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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House: If GOP Filibusters, We'll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation — The game of chicken commenceth — right now. — In the course of unveiling Obama's new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before …
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
The Obama Administration's Health Care Proposal — This morning the Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate for that proposal. We had not previously received the proposal …
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New York Times:
Obama to Urge Oversight of Insurers' Rate Increases — WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies, as he rolls out comprehensive legislation to revamp the nation's health care system, White House officials said Sunday.
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Igor / Wonk Room:
White House Unveils $950 Billion Health Bill To Bridge Differences Between House And Senate Legislation — Moments ago, the White House just released a $950 billion health care proposal bridging the differences between the House and Senate health care bills.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
White House: Our Health Care Fixes Can Pass Without GOP Support
White House: Our Health Care Fixes Can Pass Without GOP Support
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Michael S. Steele / Big Government:
ObamaCare Returns: Time to Send a Clear Message to Washington
ObamaCare Returns: Time to Send a Clear Message to Washington
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Washington Post:
Obama embraces Senate approach in new health-care plan
Obama embraces Senate approach in new health-care plan
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Polls: In Key States, Public Option Far More Popular Than Senate Plan
Polls: In Key States, Public Option Far More Popular Than Senate Plan
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
ACORN ‘dissolved as a national structure’ — The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed.
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Daily News Leader:
(2 of 2) — “Looking at it from a cultural, historical perspective, this organization should be called ‘Planned Barrenhood’ because they have nothing to do with families, they have nothing to do with responsibility,” Marshall said. — Nelson suggested that the organization be called …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God's punishment …
Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God's punishment …
Bloomberg:
Republicans Voting Against Stimulus Then Asked Obama for Money — Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration's stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.
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NY Daily News:
On ‘ask,’ Lieberman answers the call: An exclusive chat about Don't Ask, Don't Tell — WASHINGTON - Just when you thought Joe Lieberman couldn't frustrate and perplex liberals any further, he is going off to become chief sponsor of the most significant piece of socially progressive legislation that Congress will deal with this year.
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City Room:
Zazi Pleads Guilty in Plot to Bomb Subways — Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan immigrant who was a key player in what the federal authorities have said was one of the most serious threats to the United States since the 9/11 attacks, pleaded guilty on Monday to terrorism charges after admitting to a plot to blow up the subways.
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Larissa MacFarquhar / New Yorker:
THE DEFLATIONIST — How Paul Krugman found politics. — When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column, or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist Paul Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, go to St. Croix.
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ABCNEWS:
Suicide Pilot's Daughter Retracts ‘Hero’ Remark — Joe Stack's Daughter Samantha Bell Agrees With Victim's Son: Victim Vernon Hunter Was the ‘Hero’ — The daughter of the man who carried out a suicide plane attack against the IRS in Texas said today she considered her father a hero for standing up to …
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Meet The Real Victim Of Last Week's Terror Attack On IRS Building …
Meet The Real Victim Of Last Week's Terror Attack On IRS Building …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Scientology Church hires reporters to investigate newspaper — After decades of digging into the Church of Scientology, reporters and editors at the St. Petersburg Times are accustomed to being denounced by its leaders. — But they find it unsettling that three veteran journalists …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Paul: CPAC win ‘significant’ — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Monday that his win in the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll was “significant” but that he is still undecided on another run for president. — Paul captured 31 percent in the annual straw poll …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Bankruptcy Boys — O.K., the beast is starving. Now what? That's the question confronting Republicans. But they're refusing to answer, or even to engage in any serious discussion about what to do. — For readers who don't know what I'm talking about: ever since Reagan …
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Sen. John McCain: I was misled on bailout — Under growing pressure from conservatives and “tea party” activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government's massive bailout of the financial system. — In response to criticism from opponents seeking …
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
The Torture Memo Author You've Never Heard Of — The Torture Memos will forever be known as the work of John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer who took the lead in preparing them. But the internal Justice Department report on the memos, released Friday, reveals …
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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Obama Biography Is Coming From New Yorker Editor — Updated David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, who has already written extensively about President Obama in the pages of his own magazine, will soon have another platform to do so. The Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Random House said Monday …
Ezra Klein:
The Democratic plan: Finish this bill — There's not a lot of policy news in the president's new health-care plan. The changes are pretty much what we expected: more money going to subsidies (which are now being referred to as “the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history” …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Economist: If Only Obama Had Done Things He's Actually Done, Things Might Be Different — The Economist has put together a good website featuring a number of good blogs, which has tended to obscure from me the fact that their coverage of US politics remains remarkably bad—a mix of center-right ideological commitments and sloppiness.