memeorandum: The death knell for comprehensive cap-and-trade (Grist)

6:15 PM ET, January 27, 2010

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

House to Senate: We're Ready On Health Care If You Are — Leading Democrats in the House still insist that “all options are on the table” to move ahead on health care. But for the first time since last Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts, it's clear that they're coalescing around …

Discussion: The Politico, Matthew Yglesias, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Guardian, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly

John F. Harris / The Politico:

Pelosi floats two-track health reform — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday floated the idea of a two-track plan for health care reform — with Congress pursuing easier-to-pass incremental changes now and comprehensive reform later. — “We believe that it's possible …

Discussion: TPMDC

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Senate Aides To House Dems: Back Off — Okay, I've got a bit more for you on what's going on in discussions between the Senate and House on how to proceed with health care, and it helps explain the hold-up. — The latest: Senior Senate aides say they've hit an impasse …

Discussion: The Hill, TPMDC, Hot Air and The New Republic

The Politico:

Top Dems at war - with each other — President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be all smiles as the president arrives at the Capitol for his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, but the happy faces can't hide relationships that are fraying and fraught.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Boston Globe, Las Vegas Sun, Bloomberg, Betsy's Page, Wake up America, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Don Surber, Another Black Conservative, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Associated Press, Glenn Thrush's Blog, The Note and Pundit & Pundette

John F. Harris / The Politico:
Pelosi bucks Obama's spending freeze

Discussion: Townhall.com and The Page

David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Obama to Reaffirm Commitment to an Overhaul

Discussion: The Plum Line, Washington Monthly and Commentary

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
ObamaCare now 20 points down — in CNN poll

Discussion: Swampland, Gateway Pundit, Reaganite Republican, CNN and The Politico

Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Sanders signals he's open to scaled-back health reform

Chris Frates / The Politico:
WH lays out SOTU for congressional staff

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative

Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
I'm Back. So Is Health Care Reform

Discussion: Prescriptions, Swampland, The Politico and TPMDC

Harry Esteve / Oregonian:

Oregon voters pass tax increasing measures by big margin … Oregon voters bucked decades of anti-tax and anti-Salem sentiment Tuesday, raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to prevent further erosion of public schools and other state services. — The tax measures passed easily …

Discussion: MyDD, Crooks and Liars, Jeff Mapes on Politics, SEIU, The Democratic Daily, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, American Power, Left Coast Rebel, Michelle Malkin, BlueOregon, No More Mister Nice Blog, Seattle Times, Left in the West and The Lonely Conservative

Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Business Channel:

Oregon's Rich Tax is Not a Victory for Liberals — Yesterday, Oregon voters ratified two tax increases, one on high earners, and another a revision of the state's corporate income tax. This is their strategy for plugging an enormous budget gap, like the ones that have opened up in state budgets around the country.

Discussion: Capital Gains and Games blogs, Mother Jones, alicublog, Oregonian, Free exchange and QandO

Robert Cruickshank / Calitics:
Oregon Voters Deliver Game-Changing Victory

Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Impolitic and Emptywheel

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
The Lessons of Oregon's Vote to Tax the Rich

Discussion: Newshoggers.com

Joel Millman / Wall Street Journal:
Oregon Passes Tax Boost on Wealthy, Corporations

Discussion: SEIU

Patterico's Pontifications:

Washington Post Writer Makes Assumptions About O'Keefe That the Facts Don't Cash — Again — The Washington Post reports that James O'Keefe stands accused of a plot to “bug” Mary Landrieu's office: — When I first read a news story about this yesterday, it sounded to me like O'Keefe …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New Orleans Times-Picayune, JustOneMinute, TPMMuckraker, The Jawa Report, RedState, Raw Story, NewsBusters.org, Washington Post, Emptywheel, At-Largely, Pam's House Blend, Althouse and No More Mister Nice Blog

Mark Silva / The Swamp:

Louisiana ‘Watergate:’ Glenn Beck is out — James O'Keefe has lost Glenn Beck. — O'Keefe, the young video warrior who surreptitiously taped employees of ACORN offering advice to him, dressed as a pimp, and his friend, dressed as a prostitute, had the backing of FOX News Channel's Beck all the way.

Discussion: Media Matters for America

Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
MSM Leaping to Conclusions — While Big Government Waits for Facts

Discussion: The Politico, Ben Smith's Blog, TPMMuckraker, BuzzFlash.org, Media Matters for America, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Gawker, thedanashow.wordpress.com, News Hounds, Sister Toldjah, D.C. Now, Raw Story and Left Coast Rebel

Ezra Klein:

Waiting for Barack — Every Hill office I've spoken to in the past week has had the same complaint. “Where,” they ask, “is the White House?” — There's been no clear message on the way forward for health-care reform. No clear articulation of preferences. No public leadership to speak of.

Discussion: The Nation, Washington Monthly, Taegan Goddard's …, TigerHawk and TalkLeft

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

In Speech, Obama to Admit Missteps in First Year — WASHINGTON — For all the questions circulating in Democratic quarters as President Obama tries to weather the worst storm of his administration, perhaps none is as succinct as this: Are the missteps at the White House rooted in message or substance?

Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:

The audacity of nope — The state of the union is obstreperous. Dyspepsia is the new equilibrium. All the passion in American politics is oppositional. The American people know what they don't like, which is: everything. — That sounds like nihilism, but they're against that, too.

