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Guardian:
How nervous should those Blue Dogs be? — OK, as promised the other day, I've run some numbers about the Democratic Blue Dogs in the House of Representatives, and they're quite interesting. Here's the deal. This is a long post, but it's got lots of actual new information, and no difficult-to-discern irony.
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Zandar Versus The Stupid, Minnesota Independent, Booman Tribune, TPMDC and The New Republic
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Liberals gag over health deal — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent half of Wednesday finalizing a deal with the Blue Dogs — and the other half quelling a brewing rebellion among progressives who think conservatives have hijacked health care reform. — Liberals, Hispanics and African-American members …
The Hill:
Health deal sparks fury on the left — A House leadership deal with Blue Dogs and an aggressive marketing push by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) shifted the healthcare debate sharply toward centrist positions Wednesday, sparking threats of rebellion from the left.
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Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, AMERICAblog News, Los Angeles Times and ABCNEWS
The Politico:
Henry Waxman wins breakthrough on health bill — The new version of the bill would allow for states to set up health care co-ops, which the Senate Finance Committee has advanced as an alternative to the government-run insurance plan advanced in the House. The House bill still includes …
Matt Collette / Boston Globe:
Officer suspended for Gates slur in e-mail — An officer in the Boston Police Department was suspended yesterday for allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, a law enforcement official said.
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MyFox Boston:
WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT: - A copy of the email sent by Police Officer Justin Barrett — Weather - Traffic - News - Sports - Business - Entertainment - Morning - Health - On TV - Blogs - About Us — Many pages in this Fox Television Stations, Inc. web site feature links to other sites …
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Fox News, Examiner, CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Sister Toldjah, The Agitator, American Power and The Moderate Voice
Katie Zezima / New York Times:
Caller in Gates Case Speaks Out
Caller in Gates Case Speaks Out
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Swampland, The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Connecting.the.Dots, Mediaite, Sister Toldjah and Associated Press
Harvey A. Silverglate / Forbes:
Prof. Gates' Unconstitutional Arrest
Prof. Gates' Unconstitutional Arrest
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Macsmind, Newshoggers.com, Below The Beltway, Reason, The Daily Dish, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and American Power
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Obama loses ground on health care — NBC/WSJ survey also shows a drop in his overall job-approval rating — President Barack Obama discusses health care reform during a town hall meeting at Broughton High School on Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C. — Deputy political director
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New York Times:
New Poll Finds Growing Unease on Health Plan — President Obama's ability to shape the debate on health care appears to be eroding as opponents aggressively portray his overhaul plan as a government takeover that could limit Americans' ability to choose their doctors and course of treatment …
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Boston Globe, The Foundry, Mediaite, George's Bottom Line, CBS News, Room for Debate, Kausfiles, Eduwonk, AMERICAblog News and Real Clear Politics
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Support Slips for Health Plan
Support Slips for Health Plan
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The Note, Think Progress, The Plum Line, Bloomberg, Associated Press, thedanashow.wordpress.com and Hot Air
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems warn Baucus with gavel threat — In an apparent warning to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), some liberal Democrats have suggested a secret-ballot vote every two years on whether or not to strip committee chairmen of their gavels.
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Wall Street Journal:
Debra Burlingame: Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’ — The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in. — Multimedia — previous — next — Health Care Reform — President Obama's effort to overhaul the health-care system may have momentum.
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: No. 3 at Justice OK'd Panther reversal — Case involved polling place in Philadelphia — Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Jihadi's Facebook Account: I will kill you (Updated: Pics Added) — ****STICKY OVERNIGHT****NEW POSTS BELOW*** — More on the banality of terror. You should read it for the context in understanding the federal indictments against Ziyad Yaghi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hussain, and six others.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Exclusive: Earmark critic steered cash to blimp, former aide — Rep. Pete Sessions — the chief of the Republicans' campaign arm in the House — says on his website that earmarks have become “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” — Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered …
The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful 2009 - Top 10 (HTML) — 1. Rep. Martin Heinrich … Rep. Martin Heinrich has gone from climbing mountains to climbing stairs. — The avid outdoorsman, who once ran a wilderness adventure program for children and teens, now has to rely on his trips from his fifth-floor Longworth office …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed — I've written several times before about the amazing quest of Binyam Mohamed — a British resident released from Guantanamo in February, 2009 after seven years in captivity …
BBC:
Iran police halt mourning protest — Iranian police have arrested mourners who had gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say. — Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi tried to join mourners at the graveside of Neda Agha Soltan …
Megan McArdle:
America's Moral Panic Over Obesity — With health care in the news, everyone's looking for magic bullets to save money. Obesity seems to be a growing favorite: wouldn't it be great if we could make everyone look like Jennifer Anniston, and be cheaper to treat?
Andrew Travers / aspendailynews.com:
Dan Rather wants Obama to help save the news — Login or register to post comments — Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute.
The Huffington Post:
Obama's Doctor: President's Vision For Health Care Bound To Fail — The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure. — Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician …
Victor Zapanta / Think Progress:
REPORT: A Statistical Analysis Of Policy Trends And Abnormalities In Sarah Palin's Tweets — After stepping down on Sunday morning, Sarah Palin posted her final Twitter update to her @AKGovSarahPalin account, which had close to 125k followers. With Palin's refusal to specifically address …
NPR Blogs:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Clarifies Resignation Talk, Kinda Sorta — Here are two things we have long assumed about Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. — One, she will challenge Gov. Rick Perry in next year's Texas gubernatorial primary. Yes, I know, it should be more than just “assumed,” …
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Dalia Sussman / The Caucus:
New Poll: Bring Down Debt, Don't Spend More — Most Americans continue to want the federal government to focus on reducing the budget deficit rather than spending money to stimulate the national economy, a new New York Times/CBS News poll finds. Yet at the same time, most oppose some proposed solution for decreasing it.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Debts paid, Hillary Clinton builds $3+ million campaign fund for ...? — With all of the immense numbers coming out of Washington these days, former senator, ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign debt is chump change. Make that, “was.” — Here's the news: There is no more Hillary Clinton campaign debt.
Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Now Kurtz blames Matthews, rather than Dobbs, for birther nonsense — Howard Kurtz seems to be committed to making his conflict of interest as obvious as possible. Here's Kurtz during an appearance on the conservative Hugh Hewitt radio show: … No mention of CNN. No mention of Lou Dobbs.