The New Republic

Via the indispensable Virginia Politics blog Not Larry Sabato, some Terry McAuliffe endorsers from Richmond find a very Terry way to get out bodies for a commercial: READ MORE >>

Even Sweden is hurting as it faces an official recession and sharply reduced consumption. The blog A Swedish American in Sweden captures an image (via Planet Money): READ MORE >>

A Standard & Poor's economist quoted in a Post article on how inventory overload, including at retailers like the Gap, is hobbling the economy: We've tremendously expanded the square feet of stores but not the number of yuppies occupying them. --Eve Fairbanks READ MORE >>

Obama is meeting with the Blue Dogs, the growing caucus of conservative-minded House Democrats, tonight. They're restive, and are threatening to throw a procedural wrench into the reconsideration of the stimulus. But some Democrats feel it's craven and wrong to "kneel" to these centrists as "overlords," especially in a moment when fastidious fiscal restraint seems to be the reverse of what's needed. READ MORE >>

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'I love chicken waste!" Terry McAuliffe shouts to a crowd of several hundred elegant northern Virginians at Alexandria's Torpedo Factory art gallery. McAuliffe--the former Democratic moneyman dubbed by Al Gore "the greatest fund-raiser in the history of the universe"--is running for governor of Virginia, and tonight is the official rollout of his primary campaign. As he rhapsodizes about Virginia's 1,000 poultry farms, his pale eyebrows hop around furiously on his sharp, ostrich-like brow ridge. READ MORE >>

Jon, your Tom Daschle defense over on The Treatment ("I think [Daschle] is trustworthy, based on what I know," you concluded) makes perfect sense -- if the Daschle affair were taking place in a vacuum, or a period of prosperity. But it isn't. READ MORE >>

Many of you are probably regular readers, but to those who aren't, I want to put in a little unprompted plug for The Vine, Brad Plumer et al.'s environmental blog. READ MORE >>

Let's take a moment to enjoy the astonishing fact that both of our major political parties are led by African-Americans. Hallelujah. READ MORE >>

The House vote on Obama's stimulus bill -- H.R. 1, the administration's first big test of its capacity for arm-twisting the legislature -- is imminent. Will it pass? READ MORE >>