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10:10 AM ET, August 4, 2009

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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Counsel's Job Is at Stake  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama vs. Drudge  —  The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline, “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
Discussion: Emptywheel and On Deadline
Michael Tanji / Danger Room:   White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns; Let's Not Replace Her.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
LA Weekly wets itself over Obama/Joker poster: “The only thing missing is a noose”  —  Hey, remember when it was cool to demonize the president, or even the presidential or vice-presidential nominee?  Sarahcuda had been on the national stage for all of eight weeks last year before she got the rabid vampire treatment.
Steven Mikulan / LA Daily:
New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster  —  A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.  Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.
Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Vents as Overhaul Stumbles  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.
The Politico:
Dems' break looking like a bad trip  —  Angry protesters shouted down Democrats at public events from Texas to Pennsylvania over the weekend, leaving the party only one real hope for getting its message out over recess: a backlash.  —  In Austin, Texas, Rep. Lloyd Doggett was drowned …
Discussion: WSJ.com
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Durbin Responds To Lobbyist-Run Efforts To Harass Town Halls …
Wyatt Andrews / CBS News:
Protesters Trash Health Care Reform
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’  —  [Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for “birther” debunking.]  —  One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther” …
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Koyaan / PolitiJab.com:
Kenyan Birth Certificate: PWNED!  —  After having spent (wasted?) nearly a year in the trenches of Birthistan, I decided several months ago to “retire” and move on, save for dropping by here once in a while to keep in touch with some of the friends I'd made here.
New York Times:
Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of U.S. Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to negotiate the release of two American television journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korean territory …
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Reuters:   Bill Clinton Reported Heading to North Korea
Gateway Pundit:
Lib “Blue Dog” Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) Booed, Mocked & Laughed At During Town Hall (Video)  —  Another Day— Another Blue Dog Mocked at Obamacare Town Hall  —  Representative Steve Driehaus (D-OH) held a town hall on health care reform.  While Driehaus campaigned as a fiscal conservative …
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Gwen Ottinger / Washington Post:
When ‘Clunkers’ Are Greener  —  Want to be green?  Consider keeping your “clunker.”  —  The wildly popular “Cash for Clunkers” program is one of a number of policies funded by this year's stimulus package that encourage consumers to make major purchases in the name of the environment.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Are Democrats In For An August Slaughter?  —  Democrats know the rulebook.  The tactics being used against them by Republican and conservative groups were perfected by the party when it set out to defeat President Bush's Social Security privatization proposals.
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Wizbang and D-Day
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Ambinder  —  Marc Ambinder seems to think the tea-bagger effort …
Derrick Z. Jackson / Boston Globe:
Who will stand strong in heat of healthcare fight?  —  HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi flashed some mighty sharp fangs last week at the insurance industry.  The industry, along with drug companies, hospitals, and medical associations, is trying to torpedo government insurance options to insure all Americans.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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The Hill:
Left is miffed at Pelosi over her comment
Discussion: Kausfiles
Wall Street Journal:
Teeing Up the Middle Class  —  Joe the Plumber's tax vindication is nigh.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Few of President Obama's 2008 campaign pledges were more definitive than his vow that anyone making less than $250,000 a year “will not see their taxes increase by a single dime” if he was elected.
Discussion: Commentary
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   Obama Renews Vow of No Middle-Class Tax Increase
The Hill:   Tax trial balloon pops
Weekly Standard:
And That's the Way It Wasn't  —  From the Scrapbook.  —  It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York Times, which we reproduce here for your delectation:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And for the Blue Team?  —  We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down.  It's classic agitprop, very akin to the ‘Brooks Brothers riot’ down in Florida during the recount.
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Emails between Ensign NRSC lieutenants, Hamptons show affair was known inside organization more than a year ago  —  The emails, between Mike Slanker and Doug Hampton and Lindsey Slanker and Cindy Hampton, show the Slankers knew of the affair between John Ensign and Cindy Hampton while they were working …
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Dion Lefler / Kansas City Star:
Kansas casino partner linked to son's sex scandal
 
 
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Washington Post:
Va., N.Y. Districts Vie for 9/11 Case
Keith Olbermann / Daily Kos:
Special Comment: Health Care Reform
Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Rockets Hit Afghan Capital
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Long Island Tea Party!
Discussion: American Power
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Deeds' Problem  —  We'll have the new Virginia Gubernatorial poll …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Blue Virginia
Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
Terror suspects detained in Australia
Discussion: RADAMISTO
 Earlier Items: 
Laura A. Munson / New York Times:
Those Aren't Fighting Words, Dear
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market
Discussion: Clusterstock
Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Republican support for Sotomayor looks paltry
Discussion: Blue Virginia and Associated Press
Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
GOP Polling Charts Galore
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Both Parties Have Their Fanatics
Ezra Klein:
Should We Envy Texas?  —  Ross Douthat has a strange column …