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11:00 PM ET, April 12, 2010

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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality  —  An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York …
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Edward Mason / Boston Herald:
Scott Brown snubs Sarah Palin, bags Tea Party rally  —  U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, whose stunning victory in January was fueled in part by Tea Party anger, has snubbed the fiery grassroots group and declined its invitation to join Sarah Palin Wednesday at a massive rally on Boston Common, the Herald has learned.
DougJ / Balloon Juice:
Principled opposition to big government  —  Carl Paladino, a Tea Party candidate for governor in New York State has been sending out stuff like this emails (via WNYMedia—scroll down the link with caution as the larger article contains many NSFW images):  —  I can't ascertain …
Lawrence Budd / Dayton Daily News:
Racial slur by Tea Party leader hits home  —  SPRINGBORO — Racist comments, including a slur about Hispanics, posted on the Twitter page of the Springboro Tea Party were particularly hurtful to Alana Turner.  —  “Illegals everywhere today!  So many spics makes me feel like a speck.  Grrr.
Andy Barr / The Politico:   Brown camp: No snub intended
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Tea Party Candidate For New York Governor Reportedly Sent Out Racist, Graphic Emails
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
Cristina Corbin / Fox News:
Tea Party Rallies Remain a Cauldron for Conspiracy Theories
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House kills Hillary SCOTUS buzz  —  The White House moved quickly today to squelch the widening speculation that Hillary Clinton could be nominated to the Supreme Court, as Senator Orrin Hatch suggested this morning.  —  “The President thinks Secretary Clinton is doing an excellent job …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Weekly Approval at 47%, Lowest Yet by One Point  —  Latest three-day average shows a decline to 45% approval, 48% disapproval  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama's job approval rating fell to 47% for the week ending April 11, the lowest of his administration so far by one percentage point.
Douglas Burns / Iowa Independent:
King, Bachmann co-opt abortion rights message to attack health reform
Discussion: TPMDC
Political Punch:
Another Name on President Obama's Supreme Court Short List
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Ridiculous: WaPo Claims Stevens Exit Will 'Almost Certainly Mean …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's job approval: New Gallup low
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Hill
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Sarcasm of Sarah Palin  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a well-received speech on Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, an address defined — as almost all of her public pronouncements have been in the 18 months since she emerged on the national political scene — by a stinging sense of sarcasm.
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Clive Crook / Financial Times:
In search of a moderate Republican
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's ‘No. 1 priority’  —  Repealing healthcare reform will be Republicans' “No. 1 priority,” their House leader said Monday.  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that repealing the healthcare legislation passed in Congress last month …
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Erika Lovley / The Politico:
‘Little punk staffers’ fuming at GOP
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
GOP ties Critz to health care
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
SEIU officials: Stern to resign  —  Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America's most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union's board and another SEIU official.  —  The President of an SEIU local based in Seattle …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Agrees to Temporary Jobless Benefits Extension  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday agreed to consider a temporary extension of unemployment benefits after four Republicans joined Democrats in voting to debate the proposal, which has become the focus of an intensifying fight over deficit spending.
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Coburn predicts likely defeat of his unemployment objection
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democrats' Economic Confidence Improving
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Healthcare law to sock middle class with a $3.9 billion tax increase in 2019  —  Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — because of healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper for legislation.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Baffled by Health Plan?  So Are Some Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way.  And, perhaps fittingly if unintentionally, no one may be more affected than members of Congress themselves.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage
Discussion: Commentary and The Strata-Sphere
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR’.... Once in a great while, we get a peek at Republicans' health care ideals, but rarely do we see them articulated as candidly as Sue Lowden described them last week.  —  Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican Party.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
NV-SEN Candidate Sue Lowden (R): ‘Barter With Your Doctor’ (VIDEO)
Jamie Guzzardo / CNN:
Conn. bishops fight sex abuse bill  —  Hartford, Connecticut (CNN) — A bill in Connecticut's legislature that would remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases has sparked a fervent response from the state's Roman Catholic bishops, who released a letter to parishioners Saturday imploring them to oppose the measure.
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
How the Conan O'Brien-TBS Deal Happened  —  Conan O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, said that a whirlwind negotiation of only about 10 days led the late-night star to leave network television and jump to the cable network, TBS.  —  “They called us about a week and a half ago,” Mr. Polone said, in outlining how the negotiations began.
Discussion: CNN and Joe. My. God.
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CNN:
Conan O'Brien coming to TBS
Wall Street Journal:
Did FDR End the Depression?  —  The economy took off after the postwar Congress cut taxes  —  'He got us out of the Great Depression.  " That's probably the most frequent comment made about President Franklin Roosevelt, who died 65 years ago today.  Every Democratic president from Truman …
Brad / Think Progress:
Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’  —  The death toll from Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine explosion last week has reached a total of 29 miners, the worst coal disaster in 40 years.  When the disaster occurred, Massey was contesting millions of dollars …
Discussion: FOXBusiness.com and Firedoglake
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Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
CORRECTION: Visa Policy For Israeli Nuclear Scientists Did Not Begin With Obama Admin  —  On April 8, 2010, I wrote an article in this space implying that the Obama administration had instituted a new policy restricting entry to the United States for Israeli nuclear scientists who worked at the Dimona reactor.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Bill Kristol: Kagan Would Be Respectful Choice for Supreme Court, But Republicans Should Oppose Her  —  Well folks, here's some of the rhetoric we're going to be hearing from the GOP on this upcoming Supreme Court nomination.  Bill Kristol talks out of both sides of his mouth and while saying …
 
 
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Monica Potts / American Prospect:
About Those Working Stats.  —  Last week, New York Times …
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Schumer: Not such a shomer for Obama?
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