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7:25 PM ET, March 24, 2009

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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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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Specter delivers death blow to labor union bill  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced Tuesday he will oppose card check, giving an apparent death blow to the most important congressional issue to organized labor.  —  Specter made the dramatic announcement in a floor speech.
United States Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania:
Senator Specter Speaks on Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
SPECTER DEALS BLOW TO CARD CHECK
Discussion: Associated Press
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Report: Specter To Oppose Cloture On “Card Check”
Discussion: Clusterstock
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Specter Doesn't Close Door on Card Check Forever
Discussion: The Corner and Shopfloor
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Breaking: Specter Confirms He'll Vote Against Employee Free Choice
Discussion: Open Congress
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The GOP's Cheney Problem  —  The least popular vice-president in memory is not helping the Republicans regroup - according to this piece from the Hill.  But Cheney is not giving these disgraceful and classless interviews to help the GOP.  He's giving them because it is beginning to dawn …
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.
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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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems Hammer GOP's New “Too Many Ideas” Strategy  —  Dems are opening fire on the GOP in response to our story below, which quotes Mitch McConnell's spokesperson saying that the GOP will start attacking the Obama administration for throwing out too many ideas on the economy, with not enough cohesion.
Discussion: OC Progressive
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP's Next Attack Line: Obama Administration Has Too Many Plans, Not Enough Cohesion
Discussion: Washington Monthly and MyDD
Associated Press:
Bunning: McConnell making fundraising difficult  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning is blaming his fundraising difficulties on a fellow Kentucky Republican, Senate Minority Floor Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  Bunning said during a conference call Tuesday that McConnell and Texas …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
McConnell's sabotaging me, Bunning says
Discussion: Enraged Conservative
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: NRSC ad targets Obama on hypocrisy
Discussion: Cassy Fiano and Moe Lane
Christopher D. Carroll / The Economists' Forum:
Treasury rewards waiting  —  Maybe it was worth the wait.  —  Judging from preliminary details, the US Treasury's plan to rescue the financial system is a lot savvier about the relationship between financial markets and the macroeconomy than are the usual-suspects: critics from both left …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bank of America Analyst Thinks Treasury Plan Won't Work
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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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
The Russia Reset Button Doesn't Work
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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 …
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Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
FEC says donors can pay Coleman, Franken legal bills
Discussion: TPMDC and MSNBC
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A major difference between conservatives and progressives  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and American Power
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: ‘We will recover from recession’  —  President Barack Obama, who hopes to use a prime-time press conference tonight to promote both his administration's solutions for the recession and the new budget that he proposes, will call the $3.55-trillion spending plan part of the solution.
Discussion: The Politico
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:   Obama seeks filter-free news
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.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Moe Lane
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
K-Lo & Crew: Only Republicans Should be Honored at Catholic Colleges  —  Right-wing Catholics are furious that President Obama is [defiling the sanctity of] delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame.  —  K-Lo called it “disgraceful,” grunting, “They took a giant step away …
Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
The 1966 Election's Warning to Obama  —  It was a historic tidal wave of rejection.  Symbolized by, of all things, housewives boycotting supermarkets.  And the active participation of seven future presidents of the United States.  —  The 1966 “off year” or congressional elections …
Gateway Pundit:
House Passes Hitler Youth Bill  —  Obama promised during the campaign to create a Socialist National Civilian Security Force similar to what they have in other Marxist regimes.  Yesterday, the US House took the first step in organizing Dear Leader's dream youth service corp.  —  German youth praising Hitler.
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 …
Discussion: Gothamist, Law Blog and Clusterstock
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.
Discussion: The New Republic
CNN:
Meghan McCain: ‘I support the president’  —  (CNN) — Meghan McCain, a contributor to TheDailyBeast.com, is the daughter of Sen. John McCain and Cindy McCain.  But it's her recent verbal sparring with conservative Republicans that's put her in the spotlight.
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.
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.
Mazal Mualem / Haaretz:
Labor votes in favor of joining Netanyahu coalition  —  The Labor Party Central Committee voted on Tuesday in favor of joining Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, despite vocal opposition from within the party.  —  Netanyahu reached the preliminary agreement with Barak early Tuesday.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, The RBC and Truthdig
 
 
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Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Maxine Waters Puts On Her Goldman Sachs Conspiracy Hat (CLIP)
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David R. Sands / Washington Times:
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New York Post:
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Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Reporters war-game Obama questions
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Border plants to be killed to reveal smugglers
Discussion: TalkLeft and On Deadline
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Campaign films may get OK
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Wall Street Journal:
Will Obama Listen to Iran's Bloggers?
Discussion: Right Wing News