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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Democrats Stung by Dissenters — Democratic leaders in Congress did not expect much Republican support as they pressed President Obama's ambitious legislative agenda. But the pushback they are receiving from some of their own has come as an unwelcome surprise.
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The Hill, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, theheretik.us, RedState, DownWithTyranny!, BuzzFlash.org and The Campaign Spot
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Wall Street Journal:
Labor Bill Faces Threat in Senate — WASHINGTON — Key Senate Democrats are wavering in their support of legislation that would give more power to labor unions, dealing a setback to labor's top priority as businesses warn of the damage the bill would cause.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama takes on teachers' unions — After weeks of pleasing Democrats by overturning policies set by the previous administration, President Barack Obama Tuesday will for the first time confront a powerful constituency in his own party: teachers' unions. — Obama will propose spending additional money …
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Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street — Emanuel Derman expected to feel a letdown when he left particle physics for a job on Wall Street in 1985. — After all, for almost 20 years, as a graduate student at Columbia and a postdoctoral fellow at institutions like Oxford and the University of Colorado …
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Obama Buffetted — First Time The MSM Has Ever Ignored Warren Buffett: The press accounts I've read have wildly underplayed Obama supporter Warren Buffet's criticism of the President on CNBC today. It's fairly pointed, and Buffett comes back to it, suggesting he has a message he's trying to deliver.
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CNBC.com, Associated Press, The Atlantic Business Channel, QandO, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo and TigerHawk
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Rush whacks Newt: ‘He wishes they were running TV ads against him’ — Rush Limbaugh responded to Newt Gingrich's shot at him with a broadside at the former speaker on today's show. — “I'm frankly getting tired of talking about Newt. I mean, it's a pointless exercise,” …
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Buck Naked Politics, Firedoglake, Boston Globe, The Moderate Voice, Political Machine, The Gun Toting Liberal, Balloon Juice, Think Progress, DownWithTyranny!, The Huffington Post, Eunomia, The Democratic Daily, PoliticalBase.com Blog, Hot Air, kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com, Below The Beltway and Salon
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Bob McCarty Writes:
Heroic Name Given to Photo of President Obama — Soon after President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting the ban on the use federal funding of embryonic stem cells in medical research, the wizards behind the White House web site posted the photo above.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Stem cell decision ignites right's ire — He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation's most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat. — But no more.
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Washington Times:
Tibet and Chas Freeman — Today is Tibetan Freedom Day, also marking the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibet Uprising and the Dali Lama's flight to exile. Chinese riot police are out in force on the streets of Tibet's cities to deter the kind of widespread civil disorder that broke out in the country a year ago.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Taking a Depression Seriously — The Democratic response to the economic crisis has its problems, but let's face it, the current Republican response is totally misguided. The House minority leader, John Boehner, has called for a federal spending freeze for the rest of the year.
CNN:
Bomber kills 33 at Iraq peace conference — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — At least 33 people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing targeting a national reconciliation conference in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. — The attack — which occurred outside …
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Yuval Levin / Washington Post:
Science Over All? — The Temptation in Obama's Stem Cell Policy — In announcing his policy on federal funding of stem cell research, President Obama inadvertently cast a bright light on a dangerous temptation in science policy that ought to give Americans pause.
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Religion Clause, The Huffington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy, it is NOT junk and Crunchy Con
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
RNCdispute over $4 million — Republican infighting escalated Monday with allegations and denials over $4 million once destined for the party's congressional campaign committees. — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele sought to placate critics by giving $1 million …
Bloomberg:
Pandit Says Citigroup Having Best Quarter Since 2007 — Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said his bank is having the best quarter since 2007, when it last posted a profit. The shares rose as much as 27 percent and helped spur gains for finance company stocks.
David M. Smick / Washington Post:
Tim Geithner's Black Hole — Pity Barack Obama's economic advisers. The blogs are now demanding their scalps, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and his colleagues face a nasty dilemma: There are no solutions to the banking crisis without extraordinary political and financial risks.
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The Opinionator, The Politico, Political Radar, The Strata-Sphere, The Note and Don Surber
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11 — The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility …
Laura Rozen / The Cable:
Flournoy's Pentagon policy shop — Since her confirmation as under secretary of defense for policy last month, Michèle Flournoy - the highest-ranking woman in Pentagon civilian history — has become one of the most active and influential national security figures in the Obama administration.
David Rogers / The Politico:
McCain: 'I don't want him to fail' — After a losing presidential campaign in 2000, John McCain came back to the Senate and established himself as a force no White House could ignore. Eight years later, he's home from defeat again, facing a very different landscape dominated by President Barack Obama …
The Huffington Post:
Geithner Briefs Dems: “We're Doing In Weeks What Countries Did In Years” — At a meeting in the Capitol that stretched late into Monday night, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner briefed House Democrats on the ongoing efforts to revitalize the economy. — He pleaded for patience …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NOT EVEN CLOSE.... The LA Times' Andrew Malcolm played a little fast and loose yesterday, commenting on President Obama's directive on Bush's signing statements. (thanks to reader J.R. for the heads-up) … No, this wasn't written by the Republican National Committee to be read on-air by Fox News personalities; it just seems like it.