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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pelosi Rips McChrystal For Publicly Airing His Views On Afghanistan — This one should stir up Nancy Pelosi's critics on the right: Towards the end of an interview with Charlie Rose that ran late last night, Pelosi took a surprisingly hard shot at General Stanley McChrystal for publicly airing …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dem: House GOP is “80 percent male, 100 percent white” — The National Republican Congressional Committee is urging Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in her place” for weighing in on Afghanistan — prompting one female Pelosi ally to blast the House GOP as …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi says new tax is ‘on the table’ — A new value-added tax (VAT) is “on the table” to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night. — Pelosi, appearing on PBS's “The Charlie Rose Show” asserted that “it's fair to look at” …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Congressional GOP Fundraising Committee On Pelosi: It's Time To ‘Put Her In Her Place’ — The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has a press release today, hitting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for having the temerity to express doubts that Democratic members of Congress …
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GOP is ready to support Obama on Afghan troops — In an unusual twist, Republicans on Tuesday sought to provide President Barack Obama with political cover should he decide to send tens of thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. — Democrats, however, were reserved and nuanced …
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
The Cup of Coffee: White House's David Axelrod Meets With Fox News' Roger Ailes — On a recent visit to New York, White House adviser David Axelrod met over coffee with Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News network, which President Obama has described as a “television station …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod meets with Ailes — At a time of tension between their organizations, White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, sources tell POLITICO. — The two met privately in Manhattan during the president's visit to the United Nations.
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People.com:
Tom DeLay to Quit Dancing with the Stars — It's the end of the road for Tom DeLay. — Sources tell PEOPLE that the former Republican House Majority Leader will withdraw from Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday's live results show due to stress fractures in both of his feet.
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Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
The constitutionality of healthcare — There's nothing illegal about requiring Americans to buy medical insurance. — Are the healthcare bills pending in the House and Senate unconstitutional? — That's what some of the bills' critics have alleged. Their argument focuses on the fact …
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
White House's botched ‘op’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message. — In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Webb calls McChrystal's public statements ‘odd’ — It has been “odd” for Gen. Stanley McChrystal to speak out so publicly about his opinions on strategy for Afghanistan, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) said Tuesday. — Webb, a veteran and former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How Health Care Reform Won — The biggest story in health care reform this year has not been the town hall meetings, or President Obama's big speech on health care. It's that the Senate Democrats have decided they're going to pass a bill. You just haven't heard much about this story …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama kills funding for Iranian human-rights watch agency — The Iran Human Rights Watch Documentation Center can be excused for thinking that this year might make them more indispensable than ever. After all, the Iranian mullahcracy rigged a presidential election and brutally suppressed widespread protests …
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Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:
US funds dry up for Iran rights watchdog
US funds dry up for Iran rights watchdog
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
MSNBC's Ratigan battles McCaughey — Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy — Anthony Weiner and Betsy McCaughey brought their act to MSNBC this morning, where Weiner — unlike last night — was a relatively mellow presence while host Dylan Ratigan tangled bitterly with McCaughey.
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CNN:
GOP urges quick decision on Afghanistan — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Leading Republicans urged President Obama to make a swift decision in favor of more U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan after talks between the president and congressional leaders Tuesday. — Obama faces an expected request …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban
Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban
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Felix Dennis / THE WEEK News & Opinion:
Is the Bible too liberal? — Conservapedia's attempt to weed out “liberal bias” from modern Bible translations — BEST OPINION: TIME, NEWSBUSTERS, BELIEFNET, SOUTHERN APPEAL ... “And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media,” said Amy Sullivan in Time.
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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:
Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
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Michael Falcone / The Politico:
ACORN: Congress can't hurt us — Any successful efforts by Congress to cut off federal funding to scandal-plagued ACORN would have little effect on the community organizing group's overall operations, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday. — “We didn't have government funding for years,” said ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Thoughts on Delaware — Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I am not particularly optimistic about Democratic prospects for next year. But I think that as long as Beau Biden still runs now that Mike Castle is in the race, Democrats will hold onto the Senate seat in Delaware.
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Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
Michael Moore's Problems Are Our Fault — Michael Moore arrives at an LA premiere of his latest film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ in September 2009 (Kevin Winters/Getty Images for Overture) … The reaction to Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, reinforces a suspicion …
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Let's Remember That Letterman's a Clown, Not a Cleric or Congressman — One of many sad things about recent stanzas in the ballad of David Letterman is that now, in all media, Dave will be lumped in with other sexually misbehaving celebrities, even though he stands head and heart above most of them.
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Two Fish, One Barrel: Deconstructing Andrew Sullivan's ‘The Breitbart Standard,’ Demolishing Conor Friedersdorf's 'The Right's Lesser Media' — To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf's Daily Beast criticism of your's truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan's two-thumbs-up to it:
The Huffington Post:
Fox News's Shepard Smith Goes After Sen. John Barrasso On Public Option — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Earlier this afternoon, Fox News's Shepard Smith demonstrated some of that trademarked independent thinking that so often gets him in dutch with the cable network's most dedicated viewers …
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
D.C. to Introduce Same-Sex Marriage Bill — Measure Is Expected to Pass Congress, but Its Viability May Depend on Tilt of Future Chambers — Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill said it appears unlikely that Congress will block a bill to be introduced Tuesday that would allow same-sex marriages in the District.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Coburn: I'll tell Ethics about Ensign — Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn suggested Tuesday that he's willing to testify before the Senate Ethics Committee about the sex scandal surrounding his Republican colleague John Ensign. — When Ensign admitted this summer that he'd had an affair with a staffer …
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Obama Snap-Back — EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246. — A buzz-generating Saturday Night Live skit mocked …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: CNN helps Obama out by ... fact-checking SNL's skit — Via Greg Hengler. Heaven forbid that the average half-drunk late-night Saturday TV viewer be “misinformed” about our savior by a comedy show reminding them that health care's “not done” (which it isn't) and that Afghanistan's gotten worse this year (which it has).
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Does Obama Get It? — The big question on the domestic front right now is whether President Obama understands the gravity of the employment crisis facing the country. Does he get it? The signals coming out of the White House have not been encouraging. — The Beltway crowd and the Einsteins …
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