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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Administration Official: “Sebelius Misspoke.” — An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential part” of reform.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Life After the Death of the Public Option — From the President on downward, the White House now seems resigned to losing the fight over the “public option”, a government-run insurance plan that would complete against private plans. It's time to re-assess the playing field in light of this development.
Michelle Malkin:
White House public option ploy: A trial balloon, not a white flag — Do you believe the Sunday spin on the White House's alleged “retreat” from the Obamacare public option? — Video of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's pooh-poohing of the public option provision is here.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Sorry, Can't Pass Health Care Bill Without a Public Option — The headline in The Hill says it loud and clear: … Many people are rightly upset that the White House is sending stronger and stronger signals that they are willing to jettison a public option.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Many Votes Does the Public Option Have? How Many Does it Need? — Earlier I suggested that the public option probably does not have the votes to pass the the U.S. Senate. Let's examine this in a bit more detail. — Open Left's Chris Bowers lists 43 senators who as of last Wednesday …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama picks fight with left on health reform — In backing away from its support for a public option in healthcare reform, the Obama administration is picking a fight with the liberal wing of the Democratic party. — Liberal Democrats have insisted a public insurance option is necessary to ensure competition for private insurers.
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Key Feature Of Obama Health Plan May Be Out
Key Feature Of Obama Health Plan May Be Out
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Hutchison's balancing act on term limits
Hutchison's balancing act on term limits
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Jennifer Graham / Canadian Press:
Overhauling health-care system tops agenda at annual meeting of Canada's doctors — SASKATOON — The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it. — Dr. Anne Doig says patients …
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Ross Doutha / New York Times:
Telling Grandma ‘No’ — When Democratic congressmen dream these days, they're tongue-tied in town halls, fumbling with their microphones while they're shouted down by slavering, pitchfork-wielding Limbaugh listeners. — But Barack Obama is wiser than most Democratic congressmen, and his nightmares are savvier.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Swiss Menace — It was the blooper heard round the world. In an editorial denouncing Democratic health reform plans, Investor's Business Daily tried to frighten its readers by declaring that in Britain, where the government runs health care, the handicapped physicist Stephen Hawking …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Poll: 57% don't see stimulus working — WASHINGTON — Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation's economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession. — POLL RESULTS: Six questions
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change — McKiernan's Ouster Reflected New Realities in Afghanistan — and Washington — In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ORRIN HATCH, PAINFULLY CONFUSED.... It's frightening to think this guys was involved for months with the center-right negotiations in the Senate Finance Committee. — On ABC's “This Week” yesterday, Jake Tapper asked Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah a good question.
Bill Rankin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Court says Troy Davis can present evidence — Condemned killer on death row for murder of off-duty police officer — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Troy Anthony Davis the chance to present evidence in court that the condemned man has said for years will clear him of the murder of a Savannah police officer.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Press Loves a Hero, but . . . Dan Rather is wrong. — Barack Obama should stay out of it. — We don't need no stinkin' presidential commission. — It's not that the former CBS anchor has delivered a flawed diagnosis. The news business, as Rather wrote in a Washington Post op-ed …
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Lupica: President Obama is the real target of health care protesters — The woman went to an airplane hangar in Belgrade, Mont., the other day, prepared to actually listen to President Obama talk about health care reform in America. — She has watched, the way the rest of us have watched …
Rod Nordland / New York Times:
More Troops Are Sought for Iraq's Restive North — BAGHDAD — The commanding general of American forces in Iraq said Monday that he had proposed putting United States troops in disputed parts of northern Iraq along with Kurdish and Iraqi forces. — Tensions between the Iraqi Army and the Kurdish militia …
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Tom DeLay / ABCNEWS:
‘Dancing With the Stars’ New Season Cast Revealed on ‘Good Morning America’ — ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 9 Contestants: Tom Delay, Kelly Osbourne, Donny Osmond and More — ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Contestants Season 9 — The former House majority leader is a prominent Republican and conservative firebrand.
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Bob Hazen / wdbo.com:
Congressman Grayson holding town hall meeting Monday — Congressman Alan Grayson will hold a town hall meeting on health care in Orlando Monday night. — In a release sent exactly 24 hours before the town hall meeting, the freshman Democrat's office says Grayson “intends for and expects …