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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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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 …
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?”
ABCNEWS:
Michelle Obama Responds to Palin Pokes  —  First Lady: 'Change... Certainly Doesn't Happen in a Year'  —  Michelle Obama defended her husband against some of his most vocal critics, saying President Obama did a “phenomenal” job this year and that change is a long-term process.
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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel  —  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 …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Leverage Sought In Health Summit
Discussion: Ezra Klein and New York Times
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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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.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
White House: People who criticize us are helping al Qaeda  —  In a brief op-ed in USA Today, White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan charges that critics who question the Obama administration's decision to grant Miranda rights to accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are “serv[ing] the goals of al Qaeda.”
Political Punch:
WH: Some Critics 'Serving the Goals of al Qaeda'*  —  In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies by saying …
USA Today:
Our view on war on terror: National security team fails to inspire confidence
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review Online
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 …
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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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.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ala. poll: Huck is 2012 frontrunner
Discussion: GOP 12
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Palin Puts Together A ... Campaign?
Discussion: Think Progress
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.
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
VIDEO: Pamela Geller on Joy Behar, Liberal Meltdown [Bumped]
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and Examiner
The Huffington Post:
Ben Nelson To Filibuster Key Obama Labor Nominee  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  In a move that will further irritate his Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday evening that he would not just oppose but also help filibuster President Barack Obama's nominee to a key labor relations agency
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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 …
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Pa. seat is latest Democratic worry  —  Rep. John Murtha's (D-Pa.) untimely death Monday makes the political map even more daunting for House Democrats, who will have to defend another highly competitive seat in what is shaping up to be a hostile election year.
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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 …
Michael van der Galien / NewsReal Blog:
Report: Attempted Terrorist Attack in The Netherlands, Bomb Found in Train - Police Say Prank  —  Dutch Omroep Brabant now reports that police say no bomb has been found.  A man was arrested, but he it's likely he's an insane loser with too much time on his hands and not a terrorist.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
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 …
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel  —  Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations' climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel …
John Tierney / New York Times:
Will You Be E-Mailing This Column?  It's Awesome  —  Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they've had less success measuring what kind of information travels fastest.  Do people prefer to spread good news or bad news?
Discussion: Gawker, E&P In Exile and Romenesko
 
 
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