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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.”
Macon Phillips / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Facts Are Stubborn Things — Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.” — Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example …
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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton In N. Korea For Release Of Americans — Former president Bill Clinton landed in North Korea on Tuesday on an unannounced and unofficial mission to negotiate the release of two American journalists, whose detention since March has deeply concerned his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
KTLA:
Obama ‘Joker’ Poster Causing a Stir in L.A. — Obama “Joker” Poster — What do you think? — When you're taking flak... ÃÂyou know you're over the target,and the person who made this poster is shining the light of truth on the Obama administration.
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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.
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.
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Hideaki Tailor / Weekly World News:OBAMA JOKER POSTER
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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.
New York Times:
Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard — WASHINGTON — Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Philadelphia on Sunday. — In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett …
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:Durbin Responds To Lobbyist-Run Efforts To Harass Town Halls …
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Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:Doggett calls protesters a ‘mob’
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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.
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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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
‘Blue Dog’ Steve Driehaus ripped, mocked, booed and laughed at during his Town Hall on Health Care — Correspondent Amalaur sent this report in from Ohio's District 1, where Steve Driehaus held a town hall on health care reform. While Driehaus campaigned as a fiscal conservative …
The Hill:
Left is miffed at Pelosi over her comment — House liberals are offended that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mocked their threats to oppose a Democratic healthcare bill, saying leaders are underestimating their frustration over a deal cut with centrist Blue Dogs.
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Derrick Z. Jackson / Boston Globe:Who will stand strong in heat of healthcare fight?
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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.
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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:
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead — BAGHDAD — The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian soap operas …
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Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market — Rebate Program Prescribes Chemical to Stop Car Engines — for Good; Mechanics 'Can't Wait' — Robert Mueller deals in chemicals for a living — things that can unstick glue, thin paint, make plastic — but he'd never seen an order like the one he got for sodium silicate.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Deeds' Problem — We'll have the new Virginia Gubernatorial poll out in the morning but there is so much to delve into that I'm going to start tonight. — Creigh Deeds is not doing well. But it's not like he's bleeding Obama supporters- in fact the 5% of McCain supporters whose votes he's picking …
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