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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.
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The Politico:
Obama's Big Bang could go bust — Barack Obama's Big Bang is beginning to backfire, as his plans for rapid, once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation and health care are running into stiff resistance, both in Washington and around the country.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
‘Wee-weed up:’ White House explains it — So what did the president mean when he said this week that everyone's getting all “wee-weed up” in Washington? — “It's a phrase I use,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, hesitating at his press briefing to offer a physical demonstration of the phraseology.
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Newsweek:
Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions — A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. … A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals …
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in. — The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” the Houston Chronicle reported:
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James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales — WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Loyal Opposition — Defeating Obamacare and the Taliban. — Six months into the Obama presidency, conservatives and Republicans have occasion for some good cheer. — It's not simply that key and noxious elements of Obama's legislative agenda are in serious trouble.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
A Blue Dog's lament: ‘People are scared’ — MARIANNA, Fla. — Rep Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) is a skilled politician who has pretty much seen it all — a Deep South Democrat who's managed to dispatch all opponents in his conservative-leaning Panhandle district since winning election in 1996.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Major Factor In Obama's WaPo Poll Slide: Drop Among Dems, Liberals — A major factor in President Obama's slide in today's big Washington Post/ABC News poll, which is preoccupying the political classes today, is his surprisingly sharp drops among Democrats and even liberals, according to crosstabs that were sent my way.
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CNN:
Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at a time.
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Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Hoyer: Public option may have to go — A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that health reform won't get through the House without a public option, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Friday that the public option may have to go in order to get a bill passed.
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Conor Clarke / The Daily Dish:
Politico Discredits Moral Case For Health Care Reform — Politico writes: … I would be quite curious to hear how the “moral” argument for health-care reform has been discredited. Actually, I would be curious to hear how one would go about discrediting such a moral argument at all.
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
The Real Republican Health Care Proposal — While in many cases it has fallen on deaf ears, we've made efforts in the past to clear up some of the misinformation being handed out by proponents of Democratic health insurance reform proposals around the web, including here at TMV.
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Paterson says reason voters want him to step aside is race … ALBANY - Gov. Paterson blamed a racist media Friday for trying to push him out of next year's election - launching into an angry rant that left even some black Democrats shaking their heads. — “The whole idea is to get me not to run …
Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home Despite Muslim Honor Killing Fears — A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.
Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
STATEWIDE POLL: Poll suggests Gibbons a guaranteed election loser — Two preferred choices not even seeking office yet — Talk about a mandate for change, Nevadans' favorite candidates for governor aren't even running for office. — Respondents to a statewide poll said if the governor's election …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Where Obama Is Losing Ground — The Pew Research Center for The People & The Press national survey released Wednesday joined a lengthening line of polls showing President Obama's approval rating sinking from its heights earlier this year back to levels closer to his actual vote in November 2008.
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Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
Republicans Say Democrats Are Censoring More GOP Mail — House Republicans this week accused Democrats of censoring GOP mailings to constituents on a variety of subjects and of imposing uneven requirements on the minority party's mail. — Democrats on the franking commission …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The American Scene:
Free markets and government intervention — I am a fierce proponent of free markets. Therefore I am a fierce proponent of government intervention in the market. — Or, to put things less inflamatorily, one thing that often bothers me about US defenders of free markets is how easily they …
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Death Throes of a Corvette.— In the Great Depression, the government paid to destroy crops in order to prop up farm prices — about as dumb a policy as can be imagined. — Today the government pays to destroy cars in order to ... frankly, I don't know why.
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Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:
Voight: Is Obama creating a civil war in America? — Inside the Beltway column — CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE — A Hollywood conservative has headed East. It's “Freedom Concert” time for Jon Voight. The Academy Award winner will join Sean Hannity in Cincinnati and Atlanta this weekend …
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