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Martina Stewart / CNN:
Key senator rejects ‘trigger’ for public health insurance option — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A moderate Republican who has previously broken with her party to support President Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill said Sunday that she does not support the idea of using a so called “trigger” …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
President Obama strongly supports Public Option in speech to Minneapolis — I know there's some debate over whether the president fully supports the public option and we know that the gang of six in the House of Lords is trying to derail it. Fox News is telling us that the public option …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, DownWithTyranny!, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and Washington Post
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Snowe says Obama should scrap the public option to pass bill — Key senators said Sunday the “public option” favored by House Democrats for healthcare is all but dead, but a pivotal Republican said it's not dead enough. — President Barack Obama “should take it off the table,” …
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The Politico, Washington Post, Comments from Left Field, Washington Monthly and Taegan Goddard's …
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why the Public Option Is Not “Fading” — Just the Contrary — The Sunday New York Times ran a front page story headlined “The Fading Public Option.” Since the beginning of the health care debate in April, the main stream media and purveyors of Conventional Wisdom have regularly pronounced the public option dead and gone.
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The Political Carnival
Robert Pear / New York Times:
The Fading Public Option
The Fading Public Option
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Firedoglake, Hot Air, The Raw Story, The Strata-Sphere, Congress Matters, TalkLeft, Washington Post, The Confluence and Corrente
Gateway Pundit:
CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals— A Photographic Essay — After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12: — And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama: — Via Prisca — The democrats were obviously waiting for Big Government to clean up for them.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
9/12 Attendance Issues Addressed — Update 3: Also see the bottom image here posted by Darleen Glick at PW. — Update 2: I'm thinking the image came via email from another blogger. Looking into that. But I would also refer you to the image here of 9/12.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
UPDATED: Malkin's 2 million protester claim; it's like the blind leading the blind
UPDATED: Malkin's 2 million protester claim; it's like the blind leading the blind
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Size Matters; So Do Lies
Size Matters; So Do Lies
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CBS News:
Transcript: President Obama — 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Interviewed President Barack Obama on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 … STEVE KROFT: What were you specifically hoping to accomplish with the speech this week? — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, I think the most important thing was to make sure …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama: National debate is ‘coarsening’ — President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Sunday night on “60 Minutes” that he sees “a coarsening of our political dialogue.” — “The truth of the matter is that there has been, I think, a coarsening of our political dialogue,” …
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Geoffrey Dunn / The Huffington Post:
Tina Fey Disses Palin — Saturday Night Live actress Tina Fey received an Emmy Award on Saturday for her spot-on impersonation of Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. — Accepting her trophy for best guest actress in a comedy, Fey went through the ritual …
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The Immoral Minority
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Tomoneil / Gold Derby:
You betcha - Tina Fey wins Emmy as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’
You betcha - Tina Fey wins Emmy as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’
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Liberal Values
Pat Austin / And So it Goes in Shreveport:
Editor of HuffPo's Health Unit Mocks Death of Cornell Student — Friday, September 11, 2009, a 20 year old student at Cornell University, Warren Schor, pictured left, died of complications from the swine flu. IvyGate Blog chose the tragedy as an occasion for mockery and silliness.
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Michelle Malkin
Bloomberg:
Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman — Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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MyDD
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
For WashPos t, right-wing protesters are Page One news; in 2002 liberal war protesters were not — Behold the media's glaring double standard. Today, the Post puts the “tens of thousands” of Obama-hating tea bagger protesters on A1; makes it the lead story as a matter of fact.
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Democrats push for Social Security increase after adjustment falls through — Lawmakers are calling for an increase to Social Security payments that would cost the government billions of dollars. — The congressional push comes after the Social Security Administration reportedly indicated …
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Don Surber
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Iran snubs Barack Obama's nuclear talks — Iran has dealt a blow to one of President Barack Obama's most ambitious diplomatic initiatives by dismissing demands to put its nuclear programme at the heart of direct talks with the United States. — Less than 48 hours after Washington …
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The Greenroom
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
Aide: Obama doesn't think tea partiers are racist — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A day after tens of thousands of conservatives gathered in Washington to protest the policies of the Obama administration, a top White House aide said that President Obama doesn't think the protests and the growing conservative movement …
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Washington Post
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Kid With That Poster — Here's a photograph of the t-shirt he was wearing: — Now perhaps the constant attempts to call anyone who works for Obama a communist have some more context. The dog-tags obviously don't belong to him. But they are a nice touch.
Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
The most important story of 9/12, if not 2009 — If they can make Obama Girl famous, I see no reason we shouldn't do the same for the Boob Czar: In a move that is being praised by experts, it was announced today that the Boob Czar will also be serving as the Pogo Stick Czar....
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Redhot