Update: The issue is now on its way out to all lists.
Dear Friend and Reader:
We are working on the final touches on this week’s edition of Planet Waves Astrology News. We held up for last minute updates, and I needed to clarify some of the astrology discussion. I would estimate that we’ll have it in your inbox by about 11 am.
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I know that many Planet Waves readers are not so keen on reading the news sites, but we’re witnessing high drama on the political stage that you don’t see more than once or twice in a generation. Here is a little excerpt from this morning’s New York Times.
In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Ms. Pelosi not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.
“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s the Republicans.”
Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.”
It was the very outcome the White House had said it intended to avoid, with partisan presidential politics appearing to trample what had been exceedingly delicate Congressional negotiations.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Senate banking committee, denounced the session as “a rescue plan for John McCain,” and proclaimed it a waste of precious hours that could have been spent negotiating
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