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12:25 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 …
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New York Times:
Democrats Put Lower Priority on Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama's top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly …
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.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
House Progressives Willing to Back Modified Senate Bill …
Discussion: The New Republic and TPMDC
David Hammer / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
ACORN ‘gotcha’ man arrested in attempt to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones … Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe …
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
MSM Leaping to Conclusions — While Big Government Waits for Facts  —  Wait until the facts are in.  —  Mainstream Media, ACORN, Media Matters (all the supposed defenders of due process and journalistic ethics) are jumping to conclusions over the arrest today of James O'Keefe …
Associated Press:
4 men accused of phone plot had conservative ties
Tom Schaller / FiveThirtyEight:
This President Ought to Know Better
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 …
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Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Voters in Oregon OK tax hikes for some
Discussion: msnbc.com and Neptunus Lex
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Progressive Populism Works
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   DOES OREGON COUNT AS A ‘MESSAGE,’ TOO?.... It's understandable …
William Yardley / New York Times:
Oregon Voters Approve Tax Increase
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The New Republic
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?
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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 …
Washington Wire:
Book Report: ‘The Politician’ By Andrew Young  —  If Washington Wire readers are interested in reading Andrew Young's forthcoming tell-all on his decade behind the scenes with John Edwards, the story heats up on page 154 when Young begins to recount how the 2008 presidential hopeful …
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NY Daily News:
John Edwards exposed as cheating lowlife, serial liar in book …
Discussion: Gawker
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes  —  U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders …
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Emptywheel:
The List of US Citizens Targeted for Killing (or Capture)
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog
Kathleen Gilbert / LifeSiteNews.com:
Interview with Sen. Nelson - Complete Text  —  January 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This following is the complete text of LifeSiteNews.com's interview with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson on Wed., Jan. 20, 2010:  —  LSN: What is the message that you want pro-lifers to know?  How do you feel now about the vote?
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Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
Teleprompter Shot of the Day — By: Rich Lowry  —  Here's Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force.  And people made fun of Reagan because of his notecards!
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Adults Only, Please  —  Maybe it's just me, but I've found the last few weeks in American politics particularly unnerving.  Our economy is still very fragile, yet you would never know that by the way the political class is acting.  We're like a patient that just got out of intensive care …
Dan Harrie / Salt Lake Tribune:
Salt Lake County GOP cancels keynote address after New Orleans arrest  —  Plan B » Party's big annual fundraiser will find new featured speaker instead of O'Keefe.  —  Salt Lake County Republicans are scrambling to line up a new keynote fundraising speaker after the arrest Tuesday …
Stephen Koff / Plain Dealer:
'I'm Ellie Light,' California man says: Obama letter writer talks … WASHINGTON — Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.
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 …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site  —  In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall.  The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall …
Quinnipiac University:
Republican Leads In Florida Governor's Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Yes To Oil Drilling, No To Haitians  —  Florida voters support State Attorney General Bill McCollum's promise to challenge the constitutionality of any federal health care bill that forces people …
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.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
White House: ‘Presidents make mistakes’  —  It was nearly a year ago, in February, that President Barack Obama set out to promote his economic stimulus plans in a round of network television interviews.  Instead, he found himself explaining the mistake he had made in nominating Tom Daschle …
Discussion: D.C. Now
Orlando Sentinel:
Obama aims to ax moon mission  —  NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead.  So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.  —  When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
 
 
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Democrats fall as fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974
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The Huffington Post:
J.D. Hayworth A Birther?  McCain Challenger Calls For Obama's Birth Certificate
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Why The Heart And The Kidneys?  —  Joe Carter remains sure …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Tony Lee / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
What Bob McDonnell Might Say Tonight
CNN:
First on the Ticker: Wilson to deliver State of the Union Facebook response
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats woo Snowe, Collins in hope of saving health reform legislation
Breitbart.tv:
CONGRESSMAN ADMITS: 'WE'RE TOLD NOT TO CALL IT ANOTHER STIMULUS …
Discussion: Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
Reason:
The Forfeiture Racket  —  Police and prosecutors won't give up their license to steal.
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