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12:50 PM ET, July 15, 2009

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Washington Post:
House Democrats Want to Fund Health Care With an Ill-Advised Surtax on the Rich.  —  THERE IS a serious case to be made that the U.S. income tax system should become more progressive.  The average rate paid by the top 1 percent of households shrank from 33 percent in 1986 to about 23 percent in 2006.
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Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Obama Open to Partisan Vote on Health-Care Overhaul, Aides Say  —  President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn't yield soon, two of the president's top advisers said.
Wall Street Journal:
Health Bill Would Hit Small Business  —  $1.04 Trillion House Health Bill Hits All but Tiniest Firms for Not Providing Insurance  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, from left, stands with House Democratic leaders Steny Hoyer, Pete Stark, Henry Waxman, Charles Rangel, and John Dingell to announce health-care legislation on Tuesday.
Associated Press:
Sen. Kennedy's committee passes health care bill  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate health committee has passed legislation to revamp health care, becoming the first congressional committee to act on President Barack Obama's goal of overhauling the system this year.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Praising HELP  —  A full-throated statement from President Obama …
Discussion: The Hill
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Committee: Health care overhaul a yes
Discussion: Say Anything
Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
Smiling GOPers Ought to be Frowning  —  Watching Lindsey Graham's gotcha grin as he needled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with disingenuous and rhetorical questions you had to wonder what was so funny.  —  Does the Republican senator think it is amusing that he and his party's …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
White Man's Last Stand  —  You can't judge a judge by her cover.  —  Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber kept a robotic mask in place.  —  A wise Latina woman with the richness …
Paul / Power Line:
The great gesturer  —  Why do so many Senators persist during …
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Eva Rodriguez / PostPartisan:
Sotomayor's Unconvincing Backpedaling
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Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Obama reps Chicago's South Side, delivers All-Star first pitch  —  ST LOUIS — Where did it land?  Was it a strike or wasn't it?  Why didn't the network choose a better camera to shoot from?  Those were the questions that viewers of baseball's All-Star Game were asking themselves at home …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Even All-Star Game not safe from gratuitous Obama photo ops
Discussion: The Pink Flamingo
WorldNetDaily:
Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez  —  Major victory for Army warrior questioning Obama's birthplace  —  A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required …
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
CFJ: Obama Is Putting a Terrorist On The Bench!  —  Yesterday, we noticed that the Committee for Justice had just unveiled two ads calling for Sonia Sotomayor's defeat - one contrasting her to Martin Luther King and the other claiming she wants to “take away your guns.”
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Buchanan: GOP Needs More Race-Baiting, Not Less  —  A provocative article by Pat Buchanan argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, Republicans shouldn't worry about alienating Hispanic voters, they should just focus on getting white people to like them more: … And he sees race-baiting attacks as the way to do it:
John O'Connor / The State:
Media jostled for access to Sanford  —  E-mails illustrate frenzy to be the first on the air or in print  —  National media blitzed Gov. Mark Sanford's staff, offering big ratings and, possibly, a sympathetic venue in an effort to land the first interview with the governor after his six-day trip to Argentina.
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Media pushed for Sanford access; Tapper on ‘slimy’ email
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Obama Announces $12 Billion Community College Initiative  —  $12 Billion Will Fund New Web Courses, Construction and Innovation Grants  —  President Obama came to this economically struggling state Tuesday with a sobering message about its vanishing jobs and a promise of renewal through a new federal investment in community colleges.
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Obama: I accept the responsibility
Discussion: Say Anything
Laurie K. Blandford / TCPalm.com:
Port St. Lucie apologizes to Treasure Coast Tea Party  —  PORT ST. LUCIE — After a week of complaints about a sign at Freedomfest on July 4, city officials apologized to the Treasure Coast Tea Party.  —  “It was not our intent to interfere or cast dispersions on the tea party,” …
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog and The Virginian
Bill Wyman / Wall Street Journal:
The Tragedy of Michael Jackson  —  The self-proclaimed King of Pop was nobody's victim.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Am I the only one who sensed, amid the raucous hoopla that followed Michael Jackson's death, something antiquated in the air?  The hip-hop era, profane and insistent …
Discussion: Reason
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Dems reject palling around with Palin  —  Gov. Sarah Palin said last weekend that she'd be willing to campaign for some Democrats when she leaves office later this month.  —  She may not have many takers.  —  Interviews with a number of the most conservative Democrats in the House …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  NBC's Chuck Todd — who, remember, is billed as a reporter covering the White House, not a pundit expressing opinions — was on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday discussing reports that Eric Holder is likely …
Discussion: Smooth Like Remy and CNN
 
 
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Key Obama advisers indicate openness to pushing health care reform …
Kara Rowland / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Perlmutter part owns ‘green’ bank he helped
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Judy Chu heading to Congress
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck
Discussion: The New Republic
Reuters:
U.S. House releases healthcare overhaul bill
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Levin bails on F-22 cuts
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