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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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Public Option Gets New Life in Senate — WASHINGTON — The idea of creating a government-run health-insurance plan, once on life support in the Senate, is making a recovery among Democrats writing health-care legislation. — So far, no one is talking about a nationwide Medicare-like plan …
Karen Ignagni / Washington Post:Defending the insurance industry's report on health reform's cost impact
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:Pelosi Aims to Squeeze Skeptics on Public Option With Cheaper Bill Than Senate
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:Blanche Lincoln Taken to the Woodshed by Public Option Supporters
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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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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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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 …
Ruth Marcus / PostPartisan:
Obama's dumb war with Fox News — There's only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don't even have to buy ink. The Obama administration's war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels.
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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 …
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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Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Maryland scientist arrested for attempted espionage for Israel — The FBI has arrested a former senior NASA space scientist who worked in the George H.W. Bush White House space office for attempted espionage for Israel, the Justice Department announced today.
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Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:Maryland scientist Nozette is accused of spying for Israel
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:U.S. Scientist Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Pass Secrets to Israel
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TheTandD.com:
DeMint watches out for all of us — Recently your newspaper published a letter from state Rep. Bakari Sellers attacking U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and his opposition to congressional earmarks. — There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars …
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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:GOPers: DeMint Like A Jew “Watching Our Nation's Pennies”
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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.
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 …
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 …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Afghan runoff ‘important step’ — by Mark Silva and updated at 11:50 am EDT — For weeks now, the White House has added a caveat to nearly every public discussion of deliberations underway about the way forward in Afghanistan: — The United States must have an effective “partner” …
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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 …
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The Hill
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?
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Sanford impeachment resolution likely next week — (CNN) - A resolution of impeachment against Gov. Mark Sanford is likely to be introduced next week during a special session of the South Carolina legislature, but lawmakers said the governor's job is safe for the time being.
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