AP – Sen. Joe Lieberman has changed his tune on Barack Obama. After campaigning across the country for Republican John McCain in 2008 and attacking Obama as naive, untested and unwilling to take on powerful special interests, Lieberman now showers praise on the popular new Democratic president.

HuffingtonPost.com – When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh’s style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth.

If there’s chagrin on Wall Street about the TARP bonus limits tucked into the stimulus, here’s a chart that should at least help bankers understand where the country’s anger is coming from.

In 2008, a year in which most firms lost tens of billions of dollars and had to be rescued by taxpayers, Wall Street paid itself more than it did in 2000, at the peak of the wildly profitable technology bubble.

If there was any doubt left that bonuses reward performance, this Wall Street Journal chart should put it to rest. (Click through for the interactive version).

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A person briefed on concession talks between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. says union negotiators walked away from the bargaining table Friday night.