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Charlottesville Daily Progress / Daily Progress:
Severed gas line found at home of Perriello brother — Updated: 4:55 p.m. U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello's brother received a threatening letter in the mail on the same day that someone apparently severed a gas line at the home in Ivy. — Two conservative Tea Party activists posted the address …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
FBI investigates Virginia incident — Law enforcement authorities are investigating the discovery of a cut propane gas line at the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello's (D-Va.) brother, whose address was targeted by tea party activists angry at the congressman's vote for the health care bill.
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Bart Stupak Received Threatening Messages for Health Care Vote (Listen)
Bart Stupak Received Threatening Messages for Health Care Vote (Listen)
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Hoyer: Members are at risk — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is warning that some of his Democratic colleagues are being threatened with violence when they go back to their districts — and he wants Republicans to stand up and condemn the threats. — The Maryland Democrat …
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CNN:
House Democrats report rise in threats — Washington (CNN) — House Democrats are concerned about their security due to increased threats since Sunday's vote to pass the health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday. — Hoyer told a news conference that “a significant number …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Coffin placed on Carnahan's lawn
The Huffington Post:
Wyden: Health Care Lawsuits Moot, States Can Opt Out Of Mandate — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has a message for all the attorneys general and Republican lawmakers who are threatening lawsuits and claiming that an individual mandate for insurance coverage is unconstitutional …
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Boston Herald:
Republicans feeling blue as Scott Brown win backfires — Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats - and slammed by irked conservatives - after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday.
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Quinnipiac University:
Tea Party Could Hurt GOP In Congressional Races, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Dems Trail 2-Way Races, But Win If Tea Party Runs — Only 13 percent of American voters say they are part of the Tea Party movement, a group that has more women than men; is mainly white and Republican …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
A Tea Party Without Nuts
A Tea Party Without Nuts
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress …
Jackson Diehl / PostPartisan:
Obama and Netanyahu: pointless poison — So it's now been two weeks since President Obama chose to seize on a poorly-timed Israeli announcement about new Jewish housing in Jerusalem to launch another public confrontation with the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. The results, so far, are these:
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner on National …:
Israel: One of Many — By: Victor Davis Hanson
Israel: One of Many — By: Victor Davis Hanson
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Senate sliding inexorably toward procedural reform — Since Democrats took control of the Senate in 2007, Republicans have smashed all previous records for the number of cloture votes required to pass legislation. Last month, a few Senators, led by Jim Bunning, used procedural moves to block …
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Harkin: Public option backers eyeing second reconciliation bill
Harkin: Public option backers eyeing second reconciliation bill
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Open Left
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Gap in health care law's protection for children — WASHINGTON — Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Bush wipes his hand on Clinton's shirt after shaking hands with Haitian residents. — After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January, President Obama asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to lead the U.S. relief effort in that country.
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SEK / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
What do you do in the wake of a crushing political defeat? — If you're Jeff Goldstein, you declare yourself to be way cooler than everyone else; if you're Darleen Click, you draw a cartoon in which the President rapes a woman, then tells her that he and friends will be back to rape her again later.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
GOP Lawmaker Darrell Issa Poised to Call for Special Prosecutor to Investigate White House — Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, told CBS News Wednesday that he will call for a special prosecutor to investigate the White House if it does not address …
Paul Thompson / Breitbart.tv:
SHOCKING AUDIO: REP. DINGELL SAYS OBAMACARE WILL EVENTUALLY ‘CONTROL THE PEOPLE’ — “It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps.”
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Grassley: Look How Great This Health Care Bill Is — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has long been a vocal critic of the Democrat's health reform efforts, but today he started taking credit for some provisions of the bill, and talking up his own role in crafting the legislation.
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Warned About Abuse, Vatican Failed to Defrock Priest — Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church …
Forbes:
Resisting ObamaCare, Gandhi Style — Americans will lose control over basic decisions if this law stands. — President Barack Obama came into office promising hope and change. But he might get more change than he hoped for. By foisting ObamaCare on a deeply unwilling country he might …
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Riehl World View
Ezra Klein:
Senate Republicans refuse to work past 2 p.m. [Updated!] — “There is a little-known rule in the Senate stating that hearings can't happen after 2:00 p.m. each day without unanimous consent,” explains Amanda Terkel. “However, every day, at the start of business, the Senate generally agrees …
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Patrick Yoest / Washington Wire:
Work to Rule: GOP Nixes Hearings to Protest Health Bill
Work to Rule: GOP Nixes Hearings to Protest Health Bill
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
James Cameron trashes Glenn Beck — ‘Avatar’ director wants to debate Fox News host — “Avatar” director James Cameron lashed out at Glenn Beck at a news conference Tuesday, offering to debate the Fox News personality on environmental and political issues.
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storyballoon.org:
Another Anti-Obama Jimmy Carter Billboard. Carter: Miss Me Yet? — And yet ANOTHER billboard has popped up. And it's our ol' buddy Jimmy Carter from my last billboard post. — I have to thank a reader/commenter for pointing me to this. — The picture is labeled: Ennis, TX. I-45 and 287.
Ezra Klein:
The risk of health-care reform — The polarizing forces of a legislative debate have a tendency to amplify the certainty of supporters and magnify the doubts of advocates. So I'd recommend Ruth Marcus's skeptical, pro-reform column. I think she actually overstates the amount of disagreement …
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Patrick Ruffini / The Next Right:
The Republican Health Care Failure — Much ink and many pixels are being expended on writing health care's political postmortems, but the focus should rightly be on the policy front — in the think tanks and in the legislative priorities of recent Republican administrations and Congresses.
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Riehl World View