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7:50 PM ET, August 11, 2009

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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
How Conservatives Are Blowing Their Chance  —  President Obama is on his way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire at this hour for a town hall meeting on health care.  At this same hour last week, several of the President's top political advisers were meeting in a White House conference room to discuss …
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CNN:
Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting  —  LEBANON, Pennsylvania (CNN) — A hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements Tuesday at a town hall meeting on health care led by Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter.  —  At one point, Specter shouted into his microphone …
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM TOWN HALL  —  THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth!  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much.  Everybody have a seat.  Oh, thank you so —  AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!  —  THE PRESIDENT: I love you back.  Thank you.  (Laughter.)
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Town hall crowd boos Specter when he calls President Obama an ‘American.’  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) held a town hall today in Lebanon, PA, which was carried live by all three cable news networks.  Towards the end, a man critical of health care reform asked Specter to …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What's the Point of These Health Care Town Halls?  —  Michael Crowley liked Senator Claire McCaskill's performance at a town hall earlier today: … I agree, but watching McCaskill on TV what I mostly thought of was that I don't understand why members of congress are holding these town halls.
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Obama takes aim at health foes
Discussion: Pinko Magazine
Ezra Klein:
It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick  —  As Josh Marshall says, we've reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart.  Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen's op-ed this morning.  Discussing the insistence of some that health-care reform …
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Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Documents Detail Campaign to Oust U.S. Attorney  —  The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Rove key to New Mexico attorney firing
Discussion: At-Largely
Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Poll: Reid would lose if Lowden were to run  —  Republican Sue Lowden would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by 6 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll of likely Nevada voters.  —  Unfortunately for Reid-bashers, Lowden isn't running — at least not yet.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NV-Sen: Heller Won't Run
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:   Despite Bush urging, Heller won't run
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Congressional Health Care Reform Falls to New Low  —  Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan.  That's down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Tone-Deaf Health Campaign  —  The president shouldn't worry about the protestors disrupting town hall meetings.  He should worry about the Americans who have been sitting at home listening to him.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  It didn't take chaotic town-hall meetings …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Specter: “I don't have any requirement to be here”  —  Things got a little heated at the townhall forum held by Senator Arlen Specter (R er, D-PA) this morning after a curious decision not to allow people to ask questions live from the floor.  One constituent had to initially be restrained …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Speaking of mean signs ...
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Takes Health Care Debate to a N.H. School  —  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Fans and foes of President Obama's push to overhaul health care descended on a local high school here on Tuesday, ostensibly to give the visiting Mr. Obama a piece of their minds.  In reality, they appeared to spend a lot more time yelling at each other.
Discussion: IMAO
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Michael Lind / Salon:
Are liberals seceding from sanity?  —  The left is crazy to insult white Southerners as a group  —  Back in the 1960s, Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter and other liberal sociologists, historians and political scientists, puzzled that anyone could support Barry Goldwater rather …
Discussion: pandagon.net, Reason and American Power
Associated Press:
Obama: Health critics creating ‘bogeymen’  —  Town hall meetings across the country have been disrupted by protests  —  “Your health insurance will be there for you when it counts, not just when you're paying premiums,” said President Barack Obama in New Hampshire.  —  On the offensive
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Salon
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Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Obama Lies on Single-Payer, Disses Post Office
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Michelle Malkin
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Sarah Palin Resigned Due To Marital Troubles, Says Levi Johnston  —  Sarah Palin's marriage has been in trouble from the beginning, says Levi Johnston, the father of their grandson Tripp and ex-fiance of daughter Bristol.  —  What's more Levi told RadarOnline.com …
Brendan Steinhauser / FreedomWorks:
FREEDOMWORKS ISSUES ABJECT APOLOGY TO LEFT  —  Free-market organization thanks left-wing groups for instruction on the finer points of intelligent policy debate  —  Washington, DC — Today, FreedomWorks released an apology to leftist political organizations, including MoveOn.org …
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama Kabuki theater in Portsmouth; crowd chants “YES, WE CAN!;” little girl laments “mean things” on protest signs; O lies about single-payer support  —  The Obama town hall in Portsmouth is underway.  The president wrapped up his remarks to the cheers of “YES WE CAN!” from the fair and balanced audience.
Gateway Pundit:
Classy vs Classless: How Bush Handled Critics vs Obama  —  Classy vs Classless—  President George W. Bush was the punching bag for the democrat media complex for 8 long years.  He often had to defend himself from hateful attacks by the unhinged left.  But, he never acted bitter or spiteful.
Discussion: GayPatriot
psychologytoday.com:
Kiss my APA!  —  I've always been interested in really smart people who are cocksure about really dumb ideas.  Drew Westen's recent presentation at this year's American Psychological Association Conference in Toronto helped me explore this phenomenon even further.  <!—break—>
Discussion: Moonbattery and theblogprof
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Armed and Dangerous?  —  MSNBC just aired footage of the crowd gathering at the Obama town hall meeting on health care that's supposed to start later today in New Hampshire and pointed out one man in a group holding protest signs with a gun in a holster on his hip.  Apparently not a law officer, but a civilian.
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Mahablog
 
 
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