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4:20 PM ET, April 24, 2009

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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Republican Senate Primary  —  Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%  —  Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania's 2010 Republican Primary.  Fifty-one percent (51%) …
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Washington Post:
In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense  —  Some Feared That a Partisan Outcry Could Obstruct Larger Agenda  —  As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration.
John / Power Line:
Voters Unimpressed By Dems' “Torture” Theme
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Reconciliation Now Has a Date: October 15  —  It's been in the works for a while and now, according to senior Captiol Hill staffers, it's a done deal: The final budget resolution will include a “reconciliation instruction” for health care.  That means the Democrats can pass health care reform …
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Dems cut budget deal  —  After prodding by the White House, Democrats said Friday that they had the outlines of a budget plan that can be put in place by April 29 so as to give President Barack Obama another victory within his first 100 days — and a better shot at winning health care reform later this year.
Discussion: The Swamp and The Hill
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Key Dem Senator Likely To Vote Against Top Obama Legal Nominee  —  Uh oh.  This could signal real trouble for a key Obama nominee under assault by the right: Office of Legal Counsel chief Dawn Johnsen, a fierce Bush critic who would be at the center of the war over whether Obama …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
White House Worried About Johnsen Nomination  —  Dawn Johnsen's nomination to head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is in trouble, White House officials said today.  Vote counters believe that she is several votes shy of the 60 needed to avert a filibuster.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obtained: Cheney's Request Form Detailing The Two CIA Torture Docs He Wants  —  I've just obtained from the National Archives the actual request form that Dick Cheney submitted for CIA documents he claims will prove that torture worked.  —  Cheney requested all of two CIA documents, a total of 21 pages.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
A Glimpse of the Dark Side  —  Dick Cheney apparently kept a file in his office marked “Detainees” (.pdf).  —  The document in question, obtained by Greg Sargent, is Cheney's request to the National Archives to declassify and release certain documents that he says “proves” that U.S. torture produced actionable intelligence.
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and The Plum Line
Josh Gerstein / Josh Gerstein's Blog:
Hot doc: Cheney's request to declassify intel from ‘torture’
Discussion: The Page
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Gingrich vs. Gore in global warming showdown  —  It's Gingrich vs. Gore at Friday's global warming hearing.  —  The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has added former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill Friday.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Frank in 2005 — Bubble?  What bubble?  —  Barney Frank argued this week that he had always warned about the excesses of pushing home ownership and had advocated for rentals instead.  Our friends at Verum Serum couldn't believe their ears, because Frank has long been one of the loudest …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesotans won't know second Senator until at least June  —  The state Supreme Court set the schedule today for the legal showdown between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman over the Senate seat that has been vacant since January.  —  Minnesotans won't know who will be their second U.S. Senator until at least June.
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John Cook / Gawker:
Ambushing Bill O'Reilly's Ambusher  —  Gawker has some questions for Jesse B. Watters, the Fox News producer that Bill O'Reilly likes to send out to ambush his enemies.  So we're outside his building in Long Island.  Right now.  (Hi, Jesse!)  —  This apartment building is the last known address …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Armenian slaughter ‘reckoning’  —  by Christi Parsons and updated with statement at 1:40 pm EDT  —  President Barack Obama will not use the word “genocide” today when he issues a statement remembering the slaughter of more than a million Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman empire.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Obama avoids calling Armenian slaughter ‘genocide’
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Plank
USA Today:
Poll: Public thinks highly of Obama  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's opening months in the Oval Office have fortified his standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.  —  As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Michelle Obama gets high marks
Discussion: MyDD and The Page
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Reclaiming America's Soul  —  “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.”  So declared President Obama, after his commendable decision to release the legal memos that his predecessor used to justify torture.  Some people in the political and media establishments have echoed his position.
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Why Don't We All Focus On “Looking Forward”  —  There's a bar in the East Village that offers five shots of anything for ten bucks.  I'm going there tonight, and taking 10 shots of anything the crowd reccommends.  Then I'm going to stand on the street soliciting random women for sex.
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Taliban Spokesman Blames American Women  —  Update |  1:25 p.m. Britain's Channel 4 News aired a video report on Thursday night showing Taliban forces on the streets of the strategically important Pakistani town of Buner, just 70 miles from the country's capital, Islamabad.
Forbes:
A Banking System We Can Trust  —  Turn all financial firms into mutual funds.  —  Before throwing more money at Wall Street, let's understand what our financial system was supposed to deliver, what it did deliver and what price it charged.  —  The system was supposed to channel …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Critics Say Obama's Nip-Tuck Budget Cuts Are Merely Symbolic  —  Budget Watchers Say Cuts Are Just Symbolic  —  These tough times call for sacrifice.  So the Obama administration has embarked on a belt-tightening plan that sounds, to some veteran federal budget watchers, like fodder for a Jay Leno monologue.
Discussion: Commentary
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel Gives Credit to Tea Partiers  —  In a shocking turn of events, The Nation magazine's liberal editor has joined nefarious corporate backers and Fox News' dishonest trumpeters in giving credence to the utterly inauthentic, “Astroturf” Tax Day Tea Parties …
 
 
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Eric Dash / New York Times:
Regulators Disclose Criteria for Bank ‘Stress Tests’
Discussion: The Page and Kausfiles
Veronika Oleksyn / Associated Press:
UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers
CNN:
Mary Matalin signs on as CNN contributor
Catherine Rampell / Economix:
The Dow as a Roller-Coaster Ride (Literally)
Brad / Think Progress:
Bachmann: CO2 ‘is a natural byproduct of nature.’
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