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Honeymoon Over: It's On Obama's Watch Now — Early in his presidency, Barack Obama had a grace period when the public saw the nation's problems as ones he inherited, but two new polls — by New York Times/CBS News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News - make clear that there are rising concerns about his policies.
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Only a Hint of Roosevelt in Financial Overhaul — Three quarters of a century ago, President Franklin Roosevelt earned the undying enmity of Wall Street when he used his enormous popularity to push through a series of radical regulatory reforms that completely changed the norms of the financial industry.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:ALL-TIME LOWS.... I've seen a few Republican blogs today crowing …
Economist.com l WASHINGTON / Democracy in America:Or maybe the honeymoon's not over — IT'S possible to read …
New York Times:Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care
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Patrick Gavin / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Froomkin out at Washington Post (UPDATED) — In a move sure to ignite the left-wing blogosphere, washingtonpost.com columnist Dan Froomkin (author of the “White House Watch” blog) has been let go by the news organization, POLITICO hears. In so many words, Froomkin was told that his blog had essentially run its course.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why? — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — One of the rarest commodities in the establishment media is someone who was a vehement critic of George Bush and who now, applying their principles consistently, has become a regular critic …
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Joseph Curl / Press Association:
Bush takes swipes at Obama policies — Defends interrogations — Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
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Ezra Klein:
Health Care Reform in Danger — Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now. The news out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was bad. The Congressional Budget Office had scored a partial bill and the result was a total fiasco.
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Jared Allen / The Hill:Bipartisan group wants reconciliation off table
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
U.S. Struggling for Right Response to Iran — Obama Seeks Way to Acknowledge Protesters Without Alienating Ayatollah — The political unrest in Iran presents the Obama administration with a dilemma: keep quiet to pursue a nuclear deal with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader …
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John Kerry / New York Times:
With Iran, Think Before You Speak — THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce the voting …
David Miliband:
Iran - elections — Here are links to two interviews on C4 and BBC News from last night with my views about events in Iran. The scenes from Tehran, and reports from other cities, are remarkable. The contrast of pre-election debate with post-election violence is deplorable.
The Huffington Post:
Daschle Urges Obama To Drop Federal Public Health Care Plan — The man once slated to head Barack Obama's health care system overhaul is now coming out against one of the chief components of that effort. — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said on Wednesday that the Obama White House …
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Gorman Gorman / The Note:Daschle Folds on Federal Public Health Care Plan
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:Bipartisan Heavy Lifters for Team Up for Health Care Reform
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Chicago Tribune:
Senator questions firing of 3 inspectors general — Removal of 2 inspectors general prompts questions — WASHINGTON - — He was appointed with fanfare as the public watchdog over the government's multi-billion dollar bailout of the nation's financial system.
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Dan / Riehl World View:Not Just Walpin - 3 IG Firings Being Questioned
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:White House Defends Inspector General's Firing
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Politics in Minnesota:
Two sources: Supreme Court ruling on U.S. Senate race to arrive tomorrow! — PIM has now heard from two sources on different sides of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race recount scene that the final Minnesota Supreme Court ruling is expected to arrive tomorrow, Thursday, June 18th.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court rejects DNA access claim — CORRECTION 3:50 p.m.: The paragraph describing the Court's ruling in Yeager v. U.S. was in error as published. F. Scott Yeager has not been convicted of any crime. See the UPDATE below, at the end of that paragraph. — Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court …
Steve Verdon / Outside The Beltway:SCOTUS: No to Post Conviction DNA Testing
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Megan McArdle
The Independent:
Robert Fisk: Secret letter ‘proves Mousavi won poll’ — They were handing out the photocopies by the thousand under the plane trees in the centre of the boulevard, single sheets of paper grabbed by the opposition supporters who are now wearing black for the 15 Iranians who have been killed in Tehran …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads — Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor's daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is cancelling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman's “Late Show” for the rest of the year.
Associated Press:
PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly — Rights group seeks compassion for curious and ‘least sympathetic animals’ — WASHINGTON - The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
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Andrea Shea King / WorldNetDaily:
Posey: Eligibility document plan not personal — 'The last election is over ... but it's reckless not to eliminate future problems' — A Florida congressman who has proposed requiring candidates for the presidency to document their eligibility for the office under the “natural born citizen” …
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Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Global Insurance Fraud By North Korea Outlined — Government Has Collected Millions Of Dollars on Large, Suspicious Claims — For Kim Jong Il's birthday, North Korean insurance managers prepared a special gift. — In Singapore, they stuffed $20 million in cash into two heavy-duty bags and sent them …
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Oberstar blasts White House, accelerates highway bill — Lawmakers pushed back aggressively against the Obama administration Thursday as they moved forward with the long-anticipated highway bill. — Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and Rep. John Mica …
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