Morning Read

MORNING READ

FROM THE BLOGS:
Behind the handshake – Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice
Is Rahm behind the Harman leaks?Instapundit
Blair cashing in on speaking tour – Chris in Paris, AMERICAblog
A not-so-permanent majority – Curt Levey, Red State
Introducing ‘Dear Jons’ – Chait and Cohn, The Plank
Spending cuts in pictoral form – Brian Simpson, Minority Report
DOJ sits on more CIA memos – S. Ackerman, TWI
Right perspective on first 100 days? – M. Medved, Townhall
Re-thinking Afghanistan – Charles Lemos, MyDD
Not so fast, Geithner – Jennifer Rubin, Contentions
Bernanke and financial knowledge – Dean Baker, Beat the Press
The Ninth Circuit got one right! – M. Hemingway, The Corner
Wealth and Wall Street – Kevin Drum, MoJo blog
Pakistani Taliban welcomes Obama – Bill Roggio, Weekly Standard
Backdoor nationalization? Any other option? – N. Scheiber, The Stash

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:
Ranking Senate partisansThe Hill
Investigating 20 TARP fraudsThe Hill
Harman overheard helping lobbyists NY Times
Healthcare dialogue worries Obama alliesWashington Post