memeorandum: Obama To GOP: It's Over (Greg Sargent/The Plum Line)

10:55 AM ET, February 26, 2010

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Obama To GOP: It's Over — Obama listened politely for six hours, with occasional flashes of temper, but in the end, the message was clear: It's over. We're moving forward without Republicans. — Whether Obama and Dems will succeed in passing reform on their own is anything but assured, to put it mildly.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Afflicting the Afflicted — If we're lucky, Thursday's summit will turn out to have been the last act in the great health reform debate, the prologue to passage of an imperfect but nonetheless history-making bill. If so, the debate will have ended as it began: with Democrats offering moderate plans …

Discussion: Time, Los Angeles Times, Blue Virginia, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Prairie Weather

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

David Gergen on the summit: Republicans had their best day in years — Via Hengler, a succinct statement of Jay Nordlinger's point and of what I suspect will be the media consensus tomorrow. Not the only kind words he had for the GOP either: … I don't think they seriously expected …

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Winners and losers from the health care summit — After spending our day watching the high-stakes or, at the very least, high-profile health care summit at Blair House, we came up with a list of our winners and losers from the proceedings. — Those who we think soared and bored are below.

Discussion: Corrente, Another Black Conservative, The Confluence, The Moderate Voice, No Sheeples Here, Hullabaloo, Washington Post, Left Coast Rebel, And So it Goes in Shreveport and The Swamp

John Dickerson / Slate:

Obama and Republicans seemed reasonable. That's bad news for Democrats. … - The Fantastically Freaky Art of George Condo- I Paid $75 for a Home Energy Assessment That Will Save Me $900 a Year- Can Animals Develop a Taste for Human Blood? - Help!

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Outside The Beltway, Althouse, Taegan Goddard's …, The Plum Line, New York Times and NOW! Blog

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.... The stated goal of the White House summit on health care was to have a conversation. President Obama wanted to talk with lawmakers from both parties about areas of agreement and disagreement. He may have even held out some hope that Republicans would show more flexibility …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Washington Post and TPMDC

Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:

McCain on Dems' Health Care Bill: Americans Don't Want ‘Unsavory Deals’ — Former GOP Presidential Candidate Says Democrats Need to Start Over on Health Care — President Obama's health care summit was a good opportunity for Americans to consider the contentious issue …

Discussion: The Foundry, George's Bottom Line and Political Punch

Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:

At summit, Republicans prove they aren't putting America's health first — I'm not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday's Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican “leaders” really think about health care and health insurance.

Discussion: New York Times, The Moderate Voice and Ezra Klein

Mike Allen / The Politico: One last health-reform sprint: House, Senate race to an Easter …

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders: Senate has the votes to pass public option via reconciliation

Discussion: The Politico, Shakesville, The Reaction, The Raw Story, Weasel Zippers and Open Left

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Spinning the health care summit

Discussion: The Fine Print and Washington Examiner

Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
The Main Event: Ryan v. Obama

Discussion: Power Line, The Daily Beast, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Swampland, The Daily Dish and The Lonely Conservative

Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Dueling polls and dubious stats

Discussion: CBS News, The Page, Washington Wire and Ezra Klein

Washington Post:
At health-care summit, Obama tells Republicans he's eager to move ahead

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
No clear winner in seven-hour gabfest

Discussion: CentristNet and Ben Smith's Blog

The Politico:

Bunning holds floor: ‘Tough s—t’ — Senate Democrats spent Thursday night hammering away at Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for single-handedly holding up action in the upper chamber - but he blurted out a message to one of them on the Senate floor: “Tough s—t.”

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, RedState and Wonk Room

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Top Dem chairman signals House will act first on healthcare — The House could act first to pass a healthcare bill within the next month, a top House chairman signaled Thursday. — Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and a close ally …

Discussion: TPMDC

The Caucus:

Bunning Blocks Jobless Aid in Senate — Updated The Senate clash over the unemployment benefits ended just before midnight Thursday with Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, refusing to lift his objection, meaning the jobless aid - for however short a time - will run out Sunday night unless a deal is reached Friday.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Think Progress, Washington Monthly, AOL News Collection and The Politico

Olivia / Citizentube:

YouTube Interviews: Pelosi, Boehner, Reid answer your health care questions — For over seven hours yesterday, the nation's top leaders gathered in Washington for a unique conversation on the future of health care reform. Moderated by President Obama, the healthcare summit revealed disparate views …

Discussion: CNN, NewTeeVee and TechCrunch

Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
At summit, Obama mostly hears Obama

Discussion: Townhall.com, Political Wrinkles, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit

NY Daily News:

Editorial: For everyone's sake, please go, Gov. Paterson — Like most New Yorkers, the Daily News greeted David Paterson's ascension to the governorship with best wishes and fervent hope for success in endeavors suddenly assumed. Today, just shy of two years later, we urge Paterson to step down immediately.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, New York Times, New York Magazine, Hotline On Call and JammieWearingFool

Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Paterson Gets Some Sobering Advice on His Political Future

Discussion: NY Daily News, Gothamist, The Confluence, New York Observer, The Lonely Conservative, AMERICAblog News and Real Clear Politics

New York Times:
Paterson Weighs Race as Top Aide Quits in Protest

Discussion: NY Daily News, msnbc.com, AOL News Collection, City Room, Mediaite, RHRealityCheck.org, Clusterstock and New York Magazine

The Politico:

Committee scolds defiant Rangel — The House ethics committee put another dent in the armor of embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel Thursday, admonishing him for violating House gift rules by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean through an organization called the Carib News.

Discussion: The Note, The Swamp, Left Coast Rebel, Associated Press, Hot Air, The Hill, Another Black Conservative, Washington Post, MyDD, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Michelle Malkin and JammieWearingFool

CNN:
Rangel says he'll be formally admonished

Discussion: TPMMuckraker and THEROOT.COM

New York Times:
Panel Admonishes Rangel for Taking Trips as Gifts

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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:

Defeated congresswoman's car still in House parking lot — more than 3 years later — even though she's a registered lobbyist — Former Rep. Melissa Hart may have hit the road and gone back home to Pittsburgh in 2006 when she lost her bid for re-election, but it appears that a car …

Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog, Ben Smith's Blog, Taegan Goddard's … and Left Coast Rebel

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:

Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists — The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government's security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense.

Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing

Nate / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Pentagon Discloses Hundreds of Reports of Possibly Illegal Intelligence Activities

Discussion: Raw Story and Newshoggers.com

Peter Baker / The Caucus:

Obama Gives Cheney a Call — President Obama called former Vice President Dick Cheney at home to wish him a speedy recovery from his latest heart attack, a rare truce in the fiery, arms-length debate the two have been having about national security over the last year.

Discussion: The Politico and Politics Daily

Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Bush, Cheney meet for first time since 2009 inauguration

Discussion: Washington Wire

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Plan to Seek Use of U.S. Contracts as a Wage Lever — The Obama administration is planning to use the government's enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed on the plan.

Discussion: EconLog, Economist's View and Dennis the Peasant

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:

Intel bill pulled over controversial added interrogation provision — A controversial bill that would have levied criminal punishments on intelligence officers for harsh interrogations was pulled Thursday evening. — House Republicans charged Democrats with trying to sneak a provision …

Discussion: Think Progress, Daily Kos, Political Wrinkles and The Washington Independent