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6:25 PM ET, March 18, 2010

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The Politico:
GOP plots Senate health roadblock  —  Democrats might like to think that health care reform is all but a done deal if it clears the House, but the Senate is where Republicans have been plotting for months to sentence it to a painful procedural death.  —  Republican aides have been mining …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
CBO numbers  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) just released the first set of Congressional Budget Office numbers to reporters this morning.  —  The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.
Ezra Klein:
CBO: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95%  —  Washington has spent the past week or so waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to release its preliminary estimate of the Senate bill with the reconciliation fixes.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: CBO releases the actual report; Update: Almost all $940 billion incurred in just six years; Update: Preliminary  —  It's much as advertised.  Thanks to its spending provisions mainly starting in 2014, the reconciliation bill combined with the Senate version has a total cost of $940 billion …
Ezra Klein:
Democrats get the bill, and the score, they needed  —  The question people generally ask about the final health-care reform vote is, “Won't it be politically difficult for many House Democrats to vote yes?”  But with the release of the CBO report (pdf), I'd flip that question a bit …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's pitch: Fate of presidency on the line  —  President Barack Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Rating Lowest Yet, Congress' Declines  —  Slightly more disapprove than approve of Obama  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval is the worst of his presidency to date, with 46% of Americans approving and 48% disapproving of the job he is doing as president …
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Swamp
Daily News Journal:
(2 of 3)  —  “Drawing from Republican and Democratic ideas, the bill before the House now has the potential to bring about major, commonsense remedies to our system that most all Tennesseans agree are necessary.  Under the bill's reforms, Tennesseans with preexisting conditions like heart disease …
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’  —  With this morning's release of the Congressional Budget Office's reconciliation package score, the House appears ready to vote on health care reform this Sunday.
Igor / Wonk Room:
Comparing The CBO Scores For Different Health Care Bills
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: Health Care Reform's Finished Draft
Discussion: Firedoglake
The Hill:
CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer says vote will come on Sunday
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama disapproval exceeds approval
Erin McPike / Hotline On Call:
Rules Panel Dem To Vote Against Bill  —  A key House Dem has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee, on which he sits.  —  Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), a sophomore Dem who had a tougher …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Lynch mobbed  —  Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is a firm “no” on health care reform — in large measure because he opposes the idea of any kind of excise tax on Cadillac plans, even one that's delayed for years and years.  —  That's put Lynch a former ironworkers union official in Boston …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
New Health Care Whip Count: 192 Yes, 208 No (205-210 with Leaners)  —  We're getting to an end game here, and so the counts will come fast and furious at this point.  I think that it's good to look at the count right when the CBO numbers have been released as a good baseline for the future.
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: START THE CLOCK  —  The CBO score is in... Do the numbers influence House Dems who voted against last year's House bill and also against the Stupak amendment?... NBC/WSJ poll finds that a third of the country knows “a lot” about the filibuster procedure... Jobs bill sent to Obama's desk …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Page
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Health Care Pollyanna Update
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Daily Dish
Michelle Malkin:
The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch; Barone's analysis added  —  Photoshop credit: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media  —  You'll recall that House Republicans unveiled …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Punish These Fools. — By: Jim Geraghty
Discussion: Townhall.com and AmSpecBlog
Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Conrad Predicts Senate Changes to Reconciliation Bill
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dems defeat GOP effort to force separate vote on Senate health bill
The Hill:
Stupak: Health fight has been ‘living hell’  —  Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama's healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).  —  The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” …
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Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Health care overhaul to get fresh look from Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ …
Advocate:
Choi Arrested at White House Gates  —  In an act of civil disobedience, Lt. Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo have been arrested at the White House gates on Thursday while protesting the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy.  —  Following a Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal …
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Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog Gay:
Breaking: Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo handcuffed to fence …
CNN:
Gay soldier arrested in protest outside White House
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Texts Without Context  —  In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself.”  He says he's “bored by out-and-out fabrication …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Mashed Up  —  Michico Kakutani has a somewhat curious piece …
Discussion: Eschaton
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The Politico:
NRSC subpoenaed in Ensign probe
Discussion: MyDD and TPMMuckraker
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
‘Holder-in-Chief’ Coburn issues far-fetched threat against Democrats who switch votes in favor of health reform.  —  During a GOP press conference today, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) issued a far-fetched threat against those Democrats who are considering switching their votes to support health reform.
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Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Sen. Coburn: No patronage jobs for health care casualties
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Has Rahm's assumption about progressives been vindicated?  —  President Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga  —  Politico's Ben Smith yesterday suggested that one important aspect of Rahm Emanuel's health care strategy …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Yes, Rahm is Totally Vindicated
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kos / Daily Kos:
FL-Sen: Crist is broken  —  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/15-17.  Likely voters.  MoE 4% (5% for primary samples).  (11/16-18/2009 results)  —  GOP Senate Primary  —  Charlie Crist (R) 30 (47)  —  Marco Rubio (R) 58 (37)  —  Other polling has shown Rubio blowing past Crist, so that's not so much news.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Canceling the trip  —  The cancellation of President Obama's trip to Asia marks the full reversal of the strategy his presidency began with: Flooding the zone with policy, keeping the President out of the weeds.  —  The decision to cancel his trip may look like a sign of urgency but it's also …
 
 
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The Huffington Post:
Nation's Largest Hispanic Advocacy Group Opposes Reform As Is
Discussion: The Plum Line and National Review
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Top Blue Dog: Slaughter solution is ‘poison’
Discussion: The Foundry and The Daily Caller
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Moving The Center  —  Matt Steinglass parses CNN's hiring …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Anti-Defamation League Goes After Gen. Petraeus
Chris Frates / The Politico:
BREAKING — Reconciliation bill posted
Discussion: Open Left
Nitya Venkataraman / ABCNEWS:
Christiane Amanpour Is ‘This Week’ Anchor
 Earlier Items: 
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
“Libertarians,” Sprawl, and Land Use
Discussion: Cato @ Liberty and Eschaton
The Note:
GOP Doc Asks Pelosi: ‘Are you so arrogant ... ignorant ... incompetent?’
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
The 2012 Poll  —  For the third month in a row our look ahead …
Discussion: GOP 12
Natasha Chart / Open Left:
He Took My Lunch Money, Or, Why Women Need Full Health Care
Discussion: Firedoglake