705P ET: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re the 2008 election results and the 111th Congress convening in January 2009, re the GOP House leadership contest and the strange non-fate of John Bohner (no change) and Roy Blunt (change); re Mitch McConnell survives, re so does the amazing ever running battery of Ted Stevens; re the recount in Minnesota (count every joke) and the fate of Al Franken if defeated by a kid from Brooklyn and a handful of unfound ACORN votes, Norm Coleman.
720P: Jeff Madrick, author, "The Case for Big Government," re the myth of laissez-faire and the purpose of goverment, re the Obama administration inheriting the biggest government ever of the Bush administration.
735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, and Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the election results in the Electoral College, re the failure of the McCain campaign to connect to the GOP; re the success of the Obama campaign to connect to the Blue states, re Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel to COS.
Emanuel to be Obama's White House Chief of Staff
750P: Continued re the election in the House, the losses, the leadership race on November 19.
805P: Financial roundtabe with Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, Dow Jones Newswire, Malik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the election and the worldwide recession, re the aggression of the central banks and the absence of confidence of the markets, re the dollar and the rate cuts, re the Change.com post of the weekend:
President-Elect Obama Meets with Economic Advisers, Calls for "Swift Action" on the Economy
820P: Continued re the Obama administration and the Treasury, the Fed, the global troubles overseas such as the Gulf, Russia and the Caspian Sea and Georgia, East Asia.
835P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the election and the expectations of Iran and Syria, re the staggered Iran economy, the staggered Hugo Chavez Venezuela economy.
850P: Dmitar Sasselov, Harvard, re the spookily nearby solar system of Epsilon Eridani, a much younger twin of our solar system only 10.5 light years distant in this iron poor arm of the Milky Way, re the space comb in action to discern distant stars light and the Exos in orbit; re the status of the Kepler Eden-hunter probe for 2009.
905P: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times, re the election results and the American, Canadian and European expectations of the Obama administration, re the financial crisis: The first in many ways.
920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the Hamas gangsters and the Obama expectations, re the Bush administration accepts the obvious that Hamas wants the audacity of hope, re the endless Olmert mischief, re the failed Hamas abduction tunnel in Gaza.
935P: Rufus Phillips, author, "Why Vietnam Matters," re the author's CIA service in Vietnam from the summer of 1954 when he arrived in Saigon to work for the legendary Ed Landsdale after the French evacuated Hanoi, re the chaotic, epochal struggle to maintain the Diem brothers elitist, disconnected, eventually unhinged, gangsterish government of South Vietnam (right, Ngo Dinh Diem, PM of South Vietnam, in a Broadway parade, 1957); re the critical, operatic meeting at the White House on September 10, 1963, with JFK, McNamara, McCone, the Bundys, not RFK, in which the removal or the Diems was the unvoiced context, and the debate was between losing the war with the deranged Nhu or winning it with just the passive Diem, re the author, at 88, knows everyone dead who failed in Vietnam, and knows them personally.
955P: Exeunt re the true story of the lemmings of the north and the global warming catastrophe, with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com re the bailout of Detroit and the end of the car culture.
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705P PT: Jane Hamsher, firedoglake.com, re Rahm Emanuel named chief of staff in first Obama hire, re Chicago veteran and partisan hawk, re the familiar face of the Obama Administration.
720P: James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, re the amazing lack of regulations (not really) that wrecked the economy include the the heretofore considered draconian hands-on and ruthless regulation of Sarbanes Oxley.
735P: Professionals Jim McTague, Barrons, re Obama's first presser with eight American flags and 16 animal cracker grayheads from the Democratic elite; Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the new improved predator "Rahmbo" Emanuel of Chicago (right, walking the mean streets of the 5th CD on November 6); Diana West, NRO, re the successful candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy in the body of Barack Obama, and other Huffpo tales of the Ouija Board. Krugman to Obama: Ignore the Trolls, Build the New New Deal.
750P: Continued re the election results and the missing youth turnout vote and the missing GOP vote.
805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, re the election results and the immediate fate of the GOP; Bill Whalen, Hoover, re the election results on California, re Arnold wants tax hikes; John Avlon re the independent vote and the youth turnout.
820P: Continued re "Rahmbo" Emanuel and the Summer of Love in the Winter of '09.
835P: John Matteson, author, "Eden's Outcasts," Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007, re the long, bookish, searching, familial, discerning. agnostic life of Bronson Alcott, teacher, lecturer, abolitionist, father of determined and gifted Louisa May Alcott of "Little Women," re the intellectual world of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the ante-bellum North, re the search for utopian community in America before the second American revolution changed education and piety.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Obama science promises, re the Obama NASA promises, re the Indian probe in lunar orbit, re the Mars rovers reawaken, re the continued too quiet Sun.
905P: Robert Heineman, Harvard Business School, author, "High Performance with High Anxiety," re the corporate governance disaster of the credit collapse and the perfidy of the captains of industry and their lawyers.
920P: Ann Marlowe at Kabul, and Daoud Sultanzoy, member of Afghan Parliament, at Kabul, re the Taliban and the threat to NATO control, re Pakistan and the border, re the American air strikes and casualties.
935P: Jon Meacham, author, "American Lion," Andrew Jackson at the White House, 1829-1837, and the first president not from Massachusetts or Virginia who made war on the Congress, the press and anyone else who crossed him, including Nicholas Biddle and all the money as well as South Carolina and the fathers of the secessionists of 1860 (right, in 1845, the year of his death, at the Hermitage).
955P: Exeunt re Eliot Ness and Patrick Fitzgerald and the looming melodrama of the governor of Illinois.
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