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The Hill:
Palin beginning to irritate some Senate GOPers — Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. — But those same senators may have their eye …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Letterman Top Ten: Palin has a “slutty flight attendant look”; Audio: “Pathetic,” says Palin — I bet Ashley Herzog's bummed he didn't pull this a day earlier, huh? It would have made a sweet addition to her latest column. The best part: Letterman wondering why Slutty Flight Attendant didn't stop by the show.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Letterman: Palin Updated Her “Slutty Flight Attendant” Look In NY — While reading his top ten list Monday night, “Late Show” host David Letterman said Gov. Sarah Palin bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her “slutty flight attendant” look. Palin was in New York over the weekend.
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Daniel Terrapin / Conservatives4Palin.com:
David Letterman is a Sexist Pervert; UPDATE: Gov. Palin Responds; Treacher Smackdown — Scroll down for updates — While counting down “The Top Ten Highlights Of Sarah Palin's Trip To New York” on the Late Show, David Letterman thought it would be funny to use crude and sexist terms to describe an accomplished governor.
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The Greenroom, Flopping Aces, Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications, Pundit & Pundette and Raw Story
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Comedian on ‘Today’ Show Trashes Sarah Palin: She's ‘Very Much Like Herpes’ — VH1 comedian Chuck Nice appeared on Tuesday's “Today” show and compared Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the sexually transmitted disease herpes. He mocked, “But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Deeds Surges to Stunning Win in Va. — Running with the least money and fewest ties to vote-rich Northern Virginia, State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds has won the three-way Democratic primary for governor, paving the way for a rematch with Republican Bob McDonnell in the fall.
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Weekly Standard, Virginia Politics, The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice, DownWithTyranny!, Wonkette, Donklephant and The Campaign Spot
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Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Nine Banks to Repay TARP Money — At Least $50 Billion in U.S. Bailout Funds Is Expected to Be Recovered With Unexpected Speed — The Treasury Department expects an initial payback from the nation's largest banks of at least $50 billion in bailout funds, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Not All Abortions Are Equal — The case of Dr. George Tiller, murdered just over a week ago in the lobby of his church, helps explain why so many people believe that abortion should be available at any stage of pregnancy. — Tiller did abortions in third trimester, when almost no one else would do them …
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Roxana Hegeman / Associated Press:
Slain Kansas abortion provider's clinic to close
Slain Kansas abortion provider's clinic to close
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Little Green Footballs
The Politico:
Biden pushes envelope with praise — Vice President Joe Biden offered an exuberant endorsement of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at a White House event Tuesday - but some legal analysts believe he went too far by suggesting she would rule in favor of police if confirmed.
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The Politico:
Sotomayor scheduling riles GOP — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy's move to set a July 13 start date for Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination hearings has infuriated Republicans, who are threatening to slow walk the every step of the confirmation so they can have more time to dig through …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Exchange of the Day — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was interviewed last night by Sean Hannity on Fox News: — Palin: We are the only state with a negative tax rate where we don't have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we have a share of our oil resource revenue that goes back to the people that own the resources.
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Akmuckraker / The Mudflats:
Governor Palin? We Can Still Hear You Up Here...
Governor Palin? We Can Still Hear You Up Here...
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court clears Chrysler sale, without dissent — UPDATE 8:29 p.m. Word was circulating in Washington and New York Tuesday night that the Chrysler deal could be wrapped up as early as Wednesday morning, with the electronic transfer of funds to pay Chrysler for most of its existing assets.
Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president? — Obama aligns with the policies of Shariah-adherents — During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton — someone Judge Sonia Sotomayor might call a “white male” — was dubbed “America's first black president” by a black admirer.
The Huffington Post:
Blue Dogs Backsliding On Anti-Health Care Reform Backsliding — Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is “unwavering” in her opposition to a Blue Dog Coalition health care position issued late last week, she said Tuesday. The Blue Dogs, a caucus of conservative Democrats, issued a set of principles opposing …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Health reform bill lacks details
Health reform bill lacks details
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Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Lieberman, Graham Threaten to Shut Down Senate — Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to hold up any and all legislation in the Senate until Congress passes its legislation to prohibit the release of photos showing detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers — Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) now appears to have taken a bold step in the debate over the budget deficit: Openly telling a foreign government not to trust the administration in Washington. — The Straits Times reports …
CNN:
Voight on Obama: The president is a ‘false prophet’ — • President Obama — The hope of the Republican Party: A combo ticket with Jon Voight and Sarah Palin...the combined intellect and spiritual resonance of a newt...all designed to lead us out of darkness. — Ruth, Orlando
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Hot Air, The Swamp, Think Progress, The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, theblogprof, Tom Watson and Bloomberg
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Third of Republicans view party unfavorably — WASHINGTON — In thinking about the Republican Party's troubles, consider this: One-third of Republicans now say they have an unfavorable opinion of their party. — There's no such dyspepsia among Democrats. Just 4% have an unfavorable view of their party.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Cautious at Heart — Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. If she'd entered college in the late-1950s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded by an ethos that encouraged smart young ethnic kids to assimilate. If she'd entered Princeton and Yale in the 1980s, her ethnicity and gender …
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Von / Obsidian Wings:
Let it come down … Possibly the baddest few lines of script and stage direction in Shakespeare's plays, and here I've gone and appropriated it for a boring post on President Obama's looming budget deficits. * This is reason no. 502 why the internet sucks.
Wall Street Journal:
The Media Fall for Phony ‘Jobs’ Claims — The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction. — Printer — Friendly — Tony Fratto is envious. — Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult …
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Phil Bronstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room — When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, “So, stop it all of you!” He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about.
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Commentary, Stop The ACLU, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Jawa Report, Riehl World View, Betsy's Page and Wake up America
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly and Fox News will have more right-wing violence to answer for — If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful, vigilante-style rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points …
Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
Return of the Once-Rare Beaver? Not in My Yard. — CONCORD, Mass. — The dozens of public works officials, municipal engineers, conservation agents and others who crowded into a meeting room here one recent morning needed help. Property in their towns was flooding, they said. Culverts were clogged.
Newsweek:
The Top of the Class — The complete list of the 1,500 top U.S. high schools — Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors.
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
House plan seeks to pull car sales out of doldrums — WASHINGTON (AP) - With auto sales in the doldrums, the House was considering a plan Tuesday to provide vouchers of up to $4,500 for consumers who turn in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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The Jawa Report