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5:40 PM ET, April 15, 2009

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Left Behind?  —  Glenn Reynolds today pens an op-ed hailing the “tea-party” “movement” as a post-partisan, spontaneous uprising of ordinary folks against the establishment of both parties.  He makes no mention of Pajamas Media's heavy investment in the events, nor Fox News' endless touting …
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Marc Cooper / Los Angeles Times:
Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity  —  What, exactly, are the protesters protesting?  The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?  —  The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties  —  The of tea-party enthusiasm on the American right has provoked a fairly typical reaction from the organized American left.  It's a fake.  It involves tea bags and (a) Dick Armey.  It's got the consistency of astroturf, not natural grass.
Discussion: Hot Air, Townhall.com and Balloon Juice
Michelle Malkin:
A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started  —  It's here!  —  For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to get you up to speed.
MSNBC:
Anti-tax ‘tea parties’ held across U.S.  —  Plan to dump million tea bags in D.C. foiled by lack of permit  —  Protestors take part in a “tea party” Wednesday in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington.  —  Tea activist  —  April 15: Tim Phillips, from Americans for Prosperity …
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don't Talk About Tea Parties  —  Here's an interesting choice of analogy from Matt Mackowiak's op-ed in The Austin American-Statesman, promoting the Tea Parties. … Project Mayhem, of course, was the militarization of the Fight Clubs into terrorist cells that blow up banks.
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
CNBC Asks Santelli to React to Tea Parties: 'I'm Pretty Proud of This'  —  Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor reporter and taxpayer tea party revolt inspiration calls movement ‘about as American as it gets.’  —  Business & Media Institute  —  While Fox News has celebrated the Taxpayer Tea Party rallies …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘TEA PARTIES’: THE NEXT GRASS-ROOTS MOVEMENT?  —  Yes: We conservatives have decided to take our grievances to the streets  —  Who is the leader of the conservative movement?  Is it Michael Steele at the Republican National Committee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or even Rush Limbaugh?
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos!
Discussion: Think Progress and The Daily Dish
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties
Michael Calderone / The Politico:   Fox teas up a tempest
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
Protesters' Plan to Dump Tea Is Prohibited
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tea Parties and the GOP establishment
Aaron Wiener / The Washington Independent:
Scenes from the DC Tea Party: Round One
Jane Hamsher / The Huffington Post:
A Teabagger Timeline: Koch, Coors, Newt, Dick Armey There From The Start
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Day Becomes Protest Day
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CNN's Roesgen grills tea party protestor who calls Obama a “fascist,” says protest “highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox”  —  This whole FARCE is custom made for cable news, not the MSM of network TV.  The MSM cant cover something 24/7 like CNN or FOX can.
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Chris / TVNewser:
CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's “Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox”  —  CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen could barely get through her live shot at the Chicago tea party this afternoon.  Over shouts of, “You're not a reporter,” …
David / Crooks and Liars:
Fox anchor rants about fascism during tea party coverage  —  Fox Business Network anchor Cody Willard didn't appear to be very “fair and balanced” as he let out his opinion of Democrats' economic policy during a tea party protest in Boston.  “When are we going to wake up and start fighting …
Jesse James DeConto / Raleigh News & Observer:
Protest stops Tancredo's UNC speech  —  CHAPEL HILL — UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Afghan Women Protest New Restrictive Law  —  KABUL — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street when they were spotted by a mob of men.  —  “Get out of here, you whores!” the men shouted.  “Get out!”
Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Dems won't vote on Palin's three names for Senate seat (Updated)  —  State Senate Democrats are refusing to vote on the three names that Gov. Sarah Palin forwarded as appointees for the open Senate seat.  They obtained a legal opinion this morning saying it is illegal for Palin to submit more than one name.
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Akmuckraker / The Mudflats:
Naughty Governor.
Discussion: The Plank and The Daily Dish
The Politico:
Obama wants ‘a simpler tax code’  —  President Barack Obama used tax filing day Wednesday to hold out hope for stressed-out taxpayers that he'll pare down the “monstrous” tax code to make it easier to file.  —  Obama wants a “a simpler tax code that rewards work and the pursuit of the American dream …
Discussion: The Hill
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Obama: Get the dread out of tax deadline day
Washington Whispers:
Is the GOP Waving Bye-Bye to Sarah Palin?  —  Worse than Dan Quayle before her, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's bright star has fast faded in the eyes of Washington Republican officials and analysts, calling into question her efforts to become a national party figure ready to run for the White House.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Minnesota, a Battle Without End for a Senate Seat  —  ST. PAUL — Norm Coleman spends his days in the quiet living room of his small house here, thumbing through stacks of legal papers.  His United States Senate staff and offices vanished at the start of the year, as did his salary …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
As Coleman's hope dims, pursuit of seat questioned
Discussion: TPMDC and USA Today
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Ron Paul's plan to fend off pirates  —  A little-known congressional power could help the federal government keep the Somali pirates in check — and possibly do it for a discount price.  —  Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a growing number of national security experts are calling on Congress …
William Galston:
The HAA Is No Laughing Matter  —  Of all the major items on Barack Obama's ambitious agenda, health reform has the best chance of passage during the current congress.  While many battle-scarred veterans are skeptical, more stars are in alignment than in the past.
Discussion: Swampland
 
 
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