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Washington Whispers:
GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired — Apology to Rush Limbaugh aside, new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is coming under fire from his own GOP troops to shut up and focus on his job of organizing the party and raising money, not fighting with his own political kind.
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh? — I don't buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans. — Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Limbaugh Attacks Stephanopoulos, Says ABC Falsely Reported That Eric Cantor Disagreed With “Fail” Remark — Okay, the Limbaugh wars have just taken yet another weird new turn — Rush is claiming that a high profile GOP leader who appeared to disagree with his professed hope that President Obama …
The New Majority:
LIMBAUGH AT CPAC — President Obama and Rush Limbaugh do not agree on much, but they share at least one thing: Both wish to see Rush anointed as the leader of the Republican party. Here's Rahm Emanuel on Face the Nation yesterday: “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party.”
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars: Limbaugh's excuse for hoping Obama fails — ‘Dems did it too’ — is baloney
Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:Ugly and Incendiary — Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh began …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high — NBC/WSJ poll shows gap between popularity of president and his policies — WASHINGTON - After Barack Obama's first six weeks as president, the American public's attitudes about the two political parties couldn't be more different, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
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MyDD
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
SNEAK PEEK AT THE NBC/WSJ POLL — From NBC's Mark Murray — Here's one set of numbers we're releasing before the entire NBC/WSJ poll comes out at 6:30 pm ET: By a 48-20 percent margin, Americans believe the Democratic Party would do a better job of getting the U.S. out of recession than the Republican Party.
The New Republic:
Wealthy Idiots Meet Idiot Reporter — I've seen a lot of dumb news reports in my life, but I'm not sure anything can quite match this one from ABC News. The premise of the report is this: Barack Obama plans to raise taxes on people who make more than $250,000, so the reporter has gone …
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Economix, Donklephant, Cafe Talk Aggregator, Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, New York Magazine and MoJo Blog Posts
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Does ABC News understand how income tax works? — ABC News reports on “upper-income taxpayers” who are trying to reduce their income so they avoid proposed tax increases on those earning more than $250,000. — According to ABC, one attorney “plans to cut back on her business …
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Moderate Manifesto — You wouldn't know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
“We're Sorry” — Obama voters express their regrets — The drones Obama voters have begun sending me photos expressing their sorrow in voting for the Won. — I'll post them all when I have a chance. — Update: Michelle Malkin suggested that David Brooks might want to join the apologetic crew.
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The Huffington Post
Allahpundit / Hot Air:David Brooks surprised to find Obama is, in fact, a statist liberal
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The Moderate Voice
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Bullish Obama Suggests Nation Should Buy! Buy! — President Obama told Americans to take a look at investing in the stock market this afternoon, a remarkable utterance for an American president, especially as the Dow Jones Industrial Average proceeds on its course Southward.
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Commentary, Corrente, Ben Smith's Blogs, Clusterstock, Fausta's Blog, Gawker, RedState, WillCollier.com and AmSpecBlog
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SteveK / TVNewser:
White House Knocks Jim Cramer For Calling Obama Budget “Greatest Wealth Destruction By a President” — NBC's Tom Costello, on duty at the White House today, asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about some comments made by his CNBC colleague Jim Cramer. On the Today show this morning …
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Hot Air, The Politico, Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters.org, American Power, Don Surber, Clusterstock and JammieWearingFool
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Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Emblems to Stamp Projects Funded by the Stimulus Package — ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: — Put a stamp on it — that's what the White House says. — President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus package …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Extraordinary Measures — A new memo shows just how far the Bush administration considered going in fighting the war on terror. — In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside …
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Harper's, TalkLeft, Brilliant at Breakfast, MoJo Blog Posts, The Reaction, The Anonymous Liberal and Balkinization
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Dems yank DC vote bill in House — It looks like voters in the District of Columbia will have to wait another week - and possibly a lot longer - to claim official representation in the House. — Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Tuesday night that the bill would not come …
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Kleinheider / Post Politics:
MTSU POLL: One In Six Tennesseans Admit To Telling Racist Jokes About The President — The newest poll on state and national issues in Tennessee is out from our friends over at Middle Tennessee State University complete with charts and graphs. Some of the more interesting findings below.
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Think Progress
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Paul Krugman:
Zombie financial ideas — Calculated Risk looks at the latest plan floated by the Treasury — to make low-interest, non-recourse loans to private investors who buy bad assets — and immediately gets it: this is a plan to drive up the prices of toxic assets by creating a lot of moral hazard.
TBogg:
You're in the high rent district — Approximately 2% of the American households make more than $250,000 a year and (you may find this hard to believe) a very high percentage of these high-earning go-getting producers spend their days commenting over at Michelle Malkin's place …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Coleman camp asks that election result be ‘set aside’ — Request was made as Franken's lawyers prepare to make their case. — For more than a month, Norm Coleman stressed flaws in Minnesota's election system. — And on Monday, Coleman lawyer Jim Langdon wrote the three-judge panel …
Jack Cafferty / CNN:
Cafferty: My crush on Michelle Obama — Editor's note: Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book, “Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream,” to be published in March. He provides commentary on CNN's “The Situation Room” daily from 4 to 7 p.m. ET.
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NewsBusters.org
Democracy Now:
New York Legislature to Vote on Overhauling Draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws — The New York State Assembly is set to vote today on legislation that would allow judges to send drug offenders to substance abuse treatment instead of prison. The legislation would also allow thousands …
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