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11:30 AM ET, October 8, 2009

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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Is Winning the Health-Care Debate  —  Gallup says independents now favor Republicans by nine points.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Passing health-care reform could be harmful to the health of congressional Democrats.  —  Just look at how President Barack Obama's standing has fallen as he has pushed for reform.
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Preliminary Analysis of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman's Mark As Amended  —  CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have just issued a preliminary analysis of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman's mark for the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL  —  The internet is alive with the sound of people analyzing the CBO's “scoring” of the Max Baucus aka Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill.  Before everyone gets too deeply into their thoughts, please keep in mind the following (get ready, all CAPS, bold, indented signifies a really important concept):
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Labor's Fight Over Funding Health-Care Reform.  —  Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office scored the final iteration of the Senate Finance Committee's health-care reform bill.  Good news!  It will reduce federal budget deficits by $81 billion in the next decade.
Martin Feldstein / Washington Post:
A Better Way to Health Reform
Discussion: Economist's View and EconLog
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Left claims 218 in sight
Discussion: US News, Blog entry and Firedoglake
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Corzine Attempting “Juvenile Schoolyard Taunts” Strategy  —  Um, really? … On the one hand, this seems like it couldn't possibly work.  Who's going to be anything but repulsed from Corzine by these tactics?  On the other, it does often seem that prejudice against the overweight …
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army Officers Criticize Rebuke of Gen. McChrystal
Discussion: Commentary
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE UNAMBIGUOUS MEANING OF A CROSS.... Thee U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case called Buono v. Salazar, the year's big church-state case.  The controversy surrounds a large white, wooden cross, built to honor the war dead of World War I, given special congressional status on federal land.
Discussion: Pharyngula
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Barb Shelly / Midwest Voices:
Bob Dole outs naysayer Mitch McConnell  —  Bob Dole supports health care reform.  —  “This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes,” the former Republican Senate majority leader and presidential candidate told an audience in Kansas City today.
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Senate GOP Folding Over Health Care Reform [updated]
Steve Farley / PennLive.com:
Gun-toting soccer mom is shot dead … Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter's soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Quinnipiac University:
American Voters Oppose Obama Health Care Plan, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; GOP Gets Lowest Grades Since Obama Elected  —  American voters oppose 47 - 40 percent President Barack Obama's health care reform plan, and don't want an overhaul that only gets Democratic votes …
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains  —  Martin Fletcher at Forward Operating Base in Wardak province, Afghanistan  —  American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months …
Rachel D'Oro / Associated Press:
Father of Palin's grandson to pose for Playgirl  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure—his bare body.  —  Posing nude for Playgirl is next for the 19-year-old father of Sarah Palin's grandchild.  Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler …
The Huffington Post:
Dems Discussing Public Option With Opt-Out Clause: The Silver Bullet?  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Senate Democrats have begun discussions on a compromise approach to health care reform that would establish a robust, national public option for insurance coverage but give individual states the right to opt out of the program.
New York Times:
In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery  —  WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions.  Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs …
Michelle Malkin:
Fort Carson's heroes  —  Please take time to read the profiles of the American soldiers who died in the siege at Kamdesh.  —  The Colorado Springs Gazette tells their stories here and here.  —  Many were fathers.  All were patriots.  They were stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Discussion: Gazette, KVOA-TV and Daily Pundit
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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Soldiers remembered as devoted dads, heroes
Discussion: Sweetness & Light and Gazette
Wall Street Journal:
Intelligence Fiasco Footnote  —  The authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  When it comes to politicized intelligence in the Bush years, the critics may finally have a point.  Perhaps the work of America's intelligence agencies was manipulated …
Discussion: Israel Matzav, Time and Salon
Daily Mail:
Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress  —  Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
ROMAN POLANSKI BACKERS GAVE $34K TO BARACK OBAMA, DNC  —  Movie industry types calling for the release of director Roman Polanski last year gave $34,000 to Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic Party, FEC records show.  —  Polanski's arrest late last month by Swiss authorities …
New York Times:
Leader Ousted, Honduras Hires U.S. Lobbyists  —  WASHINGTON — First, depose a president.  Second, hire a lobbyist.  —  In the months since soldiers ousted the Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, the de facto government and its supporters have resisted demands from the United States that he be restored to power.
 
 
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Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
The story:  —  Speed-reading the health care reform bill?
Discussion: The Politico and msnbc.com
Associated Press:
Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil
Discussion: YID With LID
New York Times:
Patriot Act Excesses
Discussion: Emptywheel and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Divided on Sending More Troops to Afghanistan
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Swamp
Wendy Button / Politics Daily:
Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Without Insurance Now
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ
Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
NYPD tracking cell phone owners, but foes aren't sure practice is legal
Discussion: Gothamist
 Earlier Items: 
US News:
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming
Discussion: Dean's World
Washington Wire:
Humor With a Political Punch: Lesson for GOP?
Alexander C. Hart / Los Angeles Times:
Obama and students space out at the White House
Discussion: The Swamp and Wonkette
Keith Olbermann / msnbc.com:
Health care reform: Saving American lives
Discussion: The Swamp, Salon and The Jawa Report