Christian, meaning self-serving and selfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interior Secretary: Ken Salazar | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...given that the two-term governor reportedly owes another law firm upwards of $2 million, was denied by the Illinois Attorney General state funds to pay for the impeachment hearings and is facing the prospect of having his campaign fund frozen by the feds - Genson was his usual mischievous self. "I take the cases that are fun," he said. As best-selling author and famed lawyer Scott Turow put it in an e-mail to TIME, "He is a great lawyer who would have been almost as good as a circus ringmaster. He will have a great time with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blagojevich's Lawyer: Taking the 'Unwinnable' Cases | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

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