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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 …
Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Thomas Friedman, For One, Welcomes Our New Chinese Creditor Overlords …
Thomas Friedman, For One, Welcomes Our New Chinese Creditor Overlords …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN PONDERS ‘ONE-PARTY DEMOCRACY’.... I'd overlooked Thomas …
FRIEDMAN PONDERS ‘ONE-PARTY DEMOCRACY’.... I'd overlooked Thomas …
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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. — Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California.
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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 …
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Think Progress, Washington Wire, Alas, a blog, Hot Air, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Hinterland Gazette and LA Observed
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 …
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Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Vulgar CA Assemblyman Caught On Open Mic Bragging About Various …
Vulgar CA Assemblyman Caught On Open Mic Bragging About Various …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BEWARE OF LIVE MICROPHONES.... California state Rep. Michael Duvall …
BEWARE OF LIVE MICROPHONES.... California state Rep. Michael Duvall …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Endorse Public Plan in Speech — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a high-stakes speech Wednesday to Congress and the nation, will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system that has divided lawmakers and voters for months.
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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.
The Hill:
Tide turns against public option on eve of President Obama's address
Tide turns against public option on eve of President Obama's address
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Washington Examiner, The Swamp, The Strata-Sphere, Capitol Briefing, TalkLeft, New York Times and Hot Air
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Too late for Obama to turn it around? — Plus: The left's visionaries lost their bearings on drugs — but the GOP is led by losers — What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation …
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Sarah Palin / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care — The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers. — Printer — Friendly — Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Media Challenge: Will They Take The Palin Bait?
Media Challenge: Will They Take The Palin Bait?
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A Conservative Shemale, Conservatives4Palin.com, The Corner on National … and Taylor Marsh
Geoffrey Dunn / The Huffington Post:
Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script
Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script
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The Immoral Minority
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Attacks on Sunstein Frustrate Conservative Fans — On January 8, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein would be nominated to run the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It was a surprising choice for a job, created in 1980 …
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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 …
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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 …
Gillian Reagan / New York Observer:
Are the Days of Drudge Over? — Just over a month ago, Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent and current communications director for the Obama administration's Health Reform Office, appeared in a video posted on the White House's official blog titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things.”
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The Huffington Post:
GOP Picks One-Time “Birther” To Rebut Obama's Health Care Speech [UPDATED] — UPDATE: An eagle-eyed reader points out that Boustany, after espousing his “Birther” views on camera, below, caved and retracted his statement on a Louisiana KPEL radio show. — Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After Thesis Uproar, McDonnell's Strongly Worded Comments on Gays Resurface — ‘Homosexual Conduct’ Comments ‘Irrelevant’ to Campaign, He Says — In January 2003, then-Del. Robert F. McDonnell helped gavel in one of the most extraordinary judicial reappointment hearings in Virginia history …
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Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Power Line, The Daily Dish, NewsBusters.org, Taylor Marsh, Salon, DCist, All Spin Zone and Below The Beltway
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Health Care in the Senate: An Interview with Chuck Schumer. — Senator Chuck Schumer is the third-ranked Democrat in the Senate, one of the most prominent advocates for a public plan, and among the earliest Democrats to recognize that the ongoing negotiations with Senate Republicans had become a waste of time.
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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 …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Less Spocky, More Rocky — As soon as I started covering Barack Obama, I knew he was going to be trouble. — Not Global Trouble, like W. and Dick Cheney. Or Hanky-Panky Trouble, like Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Or Tedious Trouble, like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
New Revelations Raise Questions About Justice Sotomayor's Temperament — It seems that Sonia Sotomayor celebrated her official ascension to the Supreme Court with a little dance party at the Irish Channel Pub in Chinatown here in DC: — Now as Sommer Mathis notes, this is a terrible bar:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The GOP vs Fiscal Conservatism — Charlie Cook and others are predicting a sea-change in public mood, with support for the GOP rising because of deficits. This strikes me as an amazing thing. It makes Charlie Brown, the football and Lucy look like the model of intelligent interaction.
Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush — Smoke billows up Tuesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the military entrance to Kabul's airport, killing at least three. Read the story. (Photo by Hal Bernton of the Seattle Times.)