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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Assailant Was a Coakley Staffer on Loan from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee? — Or just a really good lookalike? — A tipster tells me that the man who was pushing me outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser Tuesday night for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley is Michael Meehan.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dem Staffer Apologizes For Shoving Weekly Standard Reporter — As you may have heard, a Dem staffer helping the Martha Coakley campaign was caught on video shoving a Weekly Standard reporter, prompting an explosion of outrage from national Republicans and the right-wing media, who alleged bullying and intimidation.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
DSCC: Shoved reporter tape a GOP ‘dirty trick’ — A spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is describing the video above, which shows a Weekly Standard reporter getting pushed around by a DSCC consultant, Michael Meehan, as a “dirty trick” by “Washington Republicans.”
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Coakley cites GOP ‘stalkers’ in D.C. dust-up — Bay State Attorney General Martha Coakley blamed GOP “stalkers” today for triggering tensions outside a Washington, D.C., fund-raiser last night where a Weekly Standard reporter said he was roughed up by a Coakley campaign volunteer..
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
This Photo May Change The Election — A hot story today is how a reporter for The Weekly Standard was shoved to the ground by a Martha Coakley campaign worker when the reporter tried to ask Coakley why she was attending a fundraiser with lobbyists. — But another part of the story …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Video: Someone With the Coakley Campaign Pushes Me into a Metal Railing — Coakley won't say if she thinks there are terrorists in Afghanistan. — Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley attended a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill restaurant Sonoma tonight.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
What Massachusetts can tell us about the midterms — The Massachusetts special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy is five days away from its — surprisingly suspenseful — conclusion but, even before the votes are cast, the race has provided political junkies a window into the message strategies for the two national parties.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:Video: Coakley associate shoves Weekly Standard reporter; Update: Photo of assailant
Rich Schapiro / NY Daily News:
Rev. Pat Robertson says ancient Haitians' ‘pact with the devil’ caused earthquake — The Rev. Pat Robertson is offering his own absurd explanation for why a quake hit Haiti: Many years ago, the island's people “swore a pact to the the devil.” — “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Robertson: Haiti ‘cursed’ since Satanic pact — The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti: — “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said.
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GottaLaff / The Political Carnival:VIDEO- Pat Robertson: Haiti disaster due to Haiti's “pact at the Devil.”
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CNN:
PM: Hundreds of thousands dead in Haiti quake — Watch live reports from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Anderson Cooper is on scene for firsthand accounts of the horror and devastation from the earthquake. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — “Port-au-Prince is flattened” after a 7.-magnitude earthquake struck …
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The Politico:
Harold Ford's gilded New York — Harold Ford arrived in New York through one of its finer entry points: Sag Harbor, an exclusive section of pricey East Hampton, where in 2003 his father and predecessor in Congress bought a spacious house for $1.8 million. — The Sag Harbor spot …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Senate Hopeful in New State Airs Evolving Views — In his first extensive interview since he began weighing a run for United States Senate from New York, Harold E. Ford Jr. distanced himself from his previous opposition to same-sex marriage, his description of himself as “pro-life” …
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New York Times:
Interview With Harold Ford Jr. — Following are edited excerpts from Monday's interview with Harold E. Ford Jr., conducted by Michael Barbaro, a political reporter for The New York Times, at New York University's campus in Manhattan: — Q. Why are you thinking about jumping into this race?
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Wall Street Journal:
Support Grows for U.S. Health Exchange — WASHINGTON — The White House wants to include a national health-insurance exchange in the health bill, which would give House Democrats one of their top remaining demands, according to an official involved in the discussions.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
MA-Sen: No longer stealth — As E. J. Dionne notes, this past week, things have gotten tougher for Scott Brown: … Brown has been caught in a vice. His support from teabaggers was critical to becoming competitive — his moneybomb on Monday was the first real moneybomb conservative activists …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Prop. 8 trial TV blocked — Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked any television broadcast to the general public of the trial in a San Francisco federal court of the challenge to California's ban on same-sex marriage. The stay will remain in effect until the Court rules on a coming appeal challenging the TV order.
Jane Hamsher / The Huffington Post:
How the White House Used Gruber's Work to Create Appearance of Broad Consensus — Up until this point, most of the attention regarding the failure to disclose the connection between Jonathan Gruber and the White House has fallen on Gruber himself. Far more troubling, however …
Karen Ocamb / LGBT POV:
Prop 8 trial -day 3 - You all have ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and it even got awards - gay discrimination is over — (Marriage Equality USA's Davina Kotulski is blogging for The Bilerico Project and other outlets on a blogger passed shared with Michael Petrelis. She sent this via email this morning.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Army prosecutes single mother for refusing to deploy and put her son in foster care. — Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, refused to deploy to Afghanistan in November because she had no one to take care of her 10-month-old son. Hutchinson said when she brought her situation …
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
GOP Senate Candidate Marco Rubio Calls For Suspending Congress For Two Years To Fix The Economy — Last night on CNBC, Marco Rubio, a right-wing Republican running for US Senate in Florida, told host Larry Kudlow about his “solutions to the high unemployment” and economic recession.
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Unions Tentatively Strike A Deal Regarding Excise Tax — by Anna Edney, with Billy House contributing — THIS CONTENT IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF CONGRESSDAILY ONLY.
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