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Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
When Your Neighbor Loses His Job It's A Recession. When You Screw A Whore Behind Your Wife's Back, Get Caught, And Lose Your Job, It's A Catastrophic Economic Meltdown — Disgraced criminal Eliot Spitzer has for reasons unknown been occupying a columnist spot at Slate.com for some period of time.
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Eliot Spitzer / Slate:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the self-proclaimed voice of business in Washington—has been wrong on virtually every major public-policy issue of the past decade: financial deregulation, tax and fiscal policy …
Kos / Daily Kos:
Harry Reid abdicates his leadership role — Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. — Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Reid, Schumer huddle over Maddow appearance — Harry and Chuck had a little chat today... Senate Democrats are still buzzing over comments by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) that some interpreted as an attempt to publicly pressure Majority Leader Harry Reid into staking out a firmer position in support of the public option.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
So Much for the Post-Racial America — By: Andy McCarthy — I'm hunkered down on some projects and just heard about the phony attacks on Rush by the race-hustlers extraordinaire, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. I know Rush has big shoulders and he'll handle it just fine.
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Adam Schefter / ESPN:
Sources: Checketts to drop Limbaugh
Sources: Checketts to drop Limbaugh
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Public Option Is Next Big Hurdle in Health Debate — WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congressional leaders turned in earnest on Wednesday to working out big differences in the five health care bills, perhaps no issue loomed as a greater obstacle than whether to establish a government-run competitor to the insurance industry.
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi seeks centrist support for liberal public-option healthcare proposal
Pelosi seeks centrist support for liberal public-option healthcare proposal
David Espo / Associated Press:
Senate Dems seek higher doctor payments
Senate Dems seek higher doctor payments
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama — Secretary of state viewed favorably by 62% of Americans, president by 56% — PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, but in one respect she now ranks ahead of Obama.
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Gunmen, Bombers Hit 5 Sites in Pakistan; 38 Die — Pakistan came under a deadly, staccato series of attacks Thursday that left at least 38 people dead and raised questions about the ability of the nation's security and intelligence agencies to thwart a rising Islamist insurgency.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Why Joe Biden Should Resign — Joe Biden met with CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus this morning to talk about Afghanistan — an issue that has pushed the vice president into the spotlight, landing him on the cover of the latest Newsweek. — I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention …
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
Health Care for All? Not Exactly — In late January 2007, fledgling presidential contender Barack Obama made an unequivocal pledge to redeem the dream that had animated Democrats since the days of Harry Truman. Speaking at a Washington conference organized by the liberal advocacy group Families USA …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN Admits That On-Air Commentator Has Ties To Insurance Industry, Promises Full Disclosure — Looks like the insurance industry has another PR mess on its hands. — CNN has acknowledged in a statement to me that a high-profile Republican commentator who frequently discusses health care …
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Profile of Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director — Interim Media Strategist Leads Salvo Against Fox — Earlier this week, Anita Dunn inserted two words into the conservative electronic echo chamber: Anita Dunn. — With her CNN appearance on Sunday attacking Fox News as …
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New York Times:
Goldman Earns $3.19 Billion in Quarter — Just a year after surviving the financial crisis with billions in federal aid, the banking giant Goldman Sachs reported results Thursday that topped expectations. — Goldman said that it earned $3.19 billion in the third quarter …
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
‘Dead’ al Qaeda terrorist surfaces for media — Doubts raised on drone tactics — A key al Qaeda military planner thought dead by the United States and Pakistan gave an interview this week to a Pakistani reporter, illustrating the uncertainties of a military strategy based on air strikes by unmanned drones.
Tom Coghlan / Times of London:
French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban — When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified. — Their revulsion increased with the news …
Associated Press:
GOP senator's protest grinds Senate to a halt — Oklahoma's Coburn tries a filibuster after pet idea dropped from bill — WASHINGTON - The Senate ground to a halt Wednesday in a display of what an individual senator can do to protest his treatment by some of Capitol Hill's most powerful barons.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
President Obama's Crucial Afghanistan Decision — Afghanistan could be the most important decision of Barack Obama's presidency. Maybe that's why he is, in effect, making it twice. — What's odd about the administration's review of Afghanistan policy is that it is revisiting issues …
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The Politico:
Maverick fallout: GOP won't retaliate — Mitch McConnell and his deputies in the Senate Republican leadership are responding very cautiously to Olympia Snowe's decision to become the first GOP vote for a Democratic health care reform bill. — That's about all they can do.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Third-party pooper: GOP's N.J. dilemma — The surging campaign of third-party candidate Chris Daggett has turned the New Jersey governor's race into a dead-heat and left Republicans divided over the seriousness of the threat he poses to GOP nominee Chris Christie.
Craig Shirley / The Politico:
New book pins ‘debategate’ on Dem — In the annals of Washington scandals, “debategate” in 1983 may have set some sort of record for flare followed by fizzle. It looked to some reporters, for a brief moment, like it could topple a CIA director, a White House chief of staff and maybe even a president.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Senate Election — 2010 Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey Leads Specter, Runs Even With Sestak — Republican-turned-Democratic Senator Arlen Specter trails potential GOP challenger Pat Toomey by five points in an early look at Pennsylvania's 2010 Senate race.
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Tsquare / tsquare's blog:
Tonight... We Are All Rush Limbaugh — Earlier this evening, as most of you now know, one of our own, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, while taking withering fire, crashed and burned. — Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a radio personality. — Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a NFL owner denied