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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill — Senate Republicans, acknowledging they lack the votes to block a health care reform bill outright, have implemented a comprehensive political strategy to delay, define and derail. — With Democratic leaders and White House officials holed …
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Doctor pay, and its cost, are part of health reform — A test of President Obama's pledge to pay for health care — IN THE WORLD according to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), setting Medicare payment levels for doctors has nothing to do with health reform. Really.
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Martina Stewart / CNN:Gregg: U.S. could be on path to a ‘banana republic’ situation
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The Politico:
CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax — In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate. — Only it didn't. — An e-mail press release announcing the change is a hoax, say Chamber officials.
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Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
White House plan: Neuter the Chamber — The White House and congressional Democrats are working to marginalize the Chamber of Commerce — the powerful business lobby opposed to many of President Barack Obama's first-year priorities — by going around the group and dealing directly with the CEOs of major U.S. corporations.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:Fake “Chamber” Press Release Dupes Reuters
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Banks Are Not All Right — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. O.K., maybe not literally the worst, but definitely bad. And the contrast between the immense good fortune of a few and the continuing suffering of all too many boded ill for the future.
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Tony Romm / The Hill:
Thomas to White House: Stay out of Fox News fight — Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas on Monday advised the Obama administration to stand down and avoid further fighting with Fox News and its correspondents. — In an interview with MSNBC, the columnist — who is promoting …
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
AP Newsbreak: New medical marijuana policy issued — AP Newsbreak: New medical marijuana policy issued by Obama administration — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws …
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Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
DOJ shifts medical marijuana strategy — The Department of Justice released formal guidelines on medical marijuana to federal prosecutors Monday, signaling a shift away from prosecuting facilities that provide legal marijuana and the patients themselves. — Attorney General Eric Holder …
Marisa Treviño / Latina Lista:
Special Sunday Post: RNC Chairman Michael Steele's bizarre interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos — For months now, I've resisted trying to equate Michael Steele with Sarah Palin — a Republican Party choice (a.k.a. token) to appease a certain demographic. Palin was to appeal to women voters.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:As Retailers Dump Offensive ‘Illegal Alien’ …
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David Sharrock / Times of London:
Hillary Clinton suffers ‘mis-speaking’ relapse with Belfast bomb claims — Hillary Clinton has been caught out “mis-speaking” again in a manner that suggests that she hasn't learnt from past experiences of her globe-trotting, “lily-gilding” speeches. — The US Secretary of State …
Megan McArdle:
Taking Charge of Our Climate — I don't know enough about climate change debate to weigh in on the cage match between Levitt/Dubner, the environmental blogs, and, it seems, most of the liberal environmental blogosphere. I know enough about journalism to know that asking your sources to feed …
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New York Times:
Decision on Afghan Troops May Wait — WASHINGTON — The White House signaled Sunday that President Obama would postpone any decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan until the disputed election there had been settled and resulted in a government that could work with the United States.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Will Afghanistan turn into another Vietnam? — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A slight majority of Americans think that the war in Afghanistan is turning into another Vietnam, according to a new national poll which also indicates that nearly six in 10 oppose sending more U.S. troops to the conflict.
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Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
In New Jersey, It Was Christie's Race to Lose — and He May Have Lost It — NORTH BERGEN, N.J. - Jon Corzine - the bearded, gray-haired, former Wall Street titan running for his second term as New Jersey's Democratic governor - would never be confused with the toothy-smiled, broad-shouldered …
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters — CLEVELAND — The first night after she surrendered her house to foreclosure, Sheri West endured the darkness in her Hyundai sedan. She parked in her old driveway, with her flower-print dresses and hats piled in boxes on the back seat …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Who's running the WashTimes edit page? — For the past few months, Washington Times staffers have been asking one another: Where's Richard Miniter? — Miniter, who came aboard in March to run the editorial pages—and remains on the newspaper's masthead today—hasn't been seen much around …
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Excise Tax on “Cadillac” Health Insurance Benefits is Regressive — An excise tax on high-end health insurance benefits is an extremely regressive tax on the middle class. Even though Ezra Klein claims this tax is progressive, it is not. It would raise relatively little money from the wealthy.
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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
White House admits: We ‘control’ news media — Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government — TEL AVIV - President Obama's presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was …
Adam Thomson / Financial Times:
Citigroup might lose Mexican subsidiary — Mexico's Supreme Court is this week set to probe a case that could force Citigroup, the troubled US bank, to sell Banamex, its highly prized Mexican subsidiary. — A group of opposition senators has pointed out that the US government bail-out of Citi …
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