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The Huffington Post:
Specter Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act — UPDATE: Senator Specter ended speculation on where he would come down on the Employee Free Choice Act by declaring, on the Senate floor, that he would oppose the legislation until the economy improves. — “The problems of a recession …
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United States Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania:
Senator Specter Speaks on Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check — Washington D.C. — Watch Video Clip — U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today spoke on the Senate floor concerning the Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check. — Senator Specter's full floor statement, including the appendix, follows:
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Specter Doesn't Close Door On Card Check Forever
Specter Doesn't Close Door On Card Check Forever
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Shopfloor
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Report: Specter To Oppose Cloture On “Card Check”
Report: Specter To Oppose Cloture On “Card Check”
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Clusterstock
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Norquist: Specter to Oppose Cloture on EFCA
Norquist: Specter to Oppose Cloture on EFCA
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Philly.com, The Politico, TPMDC, Matthew Yglesias, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Shopfloor
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Breaking: Specter Confirms He'll Vote Against Employee Free Choice
Breaking: Specter Confirms He'll Vote Against Employee Free Choice
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Open Congress
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms — Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy — The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House bonus bill is buried by the Senate — President Obama and Senate Democrats have buried a bill passed last week by the House that would have heavily taxed executive bonuses at bailed-out firms. — Despite the public outcry over $165 million in bonuses awarded at troubled insurer AIG …
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The Politico, The Note, Wake up America, The Moderate Voice, Michelle Malkin and Hullabaloo
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney — Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. — Displeased with the former vice-president's recent media appearances …
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Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Culture Shock — What happened when one conservative Web site ventured outside the movement bubble. — Last May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism.
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Lean Left, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Eunomia, Riehl World View, The Daily Dish and The Washington Independent
CNBC:
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz — The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.
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Christopher D. Carroll / The Economists' Forum:
Treasury rewards waiting
Treasury rewards waiting
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MoJo Blog Posts
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
McConnell's sabotaging me, Bunning says — Sen. Jim Bunning is accusing fellow Kentuckian, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, of hogging the limited supply of Kentucky campaign cash by fundraising for his own 2014 campaign — as Bunning struggles with his 2010 re-election.
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Enraged Conservative
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy — SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Reines storm: Clinton conflict brews — Hillary Clinton's departure for the State Department was meant to end the era of Clinton drama, and to leave the turmoil of her campaign behind. But one former Clinton aide, now a senior adviser to Secretary Clinton, has brought at least some of that drama along with him.
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Taylor Marsh, Glenn Thrush's Blog, Weekly Standard, The Foundry and Anne Schroeder's Blog
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A major difference between conservatives and progressives — (updated below) — One of the linchpins of the Bush presidency, especially during the first term (and well into the second, until he became a major political liability), was the lock-step uncritical reverence …
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American Power
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Forbes:
Money For Nothing — Jilted Wall Street donors should rethink future political donations. — An honest politician, as an old saw has it, is one who stays bought. If this is true, then we have the most dishonest bunch of officeholders ever, and it may lead Wall Street to reconsider its donations in the future.
Michael Brooks / New Scientist:
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe — Related editorial: We must heed the threat of solar storms — IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived.
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The New Republic
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama seeks filter-free news — At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Campaign films may get OK — Analysis — Because a government lawyer pushed his argument as far as logic would carry it, an alarmed Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to create a new exception to federal power to regulate what advocacy groups can say during national political campaigns.
Erin Durkin / NY Daily News:
Madoff's pain is a Queens man's gain — Someone is finally making some money off Bernie Madoff. — A Queens construction worker used the swindler's prison number to play the lottery and won $1,500. — Ralph Amendolaro, 50, noticed the digits under Madoff's mug on the front page …
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
TAMMY BRUCE. — It's worth considering the full context of Tammy Bruce's comments on Michelle Obama yesterday. Bruce said this of the first lady: … Right. Nothing that makes a racist comment more obvious than a self-conscious attempt to qualify it as not being racist.
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Washington Monthly
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Reporters war-game Obama questions — CBS's Chip Reid jots the gist of his questions on a legal pad. CNN's Ed Henry writes them word for word on white paper torn from the notebook he's using, so there's no danger of cards dropping to the ground. Fox's Major Garrett has three word …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Geithner: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Contingencies — Moments ago, Secretary Geithner artfully dodged a question that's on everybody's mind: What happens if his plan fails. Echoing the architects and supporters of the success-bonanza that is the Iraq war, Geithner said that the only thing …
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Calculated Risk
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Border plants to be killed to reveal smugglers — The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants.
Wall Street Journal:
Will Obama Listen to Iran's Bloggers? — Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a “great civilization” for “accomplishments” that “have earned the respect of the United States and the world.” The death of Iranian blogger Omid-Reza Mirsayafi …
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Israel Matzav
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Coleman won't rule out federal appeal — Former Sen. Norm Coleman is still considering taking his election lawsuit to the federal court if he's unsuccessful in reversing Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the Minnesota Senate recount. — Speaking to reporters at the Capitol …