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Ezra Klein:
Is the Government Going to Euthanize your Grandmother? An Interview With Sen. Johnny Isakson. — Sarah Palin's belief that the House health-care reform bill would create “death panels” might be particularly extreme, but she's hardly the only person to wildly misunderstand the section …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CONSERVATIVE SENATOR CALLS PALIN ARGUMENT ‘NUTS’.... The health care reform bills working their way through Congress include a provision that shouldn't be controversial. Medicare would pay for voluntary counseling sessions on advance care planning between patients and physicians.
Keith Olbermann / msnbc.com:
‘Death Panel’ Palin dangerously irresponsible — Sarah the Quitter incites mob violence and national disunity by ‘making stuff up’ — SPECIAL COMMENT — Finally as promised a Special Comment on this terrible moment in American history, and those unfortunate and irresponsible Americans who have brought us to it.
Political Punch:
White House Disputes Pelosi Contention that Town Hall Protests are “Un-American” — The White House disagreed this afternoon with the contention by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, that the disruptions at town hall meetings are …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Obama to Defend Health-Care Plan at Town Hall After Disruptions — Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will defend his efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system at a town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, today after a series of protests met his fellow Democrats in recent days.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to ‘Drown Out Voices’ …
SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to ‘Drown Out Voices’ …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Democrats fight back on healthcare, town halls
Democrats fight back on healthcare, town halls
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The Political Carnival
Political Punch:
Lost in Translation: Clinton Says She, Not Bill, is the Secretary of State — ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal …
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Outside The Beltway, The Confluence, Jules Crittenden, Below The Beltway and The Democratic Daily
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John / Power Line:
Hillary: Still Angry After All These Years — The Clintons' “two for the price of one” shtick was always pretty weird. Hillary Clinton's one great career move was marrying Bill, a political genius. But she often seemed to be burning with rage because her own equal, if not superior, merit was going unrecognized.
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TigerHawk
Rasmussen Reports:
32% Favor Single-Payer Health Care, 57% Oppose — Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
GOP rebranding effort flames out — Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) generated the kind of buzz other politicians covet when he launched his bid to help rebrand the Republican Party last spring. — Television crews and reporters wedged themselves among the crowd of party faithful to cover …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC Anchor: “Socialist' Is Becoming the New N-word' — UPDATE at end of post: Is this what Newsweek meant when it proudly declared on its cover, “We're All Socialists Now?” — Did you know that when you refer to someone as a socialist, you're really calling them the N-word?
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CNN:
GOP senator wants Sanford to be impeached — (CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, already under fire for an extramarital relationship, should be impeached for abusing state finances, a Republican state senator said Monday. — Sen. David Thomas, in a letter to leaders …
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
DEFENDING THE BAILOUTS. — So Paul Krugman's column today makes the important point that government policy is the central reason that our recession hasn't become a depression and that the economy is poised for recovery. It's especially timely as conservatives use the health-care debate …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Israel clouds Obama's nuclear summit — President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear security summit next March could end up turning an uncomfortable spotlight on at least one nation — Israel - and further strain the administration's relations with the Jewish state, analysts said.
Jay Bookman:
It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure this one out — The conservative opinion magazine Human Events was reputedly Ronald Reagan's favorite read, and to this day fancies itself the house organ for the hard-right intelligentsia. Among those published regularly in its pages are such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter.
The Huffington Post:
PhRMA Walks Back Claim Of White House Deal — In yet another in a series of evolving statements and backtracks, an official with the country's major pharmaceutical lobby said on Monday that it never struck a “quote, unquote secret deal with the White House” that would have prohibited …
Wall Street Journal:
The Next Fannie Mae — Ginnie Mae and FHA are becoming $1 trillion subprime guarantors. — Printer — Friendly — Much to their dismay, Americans learned last year that they “owned” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, meet their cousin, Ginnie Mae or the Government National Mortgage Association …
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The Jawa Report
The Huffington Post:
Our Fuzzy President Is About To Come Into Focus — We're finally going to get to know the real President Obama. — Once the final outlines of health-care legislation become clear, we'll know what really matters to him. Where he draws the line. How he wields the levers of power.
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies — (CNN) — Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a champion of the disabled who founded the Special Olympics, died Tuesday, the Special Olympics said. She was 88. — Born on July 10, 1921, in Brookline, Massachusetts …
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Scared Monkeys
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Hill jets may be scrapped — The new congressional jets may be getting scrapped. — After an uproar over a proposed purchase of new executive jets for use by senior government officials, including members of Congress, the top Defense appropriator in the House has offered to eliminate funding …
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Instapundit
Washington Post:
Ailing States Face Bleak Outlook in Next Fiscal Year — NEW YORK — As states across the country grapple with the worst economy in decades, most have cut services, forced workers to take unpaid days off, shut offices several days a month and scrambled to find new sources of revenue.
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Clusterstock