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Tea Party Federation kicks out Williams over blog post — (CNN) — Tea Party activist Mark Williams says he's done discussing the controversy stirred up by his attack on the NAACP, accusing a fellow movement leader of turning the debate into “a World Wrestling style personality conflict.”
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VP: Tea Party ‘Not a Racist Organization’ — “Do you think elements of the Tea Party are racist?” This Week anchor Jake Tapper asked Vice President Joe Biden in an EXCLUSIVE interview. Biden equivocated at first, but then settled on a pretty firm no. — “Well, the truth is that at least elements …
David S Morgan / CBS News:
Tea Party Leader: NAACP Is Playing the Race Card — Denies Bigots Speak for Movement's Members or Leaders; Civil Rights Figure Calls Remark Disingenuous — (CBS) A co-founder of Tea Party 365 today denounced what he called the NAACP's “selective racism,” claiming that the organization …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
McConnell ‘not interested’ in weighing in on debate over racism in Tea Party
McConnell ‘not interested’ in weighing in on debate over racism in Tea Party
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Biden: Failed stimulus all GOP's fault; Update: Obama, 2/5/09: “I think we're in range” Update: 2/9/09, “the right size, the right scope” — Jake Tapper interviewed Vice President Joe Biden and challenged him on the administration's new Recovery Summer public-relations sloganeering …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Biden: GOP forced smaller stimulus — Vice President Joe Biden said that the Recovery Act was undersized because the White House shrunk the economic stimulus package to win Republican votes in Congress to pass it. — “I think it would have been bigger,” he told ABC's Jake Tapper in an interview airing Sunday.
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Kay Lazar / Boston Globe:
Firms cancel health coverage — With cost rising, small companies turning to state — The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Moral of the Obamacare Story: Taxes In, Doctors Out
Moral of the Obamacare Story: Taxes In, Doctors Out
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The Huffington Post:
Mike Pence Explains Why America Can Afford Tax Cuts For The Rich But Not Jobless Aid — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The unsavory task of explaining why America apparently can't afford to help the unemployed but can afford tax cuts for the rich fell to Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) on Sunday.
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Palin triggers NY mosque Twitter fray — Sarah Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero. — “Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand …
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Tom Gross Mideast Media Analysis:
A nice new shopping mall opened today in Gaza: Will the media report on it? — [Please link to and credit this website if writing on this.] — Will the Western media show these images? — All notes below by Tom Gross — Please scroll down below for photos of the new shopping mall that opened today in Gaza.
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Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Joe the Plumber (not that one) says he helped stop Gulf oil spill leak — A Kansas man says he's the ‘mystery plumber’ who influenced the BP containment cap design that stopped the Gulf oil spill leak. BP says Joe Caldart's sketch may have been one of many it's used. — Atlanta
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
BP, federal officials confer on closed gulf oil well cap
BP, federal officials confer on closed gulf oil well cap
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Kevin Bogardus / Ballot Box:
Sessions predicts ‘slightly over 40’ House seats gained by Republicans — Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) predicted Sunday that Republicans will win just enough House seats come November to gain control of the House. — Speaking on NBC's “Meet The Press,” the chairman of the National Republican …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Republican lawmakers gird for rowdy tea party
Republican lawmakers gird for rowdy tea party
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John / Power Line:
Union Goons In Action — This footage was shot at a pro-Democratic Party union rally in California. If those shirts were brown instead of pink, the video would have a disturbingly retro feel: — It's funny how the political class is always wringing its hands about the potential for violence …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
GOP senators: Obama failing in oil clean-up — Just days after BP temporarily plugged the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Senate Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the Obama administration for failing to clean up America's soiled shoreline. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Obama's speed vacation — BAR HARBOR, Me. - President George H.W. Bush did speed golf. President Barack Obama does speed vacationing. — In Maine this past weekend the practice began immediately. — While most travelers head from the airport to their hotel, Obama stepped off …
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CNN:
Greene gives first public speech — Manning, South Carolina (CNN) — South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to “get South Carolina and America back to work” in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Bob Schieffer: I Didn't Ask Holder About the Black Panther Thing Because I Didn't Know About It — Last Sunday, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer had Attorney General Eric Holder on for an entire half hour, and never once asked him about the Department of Justice dropping the case …