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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 …
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.
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Daily Progress:
Severed gas line found at home of Perriello brother — Updated: 1:55 p.m. Federal and local authorities are investigating a severed gas line at the home of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello's brother, discovered the day after Tea Party activists posted the address online so opponents could “drop by” …
Jeffrey H. Anderson / National Review:
Repeal Means Repeal — By: Jeffrey H. Anderson — Less than three days after the passage of Obamacare, many Republicans are already losing their stomach for the fight. As Ezra Klein gleefully — but aptly — observes over at the Washington Post, “In about 12 hours, the GOP's position …
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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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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality — For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
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The Politico:
After meeting, deafening silence — The Obama administration shifted this week from red hot anger at Benjamin Netanyahu to an icier suspicion of the Israeli prime minister, who made clear during marathon meetings with U.S. officials that he would give ground only grudgingly on their goal …
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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.”
The Huffington Post:
Axelrod: Health Care Passed Because GOP Let Down Its Guard After Massachusetts — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — One of the president's closest advisers said on Tuesday that Republican opponents of health care reform let down their guard following Sen. Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Dingell: It will take a while for ObamaCare to “control the people” — Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) defended the ObamaCare bill on WJR's Paul W. Smith show yesterday when the host wondered why Democrats wait until 2014 to stop people from dying through lack of universal health care coverage.
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The Politico:
The backlash: Reform turns personal — Louise Slaughter and Bart Stupak have received death threats. — A tea party participant published what he thought was Thomas Perriello's home address and urged disgruntled voters to “drop by” for a “good face-to-face chat.”
Thomas Goldstein / The Huffington Post:
A Hearing to Define “Mainstream” Judicial Views — The Senate Judiciary Committee today holds its most significant hearing on any of President Obama's judicial nominees, to consider a candidate who has received remarkably little attention. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who passed through …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Hoyer: Dem and GOP leaders share concerns over spike in lawmaker threats — House Democratic and Republican leaders have conferred to discuss a response to a “significant” number of threats against lawmakers. — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that he …
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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
Reinvigorated Democrats have flustered Republicans on their heels
Reinvigorated Democrats have flustered Republicans on their heels
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Harkin: Public option backers eyeing second reconciliation bill — Public option supporters could offer a second reconciliation bill to establish the program, a top Democrat said Wednesday. — Supporters of creating a government-run public option health insurance program are considering moving …
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Senate adjourns in first day of healthcare reconciliation debate
Senate adjourns in first day of healthcare reconciliation debate
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Erin Geiger Smith / Law Review:
Al Franken Gets Alleged KBR Rape Victim Her Day In Court — Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by fellow Halliburton employees when she was working in Iraq in 2005. — Her allegations are not pretty — she claims she was given a drink, after which she remembers nothing.
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Tony Mauro / The BLT:
KBR Ends Supreme Court Appeal in Rape Case
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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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
A Tea Party Without Nuts — President Obama's winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal …
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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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Hail the Conquering Professor — The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock. — Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We're not total wimps! We don't have to sit around and let ourselves be slapped silly by Republican bullies and Tea Party scaremongers.
CBS News:
Poll: Small Bump in Health Care Believers — CBS News Survey Shows Americans Giving Obama Credit for Legislation, but Still No Majority Support — (CBS) CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
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Fox News:
Terrorists Could Use Explosives in Breast Implants to Crash Planes, Experts Warn — Plastic surgeons using explosive-laden breast implants in homicide bombers could be a new terror tactic that current airport scanning methods may miss.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Shales On ‘Little Ms Politics.’ — Just in case you were wondering if I was too hard on Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales yesterday for his shallow and pernicious critique of Christiane Amanpour as ABC's choice to replace George Stephanopoulos on This Week, this is what he had to say about her during his live chat with readers :
John Dorschner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Health bill included big Republican idea: individual mandate — The lawsuit against the health care overhaul filed Tuesday by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is focused on a provision that has long been advocated by conservatives, big business and the insurance industry.
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Sarah Palin to Host Alaska Reality-TV Series — Good news for Those Who Can't Get Enough of Saran Palin: The former Alaska governor - who's now a Fox News commentator, best-selling memoirist and Republican campaign machine - has a deal in the bag with the Discovery Channel, a source at the network confirms to PEOPLE.
Reuters:
'It's always the bush league schools,' Coulter contends — PHOTOS ( 4 ) — VIDEO ( 2 ) — More Images » — In this file photo, television personality Ann Coulter speaks to the audience. — OTTAWA — After protesters at the University of Ottawa prevented Ann Coulter from giving …
Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
‘I Am Alive’: Justice Ginsburg Fires Back — Ginsburg Says She's in ‘Good Health,’ Despite Bunning's ‘Bad Cancer’ Comment — A year after surgery for pancreatic cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience last week that she is feeling well — and then took a dig at the senator …
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