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5:15 AM ET, February 14, 2009

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The Huffington Post:
Specter: Republicans Support Stimulus, Don't Want ‘Fingerprints’ On It  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who broke with his party to support President Obama's stimulus package last week, said before the final vote Friday that more of his colleagues would have joined were they not afraid of the political consequences.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Stimulus Plan Receives Final Approval in Congress  —  WASHINGTON — Congress on Friday approved a $787 billion economic stimulus measure, meeting the crushing mid-February deadline that Democrats had set for adopting the centerpiece of President Obama's early agenda but without quelling partisan divisions in Washington.
Jules Crittenden:
Friday The 13th  —  AP: “Major victory ... muscled to the brink of final passage.”  Sure.  He let his own party's Congress go wild with its own bill, and lost virtually every Republican by insulting them when he wasn't ignoring them.  I guess that's a big victory if they say it is …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Michelle Malkin
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bipartisanship Isn't So Easy, Obama Discovers  —  WASHINGTON — On the day before the big vote, President Obama took a freshman Republican member of Congress aboard Air Force One to visit Illinois.  Before an audience in Representative Aaron Schock's district, Mr. Obama praised him as …
Discussion: Washington Post and MSNBC
MSNBC:
Congress OKs $787 billion stimulus bill  —  Passage of $787 billion legislation hands Obama a critical political victory  —  GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania talks to journalists outside the Senate Chamber before voting for the $787 billion economic stimulus bill on Friday.
Discussion: CNN, Firedoglake and Gotomario.com
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Congress approves $787-B stimulus
Discussion: Chicago Breaking News
Lindsey Ellerson / Political Punch:
Schock to the President's Argument
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Hot Air
The Politico:
Hardened Obama plans new fights
Karl Rove / The Huffington Post:
Rahm: Obama Lost Control Of Stimulus Debate
Discussion: Wizbang and Hullabaloo
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
House Passes Stimulus Package-and Oh, By the Way, Bipartisanship is Dead
Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Economic stimulus vote: ‘Present’
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
BREAKING: Court Excludes ‘Huge Number’ of Ballots in MN's U.S. Senate Election Contest  —  [Updated several times at bottom of article.]  —  A late Friday finding from the 3-judge panel presiding over the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate election contest in Minnesota, has limited the number …
Discussion: TPMDC and Senate Guru
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
In New Opinion, Minnesota Election Court Seriously Damages Coleman's Chances  —  The Minnesota election court has just handed down a very important ruling that will determine the entire course of the rest of this trial — and it's very bad news for Norm Coleman, cutting off multiple avenues …
Gene Warner / Buffalo News:
Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife  —  Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
THE WHITE HOUSE BUBBLE  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  Obviously, I'm one of the newbies here in the White House press corps, so maybe I'm unfamiliar with the ways of how this place works.  I have to say, nothing is more frustrating than covering an actual event here at the White House …
Texas Rainmaker:
Borders Bookstore in Dallas Praises Saint Obama  —  A reader sent me this picture taken at a Borders Bookstore in Dallas.  He says the picture was taken in the Kids section.  I guess Borders understands that it's never too early to indoctrinate the younguns.  —  Welcome to the Obamanation.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Addicted to fake outrage  —  I'm not sure if it's because we're strung out on “Lost” episodes, or if it's because we're still suffering from a post-9/11 stress disorder that makes us crave “breaking news” alerts, or if it's because the economy has turned us into distraction junkies.
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Lynn Zinser / The Lede:
Mazda Has Michael Phelps Apologize to China
Discussion: Firedoglake
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Afghan President Karzai hopes Obama will “settle down,” show “better judgment”  —  President Barack Obama is moving up in the world in terms of picking fights.  Or walking into them.  —  First came a disagreement over the impact of the administration's economic stimulus package in East Peoria …
Discussion: Don Surber and Gateway Pundit
Josh / Right Wing Watch:
Virginia GOP Chair goes all Cro-Magnon on Darwin, on his birthday  —  Yesterday was the birthday of Lincoln and Darwin, and Virginia GOP chairman Jeff Frederick couldn't pass up the opportunity to go all Cro-Magnon on the father of modern biology.  —  Frederick obviously put a lot of thought …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Lawyers in Contempt for Withholding Stevens Documents  —  An angry federal judge held Justice Department lawyers in contempt yesterday for failing to deliver documents to former senator Ted Stevens's legal team, as he had ordered.  —  U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan called it …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Associated Press
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blogs:
White House books Brown's flight to D.C.  —  Sarah Abruzzese reports:  —  A government plane will ferry Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) back to Washington from his mother's wake in Ohio in time to vote tonight, courtesy of the White House.  —  Brown won't even be leaving until viewing hours end …
Discussion: The Swamp, Right Wing News and QandO
Frank Sharry / The Huffington Post:
House Judiciary Committee Calls for Federal Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio's Abuses  —  We couldn't be happier to hear that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a letter today calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct a federal investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's enforcement tactics.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Failed Banks Pose a Big Test for Regulators  —  WASHINGTON — When regulators took over the First National Bank of Nevada last year, they faced a showdown with the Terrible Herbst, the mustachioed cowboy who boasts of being the “best bad man in the West.”  —  This was no real gunslinger …
Damon Linker / The New Republic:
Lessons in Blogging  —  I avoided blogging for a long time.  And the one time I briefly tried it prior to my current stint at TNR, I hated it.  Why?  Because something about the form (most likely its instantaneousness) encourages glibness.  And the issues I like to write about — religion …
Discussion: Upturned Earth
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Bloomberg:
Geithner Hampered by Staff Deficit as Wall Street Demands Speed
Discussion: RedState
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
A Smaller, Faster Stimulus Plan, but Still With a Lot of Money
Discussion: MyDD
FactCheck.org:
Stimulus Bill Bravado
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
RNC Chair Steele on his own party: 'No reason, none, to trust …
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Boehner Slams Mythical Vegas HSR Project, Ignores Ohio Rail Opportunity
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. Investigating Campaign Donations From Lobbying Firm
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Paul Krugman:
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