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The must reads from around the web and in today’s papers:
- Obama neglects the netroots supporters who helped get him elected. [MoJo]
- What’s this Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee all about? [MoJo]
- Wall Street ethos under scrutiny at Financial Crisis hearing. [NYTimes DealBook Column]
- Regulators to face FCIC today. [Reuters]
- A Bush “democracy-building group” helped destroy Haitian civil society well before the earthquake. [MoJo]
- Tens of thousands feared dead after Haiti earthquake. [WaPo]
- The rate of US foreclosures shattered all records in 2009…and will likely do so again this year. [Reuters]
- Why Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner won’t get fired—yet. [James Pethokoukis]
- The reasons why health insurers are on the attack. [Kevin Drum]
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Obesity rates reaching a resting point. [LATimes]
- Bolivia is putting the coke—as in, “cocaine”—back in cola. [TreeHugger]
- Five reasons why libertarians shouldn’t hate government. [Reason]
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