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Evan Bayh: An ordinary politician — My impression of Evan Bayh was that he was a major deficit hypocrite. Despite spending all his time talking about the need to reduce spending, he'd voted for all the major spending increases in recent years. When I looked into it, that wasn't true …
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Ross Douthat, Emptywheel, James Fallows, The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, Senator Evan Bayh and Newshoggers.com
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Republicans furious about timing of Bayh's retirement announcement — Republicans are livid about the timing of Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-Ind.) retirement announcement. — They have at least four candidates in the upcoming primary while the Indiana Democratic Party will get to decide its nominee.
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The Reaction, The Huffington Post, CBS News, AMERICAblog News, The Atlantic Politics Channel, CNN and The Politico
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52% say Obama doesn't deserve reelection — 52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn't deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. — 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority …
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CNN Poll: Anti-incumbent fever at record high — Some career politicians are under attack because many think they just don't get it. AC360 asks if they're “Not Republican Enough or Not Conservative Enough,” Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET. — Washington (CNN) — Only a third of U.S. voters …
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Most Americans think Congress should start over on healthcare reform, poll says
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Ezra Klein, Hot Air, AmSpecBlog, Daily Kos, Wizbang, CNN, Hit & Run, Matthew Yglesias, The Washington Independent, GayPatriot, Viking Pundit, The Politico and The Corner on National …
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Paterson Aide's Quick Rise Draws Scrutiny — David W. Johnson has worked for Gov. David A. Paterson for much of his adult life. He began as a young, ambitious intern from Harlem when Mr. Paterson was a state legislator. He rose to be Mr. Paterson's driver, serving as a kind of protector and scheduler.
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Politics Daily, Latest Open Salon Blog, The Hill, Clusterstock, Ben Smith's Blog, Gawker and Taegan Goddard's …
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Amy Bishop was charged with assault in 2002 IHOP dispute — In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother.
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4 Dem Senators Pressure Reid to Use Reconciliation for Public Option — Posted by Stephanie Condon Four Democratic senators, including two facing potentially challenging election campaigns this year, are asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to use reconciliation, a procedural maneuver requiring …
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The Lonely Conservative, Another Black Conservative, Macsmind, Flopping Aces, Hot Air and AmSpecBlog
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Healthcare reform and reconciliation a bad mix, ex-parliamentarian says
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The Corner on National …
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INTERVIEW-Nuclear power aids White House climate push — Source: Reuters — * Obama is optimistic about climate legislation status — * No timeline for more nuclear loan guarantees (Updates with quotes, background) — The White House is working hard to advance climate change legislation …
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Scalia: “There Is No Right to Secede” — The right of a state to secede from the nation is way outside my personal injury wheelhouse. But it has become a source of conversation on professorial and political blogs, and the concept has generated interest from the Tea Party movement.
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Bill Keller Explains Why The New York Times Held the Story of Captured Taliban Commander: Transcript — HEADLEE: So explain the delay, the White House called you and asked you not to print the story? — KELLER: Well, actually, we called them, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins had the story pretty …
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Bloomberg, DAWN.COM, NewsBusters.org, Pajamas Media, Raw Story, Mediaite and Washington Post
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Obama's disco-era jobs bill — WASHINGTON (Fortune) — The ghost of Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is hovering over President Obama as the Democrats try to pass a jobs bill in time for this year's elections. So why is the centerpiece of the measure — a tax break for companies that make new hires …
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BROWNS PROPOSE GAME WITH OBAMA — Hoops for Haiti, featuring President Barack Obama and Ayla Brown? Maybe. AP photo composite by POLITICO — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and his daughter, Ayla, say they're serious about their proposal to play hoops with President Barack Obama at the White House.
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Obama's Islamic Envoy Quoted Defending Man Charged With Aiding Terrorists — President Obama's new envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain, is at the center of a controversy over remarks attributed to him defending a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a terrorist group
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Publication Denies Cover-Up on OIC Envoy, Implies Anti-Muslim Bias Lies Behind Story
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Exxon Hits Peak Oil... Reserves — Exxon Mobil (XOM) announced today that in 2009 the company's proven reserves increased by 133% of the amount of oil produced. — Exxon now has 23.3 billion oil-equivalent-barrels of reserves comprised of about half liquids and half gas.
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Lawrence Kudlow: The Washington, D.C., disconnect — Washington's disconnect from the rest of the country has never been greater. Why can't the political class in the District of Columbia produce a fiscal product that voters, taxpayers and investors are willing to consume?
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Hotline On Call
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Keith Olbermann Defends MSNBC Against Charges Of Lack Of Diversity — Keith Olbermann's Special Comment last night on his MSNBC show was about the undertones of racism within the Tea Party movement, and like he often does, he posted a portion on his Daily Kos blog.
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Foreign demand for Teasury securities falls — Foreign demand for US Treasury securities falls by record amount as China reduces holdings — WASHINGTON (AP) — The government said Tuesday that foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities fell by the largest amount on record in December …
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Even Before Filming, Kennedy Series Stirs Anger — A new mini-series about John F. Kennedy's presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage has been shot. It does, however, have prominent critics who want it brought to a halt.
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The Continuing Climate Meltdown — More embarrassments for the U.N. and ‘settled’ science. — It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the “settled science” of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard.
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What's Obama's beef with India? — It's easy to figure out why President Obama has little use for Israel and England. Israel is the bete noir of most contemporary left-liberals and England was the colonial overlord of Kenya. — But what has Obama got against India?
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Another case of TSA overkill — Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. — Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?
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Right Pundits, theblogprof, Stop The ACLU, Israel Matzav, Shot in the Dark, Moonbattery and The Lonely Conservative
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47% Blame Global Warming on Planetary Trends — Questions continue to mount over the science behind years of studies that say humans are chiefly to blame for global warming. But reflecting a trend that has been going on for more than a year, just 35% of U.S. voters now believe global warming is caused primarily by human activity.
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Deglamorizing Sarah Palin. — Wow. — Okay, now I'd like to see a set of pictures of the little dweeb leaning over a computer screen, working on photographs of Sarah Palin, cropping her long hair and neutralizing the makeup colors. Because I bet he/she is not sexy at all.
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The Tension Is Overstated — The state of the U.S.-China relationship exhibits classic symptoms of a bipolar disorder — sudden and dramatic swings between euphoria and depression. Barely three months ago, when President Obama was feted in Beijing, it was euphoria.
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