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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama to repeal-minded Republicans: ‘Go for it’ — President Barack Obama on Thursday flipped into campaign mode and dared Republicans to repeal the healthcare law. — With his signature agenda item signed into law, Obama switched from selling the bill to aggressively promoting …
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Rasmussen Reports:
55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill — Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Embracing the freakshow — As Barack Obama's campaign for president heated up, the Secret Service fielded a stream of threats of various seriousness. His canvassers sometimes encountered hostile, even racist, remarks and scary situations. The long, ugly spring of 2008 produced a smashed window …
Quinnipiac University:
Obama Gets Small Bounce From Health Care Win, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Net Disapproval Of Health Reform Drops 9 Points — Despite passage of his signature health reform bill, President Barack Obama still gets a split 45 - 46 percent approval from American voters …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What's in the Affordable Care Act? — Ben Smith has an insightful item on the Democrats' decision to “embrace the freakshow” by trying to focus attention on the existence of a violent fringe of opposition to the Affordable Care Act that's clearly inspired by the unhinged nature …
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Day One — Companies are already warning about higher health-care costs.
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David Frum / FrumForum:
AEI Says Goodbye — I have been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2003. At lunch today, AEI President Arthur Brooks and I came to a termination of that relationship. — Below is the text of my letter of resignation. … Follow David Frum on twitter: @davidfrum
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
David Frum: AEI Says They Didn't Axe Me For Slamming GOP — I just got off the phone with writer David Frum, and he says the conservative American Enterprise Institute assured him today that he isn't being fired because of his recent blistering criticism of the GOP, as has been widely speculated this afternoon.
Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind — As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since …
Fox News:
Cantor Says Campaign Office Was Shot At, Accuses Dems of Exploiting Threats — Republican Rep. Eric Cantor said Thursday that his Richmond campaign office has been shot at and that he's received “threatening e-mails” — but at the same time accused top Democrats of trying to exploit …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker now reports threat over healthcare stance — U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a threatening voicemail left in the office of Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), her chief of staff said Thursday. — Schmidt's office was left a voicemail late Wednesday night in what appears …
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
“White Powder” Package Sent to Congressman Weiner's Office — Letter references “health care” vote — Law enforcement officials say a package with white powder was sent to Congressman Weiner's Queens office today. — A preliminary review shows the letter in part complained …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Undying Shame — I'm not sure John Boehner making …
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Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
Social Security Payout to Exceed Revenue This Year — The bursting of the real estate bubble and the ensuing recession have hurt jobs, home prices and now Social Security. — This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold …
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Sarah Ebner / Times of London:
Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner’ — Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem — For a head of state to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws …
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New York Times:
Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul — WASHINGTON — After running through an obstacle course of Republican amendments and procedural objections, the Senate on Thursday afternoon approved of a package of changes to the Democrats' sweeping health care overhaul …
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Nathaniel Frank / The Huffington Post:
What the Changes to DADT Mean: The Good, The Bad and the Politically Dangerous — In announcing today that it would make it harder to fire gay troops under existing policy, the Pentagon took a major step toward ending DADT. While the President and Pentagon could have gone further …
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Ezra Klein:
11 predictions for the health-care reform bill — I'm a little confused by this post Megan McArdle has written saying that I refuse to make testable predictions regarding the eventual impact of health-care reform. As I told her in the e-mail exchange that led to her post …
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / Gold Dome Live:
Breaking: Perdue will sue feds over health care on his own — By Jim Tharpe/jtharpe@ajc.com and Aaron Gould Sheinin/asheinin@ajc.com — Gov. Sonny Perdue said Thursday he will appoint a “special attorney general” to challenge federal health care legislation signed into law this week by President Obama.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT.... When it comes to health care reform …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP senators warn Obama of using recess appointment for labor board — All Senate Republicans wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday, demanding he not use a recess appointment to fill spots on a labor board. — Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), joined …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
OfA fundraises off threats — The Democrats continue to take political advantage of reports of Republican vandalism and threats, with the head of the Obama campaign organization, Mitch Stewart, referring to the incident at Tom Perriello's brother's house in a fundraising appeal. — He writes:
Janelle Rucker / The Roanoke Times:
Perriello's brother attacked after Tea Party posts wrong address for health care protest — A number of federal legislators are under tighter security because of threats they've received since Sunday. — 981-3159 — Opposition to massive health care reform has been building since …
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NPR Blogs:
NPR Changes Abortion Language — Last week, I wrote a post about how NPR identifies people who support or oppose abortion. It engendered a lively debate inside and outside NPR. Today, some top editors got together to review the 2005 policy and decided to no longer use “pro-choice” or “pro-life.”
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea partiers air doubts about Armey — It seemed a strange fit to begin with — a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Coward Russ Carnahan Pushes Bogus Tea Party Lie to Media- Claims Prayer Service With Coffin Was a Violent Threat (Updated) — Remember as you read this: There is nothing the democratic-media complex will not do to lie about the tea party patriots or to prop up these horrid leftists …
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