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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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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 …
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 …
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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.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:Grassley: I Can't Back Bill Now Because Dems Might Do Bill Without Me Later
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The Daily Dish
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:Baucus Compromise Bill Draws Enthusiastic Support of Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
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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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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Times:
ACORN says workers conduct ‘indefensible’ — Suspends, plans audit, in wake of videos — UPDATED: — ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.
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 …
Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:How The New York Times “Covers” The News
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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.
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Extremism in New Jersey — We've been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people's feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti-Christ.
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:Poll: One in Three New Jersey Conservatives Thinks Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:New Jersey Poll: Birthers, Truthers, And The Anti-Christ — Oh, My!
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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 …
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 …
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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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Jerusalem Post:
‘My father is a Zionist, loves Israel’ — Article's topics: Operation Cast Lead, Gaza, IDF, Richard Goldstone — Nicole Goldstone, the daughter of Richard Goldstone, whose report on Operation Cast Lead alleged that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, maintained on Wednesday that her father “is a Zionist and loves Israel.”
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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: W.H. collects Web users' data without notice — Social-media messages go into archives — The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users …
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 …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Rapping Joe's Knuckles — Joe Wilson, congressman, argued that Joe Wilson, chucklehead, should not be formally rebuked. — It would be a waste of time, he asserted on the House floor where, six days earlier, he had committed his conduct most unbecoming. — Other Republicans stepped …
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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.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Waters: Probe ‘birthers and the teabaggers’ at rallies for racist views — The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday. — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) …
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sbsun.com:
Conservative journalists post “sting” at ACORN's San Bernardino office — SAN BERNARDINO - The conservative Web site Big Government.com has posted a hidden camera video showing an ACORN employee apparently agree to help a “pimp” and “prostitute” set up a brothel employing underage immigrants to help finance a political campaign.
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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