- A watchdog group has found the $700 billion bailout has worked, sort of. The group determined that the money helped avert a major economic meltdown, but failed to achieve most of the goals set by Congress.
- The specifics of the Senate’s compromise on the public option are beginning to leak.
- Gen. McChrystal said something in yesterday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing that should have everyone concerned, writes Slate’s Fred Kaplan.
- In 2006, Dick Cheney reportedly said, “If there’s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping Al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.” Tom Friedman thinks this doctrine should be applied to climate change.
- The Washington Post is getting heat today for publishing an op-ed by Sarah Palin calling for the president to boycott Copenhagen. Marc Ambinder rehashes the piece with some annotations.