Discussion: Dennis the Peasant, Achenblog and Balkinization

Brad Stone / Bits:

Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement — What's Missing — No ability to play Adobe Flash animations, widely used on the Web. — No camera, still or video — No non-Internet phone function — No removable battery for a device that can suck a lot of power — No removable storage

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, New Jersey Online, Runnin' Scared, Guardian, Philly.com, CNET News and Althouse

New York Times:
Apple Reveals the iPad Tablet

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Bits and Mashable!

Ryan Block / gdgt live:
Live Apple “Come see our latest creation” / tablet event coverage

Discussion: Newser, ReadWriteWeb, Michael Calderone's Blog, Engadget, Silicon Alley Insider, The Consumerist and Bits

Jeff Stein / Foreign Policy:

CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding — A study in “enhanced reporting techniques.” — Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Main Justice, Michael Calderone's Blog, Obsidian Wings, Newshoggers.com, Raw Story and TPMMuckraker

Igor / Wonk Room:

Ben Nelson Planned To Filibuster Conference Report, Admits Current Law Already Prevents Public Money From Funding Abortion — During last year's health care debate, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) insisted on inserting specific language into the Senate health care bill that prevented public dollars …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, Newsweek Blogs, Liberal Values and The Corner on National …

Kathleen Gilbert / LifeSiteNews.com:
Interview with Sen. Nelson - Complete Text

Discussion: The Politico, TPMDC, AmSpecBlog and The Western Experience

Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:

Clinton signals not a two-term Secretary of State — In an interview to air at 8pm tonight on PBS's Tavis Smiley Reports, Hillary Clinton tells Smiley she does not envision serving as Secretary of State for a second term. She also tells Smiley she is “absolutely not interested” in another presidential run:

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Commentary, Hot Air, Make Them Accountable and RHRealityCheck.org

Front Page Magazine:

Sexual Starvation and Jihad Fantasies — Posted by Miranda Devine on Jan 27th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry — [This article is reprinted from The Syndey Morning Herald.]

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Classical Values

Mara Liasson / NPR:

NPR Poll Shows Vulnerability Of Obama, Democrats … text sizeAAA — Wednesday night's State of the Union speech is an opportunity for President Obama to reconnect to voters who are frustrated about the state of the economy and the progress he's been making toward fulfilling his campaign promises.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Hot Air, The Strata-Sphere, Commentary, Prairie Weather and Glenn Thrush's Blog

Democracy Corps:
Surveys for Democracy Corps and NPR put America's Politics at a Critical Moment

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Open Left

Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:

‘Obama Girl’ now falling out of love — First, Massachusetts turned on the president. — Now, the bikini-clad “Obama Girl” — who fa mously cooed about her “crush” throughout the presidential campaign on YouTube videos — admits the thrill is gone. — Amber Lee Ettinger …

Discussion: Don Surber, Left Coast Rebel, GOP 12, JammieWearingFool and Laura Rozen's Blog

Grist:

The death knell for comprehensive cap-and-trade — I've resisted writing the obligatory “what Scott Brown's victory means for the climate bill” post, mainly because the real answer is Nobody Knows and Everyone's Full of Sh*t. What pundit wants to say that?

Discussion: Climate Progress, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, The Daily Dish and The Washington Independent

New York Times:
Advocates of Climate Bill Scale Down Their Goals

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Corner on National …, Des Moines Register, The New Republic, Wonk Room, Hit & Run and Washington Monthly

ABCNEWS:

John and Elizabeth Edwards Legally Separated — In Tell-All-Book, Ex-Edwards Aide Says Couple Discussed How Cancer Would Help in the Polls — With John Edwards' electrifying U.S. Senate win in 1998, it was his wife Elizabeth Edwards who captivated the nation.

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Bringing Sexy Back — He's The One, all right. — The handsome, athletic pol with the comely wife and two lovely daughters who precipitously rose from the State Legislature to pull us all together. — The fresh face and disarming underdog America's been waiting for …

Discussion: Commentary, pandagon.net, Prairie Weather, The Other McCain, Wake up America, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, HillBuzz and The Page

Al Baker / City Room:

Bloomberg Wants Terror Trial Moved — For the first time, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spoken out against plans to stage the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, at the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, joining a growing chorus of people who believe …

Discussion: Law Blog, Main Justice and The Corner on National …

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Nelson supports reconciliation — After saying yesterday that Democrats should abandon sweeping health reform in favor of a more incremental approach, Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson said Wednesday that he could support reconciliation as long as he supports the underlying bill.

Discussion: Think Progress and Daily Kos

FlipCollective:

If You Rebuild It, They Will Come, by Paul Shirley — I do not know if what I'm about to write makes me a monster. I do know that it makes me a part of a miniscule minority, if Internet trends and news stories of the past weeks are any guide. — “It”, is this: — I haven't donated a cent to the Haitian relief effort.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The League of Ordinary …, Mediaite and The Nation

Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:

D.C. judge Janet Albert accuses ex-lover of stalking her — Days after D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Janet Albert broke up with her girlfriend, the judge found her former companion unconscious in her attic, above her bedroom, with some food and an ice bucket fashioned into a makeshift toilet, authorities say.

Discussion: Rod 2.0:Beta and Main Justice