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Snowe falls away, leaving Senate Dems without GOP support on healthcare — Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she could not back the Finance Committee's bill.
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New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Draws Fire on Both Sides — WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday that he could not support sweeping health care legislation drafted in more than three months of bipartisan negotiations by the chairman of the panel …
The Note:
Dem Senator Warns of ‘Big, Big Tax’ on Middle Class in Baucus Bill — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Young Adults May Pay Big Share of Health-Care Reform's Cost — As health-care legislation advances through Congress, the young adults who were so vital to President Obama's election are emerging as a significant beneficiary of his top domestic priority, but they are also likely to play a major role in funding any reform.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
From an Obama Ally, Alarm Bells on Health Reform — With apologies to E.F. Hutton: When Ron Wyden talks about health-care reform, people should listen. When Ron Wyden balks at a Democratic health-care reform proposal, people should definitely listen. — The Democratic senator from Oregon …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:Baucus Compromise Bill Draws Enthusiastic Support of Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
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Max Baucus / Wall Street Journal:The Senate Is Ready to Act on Health Care
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:BAUCUS COMES UP EMPTY ON GOP VOTES.... After months of negotiations …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn — WASHINGTON — For months during last year's presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.
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Los Angeles Times:
From ACORN, a mighty controversy grows — After the release of several videos highlighting atrocious behavior by some of its workers, the liberal advocacy group needs to clean house. — The videos, aired mostly by Fox News and other cable news outlets, are truly shocking …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Acorn Runs Off the Rails — 'We're just community organizers, just like the president used to be.' — On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to strip Acorn, the premier community organizing group on the left, of more than $1.6 million in federal housing money meant to assist low-income people obtain loans and prepare tax forms.
Michelle Malkin:What's missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN
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Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:How The New York Times “Covers” The News
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James O'Keefe / Big Government:ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come!
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Rasmussen Reports:
12% Say Most Opponents of Obama Health Care Plan Are Racist — Twelve percent (12%) of voters nationwide believe that most opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan are racist. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of voters disagree, and 21% are not sure.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
An Allergic Reaction To The Race Card — The increasingly hysterical use of the the race card by liberal columnists, bloggers and politicians reflects the last gasps of people who, being unable to win an argument on the merits, seek to end the argument. — While the false accusation …
Jimmy Carter / Associated Press:Politics Digest: Jimmy Carter Says Racism Is Behind Animosity to Obama
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SpeakupAmerica / CBS News:
Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year — Posted by Declan McCullagh The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.
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Roll Call:
Ethics Panel Investigates Waters, Graves and Jackson — The House ethics committee revealed Wednesday it is investigating allegations involving three lawmakers in unrelated incidents. — The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics panel …
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Terry Jones / Investor's Business Daily:
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul — Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.
Pulling It Together …:
Simple Arithmetic — This week we put out our annual benchmark survey of employer health coverage and costs. Two numbers jumped off the pages. — The first number was the average cost of a family health insurance policy in 2009: $13,375. To put that number in context, if you are an employer …
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Rush Limbaugh hits racial bottom, digs — Gang, some of you are going to crack on me hard for this, but I just took down the post from earlier today about the white kid being beat up on the bus by the black bullies. I used that incident to talk about black male violence …
Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life — On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
As Right Jabs Continue, White House Debates a Counterpunching Strategy — Facing a near-daily barrage of attacks from conservative opponents, White House officials are engaged in an internal debate over how hard to hit back, even as they have grown increasingly aggressive in countering allegations they deem to be absurd.
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
If Jay Leno Wants Better Reviews He Can Start By Removing the Lapel Flag — Critics love David Letterman. They love him because he's mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure (or their child) who might derail Leftist causes.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A McMahon in the Senate? — World Wresting Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon (R) will formally enter the Connecticut Senate race today, adding a celebrity element to a contest that promises to be among the most competitive in the country. — “Washington is out of control …
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Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Votes are lined up to appoint a senator — Top Democrats press for Mass. bill — Senate President Therese M. Murray has not pushed the bill. — Legislative leaders on Beacon Hill believe they have narrow majorities in both chambers to give Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint …
Megan Fox / New York Post:
Ny Dems give ACORN pimp-slap — Cuomo probe & council $$ freeze in ‘brothel’ affair — State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday launched an investigation into pork-barrel grants given to ACORN by state lawmakers, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn froze all city funding earmarked …
Evan Miller / The New Argument:
BREAKING: DNC, OFA Dump Demand for the Public Option — Organizing for America has dropped the demand for the public option from their open letter to members of Congress. As recently as Sept. 11, the letter featured on OFA's Health Care Action Center stated that health care reform must:
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