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5:55 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 …
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.
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.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill …
Discussion: Washington Post
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama on meeting with GOP
Discussion: The Swamp and CNN
The Caucus:
Obama Urges Setting Aside ‘Petty Politics’
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Obama's Bipartisan Dream for Jobs Bill Will Fail
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Obama Method And the Health Care Summit
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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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.
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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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.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Bond calls for Brennan's resignation
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
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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:
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.
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 …
Veronique de Rugy / The Corner on National …:
‘The Limits of Blaming Bush’ — By: Veronique de Rugy  —  President Obama never tires of blaming President Bush for the deficit our nation faces.  Tobe sure, the Bush-era deficits were bad.  I spent a great deal of time in the last eight years protesting our last president's lack of fiscal responsibility (here and here, for instance).
Discussion: Megan McArdle
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 …
 
 
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Brown opposes Obama nominee in first big vote
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
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Megan McArdle:
Shoe, Meet the Other Foot
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2012 Republican Presidential Hopeful Gary Johnson Takes On His …
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