Belated Arsenal news, here-- it's been a busy week, and football's been on the back burner.  In any event, I'm extraordinarily glad that we did, in fact, beat Roma 1-0, in the Champions League contest.  I didn't watch the match, but I've heard Roma weren't really on their game, whereas we were "effervescent," "dynamic" and "full of energy"... at least if you're going with Arseblog's assessment.  Arsenal and Roma will meet again, this time at home, on March 11.  Hopefully we'll be on similarly good form to what we were on Tuesday. [intro]

So says the Washington Times:

Top Democrats and Republicans are already shooting down President Obama's plan to cut farm subsidies, dealing a blow to one of the cost-savings promises he laid out in his congressional address Tuesday night.

"We'll have to see what specifically the president is talking about, but we just finished the farm bill last year, and I don't think we'll open it up," said Rep. Collin C. Peterson, Minnesota Democrat and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.

Likewise, the ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, said the farm bill, which lasts for five years, "should not be changed midstream."

"I believe it is premature to make any sweeping changes to the makeup of the farm safety net before we have even had the chance to implement the current farm bill," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.

The pushback came a day after Mr. Obama called for cutting subsidies to farm businesses in his address to Congress, one of a few examples of how he can save $2 trillion from the federal budget over 10 years, and as other Democratic leaders took issue with what they see as White House moves into their domain....

Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, of whom I am quite the fan, on the GOP congressional leadership:

I don't even know the congressional leadership," Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, shrugging off questions about top congressional Republicans, including House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "I have not met them. I don't listen or read whatever it is they say because it is inconsequential - completely.  (Glenn Thrush's emphasis, not mine) [intro]