memeorandum: The Petraeus briefing: Biden's embarrassment is not the whole story (Mark Perry/Foreign Policy)

10:10 PM ET, March 14, 2010

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Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:

Justice's wife launches ‘tea party’ group — The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court. — Reporting from Washington — As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken …

Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com, New York Times, Gawker, Mediaite, Another Black Conservative, The Impolitic, The Political Carnival, The Corner on National …, Maggie's Notebook, No More Mister Nice Blog, AMERICAblog News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Rising Hegemon

Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:

The Legacy Media's War on Conservatives — By: Andy McCarthy — So let me make sure I have this straight. If you're a “progressive” lawyer who volunteers to represent America's enemies for free in offensive lawsuits brought against the American people during wartime, and then you are placed …

Discussion: Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, The Lonely Conservative, AmSpecBlog and Pajamas Media

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee

Discussion: TalkLeft

Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:

Rove Falsely Claims Bush Administration Never Said Iraqi Oil Revenue Would Help Pay For War — In his new book and in recent media appearances promoting it, former top Bush aide Karl Rove has been revising the history of the Iraq war, particularly regarding the issue of Saddam Hussien's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Hill and Raw Story

Howard Fineman / Newsweek:

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do — The press finally falls out of love with Obama. — From the magazine issue dated Mar 22, 2010 — Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, was 50 minutes late for his briefing, apparently a record for tardiness, but few reporters in the White House press room bothered …

Discussion: Big Journalism, NewsBusters.org, American Power and Don Surber

Peter Baker / New York Times:
As Health Vote Awaits, Future of a Presidency Waits, Too

Discussion: Hot Air, Doug Ross, Another Black Conservative, Gateway Pundit, Ruby Slippers, American Power and JammieWearingFool

Frank Rich / New York Times:
The New Rove-Cheney Assault on Reality

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Mark Perry / Foreign Policy:

The Petraeus briefing: Biden's embarrassment is not the whole story — On January 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East) …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, Laura Rozen's Blog, New York Times, ATTACKERMAN and Israel Matzav

Janine Zacharia / Washington Post:
Israeli prime minister calls settlement dispute with U.S. regrettable, hurtful

Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog, Haaretz and Commentary

Walter Alarkon / The Hill:

Gibbs: By next Sunday, healthcare reform will be the ‘law of the land’ — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend. — “We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Plum Line, The Lonely Conservative, Another Black Conservative, JammieWearingFool, Washington Monthly, Doug Ross and Riehl World View

Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
Democrats Still Short of Votes But Predict Health Bill Will Pass

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

David Riedel / CBS News:
Gibbs: By Next Week Health Bill Will Pass

Discussion: The Page and Associated Press

Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:

Graham: ‘No Way In The World’ Is Massachusetts' Health Care Plan Similar To The Democratic Proposal — Giving this week's GOP address, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) bashed Democratic efforts to reform health care as a “bitter, destructive, and endless drive to completely transform America's healthcare system.”

Discussion: Paul Krugman, Grasping Reality …, The Hill and The Hill

Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
David Axelrod: When You Go Into The Details, People Support The Healthcare Bill

Discussion: Riehl World View and American Power

Silla Brush / The Hill:

Senate Republicans urge more time on financial overhaul — Senate Banking Committee Republicans are unanimously pleading with panel Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) for more time to consider financial regulatory overhaul legislation. — All 10 Republicans on the panel argued in a letter …

Political Punch:

Axelrod: Israel Settlement Approval an ‘Affront’; ‘Insult’ — The President's top adviser David Axelrod told me that approval of new housing units by Israel in the Arab section of Jerusalem during Vice President Biden's trip there last week was an “affront” and an “insult”.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, New York Times, FP Passport, The Moderate Voice and The Page

Fox News:

American Linked to Terror Plot Brainwashed 6-Year-Old Son, Family Says — He was being turned into a baby bomber. — The 6-year-old son of a Colorado nursing student who ran off to Europe to join a terrorist murder cell was brainwashed into a hate-filled Islamic fundamentalist zombie …

Discussion: ThreatsWatch and Weasel Zippers

George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:

‘Coffee party’ debuts in West Palm Beach as ‘anti-tea party’ — WEST PALM BEACH — Venting about the conservative tea party movement and talking — at times heatedly — about the need for civility in public discourse marked the debut meeting of a local “coffee party” group today.

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel, Gateway Pundit, Instapundit, Don Surber, American Power, Dean's World, QandO, The Other McCain, The Impolitic, CNN, The Daily Caller, AmSpecBlog, Ruby Slippers, The Huffington Post and Riehl World View

Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:

Re: The Gitmo Bar & Krauthammer — By: Andy McCarthy — Jonah, there will be more evidence, and it is shocking. — Until then, I think you are misstating my argument — as is the excellent Paul Mirengoff, who also has a very thoughtful post at Powerline.

Discussion: Metablog and Power Line