POLITICAL BRIEFING BY PEGGY NOONAN: It looks like a win but feels like a loss. The party-line vote in favor of the stimulus package could have been more, could have produced not only a more promising bill but marked the beginning of something new, not a post partisan era (there will never be such a thing and never should be; the parties exist to fight through great political questions) but a more bipartisan one forced by crisis and marked bywell, let's call it seriousness. President Obama could have made big history here. Instead he just got a win. It's a missed opportunity.
------------------ FEDS ALLEGE PLOT TO DESTROY FANNIE MAE DATA: The Justice Department says it foiled a plot by a fired Fannie Mae contract worker in Maryland to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Makwana, of Glen Allen, Va., is scheduled for arraignment Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on one count of computer intrusion. [you'd think that wouldn't work bc it would be backed up on other media stored elsewhere] ------------------ COMMENTARY By OLIVER NORTH: On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden went to the Pentagon for a getting-to-know-you gathering with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Nothing that leaked out of this off-the-record meet and greet disputed the proposal that the Marines be phased out of Iraq and sent to battle the Taliban and al-Qaida. ------------------ HISTORY: On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. "There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same two people in a few years" - Dustin Hoffman The Show Biz Blog is filled with advice, opinion and information. Check it out now: http://www.theshowbizblog.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/WebTV-Pals -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
