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6:15 PM ET, February 9, 2010

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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.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare  —  Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform.  —  The emerging consensus among critics in both chambers is that Emanuel's lack …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill All His Initiatives  —  Update: White House press sec Robert Gibbs just got in touch to confirm that there was an exchange and to clarify a key point.  His comments are below.  —  At the private White House meeting today between Obama …
Discussion: Washington Post
The Caucus:
Obama Urges Setting Aside ‘Petty Politics’  —  President Obama declared today that “a sense of purpose that transcends petty politics” must be forged by Democrats and Republicans to create more jobs, reduce the deficit and find at least some common ground on health care.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama on meeting with GOP
Discussion: The Swamp and CNN
CBS News:
Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin (Video)  —  Posted by Brian Montopoli Following President Obama's surprise appearance at the White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs garnered laughter from the press corps by holding up his hand to reveal that he had written notes on his palm in black marker.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Getting Sarah Palin's Paradigm  —  “If the primaries were this year, I suspect she'd be nominated,” a senior adviser to one of Sarah Palin's potential rivals confides.  It's easy to see why: no one who's thinking of running beats the enthusiasm she generates among Republican activists.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Robert Gibbs Goes Dane Cook: Steals Jokes from Sarah Palin to Make Fun of Her
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Sarah Palin's soundbite strategy
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and GOP 12
John Brennan / USA Today:
Opposing view: ‘We need no lectures’  —  Administration disrupts terrorists' plots, takes fight to them abroad.  —  Politics should never get in the way of national security.  But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Bond calls for Brennan's resignation  —  Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) called on Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan's resignation on Tuesday.  —  Bond said Brennan, with whom he's tangled publicly over the Obama administration's handling of the attempted bombing of a flight on Christmas, to resign.
Wall Street Journal:
Bush Was Right, Says Obama  —  'We're not handling any of these cases any different from the Bush administration.'  —  This weekend, Americans were treated to something new: Barack Obama defending his war policies by suggesting they merely continue his predecessor's practices.
Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
Something Much Darker  —  Andrew Sullivan has a serious problem.  —  I.  —  “Trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity to readers of The New Republic is not easy.”  On June 2, 1944, W.H. Auden penned that sentence in a letter to Ursula Niebuhr.  On January 26, 2010 …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Latest From Leon  —  It's been fourteen years since I left TNR and Leon Wieseltier is still obsessed with his long-standing and at this point tedious personal vendetta against me.  I will try and defend myself from these dark insinuations of anti-Semitism one by one in due course …
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Wieseltier vs Sullivan
Discussion: Eunomia
Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers:
Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky  —  Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most want the two sides to keep working to pass comprehensive health-care reform.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Obama Method And the Health Care Summit
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Obama's Bipartisan Dream for Jobs Bill Will Fail
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Michael Steele Suggests Criticism Of His Tenure Motivated By Racism  —  It's been awhile since Michael Steele has landed himself in the news, but this might stir things up again: In a new interview, Steele bluntly suggests criticism of his tenure — and all the media coverage it's garnered — may be motivated by racism.
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Matt Finkelstein / Media Matters Action Network:
After Saying “I Don't Play The Race Card,” …
Discussion: theGrio
Jeff Sheng / The Bilerico Project:
Exclusive Pics: Lt. Dan Choi back in service?  —  This past weekend at the NGLTF Creating Change conference, there was a notable absence that many have already tweeted and remarked about.  Lt. Dan Choi was supposed to lead a Knights Out sponsored workshop on Friday morning about ending …
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Reid to offer jobs bill  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will introduce a jobs bill on Tuesday that he said would have Republican support.  —  Reid told reporters the bill would be introduced on Tuesday, and that it would include an extension of the tax breaks, known as tax extenders, that expired last year.
Discussion: CNN, The Politico and Open Left
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Draft version of Senate Dems' jobs bill leaks
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
L. Douglas Wilder / The Politico:
Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers  —  During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president.  I did so early, when many Democratic leaders — including many prominent African-American politicians — believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:
Unemployment taxes slam businesses  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers are getting hit with a massive tax hike at a time when they can least afford it.  —  Companies in at least 35 states will have to fork over more in unemployment insurance taxes this year, according to the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Palin Puts Together A ... Campaign?  —  Sarah Palin is putting together a campaign team, and Washington is taking notice.  Mark Leibovich of the New York Times described her bare-bones political operation.  Here is what I know: she is not worried about fundraising right now.
Justin Elliott / TPM LiveWire:
Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently Misunderstanding Buchanan Column (VIDEO)  —  Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday suggested that a war with Iran would be good policy and a boon for President Obama's 2012 reelection hopes.
St. Petersburg Times:
Secret contract, lavish spending push Republican Party of Florida to crisis  —  As a volatile election season gets under way, the Republican Party of Florida is facing its biggest crisis of confidence in decades.  —  Donors and party activists are livid over newly revealed records …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Pamela Geller Destroys Ron Reagan Jr. on Joy Behar Show (Video)  —  The great Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs destroyed Ron Reagan Jr., Joy Behar and her other hateful liberal guest on the Behar Show last night.  Geller gave Ron Jr. the spanking he never had, but needed.
The Smoking Gun:
Felony Snowball Tossing Charges Lodged  —  Cops: Virginia college students pelted city plow, unmarked police car  —  Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Defiant Paterson reports on Times interview: ‘No such questions’  —  David Paterson called a press conference (nominal subject: snow) after his interview this afternoon with The New York Times's Albany bureau, effectively to declare an end to the speculation that the Times is about to break …
Discussion: CNN and Gothamist
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans — Not Obama — More Often on Wrong Side of Public Opinion  —  One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right — made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama and the Democrats …
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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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Corker: Senate can overcome impasse on financial reform
Cynthia English / Gallup:
Global Perceptions of U.S. Leadership Improve in 2009
Discussion: The Daily Dish, D.C. Now and The Swamp
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Brown opposes Obama in first big vote
Discussion: The Politico
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Obama Obesity Proposals: The Good, The Bad, The Missing
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN and Silicon Alley Insider
Megan McArdle:
Shoe, Meet the Other Foot
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and RedState
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Book Publishers Beware!  At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.
Discussion: Engadget and Silicon Alley Insider
Veronique de Rugy / The Corner on National …:
‘The Limits of Blaming Bush’ — By: Veronique de Rugy
Discussion: Megan McArdle
Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily:
Americans Losing Hope, Looking For Change
Discussion: Hot Air
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John Tierney / New York Times:
Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It's Awesome
Discussion: Epicenter and Gawker