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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Not clear’ if GOP can block partisan tactic on healthcare — It's “not clear” whether enough Democrats will defect on a majority-vote procedure on health legislation to stop it, the Senate's top Republican said Sunday. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …
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Newsweek:
How the GOP Sees It — What Republicans would do if given carte blanche to run the country. … SUBSCRIBE — Such is the lament of the party out of power in Washington. Republicans on Capitol Hill say they have many good ideas and want to join with President Obama and the Democrats to alleviate the country's problems.
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Washington Post:
Jousting begins ahead of health-care summit — The health-care proposal that will appear on the White House Web site Monday will be a broad “starting point” for discussion at this week's televised health-care summit, not a detailed piece of legislation, a top administration official said Sunday.
The Note:
Schwarzenegger: Tea Party ‘Not Going To Go Anywhere’ — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was dismissive of the Tea Party movement in a “This Week” exclusive interview with Terry Moran. “The Tea Party is not going to go anywhere,” Schwarzenegger told Moran.
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Jared Allen / The Hill:Schwarzenegger: GOP stimulus attacks, then praise of projects hypocritical
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At CPAC, Glenn Beck scolds the Republican Party — After three days of liberal bashing, 10,000 right-wing activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference used their final night in town to give a sharp rebuke to . . . the Republicans? — First came the results …
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Nick Meo / Telegraph:
Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes — Sweden's reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is being threatened by a steep rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the city of Malmo. — When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Toyota: Dems ‘not industry friendly’ — Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “activist” and “not industry friendly,” a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker's top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall.
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
White House adjusts strategy on Republicans — The Obama administration aims to put members of the GOP on the spot, forcing them to compromise on issues or be portrayed as obstructionists. — Reporting from Washington - As voters lose patience with political gridlock …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CPAC straw poll: Just one percent list stopping gay marriage as a top priority — A nugget mined from the PDF of the full results. This does jibe with the gay-friendly-ish vibe to this year's proceedings, but how seriously should we take a poll that was won by, um, Ron Paul and whose results …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Fat Lady Has Sung — A small news item from Tracy, Calif., caught my eye last week. Local station CBS 13 reported: “Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year …
The Huffington Post:
Petraeus Takes On Cheneyism — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Gen. David Petraeus, the military hero of the Republican (and even non-Republican) masses and the current leader of U.S. Central Command, cast himself as decidedly outside the Dick Cheney school of counter-terrorism thought on Sunday.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Huckabee rips CPAC — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. — Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and potential 2012 candidate …
Alex Knepper / race42008.com:
My Fight With Ryan Sorba, the Kid Who Denounced GOProud — This kid is deep in the closet, people. — My colleague Nate Gunderson caught me as I was nearly out the door. I was walking back from the bloggers' lounge with a friend in the Virginia newspaper business, and Nate tapped …
Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Beck: Stop Teaching My Children Everyone Gets a Trophy, What is This, the Nobel Prize? — Part of Glenn Beck's rambling speech at CPAC where he spent the better part of his forty minutes throwing red meat to the crowd, trashing progressives as the root of all evil, revising history …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes — WASHINGTON - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
With his health-care summit, Obama could make partisanship worse — The White House health-care summit on Thursday is supposed to mark a return to politics as it should be practiced — the president leading the legislative process, the two parties talking things out, bipartisanship flowering, order restored.
Jacob Heilbrunn / Los Angeles Times:
The GOP's ‘tea party’ dance — Will the movement sink or save the conservatives? — In September 1960, several dozen young conservative intellectuals descended on National Review editor William F. Buckley Jr.'s estate in Sharon, Conn., to draft a manifesto.
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