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Stanley Fish / Opinionator:
Do You Miss Him Yet? — I know you're not supposed to, but I just love to say I told you so. — What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia.
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Jim Meyers / NewsMax.com:
Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today …
Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today …
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The Political Carnival
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
The Health Care Whip Count — Dems are aiming to pass health care legislation, once and for all, by Easter recess. But for all their optimistic talk, one thing remains clear: They don't have the votes just yet. Then again, they don't have a bill yet, either.
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Althouse, Betsy's Page, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, RedState, And So it Goes in Shreveport, CNN and AmSpecBlog
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John Flesher / Associated Press:
Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved — TAWAS CITY, Mich. — Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gibbs: Health reform will help Dems in November — Stupak ‘more optimistic’ — New tracking page for House D intentions — Chamber building grassroots army for fall — Peter Baker: Rahm's paradox — BREAKING — Robert Gibbs, to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, on “Good Morning America,” …
Kristen Abraham / WJRT-TV:
Bart Stupak holds town hall on health care reform
Bart Stupak holds town hall on health care reform
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Michelle Malkin
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Massa as conservative media hero — He's spent only 431 days in Congress, has never seen any of his bills pass out of subcommittee and was best known for voting against major pieces of legislation because they weren't liberal enough for him — at least until he was accused of sexually harassing a male staffer.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Former congressman Massa says Democrats set him up over health care — Conservative activists rallied Monday to the side of a liberal New York Democrat who had resigned from the House, after he charged that his party's leaders had conspired to oust him over his opposition to President Obama's health-care legislation.
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Power Line, Firedoglake, Roll Call, Big Government, New York Times, Wizbang, NewsBusters.org, Marbury, Hot Air and Newsweek Blogs
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
Poll shows Obama, Dems losing ground — A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air, The Fix, Scared Monkeys, QandO, Commentary, Shot in the Dark, Gateway Pundit, Power Line and Wolf Files
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Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Introducing Mediagazer — Mediagazer presents the day's must-read media news on a single page. — The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct?
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Techmeme News, WebNewser, The Next Web, Gawker, The Wire, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, ReadWriteWeb and All Shook Down
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Maybe it was a back wax? — Only in the Sunshine State: — CRIST: He's trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative. And yet just in recent weeks, two weeks ago it has come out in news accounts he had a Republican Party of Florida credit card that he charged $130 haircut …
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Fox News:
Crist vs. Rubio: Who's ‘Perpetrating a Fraud’ in Florida? — This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” March 8, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: There seems to be blood on the floor in Florida.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Source of Obama's Trouble — The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families.
Nancy Scola / American Prospect:
Consider the Possibility that Congress Isn't Very Smart. — Matt Bai has a piece in this weekend's New York Times Magazine riffing off of Larry Lessig's important work in correcting both the perception and practice of Congress being horrifyingly warped by the money that flows into campaign coffers.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Glenn Beck, think before you preach — UPDATE: Right Scoop grabbed the video: — Something very disturbing happened today on FOX. Glenn Beck, who has, for the most part, steered clear of jihad, sharia and Islamic supremacism, put his toe in the water, and for the first time since I started fighting the long war, I got nervous.
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Power Line, Pundit & Pundette, The Other McCain, Little Green Footballs, Jihad Watch and Riehl World View
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Dems Hold Slight Advantage in 2010 Election Preferences — Republicans are significantly more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting — PRINCETON, NJ — Democrats lead Republicans by a slight 47% to 44% margin when registered voters are asked which party's congressional candidate …
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
House liberals force vote on pullout from Afghanistan — Liberals in the House, who have spent much of the past year complaining that other congressional Democrats and the White House are insufficiently progressive, will get a chance this week to vent about one of their biggest concerns: the war in Afghanistan.
Robert Montgomery / ESPN:
Culled out — Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy — The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
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Gateway Pundit
Pravda.Ru:
United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jews — Pages: 12 — The authorities of the United Arab Emirates made an unusual decision. Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim said on March 1 that anyone who looks or sounds like a citizen of Israel will be blocked …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
High standards at The Washington Post — By publishing a book that clearly and unapologetically defends the Bush torture regime, Marc Thiessen catapulted himself from obscure, low-level Bush speechwriter into regular Washington Post columnist, joining fellow torture defenders Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol.
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Health care reform CPR — Can Speaker Pelosi bring health care reform back from the dead? Did it ever really die? … In addition to my last health care post, Nate Silver summarizes well the forces pushing in both directions. John Podhoretz also has a good strategic overview.
David M. Cutler / Wall Street Journal:
Health Reform Passes the Cost Test — The Obama plan will cut costs—$600 billion over the next decade. Why walk away from it? — Many people are worried that the health-care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats will fail to bend the “cost curve.”
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Emotion of Reform — We all have our emotional hot and cold spots. If you asked me about the New York Mets, you'd see a glow in my eyes. If you asked me about banking reform, words might come out of my mouth, but you'd notice me nodding off midsentence.
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Sean Penn Suggests Prison Time for Journalists Who Call Hugo Chavez a Dictator — At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, suggesting prison time for American journalists: “every day …
The Hill:
Undecided committee chairmen add to pressure on healthcare reform vote — A handful of House committee chairmen are either undecided about or plan to reject the healthcare reform bill that is expected to be voted on as early as next week. — The prospect of several panel chairmen voting …
William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
California Man Took College Exams for Middle Eastern Students, ICE Officials Say — Daniel Higgins doesn't look like a Middle Eastern student, but officials say he routinely portrayed himself as one for almost a decade, getting paid up to $1,500 per student to attend their classes and take exams …
Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org:
Dan Rather: ‘Articulate’ Obama Couldn't Even ‘Sell Watermelons’ — HDNet's Dan Rather stepped on one mine after another in the racial minefield that exists when talking about the nation's first black President as the former CBS anchor, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend …
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Political Byline, Mediaite, Hot Air, Moonbattery, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys and JammieWearingFool
Fox News:
Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B — Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion “over the next decade,” a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion