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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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"No Easy Out"

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 10 2009, 5:40 PM ET Comment

TARP II is released. Poor reviews from many. Wall Street plummets.  Obama, on ABC News's Nightline tonight, is nonplussed. "Well, you know, Wall Street I think is hoping for an easy out on this thing and there is no easy out."  

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