December 9, 2010
The Politico:
Deficit summit? Not in the cards John Maggs
"With House Democrats in revolt against the product of last month’s summit on tax cuts, the idea of another summit on deficits, so soon, drew a chuckle from one White House official
“What’s the quote that somebody said during the financial crisis? ‘I think we’ve had about all the fun we can stand’ on congressional summits,” the official said."
The Washington Post:
Max Baucus, the Democrats' dud Steven Pearlstein
The New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Very Good Week By David Brooks
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Hostage Deal By Paul Krugman
And the article from FT.com:
"But the US should not reach around the law to seek to punish Mr Assange. Defending secrecy by subverting the rule of law is a very poor bargain. It should learn lessons from what has happened.
These should be twofold. First the
US must look at the law and decide whether it is adequate for the job of defending those secrets it needs to protect. If existing legislation needs to be strengthened, it should do so.
Senator Joe Lieberman has for instance put forward a law that would put extra constraints on the publishers of secrets. If enacted it would in some ways roll back the Supreme Court’s 1971 judgment. This may not be desirable – or constitutional. But debating new laws rather than bending existing ones must be the way to go."