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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sens: Snowe's healthcare vote puts her top Commerce perch at risk — Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) is risking a shot at becoming the top Republican on an influential Senate committee by backing Democratic healthcare legislation, according to senators on the panel.
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Washington Post:
As Panel Votes Today, Democrats Look Ahead — The Senate Finance Committee will hold a landmark vote on health-care reform legislation Tuesday that is expected to underscore the deep partisan divisions that have emerged and hardened over five months of debate.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Grassley suggests Snowe will vote against Baucus healthcare reform bill — The health reform bill before the Senate Finance Committee will probably pass on a party-line vote, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday. — Grassley, the ranking member of the Finance Committee …
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The Politico:
Snowe ‘aye’ or ‘nay’ today will drive the fall - What she should do to preserve leverage; what it'll mean for reconciliation talk — Ignagni, Tauzin tie at 12 on GQ's ‘50 Most Powerful People in D.C.’ — EXCLUSIVE — The men's mag GQ will be out today with “The 50 Most Powerful People in D.C. ...
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
PWC statement — Not so helpful for AHIP — PricewaterhouseCoopers, the authors of AHIP's report, put out a statement last night that basically said, “Hey, we weren't paid to evaluate the effects of the entire bill, but rather a small slice of it.” The statement only seems to reinforce critics' view …
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:Echoing Insurance Industry, Lieberman Says He Doesn't Support Baucus Bill
Gov. Tim Pawlenty / Big Government:The Baucus Prescription: Higher Taxes and Higher Premiums
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Katharine Q. Seelye / Prescriptions:Live Blogging the Finance Panel Vote on Health Care Bill
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
MSteele / GOP.com:
Let me ask you — The Internet has been around a while, now. But, I still find it an amazing platform for innovation, not just in technology, but in life. Beyond admiring the way it powers so many inventions and businesses, it has become a personal thing for me.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Missing from GOP.com: Future — This is, a youngish Republican points out to me this morning, a bit of an unfortunate place for an empty page on the Republican National Committee's nifty new website. — That would be the “Future Leaders” page. — Post Comment — Pages — HILARIOUS!
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Overlooks Thousands of Support Troops — Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted — President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Liz Cheney takes on ‘radical’ W.H. — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation's security.
Booman Tribune:
Can I Vent? — Yesterday was probably the most embarrassing day yet for the progressive blogosphere during the short reign of the Obama administration. So, now is probably a good time to just let loose and register my disgust with the movement I've been a part of for the last five years.
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M.I.T. Economist Rebuts Insurance Industry Report — After an insurance industry report said that premiums would rise sharply with the passage of comprehensive health care legislation, Jon Gruber, a health care economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he evaluated …
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Orly Taitz Sanctioned for $20,000 — The “Birther queen” has been slapped with a five-figure fine for “wasting the judicial resources” of the Middle District of Georgia, where she'd filed one of her numerous lawsuits demanding that President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Justin Elliott / TPMMuckraker:Orly Taitz Responds To Judge's $20k Fine: Shove It!
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Cable Effect — I got to the office a bit before 9AM today and within 20 minutes I felt incredibly agitated. I was pissed off. I also had a feeling of despair about the prospects for health reform. I was mad, and I also felt helpless. What was wrong? Was it just a bad case of the Mondays?
The Politico:
BRUCE JENNER: BARACK OBAMA UNDESERVING OF NOBEL AWARD — TMZ has a video of former Olympian and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” reality star Bruce Jenner weighing in on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win. — “He's done nothing,” Jenner said. “He's done absolutely nothing.”
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Second Thoughts in Battle for Virginia — WASHINGTON — When State Senator R. Creigh Deeds defeated Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic Party chairman and confidante of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia, the argument among many Democrats …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Whiner-in-Chief — The Obama administration really needs to get over itself. — First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. — Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
OBAMA 15TH HOTTEST HEAD OF STATE — President Barack Obama may have been granted a Nobel Peace Prize, but that doesn't mean that every top honor comes to him easily. The new website “Hottest Heads of State” has ranked the attractiveness of 172 world leaders, and Obama comes in 15th behind …
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D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
Racism Is The New Black — Did I miss something? Some Rubicon crossed, some tipping point? When did it become okay for mainstream* wingnuts to be straight-up, unapologetic racists? — It's not that this sort of thing hasn't been seen before — fr'example this — but for the most part …
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