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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Great Gradualist — In the days since Ted Kennedy's death, the news programs have shown and re-shown the unforgettable ending of his 1980 Democratic convention speech — the passage from Tennyson and the beautiful final lines: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
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Karen Tumulty / Time:
Health-Care Reform After Kennedy: A Scaled-Back Bill?
Health-Care Reform After Kennedy: A Scaled-Back Bill?
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Washington Post, Washington Times, George's Bottom Line, Swampland, The Politico and James Pethokoukis
Matea Gold / Show Tracker:
UPDATED: As boycott continues, Glenn Beck's audience swells — An advertising boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck has succeeded in keeping most major sponsors from running commercials on his show even as the controversial commentator's viewership has grown.
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Macsmind, JammieWearingFool, Mediaite, BuzzFlash.org, NewsBusters.org and Michael Calderone's Blog
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Wall Street Journal:
The Fall Guy — CIA Director Leon Panetta getting sacked by his own team. — Printer — Friendly — In the game of political football that is today national security, spare a thought for CIA Director Leon Panetta. Quarterbacking is hard enough without getting sacked by your own team.
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Gutless Cowards — Observe the man who undoubtedly receives medicare speaking in an Iowa town hall meeting with Senator Charles Grassley earlier this week: … Observe that Grassley says NOTHING to dissuade the gentlemen from his thesis or desire. — This has happened again, and again, and again in the last month.
Onion News Network:
[video] Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture? — In The Know panelists discuss the closing of the controversial detainee labyrinth and debate whether the Minotaur's sternum-stomping-by-hooves interrogation technique yielded valuable intelligence.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Andy McCarthy's Unwavering Defense Of Torture.
Andy McCarthy's Unwavering Defense Of Torture.
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The Washington Independent
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Till Debt Does Its Part — So new budget projections show a cumulative deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade. According to many commentators, that's a terrifying number, requiring drastic action — in particular, of course, canceling efforts to boost the economy and calling off health care reform.
Robert Moore / Coloradoan Online:
Markey: Medicare will take hit — Some people, including Medicare recipients, will have to give up some current benefits to truly reform the nation's health-care system, Rep. Betsy Markey told a gathering of constituents in Fort Collins on Wednesday. — Markey has repeatedly said during …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Dem. Rep. Betsy Markey: Yep, Medicare Will Take a Hit
Dem. Rep. Betsy Markey: Yep, Medicare Will Take a Hit
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Late Senator's Staff Became The Other Kennedy Family — Behind each of Edward M. Kennedy's legislative victories was a vast coterie of staffers who became Washington legend. They meticulously packed the senator's black briefcase each evening with tabbed, underlined and dog-eared briefing papers.
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The Caucus, New York Times, The Page, New York Times, Associated Press and The Democratic Daily
David Cho / Washington Post:
Banks ‘Too Big to Fail’ Have Grown Even Bigger — Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice, Tempt Corporate Moral Hazard — When the credit crisis struck last year, federal regulators pumped tens of billions of dollars into the nation's leading financial institutions …
Megan McArdle:
My Last Word on Guns — Jason Zengerle indicates that the real point is that openly carrying weapons at a protest makes it harder for the Secret Service to do their job. Probably. On the other hand, lots of things make it harder for the Secret Service to do their job.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll: Half of S.C. wants Sanford out — Half of South Carolina voters want Republican Gov. Mark Sanford to resign, according to a new poll. — The InsiderAdvantage poll, out Friday, shows that 49.5 percent of voters say it is time for Sanford to go, while 36.6 percent said the embattled governor should remain in office.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Against Spite-Based Foreign Policy — Bruce Riedel, who led the Obama administration's AfPak policy review, apparently said the following at a Brookings event earlier this week: … “This is not a rationale you often hear from the administration and its defenders,” observes Michael Crowley …
Boston Globe:
Legislature must act quickly on interim Senate appointment — THE DEATH Tuesday of Senator Edward M. Kennedy puts Massachusetts at half strength in the US Senate at a precarious time. Massachusetts lawmakers will only worsen the situation if they fail to take steps to assure a timely replacement.
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Dealing With Being the Health Care ‘Villains’ — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Max Shireman says that when he looks in the mirror he does not see the monster the politicians have made him out to be. — Sure, he could stand to lose a few pounds. And there was that speeding ticket last year for going 40 in a 30-mile-an-hour zone.
Taylor Gandossy / CNN:
Girl taken in 1991 surfaces; couple held — (CNN) — A 29-year old woman walked into a northern California police station, saying she was abducted 18 years ago, authorities said Thursday. Two people are being held in connection with the case. — Jaycee Dugard is in good health …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept — Obama Officials Say Oversight Will Grow — The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search — without suspicion of wrongdoing — the contents of a traveler's laptop computer …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at What Cost — Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold.
Defense News:
Report: U.S. to Scrap E. Europe Missile Shield Bases — WARSAW, Poland - Washington will scrap plans to put anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and is looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey, a Polish newspaper reported Aug. 27, citing U.S. officials.
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
‘Post’ poll: Only 4% of Jewish Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel — The number of Israelis who see US President Barack Obama's policies as pro-Israel has fallen to four percent, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post.
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Israel Matzav, Commentary, Atlas Shrugs, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Stephen Hayes: Cheney Himself Didn't Actually Torture. So There! — Indefatigable Dick Cheney hagiographer Stephen Hayes, nervously typing away while Cheney glowers over his shoulder, has yet another post up attacking yours truly for suggesting that the newly-released CIA docs don't prove Cheney's claim that torture worked.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MAKING THE PUBLIC OPTION OPTIONAL.... Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R) of Texas has been one of the leading right-wing agitators against health care reform. It was a little odd, then, to see Armey accidentally tell The Economist that the public option may be a good idea.
Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
ABC, NBC Won't Air Ad Critical of Obama's Health Care Plan — The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot — particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June hosted at the White House