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1:30 PM 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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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 …
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.”
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
White House Attacks Drudge for Exposing Obama's Goal to Eliminate …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Macsmind and Swampland
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House: ObamaCare opponents lying by ... using Obama's own words
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Sister Toldjah
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.
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Geithner Bullies Financial Regulators to Accept Fed as Top Dog
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Michelle Malkin:
How quickly they forget
Daily Mail:
Spoof poster of Obama's face painted as The Joker branded 'dangerous …
Steven Mikulan / LA Daily:
New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster
WorldNetDaily:
Why I doubt Kenyan birth document  —  I bet that got your attention.  —  For 24 hours, I have been deluged with e-mail - about 6,000 more than usual - that essentially fall into three categories:  — Thank you for getting the goods on Barack Obama - I knew he was born in Kenya.
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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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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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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 …
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.
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James Pethokoukis:
5 reasons why Obama will hike middle-class taxes
Discussion: Fausta's Blog and PrairiePundit
New York Post:
HONORING AN AMERICA-HATER  —  THE Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor.  Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel.  This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) …
Pat Toomey / Philly.com:
Sotomayor: Qualified, mainstream  —  Judicial confirmation hearings weren't always ideological witch hunts.  —  When John Roberts and Samuel Alito were nominated to the Supreme Court, Republicans argued that they should be confirmed based on their impeccable qualifications and mainstream jurisprudence.
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.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
McDonnell leads by 14  —  Bob McDonnell has opened up a 51-37 lead over Creigh Deeds in the race to be Virginia's next Governor, up from a 49-43 advantage four weeks ago.  —  The movement in the race likely has more to do with national trends than anything actually going on in Virginia.
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.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: JUNE 2009 REVISED ESTIMATES: 1929 THROUGH MAY 2009  —  Personal income decreased $159.8 billion, or 1.3 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $143.8 billion, or 1.3 percent, in June, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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.
Press Releases from the Committee on Oversight …:
Issa to Emanuel: Back Off!  —  WASHINGTON.  D.C. - Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Rasmussen Reports:
54% Oppose More Money for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program  —  Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans oppose any further funding for the federal “cash for clunkers” program which encourages the owners of older cars to trade them in for newer, more fuel-efficient ones.
CNN:
Bergen: More troops needed for Afghan war  —  He's the author of “The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader.”  Katherine Tiedemann is a policy analyst at the New America Foundation.  —  (CNN) — CNN's Barbara Starr reported last week that Gen. Stanley McChrystal …
 
 
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
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Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market
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Weekly Standard:
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