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MICHAEL STEELE'S RECENT COMMENTS — Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics.
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The Gun Toting Liberal, Townhall.com, Hot Air, The Note, TPMDC, Washington Monthly, PoliticalBase.com Blog, CNN and pandagon.net
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Steele And Gay Couples: WTF? — “I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay.' It's like saying, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.'” - Michael Steele.
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Steele In Serious Hot Water With Social Conservatives
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Right Wing Watch
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Third Top Treasury Pick Withdraws From Consideration — Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. — It's the third withdrawal …
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The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Politico, Hot Air, Salon, The RBC, Power Line, The Atlanticist, Outside The Beltway, MoJo Blog Posts and Megan McArdle
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GREGG: BUDGET FORECAST A LIE — From NBC's Ken Strickland — It was obvious to most Capitol Hill insiders why President Obama wanted Republican Judd Gregg as a member of his cabinet: He's one of the sharpest money-minds in Congress. — But instead of getting Gregg's counsel within the administration …
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Laura Ingraham mocks Meghan McCain as being ‘plus-sized.’ — Last night, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) daughter, Meghan McCain, appeared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, where she continued to criticize Ann Coulter. On her radio show today, Laura Ingraham responded to McCain's critique …
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Sarah Palin: More Earmark Hypocrisy — Alaska's governor campaigned as an anti-earmark crusader, but the just-passed omnibus spending bill contains several she sought. — Post Comment — On the campaign trail last year, Alaska's Republican governor, Sarah Palin, sold herself …
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Obama v. Limbaugh: Poll finds it's no contest — WASHINGTON — The deepening recession is taking a slight toll on President Barack Obama's standing, but he's still twice as popular as archnemesis Rush Limbaugh, according to a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll. — The survey found that 65 percent …
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Lamest billboard ever — I said last week that Democrat donors ought to question whether the DNC was using its money wisely by indugling in an anti-Rush Limbaugh billboard. — See, I told you so. The Christian Science Monitor skewers the results: … FAIL.
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Hot Air, Christian Science Monitor, absentee's blog, Fausta's Blog and Political Machine
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THE WINNING BILLBOARD IS... We ridiculed here the Democratic …
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The Radio Equalizer
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2 arrests in Obama appointee's office — Federal agents this morning are searching the office Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer. — The search of the office at 1 Judiciary Square is part of “an ongoing investigation,” said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said.
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MSNBC, D.C. Wire, Hot Air, Washington Post, Political Machine, Ben Smith's Blog, The Mahablog, Runnin' Scared and Commentary
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Congresswoman, Tied to Bank, Helped Seek Funds — WASHINGTON — Top banking regulators were taken aback late last year when a California congresswoman helped set up a meeting in which the chief executive of a bank with financial ties to her family asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds, Treasury officials said.
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Ross Douthat: the College Years — A look at the newest New York Times columnist's undergrad writing. — The New York Times reported yesterday that it had hired conservative Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat as an op-ed columnist. Douthat, who will be one of the youngest—if not the youngest …
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52 days, 52 mistakes — Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small. — We all make mistakes. Here's his: — 1. A do-over on the oath of office. — 2. Tim Geithner. — 3. Bill Richardson. — 4. Tom Daschle. — 5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
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Clyburn: Sanford jab ‘beyond the pale’ — House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told me he thinks S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's quip comparing President Obama's stimulus package to Zimbabwe's economic policies are “beyond the pale” — and suggested they might carry a racial subtext.
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Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss — A Gridiron Club member tells FBDC first that President Obama will not attend this year's dinner next Saturday, March 21st. He will be the first president since Grover Cleveland not to attend the first Gridiron Club Dinner of his presidency.
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Army fired 11 soldiers in Jan. as openly gay — The Army fired 11 soldiers in January for violating the military's policy that gay service members must keep their sexuality hidden, according to a Virginia congressman. Democratic Rep. Jim Moran said he has requested monthly updates …
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Big Union Vows To Back Arlen Specter In 2010 If He Supports Employee Free Choice — This is big: Senior officials with the powerful AFL-CIO have privately assured GOP Senator Arlen Specter that they'll throw their full support behind him in the 2010 Senate race if he votes for the Employee Free Choice Act …
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Workers' Health Benefits Eyed for Taxation — Revenue Would Fund Expansion of Coverage — With President Obama's plan to tax the rich to pay for health care facing deep skepticism on Capitol Hill, key lawmakers are pressing a different way to raise money: taxing the health benefits workers receive from their employers.
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Video: Bill Clinton doesn't understand human biology? — Jill Stanek catches Bill Clinton in a deliciously ironic illiteracy on human biology. Maybe this explains why he tried to convince the nation that oral sex was not, you know, sex: — Emphases mine:
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Obama: Economic crisis ‘not as bad as we think’ … WASHINGTON (AP) - Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is “not as bad as we think” and his plans will speed recovery.
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BEHOLD, THE ‘NO COST STIMULUS’.... If you missed last night's episode of Sean Hannity's Fox News show, you missed a fascinating “discussion” between Hannity, Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.). As the Fox News personality explained, Shadegg and Vitter have come up with a …
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The Case Against Breast-Feeding — IMAGE CREDIT: JOSE LUIS PELAEZ/GETTY IMAGES — ONE AFTERNOON AT the playground last summer, shortly after the birth of my third child, I made the mistake of idly musing about breast-feeding to a group of new mothers I'd just met.
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U.S. Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Over Iraq (Updated) — An American fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone as it was flying over Iraq, U.S. military sources in Baghdad tell Danger Room. — Details of the previously-unreported shoot-down, which occurred last month, are still sketchy.
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Columbia J-School's Existential Crisis — The media bloodbath hasn't made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York …
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Does Voting Matter Anymore? — Our elected leaders act more and more like kings, not representatives of the people. — Since President Obama's inauguration, Americans have been subjected to an unprecedented display of political arrogance. The monetary actions of the president and Democrats …
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Outside The Beltway
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The Public Wants to Believe In Big Government — Walter Shapiro has an article in TNR titled “Americans Like Big Government: They just don't really know it yet” which is about the importance of branding in building support for a progressive agenda. I think our new CAP report on the state …