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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A premature celebration for the GOP — Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama's political fortunes in the first nine months of the year but a new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggests the GOP still faces serious perception problems in the eyes of the American public.
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Most support public option for health insurance, poll finds — Americans still divided on overall packages — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
DeMint denounces op-ed with Jewish stereotype — WASHINGTON (CNN) - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is denouncing remarks by two Republican officials in his state that were published in a controversial weekend op-ed which included a Jewish stereotype. — The piece, written …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Scozzafava Calls the Cops — Lowville, N.Y. — Tonight, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for the November 3 special election in the 23rd congressional district, spoke to about 100 Republicans at the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge 1605.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Reporter Does His Job — My colleague John McCormack called me last night, as I was watching the Phillies-Dodgers game, from his car in a parking lot in Lowville, N.Y. He had attended a Scozzafava campaign event, tried to ask the candidate a few questions — and the Scozzafava campaign had called the police.
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Scozzafava's response to the Weekly Standard — Here's the Scozzafava campaign's response as to why they called the cops on a Weekly Standard reporter last night: — “Agree or not with Dede Scozzafava's positions, she should still be afforded a basic level of respect.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid offers doctors a deal — The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They'll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors' support of healthcare reform. — At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups …
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Wall Street Journal:Public Option Gets New Life in Senate
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Robert Bernstein / New York Times:
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast — AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission …
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Political Punch:
Today's Qs for O's WH - 10/20/2009 — From this morning's gaggle in White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' office: — Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one - — Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based …
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Christie May Have Gotten Improper Aid — When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's office, he said he was merely helping a friend in need. He also said the aide, Michele Brown …
Lenny Ben-David / Pajamas Media:
Showdown on J Street — Pointed questions for director Jeremy Ben-Ami before the new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby's first big conference. — J Street's director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, published an open letter to Israel's Ambassador Michael Oren in the Jerusalem Post this week insisting …
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CNN:
Karzai accepts Afghanistan election runoff — KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Afghanistan is to hold a run off presidential election on November 7, it was announced Tuesday, as incumbent Hamid Karzai bowed to international pressure over claims of widespread vote fraud.
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Ben Conery / Washington Times:
Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party — U.S. blocks N.C. city's nonpartisan vote — Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Financial Giants Donating Little to Obama Party — WASHINGTON — The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and traders. But their willingness to deliver “thank you” gifts to President Obama …
David Rohde / New York Times:
‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’ — A NERVOUS-LOOKING Pakistani soldier pointed a rocket-propelled grenade at our pickup truck in late January. The Taliban guard beside me loaded his rifle and ordered me to put a scarf over — my face.
Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Ex-Miss Cali owes us boob job payback: lawsuit — LOS ANGELES - Deposed beauty queen Carrie Prejean still owes $5,200 for breast implants floated by pageant organizers in January, a new lawsuit claims. — Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean stiffed pageant organizer K2 Productions even though …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Good Grief... ANOTHER Mao-Praising Obama Czar Caught on Tape (Video) — How many commies have invaded the White House? — ...We may never know. — But here's the latest Obama Czar praising mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung in a speech: — Naked Emporer News — Ron Bloom is the Manufacturing Czar.
Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
At rescued banks, perks keep rolling — Bosses benefit after bailout Fringe compensation rose 4 percent last year — NEW YORK — Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of them …
Advocate:
Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer — Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron say that the inefficiencies of the Ryan White CARE Act suggest that a government-run program is not the key to quality health care. — COMMENTARY: Right now, there are hundreds of patients …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Half the country disagrees with Obama on issues — WASHINGTON (CNN) - For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack on the important issues, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / The Politico:
GET TO KNOW A CONGRESSMAN — Gregg Harper says at the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, ‘we hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.’ | Why do you think the majority of congressional representatives are lawyers, like yourself?
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Prospects for Bipartisanship — Reihan Salam talks to the Economist: … On space colonization, I'm afraid I have to strenuously disagree. The problem is that the Spacers will inevitable become politically independent of earth, and then use their command over superior natural resources and robots to oppress us.
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