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2:50 PM ET, July 21, 2009

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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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Wall Street Journal:
Let's Face It: Obama Is No Post-Partisan  —  Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama's political appeal rested on his vision for a “post-partisan future.”  The post-partisan future was one of the press corps' favorite phrases.  It served as shorthand for the candidate's repeated references to …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Overblown Overreach  —  David Brooks, predictable enough, says Democrats are overreaching and destined to reap the whirlwind.  Frankly, I have some doubts about this.  Remember yesterday's Washington Post poll that was full of bad news for Barack Obama?  The one about how the public is losing faith in him and his agenda?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: FINDING AN ENEMY
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Wonkette
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Voters scared of Obama's rushed ‘experiments’
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Calls On Bloggers To Keep Health Care Pressure On Congress
Ezra Klein:
Barack Obama on Health-Care Reform: Trust Us.
David Rogers / The Politico:
W.H. gains momentum in F-22 fight  —  With a vote set for high noon on Tuesday, the political tide in the Senate has shifted to now favor the White House and Pentagon in their pivotal fight to strike new procurement funds for the F-22 fighter.  —  Just last week, conventional wisdom held …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Senate Votes Down Funds for F-22s  —  The Senate voted Tuesday to kill the nation's premier fighter jet program, embracing by a 58-40 margin the argument of President Obama and his top military advisers that the F-22 is no longer needed for the nation's defense and a costly drag …
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Bowing to Veto Threat, Senate Blocks Money for Warplanes
Discussion: Bookworm Room and The Caucus
Wall Street Journal:
The Fed's Exit Strategy  —  The depth and breadth of the global recession has required a highly accommodative monetary policy.  Since the onset of the financial crisis nearly two years ago, the Federal Reserve has reduced the interest-rate target for overnight lending between banks (the federal-funds rate) nearly to zero.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter  —  Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.  —  Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark …
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
VPOTUS, overheard: ‘Many beautiful women’  —  From Peter Spiegel's pool report from Kiev:  —  VPOTUS and Yushchenko were seated a table in the back of the pub with their two translators, the mayor and vice mayor of Kiev, and the head of the presidential secretariat....  Yushchenko was talking about Ukrainian churches.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Biden: Kiev has most beautiful women
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Health-Care Firms Have Supported Lawmakers Debating Reform  —  Key Senator Baucus Is a Leading Recipient  —  As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation …
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Ezra Klein:   Why Does Max Baucus Take This Money?
theroot.com:
Lawyer's Statement on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.  —  Charles Ogletree gives Gates' side of the story in controversial arrest of The Root's editor-in-chief.  —  Statement on Behalf of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — by Charles Ogletree  —  This brief statement is being submitted on behalf of my client …
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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.
Discussion: Townhall.com and Say Anything
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Amman begins stripping state's Palestinians of citizenship  —  Article's topics: Jordan, Palestinians, West Bank, PLO  —  Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be “resettled” …
Ellen E. Schultz / Wall Street Journal:
Top Earners' Pay Erodes Social Security  —  Fund Expected to Be Exhausted in 2037  —  The nation's wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty pay packages in the financial world.  —  Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S. …
Jeff Sharlet / Salon:
Sex and power inside “the C Street House”  —  Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family  —  Editor's note: Sharlet is the author of the bestselling “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.”
Los Angeles Times:
Budget accord reached  —  Calling for deep cuts and avoiding broad tax hikes, Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agree on ways to close California's $26.3-billion deficit.  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced today that they have reached a deal …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Shut Up, Obama Explained  —  “The time for talk is through.”  — President Obama, talking to liberal bloggers on a conference call Monday night.  —  The Democratic bills in the House and Senate are a thousand pages long.  They're still changing as committees try to mark them up …
reason.tv:
Why America Shouldn't “Buy American”  —  Is your iPod unpatriotic?  —  Its 451 parts are made in dozens of nations, and creating the little doodads employs thousands of foreigners.  Final assembly is done in China—a country that right-wingers and left-wingers alike fear is an economic threat to the U.S.
Discussion: Hot Air and Say Anything
NY Daily News:
President Barack Obama authorizes extended Secret Service guard for former VP Dick Cheney  —  WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's Secret Service protection has been extended for at least another six months, beginning Tuesday.  —  Normally, ex-veeps only get six months of protection at taxpayer expense.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Presidential approval tracker  —  The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s.  See how each president since then has fared in the approval poll, look at some news events that influenced public opinion and compare …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Moderates Republicans and the GOP Field  —  For the second month in a row we found Sarah Palin as the most popular of the leading 2012 GOP hopefuls among moderate Republicans.  64% have a positive opinion of her compared to 57% for Newt Gingrich, 53% for Mike Huckabee, and 45% for Mitt Romney.
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Is the Sun Missing Its Spots?  —  The Sun is still blank (mostly).  —  Ever since Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German astronomer, first noted in 1843 that sunspots burgeon and wane over a roughly 11-year cycle, scientists have carefully watched the Sun's activity.
Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Byrd Back on the Job  —  Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) returned to the Capitol on Tuesday to cast a vote on the Defense authorization bill after being sidelined by illness for nearly two months.  —  Byrd's first vote in two months came in opposition to President Barack Obama.
 
 
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed
Megan McArdle:
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Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Fox News:
Key House Panel Cancels Health Care Session as Moderate Democrats Voice Concerns
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Vitter vulnerable? Depends
Guardian:
More on centrist logic  —  Following up on yesterday's post …
Discussion: The New Republic and Ezra Klein
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
FL-Senate: Rubio's Running (Still)
Discussion: Swing State Project
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