Top Items:
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Reid announces push for public option — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this afternoon that he plans to push ahead with a public health insurance option that includes an opt-out provision for states - even though he's currently short several votes for passage, according to people close to the situation.
Discussion:
The Plum Line, Bloomberg, Firedoglake, CNN, The Politico, The Hill, CBS News, The Swamp, Ben Smith's Blog, Taegan Goddard's …, Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, Think Progress, Politics Daily, Hot Air, The Foundry, MoJo Blog Posts, RHRealityCheck.org, Daily Kos, Gateway Pundit, Wonk Room and AmSpecBlog
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Senate on Verge of Health Bill — Measure With Stiffer Penalties on Employers and Public Plan Could Come This Week — WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats are close to finalizing their health bill and could unveil a measure as soon as early this week that would include stiffer penalties …
Discussion:
The Politico, TPMDC, Newsweek, msnbc.com, The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, AmSpecBlog, Open Congress, CBS News, Wonk Room, Politics Daily, Washington Post, The Foundry, USA Today, Open Left and Salon
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Pelosi: Health care ‘public option’ needs new name — SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. — In an appearance …
Discussion:
American Power, Townhall.com, Michelle Malkin, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Foundry, Verum Serum and Don Surber
David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Senator Reid Announces ‘Opt-Out’ Public Plan — The Senate health care legislation will include a government-run insurance plan, but states would be allowed to “opt out” of it, the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, announced Monday afternoon. — The question of whether to include …
Discussion:
The Note, The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Politico, The Hill, Democratic Strategist and New York Times
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:Over White House Skepticism, Reid Likely To Go The Opt Out Route
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Daily Kos, The Anonymous Liberal, The New Republic, Open Left, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Raw Story, The Plum Line and TalkLeft
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:SENATE REFORM BILL EARNS PLAUDITS.... Now that a Senate health care bill …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:Senate Dems to Obama: Um, a Little Help Here?
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Firedoglake, Politics Daily, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Booman Tribune, Salon, Roll Call, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Taylor Marsh, Crooks and Liars, American Tory, msnbc.com, Gawker, Washington Monthly, The Politico, TPMDC, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News
Club for Growth:
CFG Poll: Hoffman Leading in NY-23 — Hoffman Surges Into Lead in NY-23 — New CFG Poll shows Hoffman 31.3%, Owens 27.0%, Scozzafava 19.7% — Washington - A poll released today by the Club for Growth shows Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the special election …
RELATED:
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
REDSTATE EXCLUSIVE: Tim Pawlenty Endorses Doug Hoffman — With polling now showing NY-23 has come down to a two man race between Hoffman and Owens, the Democrat, momentum is clearly in Hoffman's favor. — Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota is now adding to the momentum becoming the first sitting Republican Governor to endorse Hoffman.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group — Compared with 2008, more Americans “conservative” in general, and on issues — PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June.
Political Punch:
NOW President on President Obama's All-Male Athletic Outings: 'It's Troubling' — We asked Terry O'Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a “boy's club” atmosphere at the White House …
Discussion:
Hot Air, Don Surber, Washington Post, Lynn Sweet, THE WEEK News & Opinion and Real Clear Politics
RELATED:
Daniel Tencer / Raw Story:
RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week — Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks — CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth - and last - among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.
Washington Post:
McDonnell has double-digit lead in Va. governor's race, Post poll says — Republican Robert F. McDonnell carries a double-digit lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds into the final week of the campaign for Virginia governor, according to a new Washington Post poll.
RELATED:
Wolf Blitzerand / New York Post:
Anchors sink on ‘Jeopardy’ — CNN should consider banning its anchors from appearing on “Celebrity Jeopardy” after the humiliating defeats of — Soledad O'Brien. Wolf was blitzed last month, coming in last with minus-$4,600, behind comic — Andy Richter, a past winner who racked up $68,000 for charity.
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
PRESIDENT OBAMA TIES GEORGE W. BUSH ON GOLF — President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. — CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Swamp, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org, Althouse, Sister Toldjah and Outside The Beltway
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
New Jersey Poll Preview — Some folks thought it was a little odd when Chris Christie went on the air with negative ads against independent candidate Chris Daggett a few weeks ago but it seems to have been a good idea. — Two weeks ago Daggett's fav/unfav was 30/24. Now it's 31/36.
RELATED:
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling — WASHINGTON — Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. — Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis …
Michael Crowley / New York Magazine:
The Indecider — About New York's governorship, as about so much in his recent political career, Rudy Giuliani can't fully, wholeheartedly make up his mind. — On an early-October night here in Kingston, a town about a hundred miles north of Manhattan, it was 2007 all over again.
RELATED:
Editor and Publisher:
Top 25 Daily Newspapers in New FAS-FAX — NEW YORK Here are the top 25 newspapers in the country ranked by daily (Monday-Friday) circulation for the six months ending September 2009 from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percent change compares the same six-month period ending September 2008.
Doug Kendall / Slate:
The Bench in Purgatory — The new Republican obstructionism on Obama's judicial nominees. — It's still early in President Obama's first term, but not too soon to conclude that the president's effort to “put the confirmation wars [for judges] behind us” is not going well.
RELATED:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:UNPRECEDENTED OBSTRUCTIONISM.... In the Clinton era …
Discussion:
Gawker
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
After Reform Passes — So, how well will health reform work after it passes? — There's a part of me that can't believe I'm asking that question. After all, serious health reform has long seemed like an impossible dream. And it could yet go all wrong.
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
