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10:35 PM ET, September 9, 2009

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New York Times:
Obama's Health Care Speech to Congress  —  Following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech to Congress on the need to overhaul health care in the United States, as released by the White House.  —  Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
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WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
THE OBAMA PLAN: STABILITY & SECURITY FOR ALL AMERICANS  —  “It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance.  It will provide insurance to those who don't.  And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government.”
CNN:
Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out'  —  The White House has released excerpts of President Obama's address to Congress tonight:
The Politico:
Obama: ‘Now is the time’  —  Declaring “now is the time to deliver on health care,” President Barack Obama on Wednesday night will challenge supporters and critics alike to work toward a bill that will protect Americans who have insurance, provide coverage to those who don't and curb the growth of health care costs.
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: The News in the Speech
Discussion: Reason and Democracy in America
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Reaction to Obama's Speech
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Daily Kos
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
High Stakes Speech Live Blog, Pt. 3
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Calls for Health Care Consensus
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Live-Blogging Healthcare
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Our One-Party Democracy  —  Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
Thomas Friedman is a Liberal Fascist — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  Mark beat me to it, but I must put in my two cents.  Thomas Friedman writes: … So there you have it.  If only America could drop its inefficient and antiquated system, designed in the age before globalization and modernity and …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN PONDERS ‘ONE-PARTY DEMOCRACY’.... I'd overlooked Thomas …
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
GOP Lawmaker's Graphic Sex-Bragging Caught On Tape  —  We've all seen those stories where a careless politician gets a little too candid when speaking into a hot mic.  But this one's really in a whole different league.  —  [RELATED SLIDESHOW: TPM'S HISTORY OF THE SEX-SCANDALOUS FALL OF THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT]
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Shelby Grad / L.A. Now:
O.C. Assemblyman Duvall resigns amid recorded sexual comments  —  Orange County Assemblyman Michael Duvall, who was caught on an open mike making sexual comments, resigned today.  —  “I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly …
Navel Gazing:
OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed  —  SACRAMENTO—Freshmen legislators arriving in Sacramento receive advice from veteran politicians about the intricacies of working in California's capital.  One of those tips is to remember that microphones broadcasting legislative debates …
Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Vulgar CA Assemblyman Caught On Open Mic Bragging About Various …
Discussion: pandagon.net
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House talking points blast Palin  —  A source sends on the talking points the White House is circulating to allies in advance of President Obama's speech, most of them reiterating familiar themes of momentum and security.  —  But the White House has also chosen specifically to focus …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP leaders haven't met Obama for health talks since April  —  The ball is in President Obama's court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning.  —  Boehner told reporters that the president …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama: I was too ambiguous on healthcare reform
Associated Press:
Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — The nastiness of August reached from the nation's town halls into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to move his health care plan forward.  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Scared Monkeys
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A voice from the floor on illegal immigrants: ‘Lie’  —  One of the most persistent conservative concerns about health care legislation is that it will provide health care to illegal immigrants — and the heated claim spilled onto the floor of President Obama's address to a joint session …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
The guy who yelled “You lie!”
Discussion: The Note and Taylor Marsh
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Drudge Report:
WHIP COUNT: DEMS LACK THE VOTES  —  At least 44 more moderate Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record in opposition to the current health care bill in the House, a Hill source claims.  Likewise, at least 57 liberal Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record saying …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Two precedents in jeopardy  —  Analysis  —  If supporters of federal curbs on political campaign spending by corporations were counting on Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to hesitate to strike down such restrictions, they could take no comfort …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Go, Hillary, Go!  —  The boss hears from two sources that Hillary Clinton is considering stepping down as Secretary of State this fall in order to run for Governor of New York.
Discussion: Gawker
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP plans quiet demonstration during president's speech  —  Tonight some House Republicans are planning to attend the president's address to a joint session of Congress carrying copies of GOP health care bills.  If the president says, as he has done on many previous occasions …
Discussion: Swampland, QandO and JammieWearingFool
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
With one simple sentence, ABC News confirms the death of Beltway journalism  —  It's from an online report about the Obama school “controversy,” and it's written by Dan Harris.  In his piece, Harris notes that conservatives pre-emptively blasted Obama's stay-in-school speech even though conservatives …
Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Obama Pitched Universal Health Care to Students in Meeting Prior to His Speech on Education  —  (CNSNews.com) - Prior to his nationally broadcast speech to students on Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a pitch for health care reform in a discussion with 40 freshmen at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va.
Discussion: RBO, Townhall.com and NewsBusters.org
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama science czar: Redistributionism as the cure for American exceptionalism  —  With more focus getting applied to Barack Obama's czars, the first to receive scrutiny should be John Holdren, Obama's science czar.  Michelle has outlined Holdren's odd views from the past …
 
 
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