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The Huffington Post:
Internal RNC Memo: “Engage In Every Activity” To Slow Down Health Care Reform — A private memo distributed by the Republican National Committee calls for like-minded advocates to help defeat President Barack Obama's health care proposals by delaying its consideration.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Liberal Suicide March — It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts. — They brought in pollsters to their party conferences …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:Washington Sketch: GOP's Steele Couldn't Have Said It Better Himself
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The Black Sphere:
DEMOCRAT CARNAHAN DISMISSES BLACK MAN AT TOWNHALL — Yesterday, I attended a townhall meeting on healthcare with Representative Russ Carnahan, where he dissed this black constituent. For those of you unfamiliar with Missouri politics, the new breed of Carnahans are those who are riding …
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Michelle Malkin:
Politician claims Obamacare saves. Voters laugh out loud — Best video of the day: Rep. Russ Carnahan meets the government health care takeover resistance. — My favorite parts? Well, all of it. But especially when Carnahan tries to tell the audience that Obamacare will create …
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Political Punch:
Facing Blue Dog Rebellion, House Energy and Commerce Committee Cancels Markup for 2nd Day in a Row — At 5:54 pm ET the news came: “The Energy and Commerce Markup of H.R. 3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act for 7-22-09 has been CANCELLED. — Not a good sign for the Democrats trying …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Should The GOP Take The Birther Threat Seriously? Rush Does.... That's the thesis of the First Readers of NBC News, after viewing this astonishing clip from a town hall meeting that Rep. Mike Castle held in Delaware for his constituents. What's most notable, to me, at least …
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Rachel D'Oro / Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: Palin implicated in ethics probe — ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts. — The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin …
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Obama Wins Crucial Round in Senate Vote on F-22 — WASHINGTON — With some of his political capital on the line, President Obama won a crucial victory on Tuesday when the Senate voted to strip out $1.75 billion in financing for seven more F-22 jet fighters from a military authorization bill.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:Senate Strips F-22 Funding
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Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Gates Says He Is Outraged by Arrest at Cambridge Home — Prominent Black Professor Says He Will Use Experience to Further Academic Work — Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's most prominent scholars of African-American history, cast his recent arrest in his home in Cambridge …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's birth: ‘Appeasing the nut-cases’ — Listen to the cheers for the woman holding up her birth certificate and asking why the president won't share his. — Listen to the boos when a Republican congressman asserts rather assuredly that the president of the United States, a Democrat …
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The Politico
Los Angeles Times:
Opposition to state budget deal mounts — L.A. County threatens to sue, a state workers' union considers a strike, and a GOP leader protests release of prison inmates. — Reporting from Sacramento — Less than 24 hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced …
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Obama's Ominous Implication: Euthanasia of the Elderly May Be Necessary — Gee, socialized medicine sounds great — don't you think so, grandma and grandpa? … In other words, faceless bureaucrats in Washington — not your family — will decide whether your grandparents live or die.
Anill / Think Progress:
Dobbs wonders whether President Obama is undocumented. — Today, Political Wire posted a clip of an episode of Lou Dobbs' radio show in which he not only questions President Obama's citizenship and promotes the bizarre right-wing “birther” theory, but also insinuates that Obama might be undocumented:
John / Verum Serum:
Obama: Stop Clinging to Failure America — Remember last April when then candidate Obama was recorded making a statement at a fundraiser in a posh section of San Francisco: … Well, now he's added health care to the list of things Americans cling to. Watch: — Click here to view the embedded video.
Shlomo Shamir / Haaretz:
‘Huckabee to air Fox News show from disputed East Jerusalem site’ — Former U.S. presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee plans to broadcast his weekend show on Fox News from the site of a disputed Israeli construction project in East Jerusalem, a New York politician has told Haaretz.
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
20 questions for the President's press conference — President Obama is scheduled to hold a press conference tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 PM EDT. — I hope the questions are better than the one asked by Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times at the President's 100-day press conference on April 30th:
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Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:
DeMint: Obama ‘Played Right Into My Hands’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) stands by his comment that health care will be President Obama's Waterloo, a comment Obama derided in a health care speech yesterday. — “I think he played right into my hands,” DeMint told Neil Cavuto on Fox News this afternoon …
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Susan Donaldson James / ABCNEWS:
Benjamin: Too Heavy to Be Nation's Top Doc? — Leading Experts Say Dr. Benjamin, Though Stellar Nominee, Gives Wrong Message — Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, Obama's pick for the next surgeon general, was hailed as a MacArthur Grant genius who had championed the poor at a medical clinic she set up in Katrina-ravaged Alabama.
Rick Karlin / Albany Times Union:
Waterless urinals miss the mark? — State workers say new devices leading to splashes, stink — ALBANY — The Department of Environmental Conservation's effort to maintain eco-friendly bathrooms at its downtown headquarters has made quite a splash but not in the way the state intended.
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Jackson Browne Defeats John McCain — (McCain: Face the Nation, Karin Cooper; Browne: AP, Matt Sayles) — Singer Jackson Browne has won his copyright battle against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), getting an apology and an undisclosed sum of money from the 2008 presidential nominee …
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Mayo Clinic calls House plan bad medicine — Obama loses support on reform — A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be “losers” under the House's health care proposal, joining the growing chorus …
The Other McCain / Hot Air:
IG-Gate UPDATE: Behind the Scenes of the Investigations — Behind closed doors on Capitol Hill last week, I asked a Republican source about the investigative efforts of Democratic staffers for the House Oversight Committee. — “Honestly?” the source said. “They're useless.”
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Katie Connolly / Newsweek Blogs:
Romney on Obama's Push For Health Reform: Slow Down — In the last two weeks, political commentators have expressed doubts over President Obama's time frame for healthcare reform. Meanwhile, even some Democrat lawmakers appear to be getting cold feet. In response, Obama is relentlessly pitching his plan.
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CBS News:
President Obama Talks to Katie Couric — Obama Talks Health Care Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Illegal Immigrants — (CBS) CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric interviewed President Obama at the White House on July 21, 2009. — President Obama: My working principle has been, number one …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Disapprove Than Approve of Obama on Healthcare — President is rated higher on international than on domestic issues — PRINCETON, NJ — As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies, the latest USA Today/Gallup poll finds that more Americans disapprove (50%) than approve (44%) …
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Tom Vanderbilt / Slate:
Why American drivers should learn to love the roundabout. — Here is a narrative that has been playing out over the last several years in any number of American towns: Traffic engineers notice that a particular intersection has a crash problem or is moving traffic inefficiently.
Aaron Blake / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Huckabee event left candidate in the red — One of the most curious fundraising reports of the second quarter came from Republican Les Phillip, who is looking to challenge Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) in a top national race. — If you've heard of Phillip, it's probably …
Simon Johnson / The Baseline Scenario:
Three Myths about the Consumer Financial Product Agency — This guest post was contributed by Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University. (Update: more on the case for a CFPA in her YouTube video, released yesterday.)
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