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Karen Travers / Political Punch:
Biden on 2010: If GOP Succeeds, It's ‘The End of the Road for What Barack and I Are Trying to Do’ — ABC News' Karen Travers reports: — Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama's agenda.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Biden: GOP wins would be “end of the road” — Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said if Republicans succeed in winning back the House in 2010, it would be the “end of the road” for the White House's agenda. — At a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Biden said the prospects …
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SEK / The Edge of the American West:
Conservatives are outraged over an actual outrage? Color me impressed. — It may have taken awhile, but thanks to Patrick Courrielche's exposé at, of all places, Big Hollywood, conservatives are positively fuming over the Bush Administration's decision to funnel $2.2 billion through …
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Patrick Courrielche / Big Hollywood:
EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda — **NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** — Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:Astroturfing the NEA: Winner & Associates in on the Scheme? (UPDATED)
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Glenn Beck: Harmful to the Conservative Movement — Unlike others associated with Time magazine, David von Drehle is a skilled, careful, and perceptive writer. So I was interested in his cover story on FOX News's Glenn Beck, who is considered to be a red-hot commodity these days.
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CBS News:
Beck: McCain Would've Been Worse — Controversial Fox News host Glenn Beck tells Katie Couric he thinks GOP nominee John McCain would have been worse for the country than Hillary Clinton or Pres. Barack Obama. Go to CBSNews.com/katiecouricwebshow for more. — See all 43 Comments
La Gringa / La Gringa's Blogicito:
Zelaya says he is in Honduras — Chávez's Venezuelan Telesur TV reported this morning that Mel Zelaya had returned to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In an interview on a local television channel (voice only, no video), Zelaya would not disclose his location but said that he will be giving …
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New York Times:
A Pragmatist, Gates Reshapes Policy He Backed — WASHINGTON — On his tenth day on the job, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signed off on an ambitious if politically charged plan to build a new missile shield in Europe. Just two weeks later, he supported an even more wrenching decision …
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The Politico:
Peter Wehner — Peter Wehner, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives, is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. — Mr. Wehner served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations prior to becoming deputy director …
New York Post:
ObamaCare: Losing everyone — THE elderly were the first group to turn against President Obama's health-care pro posals, alienated by the plans to cut $500 billion cut from Medicare. The young and the uninsured may be the next to jump ship — out of worry over about the huge premiums they'd have to pay.
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CBS News:
Obama Tells Letterman: I Was Black Before the Election — Posted by Brian Montopoli Addressing suggestions that recent criticism of his health care reform efforts has been grounded in racism, President Obama this afternoon quipped, “I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.”
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Banks — WASHINGTON — Tired of the government bailing out banks? Get ready for this: officials may soon ask banks to bail out the government. — Senior regulators say they are seriously considering a plan to have the nation's healthy banks lend billions …
Leslie H. Gelb / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Befuddling Afghan Policy — Why is the president hesitating on more troops to fight his ‘war of necessity’? — Printer — Friendly — I'm lost on President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy—along with most of Congress and the U.S. military.
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Grant McCool / Reuters:
U.S. charges Obama fund-raiser in $290 million fraud — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.
Rasmussen Reports:
41% of Minnesota Voters Give Franken Positive Ratings — Democrat Al Franken has been a U.S. senator for less than three months, but 41% of Minnesota voters think he is doing a good or excellent job. — The latest Rasmussen Reports finds that 31% of voters in the state say Franken …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Strangers to Dissent, Liberals Try to Stifle It — It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress told us to stop …
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Marcus Stern / The Politico:
Ross raises eyebrows with healthy haul — Arkansas Rep. Mike Ross — a Blue Dog Democrat playing a key role in the health care debate — sold a piece of commercial property in 2007 for substantially more than a county assessment and an independent appraisal say it was worth.
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Jeremy Wallace / Political Insider:
Jeb Bush on Rubio, Obama and running for president — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had plenty to say about a whole lot of different issues on Friday when he spoke to the Lakewood Ranch Republican Club. — I've already told you about his change of heart on oil drilling and his frustration …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner on National …:
Two-Front Wars — Theirs and Ours — By: Victor Davis Hanson — Something is not quite right about the conventional wisdom about the Afghanistan war. For nearly eight years, yearly casualties in Afghanistan sometimes were less than a month's losses in the dire days in Iraq (e.g. …
Little Green Footballs:
Again with the Grossly Inflated Numbers, Part Deux — Tim Blair joins the crowd of right wing bloggers trying to spin up the attendance numbers at the Washington DC tea party, responding to my post about Metrorail ridership by quoting the Heritage Foundation, who, as we all know, are completely unbiased (ahem): BIGNESS ENSMALLENED.
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Its About Who Runs The Country — One of the stronger criticisms of the Progressive Block campaign for a public health insurance option is that the versions of the public option that have made it through congressional committees are so weak as to have a minimal impact on health care costs and coverage.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere — (updated below) — Advocates of escalation in Afghanistan chose Bob Woodward to “reprise his role as warmonger hagiographer” by publishing Gen. Stanley McChrystal's “confidential” memo to the President arguing for increased troops.
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Lesley Stahl / wowOwow:
‘I Was Left With the Impression Ted Jr. Would Run for Public Office Someday’ (Video) — By now you've probably seen Ted Jr., Sen. Kennedy's son, a lot. He's been on TV talking about his dad's memoir. But when I met him for a “60 Minutes” interview a week or so ago, all I knew …
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