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8:20 AM ET, February 9, 2010

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Washington Wire:
Fight Shapes Up for Murtha's Seat  —  Democrats are mourning the personal loss of their colleague Rep. John Murtha, but his death today at age 77 is doubly troubling for the party that will have to defend his seat in an upcoming special election.  —  Immediately following the news of his death …
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Washington Post:
Rep. John Murtha dies at 77  —  Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), 77, a Vietnam veteran who staunchly supported military spending and became a master of pork-barrel politics, died today at Virginia Hospital Center following gallbladder surgery last month.  —  Elected to Congress in 1974 …
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
How Murtha's Death Could Make It Harder to Pass a Health Care Bill  —  As the Capitol reacts to the death of Jack Murtha and remembers his legacy, it's worth pointing out that the news will make it even harder for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to secure the 218 votes needed to pass health care legislation.
John Feehery / Pundits Blog:
John Murtha  —  John Murtha was one of those guys whose influence …
Discussion: Washington Wire
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Gibbs Responds to Boehner, Cantor  —  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just responded to a letter sent today from House Republican Leader John Boehner and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor regarding the proposed bipartisan health care summit:  —  The President is adamant that we seize …
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Republican Leader John Boehner:
Boehner, Cantor Question White House on Proposed Health Care Summit  —  GOP Leaders: “Assuming the President is sincere about moving forward on health care in a bipartisan way, does that mean he will agree to start over so that we can develop a bill that is truly worthy of the support and confidence of the American people?”
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Top House Republicans throw cold water on health-care summit  —  Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.
New York Times:
On Health Bill, G.O.P.'s Road Is a New Map  —  WASHINGTON — When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Shelby releases holds on Obama nominees  —  Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has released his controversial “holds” on more than 70 pending presidential nominations, his office said Monday night.  —  Senators, usually from the minority party, often use the legislative tactic …
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New York Times:   Senator Lifts Holds on Most Nominees
The Huffington Post:
Meghan McCain Calls Out Tea Party For Racism, On ‘The View’ (VIDEO)  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Racism in the “tea party” is a why young people are turned off by the movement, according to Meghan McCain.  —  McCain weighed in on recent rhetoric from the group's first convention when she guest hosted “The View” Monday.
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CNN:
McCain's daughter questions Tea Party movement  —  Sen. McCain's daughter Meghan said Monday that young people are turned off by the Tea Party movement.  —  (CNN) - Sen. John McCain's daughter called into question the political stature of the Tea Party movement Monday and sharply criticized …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: 33% of Iowans support ‘tea party’ movement
Mark Memmott / NPR Blogs:
‘Miss Me Yet?’  Billboard With Photo Of Bush Is Real; Not An Internet Trick  —  Internet chatter had led to speculation that it might be an urban myth — nothing more than clever digital trickery spreading via the Web.  —  But our friend Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio assures us he's seen it with his own eyes:
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Bob Collins / Minnesota Public Radio:
The mystery billboard  —  It was late at night and I wasn't sure …
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement  —  As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.  —  NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce …
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Nelson to oppose Becker for NLRB spot  —  Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) on Monday announced he would oppose Craig Becker's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — a move that could ultimately scuttle Becker's confirmation indefinitely.  —  Senate Democratic leaders needed …
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Megan McArdle:
Apple Says it Will Lower Prices if iPad Doesn't Sell  —  Remember the kerfuffle over the original iPhone?  Apple charged luxe prices for the first few months, and then after it had wrung every possible dollar out of the early adopters, dropped the cost to capture more price-sensitive users.
Elizabeth Warren / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street's Race to the Bottom  —  Jamie Dimon is wrong.  We shouldn't expect a crisis ‘every five to seven years.’  —  Banking is based on trust.  The banks get our paychecks and hold our savings; they know where we spend our money and they keep it private.  If we don't trust them, the whole system breaks down.
Financial Times:
Traders make $8bn bet against euro  —  Traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8bn (€5.9bn) against the euro, amassing the biggest ever short position in the single currency on fears of a eurozone debt crisis.  —  Figures from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which are often used …
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Calif. insurer's rate increases draw attention of federal government  —  President Obama's secretary of health and human services fired off a sharply worded letter to a California insurer Monday, demanding to know why it is raising rates for individual policyholders by as much as 39 percent.
Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Washington Post actively sought out “liberals are condescending” piece  —  Well, this is interesting.  Remember that “Why are liberals so condescending” piece by Gerard Alexander the Washington Post published last week?  Turns out, the author didn't submit the piece the the Post — the Post sought him out:
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Times Paterson ‘Exposé’ Will Be ‘PG-13, Not XXX’  —  For days now, buzz has been building that the New York Times was prepping an explosive exposé that would lead to Governor Paterson's swift resignation.  The blog hysteria peaked over the weekend, when Business Insider reported …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition  —  To recap a bit of history, back in the early days of the Bush administration a man named Donald Rumsfeld—deemed one of the worst secretaries of defense in American history by John McCain—was running the Pentagon.  He had a guy working for him named Marc Thiessen as a speechwriter.
Kurt Schlichter / Big Journalism:
Get Over It: ‘Birtherism’ Is Not Journalism  —  Some people will tell you that there is no such thing as a stupid question.  They're wrong.  People ask stupid questions all the time.  It becomes a problem when people do it on purpose.  —  The “we're just asking questions” …
Discussion: Wizbang and Winds of Change.NET
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
COLLINS STILL CAN'T ADMIT HER MISTAKE.... For reasons that are still unclear, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has decided to take a leadership role in going after the Obama administration's handling of the attempted Abdulmutallab attack.  So far, this hasn't gone especially well.
Discussion: The Plum Line and AMERICAblog News
 
 
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