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David Adams / Rand Paul 2010:
Sarah Palin endorses — National political icon and conservative leader Sarah Palin has endorsed Dr. Rand Paul in his bid for United States Senate from Kentucky. The Paul campaign has received a generous donation from Governor Palin's PAC. — Sarah Palin has clearly seen that Rand Paul supports smaller …
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Matthew Mosk / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book — Political Action Committee Paid More than $60,000 for Copies of ‘Going Rogue’ in Late 2009 — Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, “Going Rogue,” in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin for Paul — There's always been a real overlap between tea parties, the Ron Paul movement and Sarah Palin's conservative grass roots, and the alliance makes itself felt a bit today in Palin's endorsement of the Kentucky Senate bid by Paul's son, Rand. — Rand Paul's statement on the endorsement and “generous contribution”:
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Deficit to Grow $100 Billion Under New Obama Budget — WASHINGTON — President Obama sent Congress on Monday a proposed budget of $3.8 trillion for the fiscal year 2011, saying that his plan would produce a decade-long reduction in the deficit from $1.6 trillion this year …
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Deficit to Hit All-Time High — Obama's $3.8 Trillion Budget Forecasts a $1.6 Trillion Shortfall for 2010 Before It Drops — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will propose on Monday a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that projects the deficit will shoot up to a record $1.6 trillion this year …
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Michelle Malkin:
Debt deluge: Here comes the $1.6 trillion flood of red ink — Peter Orszag blogs this morning about the newly unveiled, $3.8 trillion White House budget: “The Budget lays out a plan to put the country back on a sustainable fiscal path.” — Via the House Republicans, this is what the Obama …
The Huffington Post:
Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Nine months after he penned a memo laying out the arguments for health care legislation's destruction, Republican message guru Frank Luntz has put together a playbook to help derail financial regulatory reform.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Florida Republican Primary for Senate — Florida GOP Senate: Rubio 49%, Crist 37% — Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has now jumped to a 12-point lead over Governor Charlie Crist in Florida's Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:Should Charlie Crist run as an independent in Florida's Senate race?
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John Campanelli / Plain Dealer:
Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets — This marks the 15th year since “Calvin and Hobbes” said goodbye to the comics pages. Creator Bill Watterson, who grew up in Chagrin Falls and still makes Greater Cleveland his home …
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Dems Say Sen. Ben Nelson's Deal Was Setback For Health Care — Democrats are privately admitting the deal they made with Sen. Ben Nelson on Medicaid funding for Nebraska was a major factor in souring the America people on the health care reform bill. — Senate leadership inked a deal …
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Ezra Klein:
Getting real about Congress — “No single vote by any single senator could possibly illustrate everything that is wrong with Washington today,” writes Fred Hiatt. “No single vote could embody the full cynicism and cowardice of our political elite at its worst, or explain by itself why problems do not get solved.”
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dem. senators spent weekend with bank, energy, tobacco lobbyists — Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by POLITICO.
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Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Spell Is Broken — Unlike this president, John Kennedy was an ironist who never fell for his own mystique. — The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic …
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Marist Poll:
2/1: Does MA Spell Trouble for NY Dems? — In the wake of Republican U.S. Senator-elect Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts, a notable proportion — 45% — of registered Democratic voters in New York State say they are worried that a Republican will defeat the state's Democratic senators running for office in November.
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Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Tim Pawlenty: Not Ready for Prime Time — In The Politico this morning, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who apparently aspires to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has a grossly ill-informed article in which he rants about the deficit without proposing any spending cuts and insisting on still more tax cuts.
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty / The Politico:Ponzi on the Potomac — The U.S. attorney general recently announced …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Media Notes: Jon Stewart's Obama barbs on ‘The Daily Show’ are creating buzz — Days before the 2008 election, Jon Stewart jokingly asked Barack Obama whether his “white half” would have trouble making a decision in the voting booth. — “Yeah,” the candidate said, “I've been going through therapy to make sure that I vote properly.”
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Gates Sacks Stealth Jet Chief, Blasts ‘Troubling Record’ of Crucial Plane — If the Pentagon doesn't get its Joint Strike Fighter just right, the U.S. military is screwed. Which is why its a such serious, serious problem this stealthy, all-purpose jet has had such a “troubling performance record …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Senate Aides Identify Key Roadblock To Passing Reform Via Reconciliation — Senate leadership aides have identified what they see as a key roadblock to passing a fix to their bill via reconciliation — and parliamentarians in the Senate and House are hard at work trying to identify a solution, aides say.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:Why I'm Hopeful On Health Care
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presstv.ir:
‘Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11’ — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the “global arrogance” on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. — “The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race …
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Cassy Fiano / Hot Air:Ahmadinejad: Iran will deliver a telling blow on February 11
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CREW:
CREW URGES PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOT TO ATTEND SHADOWY FELLOWSHIP'S NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST — 1 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) urged President Obama and all members of Congress not to attend …
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Pelosi's Children and Grandchildren Used Military Jets As Cross-Country Shuttle Service So They Could Avoid Dealing With the Rabble … Is it a legitimate use of military jets to transport the Speaker of the House and her favored Congressional coterie for routine travel?
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Obama's Secret Wiretap Memo — An intrepid reporter from Wired noticed a most unusual reference in a mostly redacted paragraph on page 265 of a Justice Department Office of Inspector General report about how the FBI and telecoms colluded to improperly — or illegally — wiretap thousands of Americans.
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Charles Krauthammer / Heritage Foundation:
The Age of Obama: Anno Domini 2 — Abstract: In the real world, as opposed to what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls President Barack Obama's “virtual world,” America faces the reality of Iran's intransigence and aggressiveness; China's headlong pursuit of its own national, regional …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Unemployment Forever — Ryan Avent brings us the bad news from Christina Romer's budget talk: … Some historical context: — We're looking, in other words, at years worth of “recovery” during which the unemployment rate will be at what would normally be deemed recession levels.
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Quiet Revolution — Obama has reinvented the state in more ways than you can imagine. — These days, liberals don't know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan …
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Ben Stein / American Spectator:
Free James O'Keefe — In case you wonder what the future is for justice and law enforcement and media control in this country, take a look at two cases. — During the last Presidential election, a gang of men calling themselves Black Panthers showed up at a polling place in Michigan.
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PK Semler / Financial Times:
Volcker rule unlikely to move forward in Senate, lawmakers say — This article is provided to FT.com readers by dealReporter—a news service focused on providing insightful intelligence on event driven situations to investors. www.dealreporter.com — A proposal by former Federal Reserve …
Jamie Chase / The Huffington Post:
Measuring the Move: $20 Million and Counting — The real power of the Move Your Money campaign is helping people to solve their own financial problems. Healthy pride feeds our desire to create our own solutions — and to send a strong message to mega-banks that we won't be their prey.
Aram Bakshian Jr / Wall Street Journal:
The Hazards Of Loyalty — Hypocrisy, hubris and Rielle Hunter. — For a man whose first—and only—winning election campaign was waged against an inarticulate septuagenarian hog farmer, John Edwards made quite a splash when he arrived in Washington in 1999 as the new junior senator from North Carolina.
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
New media help conservatives get their anti-Obama message out — In November, the morning after Election Day, a conservative blogger in Georgia blasted an e-mail to 65,000 people. — Erick Erickson's 5 a.m. “Morning Briefing” seemed counterintuitive — the election of a Democrat …
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