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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 and Firedoglake
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Palin's debut as a motivational speaker: Houston attendees rate her a ‘Fail’  —  After her Tea Party Convention speech this weekend, Sarah Palin flew to Houston to continue campaigning for herself.  The news focused on her appearance at a Rick Perry rally …
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Gibbs Plays a Palin Hand
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Sarah Palin's soundbite strategy
Discussion: GOP 12
New York Times:
In Albany, a Rumor of a Rumor Catches Fire  —  Albany — long a place of scandal, the rumor of scandal and the echoing talk about the rumor of scandal — has had a week a bit unlike any other.  Newspapers, blogs, reputable outfits and fringe gossip sites have worked themselves into a frenzy …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Paterson pens J'accuse letter to Times editor  —  David Paterson's Secretary Lawrence Schwartz has just sent a pretty extraordinary letter to Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times, essentially accusing the paper of doing nothing to counter the firestorm of speculation over its highly anticipated profile of him.
Discussion: The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Defiant Paterson reports on Times interview: ‘No such questions’
Discussion: Gothamist and CNN
Punkin / Media Matters for America:
Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends not to notice  —  If you don't think there's a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let's play a game of what-if.  —  What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Huffington Post
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Alan Schroeder / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin's Tea Party Speech: Beneath Her Wrath A Troubling Contradiction Lurks  —  Sarah Palin's address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville vividly demonstrates why this woman is unlikely to ever become president of the United States: she's too pissed off.
Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds
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 …
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Wieseltier vs Sullivan
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senate Expels Monserrate Over Assault of Companion  —  ALBANY — The State Senate on Tuesday expelled a senator convicted of domestic assault, the first time in nearly a century that the Legislature has forced a member from office.  —  The Senate voted 53-to-8 to immediately oust the senator …
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.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Draft version of Senate Dems' jobs bill leaks  —  A draft version of the Senate jobs bill began circulating around Washington, offering a glimpse of the package of spending items and tax cuts Senate Democrats envision as the basis for legislation Majority Reid Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants to begin debating within days.
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
New Wind Farms in the U.S. Have Not Led to Jobs  —  Millions Have Been Invested in Wind Farms, but That Hasn't Brought Jobs  —  Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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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Reuters:
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
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.
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Burka-wearing gunmen raid French bank  —  Two burka-wearing bank robbers have pulled off a heist near Paris using a handgun concealed beneath their full Islamic veil.  —  Employees let the pair through the security double doors of the banking branch of a post office, believing them to be Muslim women.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Megan McArdle:
Blogging the Snowpocalypse  —  You will probably have noticed that I did not post this morning.  That's because sometime before 8 am, I decided that I should get to the grocery store and pick up my lung medicine in the hiatus between snows.  —  Four hours later, I returned with a trunk full …
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 …
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Brown opposes Obama in first big vote  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) cast his first major vote today, helping Republicans maintain a filibuster against President Obama's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board.  —  Brown opposed ending debate on the nomination of Craig Becker …
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Phony Centrists Pay the Price for ObamaCare  —  In observing the unraveling of the governing coalition and the vicious infighting breaking out in the Democratic party ("Who lost ObamaCare?" will obsess the Left for years, I suspect), James Taranto writes:
 
 
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