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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.”
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: (Re)Defining Rush — Democrats are engaging in a concerted campaign to link the national Republican Party to conservative talk-radio show host Rush Limbaugh, an effort that will ramp up over the next few days in the form of another round of television ads …
Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?
Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?
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Booman Tribune
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Rush, Back in the Saddle — The White House has decided to run against Rush Limbaugh.
Rush, Back in the Saddle — The White House has decided to run against Rush Limbaugh.
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The Raw Story
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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Michelle Malkin
Joe Klein / Swampland:
On Moderation — David Brooks writes today as a moderate …
On Moderation — David Brooks writes today as a moderate …
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Balloon Juice
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MUSHY, MEANINGLESS MODERATION.... During last year's presidential …
MUSHY, MEANINGLESS MODERATION.... During last year's presidential …
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Matthew Yglesias
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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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 …
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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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Memos Reveal Scope of the Power Bush Sought
Memos Reveal Scope of the Power Bush Sought
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems angry over four AIG bailouts — Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee voiced frustration over recent decisions made by the Federal Reserve during a Tuesday morning hearing where they grilled Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. — Democrats and a few Republicans are irate …
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Michelle Malkin
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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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter
Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter
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Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy — As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame. — As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic.
Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Blacks, whites hear Obama differently — On his pre-inaugural visit to Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark for Washington's African-American community, President Barack Obama was asked by a cashier if he wanted his change back. — “Nah, we straight,” Obama replied. — The phrase was so subtle some listeners missed it.
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 …
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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.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith. — The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret the wishes of a supreme being.
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.
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.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Analysis: Obama-McCain relationship deteriorates — The rollercoaster-like relationship between President Obama and John McCain has taken a dive in recent weeks, culminated by the Arizona Republican's scathing Monday speech on the Senate floor. — McCain's diatribe on the Obama administration's decision …
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 …
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Crooked Timber