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The Huffington Post:
Durbin: Progressives Forced Our Hand On Public Option — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Democratic leaders were forced to include a national public health insurance option as part of health care reform by progressive Democratic senators who refused to support anything less, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Harry Reid, party of one, on the health-care public option — What Harry Reid did Monday afternoon gave new meaning to the phrase “public option.” — The Senate majority leader, after haggling behind closed doors with members of his Democratic caucus …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Schumer: We Prevailed On White House That Public Option Was The Way To Go — So how did we go from a White House at loggerheads with the Senate leadership last Thursday night over a public option, to a deal today that's exactly what the leadership wanted? — This evening I spoke …
New York Times:Public Option Push in Senate Comes With Escape Hatch
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Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:Pelosi: Health care ‘public option’ needs new name
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Tony Romm / The Hill:NRSC: Reid is a ‘partisan bully’
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:Reid's Roll Of The Dice
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:Reid announces push for public option
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Nielsen: Fox News ratings up almost 10% since WH declared war — It's a nine-percent bump in the two weeks since Anita Dunn's whine heard 'round the world — in terms of overall audience. Among the coveted 25-54 demographic? A 14-percent bump. Good work, Barry.
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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.
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:REDSTATE EXCLUSIVE: Tim Pawlenty Endorses Doug Hoffman
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William Kristol / Washington Post:
The future of the GOP is outside the Beltway — Bien-pensant conservative elites and establishment-friendly Republican big shots yearn for a more moderate, temperate and sophisticated Republican Party. It's not likely to happen. And probably just as well.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Right Battles G.O.P. in a Pivotal Race in New York — WATERTOWN, N.Y. — From a command center inside the Days Inn here, conservatives from around the country are fighting to preserve what they see as the integrity of the Republican Party. — Urged on by leaders like former Gov. Sarah Palin …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's — Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election. Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues to Decline
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. official resigns over Afghan war — When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan. — A former Marine Corps captain …
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
Ex-A.I.G. Chief Is Back, Luring Talent From Rescued Firm — Maurice R. Greenberg, who built the American International Group into an insurance behemoth with an impenetrable maze of on- and offshore companies, is at it again. — Even as he has been lambasting the government for its handling …
The Politico:
Grayson goes too far for colleagues — Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a “K Street whore” in a month-old radio interview that circulated on Capitol Hill Monday night. — “There's no call for that language.
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Jerusalem Post:
J Street branch drops pro-Israel slogan — J Street's university arm has dropped the “pro-Israel” part of the left-wing US lobby's “pro-Israel, pro-peace” slogan to avoid alienating students. — That decision was part of the message conveyed to young activists who attended a special weekend program …
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Robin Pagnamenta / Times of London:
Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet — People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. — In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said …
Chris Harris / Media Matters Action Network:
After 6 Days, RNC Finally Removes Photo Calling Mixing Of Races A “Crime Against American Values” … RNC FACEBOOK PAGE HOSTED BLATANTLY RACIST PHOTO — Earlier today, the Republican National Committee finally removed a racist photo of President Obama that had been featured on its Facebook page since October 20th.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: 6 in 10 back ‘cap and trade’ — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Six in 10 Americans support a “cap and trade” proposal to cut pollution, according to a new national poll. — Sixty percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say they favor “cap and trade,” …
James Fallows:
More on the Minneapolis “overflight” — According to numerous accounts in the last hour — AP here, Reuters here, WSJ here — the current story from the Northwest flight crew that forgot to land in Minneapolis is that they were so absorbed in using laptops in the cockpit that they neglected …
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