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5:45 PM ET, September 9, 2009

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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 …
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.  —  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 …
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 …
Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Vulgar CA Assemblyman Caught On Open Mic Bragging About Various …
Discussion: pandagon.net
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BEWARE OF LIVE MICROPHONES.... California state Rep. Michael Duvall …
Discussion: Eschaton
Brad / Think Progress:   ‘Family Values’ California Politician Caught Bragging About His …
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.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Baucus moves forward with bill
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Note
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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House talking points blast Palin
Geoffrey Dunn / The Huffington Post:
Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script
Discussion: 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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The Washington / New York Daily News Blogs:
Mouth of the Potomac  —  For fallen White House aides …
Discussion: Salon, Ben Smith's Blog and Swampland
Jim Myers / Tulsa World:
Boren says Congress should push for removal of unconfirmed “czars”
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Punch
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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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Supreme Court sharply questions ban on corporate spending
Discussion: The Politico and The Swamp
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 …
Discussion: TPMCafe, ABCNEWS and Washington Monthly
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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Ethan Porter / CJR:   Drudge Has Lost His Touch
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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Matt Yglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Schumer Talks Up Reconciliation
Discussion: TalkLeft and Emptywheel
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 …
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:
Discussion: DCist, Above the Law and Wonkette
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Swampland
 
 
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Agencies Say Iran Has the Nuclear Fuel to Build a Bomb
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Frank: Dem-only health bill completely legitimate
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Dodd makes it official, decides to keep Senate Banking Committee gavel
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Buyers of Huge Manhattan Complex Face Default Risk
Christopher Orr / The New Republic:
Lowering Standards, Ctd.
Markjohnson / Raleigh News & Observer:
Marshall running for U.S. Senate
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Time for Obama to Stand Tall
Washington Examiner:
callawar  —  Mr. Barone: Where are the facts to back your assertions?
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
U.S. ‘Unlikely’ to Recoup Auto Outlay, Panel Finds
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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