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The Hill:
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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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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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 …
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) — After a couple of weeks that have generally looked pretty good for Team Blue on health care reform, Max Baucus's Senate Finance Committee bill suddenly finds itself devoid of supporters.
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, Favored Foe — 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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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.
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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 …
James O'Keefe / Big Government:
ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! — **This is a Part I of the ACORN San Bernardino exposé. Updates to follow... [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
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Michelle Malkin:
What's missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN — The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals. True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper's own role in deliberately covering …
Andrew Edwards / sbsun.com:
ACORN organizer rips video — SAN BERNARDINO - The head organizer for California ACORN says a new video that appears to show a staffer at the organization's San Bernardino office is fake journalism. — The video, which was posted shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday on a Web site called Big Government.com …
Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:How The New York Times “Covers” The News
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Carter Claims There Is “Racist” Tone Against Obama — In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former President Jimmy Carter said he has been extremely bothered by the heightened climate of racial and other hate speech since the election of President Barack Obama.
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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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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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Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:WWE's Linda McMahon Seeks GOP Nod For Sen. Chris Dodd's Seat
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Scorecard's Blog
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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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.
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beliefnet:
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 …
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.
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.
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TMZ.com:
Obama Calls Kanye a ‘Jackass’ — The Audio — TMZ has obtained the audiotape of President Barack Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” for hijacking Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the VMAs. — The audio was recorded just before Obama went on camera to do an interview with CNBC.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Ignoring a Law on Foreign Relations — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has declared that President Obama can disregard a law forbidding State Department officials from attending United Nations meetings led by representatives of nations considered to be sponsors of terrorism.
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