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David / Blue Mass. Group:
BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock — Born out of wedlock? Really?? — Well, yes. During (or maybe shortly after) the 2008 Republican convention, Brown was on a panel discussion (aired on the now-defunct CN8 cable news channel) about Sarah Palin.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dem Mail: Scott Brown Wants Hospitals To Turn Away All Rape Victims — This is absolutely brutal: Massachusetts Dems have dropped a mail piece accusing GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown of wanting hospitals to turn away “all” rape victims. — The mail piece — sent over by the Brown campaign …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race — HYANNIS, Mass. - As the two candidates running in the special Senate election here barnstormed across the state Saturday, the enthusiasm gap between the two parties was on vivid display. — Democrat Martha Coakley, Massachusetts' attorney general …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Massachusetts Race Tests Staying Power of Democrats — BOSTON — There may be no better place to measure the shifting fortunes of President Obama and the Democratic Party than in the race being fought here this weekend for the Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy.
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Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
Another Poll Shows Scott Brown Edging Martha Coakley in Massachusetts — Massachusetts Republican state Sen. Scott Brown is leading Democrat Martha Coakley, the state's Attorney General, by 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in Tuesday's special election with 2 percent backing …
Boston Globe:
Coakley: Scott Brown doesn't pay for health care for workers — Democratic US Senate candidate Martha Coakley today highlighted her differences with her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, on health insurance reform by saying that Brown does not pay for health insurance for his campaign workers, while she does.
Robert Cruickshank / Firedoglake:
MA-Sen: We've Seen This Movie Before — When Mike Stark commented on “the implosion” looming for Democrats as evidenced by the Massachusetts Senate special election next week by suggesting he wouldn't phonebank for Martha Coakley, there were a number of replies taking issue with his assessment …
Jon Keller / Wall Street Journal:The Backlash Is Coming! The Backlash Is Coming!
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Frank Quaratiello / Boston Herald:What can Scott Brown do for Dems? UPS ships off legal salvo
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:Quote For The Day — “I've been called a lot of things …
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Dr. Melissa Clouthier:
BREAKING: Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips: “I Want To Make A Million From This Movement” — Embattled Tea Party Nation, Inc. owner Judson Phillips has been making the media rounds to defend his up-coming, February 4-6 conference at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Brown's pushback — America...only three (3) more days left to the start of the 2nd Revolution in America...the Voter Revolution of 2010! And this additional attack is why the “real” American people are fed up with these Chicago mafia style politics! They are dirty, sleazy and so Democratzi!
Richard Johnson / New York Post:
Palin gets 100G for mag cover — Bristol, earned an eye-popping $100,000 for their new In Touch Weekly cover, sources say. For just eight hours' work at her own home, Palin pocketed nearly as much as her $125,000-a-year salary as Alaska governor. It seems her decision to quit her political role is making big financial sense.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues — In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to “cognitively inflitrate extremist groups” by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called “independent” analysts to tout the government line …
Democracy Now:
“Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy"-Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts — We speak with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
In Show of Support, Clinton Goes to Haiti — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Bearing soap, bottled water and other much-needed supplies, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew into this ruined capital on Saturday and told the Haitian people that the United States “will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead.”
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:Bush, Clinton join Obama at White House to kick off Haiti relief fund
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