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5:40 PM ET, September 18, 2009

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Ezra Klein:
What's Wrong With the Finance Bill?  An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller.  —  Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) chairs the Finance Committee's Health Care Subcommittee.  His support will be crucial — maybe even decisive - in getting health-care reform out of the Finance Committee.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Baucus and the Threshold  —  So Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has released his “mark” on proposed legislation — which would normally be the basis for the bill that eventually emerges from his committee.  And serious supporters of health care reform will soon face their long-dreaded moment of truth.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Snowe: I Haven't Changed, My Party Has  —  It would be easy to over-interpret this statement from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), but it would be a mistake to dismiss it.  —  “I've always been a Republican for the traditional principles that have been associated with the Republican party since …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care  —  Republicans see a backdoor move toward ‘amnesty’  —  President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama, Too Subtle to Lie, Misleads on Health Reform  —  You lie?  No. Barack Obama doesn't lie.  He's too subtle for that.  He . . . well, you judge.  —  Herewith three examples within a single speech — the now-famous Obama-Wilson “you lie” address to Congress on health care — of Obama's relationship with truth.
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Amid Large Protests, Iran Leader Calls Holocaust a Lie  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tens of thousands of green-clad protesters chanted and carried banners through the heart of Tehran and other Iranian cities on Friday, defying tear gas and truncheons as they turned large swaths …
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David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
Clashes in Tehran as opposition defies regime warnings
The Note:
Miss California Wows Conservatives  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Brittany Crockett Report:  —  The Value Voters Summit heard from potential Republican presidential candidates and GOP congressional leaders on Friday morning.  —  But it was Carrie Prejean—former Miss California—who stole the show.
Discussion: The Politico, Swampland and Shakesville
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Irving Kristol, 1920-2009  —  Irving Kristol, writer, editor, and social philosopher, has died in Washington at the age of 89.  His wisdom, wit, good humor, and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public servants.  —The Editors
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, It's Not About Race  —  You wouldn't know it to look at me, but I go running several times a week.  My favorite route, because it's so flat, is from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol and back.  I was there last Saturday and found myself plodding through tens of thousands of anti-government “tea party” protesters.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market  —  Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale.  What to do?  —  Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
Newt Gingrich / Washington Examiner:
The real ACORN scandal: Its enablers  —  It's hard to know who should be more embarrassed by the revelations about the radical group ACORN, the mainstream media or the politicians who have funneled taxpayer dollars to the group for years.  —  It took two amateur twentysomething filmmakers to do what ABC …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Under fire, Democrats abandon ACORN in droves
Discussion: Big Government and American Power
Mike Allen / The Politico:
DNC promises ‘rain of hellfire’  —  The increasingly aggressive Democratic National Committee on Friday launched a new “Call 'Em Out” website targeting prominent Republicans for statements they have made about President Barack Obama's health reform plans.  —  “Help debunk the outrageous lies …
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty takes a right turn
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Hill
The Politico:
Conservatives use liberal playbook  —  Conservatives are coming for the Democrats on their blind side — the left.  —  The evidence is everywhere.  —  At tea parties and town halls, conservative demonstrators oppose health care reform with signs bearing the abortion-rights slogan …
Walter Mitty / Breitbart.tv:
OBAMA '07 REVELATION: HEALTH CARE REFORM REQUIRES TAX HIKES — SAVINGS JUST A THEORY  —  “I've pushed people on the idea of paying higher taxes in order to implement the system.”
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Charles Franklin / Pollster.com:
Sixty-Five Views of HC Reform, One Big Trend  —  The trend in opinion on health care reform has been a bit tricky of late.  After a long and substantial rise of opposition, and an equally long but less sizable decline in support, we came to August, the month for the strange in politics.
Wall Street Journal:
Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional  —  Why an individual mandate could be struck down by the courts.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Former CIA Directors Urge Torture Prosecution Reversal  —  The Justice Department investigation into CIA torture allegations may have already jeopardized American intelligence capabilities, seven former CIA directors told President Obama.  In a letter, the spy chiefs urge …
Rasmussen Reports:
51% Say Congress Should Stop Funding ACORN  —  Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters now say Congress should end all federal funding of the controversial community organizing group ACORN.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% favor continued taxpayer support …
Washington Post:
Duo in ACORN Videos Say Effort Was Independent  —  Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent  —  The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O'Keefe III's alley.  Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A REGIONAL PARTY.... I was looking over the new results from the weekly Research 2000 poll conducted for Daily Kos.  Most of the results are about what we've come to expect — President Obama's ratings are more favorable than unfavorable (55% to 38%); neither congressional caucus is popular …
National Journal Online:
Who The Bloggers Are Following  —  Partisan Differences Reign In Reading And Broadcast Material  —  In the blogosphere, where partisan passion lives, divisions extend to reading and broadcast material, too.  —  NationalJournal.com's panel of top political bloggers was asked to join …
Timothy Noah / Slate:
My Mistake  —  How a factual error in Slate ended up in a White House speech.  —  In his Sept. 9 health care speech to Congress, President Obama said: … Both clauses in this last sentence were untrue, the Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 17.  The insurance of the man in question …
 
 
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Online NewsHour:
Boehner Says GOP Support Unlikely for Baucus Health Plan
Discussion: TPMDC and The Huffington Post
David Weininger / Boston Globe:
In this opera production, the pitch is political
Discussion: GOP 12
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
In Full Page Ad, Fox Asks Where Were Other Media on 9/12.
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Taxpayers Fund Empty ‘Airports to Nowhere’
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Post:
Obama feeds allies to bear
David Petraeus / Times of London:
Afghanistan is hard all the time, but it's doable
 Earlier Items: 
Publius / Big Government:
‘ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone’
Discussion: RedState
Liv Osby / Greenville News:
Andre Bauer to Mark Sanford: Offer to resign won't last
Discussion: The Hill and Political Insider
Michael Silence / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Memo to the DNC: What were you thinking?
Discussion: RedState and The Moderate Voice
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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