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8:30 PM ET, July 20, 2009

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Washington Post:
Approval Ratings Drop for Obama on Health Care, Other Issues  —  Approval Rating on Health Care Falls Below 50 Percent  —  Obama's approval ratings on other front-burner issues, such as the economy and the federal budget deficit, have also slipped over the summer, as rising concern …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Kill It, and Start Over  —  With Obamacare on the ropes, there will be a temptation for opponents to let up on their criticism, and to try to appear constructive, or at least responsible.  There will be a tendency to want to let the Democrats' plans sink of their own weight …
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
White House putting off release of budget update  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.  —  The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits …
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Barack Obama's gaffe: seeking greater inefficiencies  —  Would health care reform bring “greater inefficiencies” to the country's health care system?  —  That's exactly what Obama said Monday when he spoke about health care reform at the Childrens National Medical Center in Washington.
Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:
Steele On Health Care: What's Individual Requirement?  —  Michael Steele, chairman of the RNC, doesn't seem to know the basic terminology of the health care debate.  —  In a Q&A at the National Press Club just now, Steele was asked if Republicans support an individual requirement to get health care …
Paul / Power Line:
The wrong kind of transparency
Discussion: Don Surber and Scared Monkeys
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
D-Day for DeMint  —  Amy Kremer of the National Tea Party Patriots sends on the full audio recording of a conference call I wrote about Friday, on which Sen. Jim DeMint said health care reform could be Obama's “Waterloo.”  The comments have attracted attention, and an attack from President Obama today.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
AUDIO Of Jim DeMint Saying Health Care Will Be Obama's “Waterloo”
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion  —  A series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government's watchdog over the effort says - a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation's entire economic output for a year.
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Rasmussen Reports:
2012 Match-ups: Obama, Romney Tied at 45%; Obama 48%, Palin 42%  —  If the 2012 presidential election were held today, President Obama and possible Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be all tied up at 45% each, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Rep. Mike Castle Fends Off the Birthers  —  I got a little friendly fire from my friend and colleague Matt Welch over last week's article on the Obama birth certificate conspiracy.  He took issue with my “contention that the movement ‘dogs Republicans’ (there being so very many other issues that have more bite than a few barkers).”
Senate Judiciary Committee:
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor - Questions for the Record  —  Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee submit questions for the record to nominees following confirmation hearings.  Judge Sotomayor's responses to questions for the record follow.
Discussion: Washington Wire and Bench Memos
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Less faith in Obama's economic abilities  —  WASHINGTON — The public's confidence in President Obama's ability to handle the economy is eroding amid concern about higher federal spending and expanding government power, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds — a development that could complicate …
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Obama Loves Mayo, But Mayo Does Not Love Him (Update: Gibbs Responds, Badly)  —  Throughout his push for health-care reform, President Obama has held up the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota as an example of great medicine at lower prices—something that could and should be emulated all over the country …
Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Mitch McConnell Makes the Dems Look Good  —  Ah, there's nothing like a Mitch McConnell interview to put everything into perspective.  —  The Senate Minority Leader appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday to discuss health reform.  And he professed great concern for what President Obama and the Democrats had in mind.
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David Boies / Wall Street Journal:
Gay Marriage and the Constitution  —  Why Ted Olson and I are working to overturn California's Proposition 8.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  When I got married in California in 1959 there were almost 20 states where marriage was limited to two people of different sexes and the same race.
James H. Warner / Herald-Mail:
A different take on moon landing  —  marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing by astronaut Neil Armstrong.  Almost everyone who was alive at the time will remember the day.  They will remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.
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Stuart Koehl / Weekly Standard:   From the Moon to Hanoi  —  Many people will write tributes today …
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Outside World Turns Blind Eye to N. Korea's Hard-Labor Camps  —  SEOUL — Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year.  —  A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published by the Korean Bar Association …
Discussion: Commentary and Michael J. Totten
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Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:   Clinton likens North Korea to unruly children
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Ross Is Blue Dogs' Bulldog  —  He warned them.  —  Months ago, Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), chairman of the Blue Dogs' health care task force, told House leaders and chairmen they'd better include Blue Dogs in the writing of their health care bill.  But that didn't happen.
New York Post:
JENNA AND BARBARA BUSH GAVE SECRET SERVICE FITS  —  WHEN it came to protecting Jenna and Barbara Bush, the Secret Service truly had its hands full, with President George W. Bush's wild and crazy daughters doing everything in their power to escape them, a new book reveals.
Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
New iPhone app helps you score pot  —  States that are low on funds are steadily inhaling the idea of taxing the sale of a substance that gets you high.  —  Meanwhile, as if anticipating an uptick in demand, the folks at Apple have approved a new iPhone and iPod Touch app that will allow …
Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Some Good News from Olympia Snowe?  —  As Jonathan reports, this is gut-check time for Democrats.  But there was at least one piece of good news over a tough weekend.  —  Here are some excerpted comments by Senator Olympia Snowe at a Saturday rally, again relayed to me via the good people at Health Care for America Now:
Discussion: TPMDC and Ezra Klein
Associated Press:
Gates Says U.S. Army Will Grow by 22,000  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday that the size of the Army will be increased temporarily by 22,000 soldiers to help meet the needs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other missions around the world.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
President Obama, Democratic Congress's Squandered Stimulus  —  It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed “economic stimulus” hasn't done much stimulating.  President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results.  They have a point.  A $14 trillion economy won't revive in a nanosecond.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Mythbusters on Mooner-conspiracies; Update: Surprise — Whoopi's a conspiracy theorist  —  Think of the Moon-landing hoax conspiracy theorists as the original Truthers, 32 years before 9/11.  No matter how much scientific evidence one supplies, no matter how many times the debunkers debunk …
 
 
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Liv Osby / Greenville News:
More South Carolina residents losing health insurance
Discussion: Firedoglake
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Bush years saw teen pregnancies rise in US
Robert Reich / TPMCafe:
Obamacare Is At War With Itself Over Future Costs
Discussion: Hullabaloo, D-Day and Economist's View
John McKittrick / Closing Velocity:
Cold War Heroes Walesa & Havel Plead To Obama: Don't Give Up Missile Defense
David A. Patten / NewsMax.com:
Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals
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