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8:20 AM ET, September 22, 2009

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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 …
New York Times:
White House Is Taking a More Aggressive Role in State Races  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's intervention in the race for New York governor is the latest evidence of how President Obama and his top advisers are taking an increasingly direct role in contests across the country …
Discussion: Moe Lane and DISSENTING JUSTICE
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
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 2.0 and RedState
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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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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 …
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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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Five Health Care Promises Obama Won't Keep
Discussion: Hot Air
Alan Wirzbicki / Boston Globe:
Health fight has other bills sidelined
Discussion: Washington Times
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.”
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.
Discussion: POWIP and Gateway Pundit
Susan Page / USA Today:
Secret interviews add insight to Clinton presidency  —  BALTIMORE — The call from the White House usually would come in late afternoon.  President Clinton had a few hours open in the evening.  Could he come over?  —  Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and civil rights historian …
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Times of London:
Secret Service picked up drunken Yeltsin during Washington visit
Discussion: Don Surber
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 …
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 …
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
McChrystal to resign if not given resources for Afghanistan  —  Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal's team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration.  According to McClatchy …
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. …
Discussion: Dean's World and Dr. Sanity
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 …
 
 
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Marcus Stern / The Politico:
Ross raises eyebrows with healthy haul
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Did the structure of banker pay cause the crisis?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and Megan McArdle
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Israel's ‘Win’ in Gaza Has Lessons for Approach to Iran
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Lesley Stahl / wowOwow:
‘I Was Left With the Impression Ted Jr. Would Run for Public Office Someday’ (Video)
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Its About Who Runs The Country
Joann Loviglio / Associated Press:
Pelosi says health reform will pass within weeks
Discussion: Philly.com and The Hill
Steven E. Levingston / Short Stack:
Health Care, Race and Political Polarization
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WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Little Green Footballs:
Again with the Grossly Inflated Numbers, Part Deux
Discussion: Deltoid and Sing City Chronicles
James Bone / Times of London:
Barack Obama in diplomatic dance to avoid Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad at UN
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Why Democrats Don't Want to Pass a 51-Vote Health Care Bill …
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Rhode Island GOP assemblyman quits party following embarrassment …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TPM Expansion Update
David Henderson / EconLog:
The Feds' Attack on Freedom of Speech
Discussion: Hot Air and Villainous Company