Sarah Palin’s bizarre bailout dooms her chances of ever being President, Republican mandarins said Friday – but she was already finished.
The Alaska governor’s disastrous star turn as John McCain’s running mate, followed by her lurching, controversial encore on the national scene, had already sealed her fate – except, perhaps, with the GOP’s most far-right wing.
Still, [...]

Senate Republicans circulated a sweeping plan to drive down the cost of mortgages by expanding the federal government’s role in the industry, officials said Monday night as debate opened on an economic stimulus bill at the top of President Barack Obama’s agenda.
The emerging proposal also relies on a bigger and more widely available tax break [...]

President Barack Obama told Republicans in a closed-door meeting that he would be open to additional tax cuts in his economic stimulus package, one participant said Tuesday on the eve of a House vote on the $825 billion measure.
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said Obama would not back off his own proposal for a $500-per-person payroll [...]

Hours before a meeting with President Barack Obama, House Republican leaders sought to rally opposition Tuesday to a White House-backed economic stimulus measure with an $825 billion price tag.
Several officials said that Reps. John Boehner of Ohio, the GOP leader, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, his second-in-command, delivered the appeal at a closed-door meeting of [...]