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4:15 PM ET, August 11, 2010

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Point of No Return  —  For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate— it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president's dream of ending nuclear proliferation.  But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gibbs returns to press podium after battle with ‘professional left’  —  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs joked at Wednesday's press briefing that he hasn't “added an inflatable exit to my office.”  —  Gibbs was responding to the controversy surrounding comments he made to The Hill about the “professional left.”
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Is it time for Gibbs to move on?  —  The truth hurts.
Discussion: Truthdig and Don Surber
The Note:
Jane Hamsher: Obama in ‘Trouble Across the Board’ with Liberals
The Huffington Post:
Michael Bennet Got Fewer Votes Than GOP Loser, Kaine Not Happy With Gibbs' Comments
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Depressed Democratic Turnout Portends Rotten November
Rasmussen Reports:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.  Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Florida Senate  —  Florida Senate: Rubio (R) 38%, Crist (I) 33%, Meek (D) 21%  —  The race for the U.S. Senate in Florida continues to be all about Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, regardless of which Democrat they face.
Rasmussen Reports:
57% of Likely Voters Describe Democratic Congressional Agenda As Extreme
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Exclusive: Rand Paul's accuser clarifies “kidnapping”  —  The woman who sparked a national firestorm by recounting Rand Paul's  —  youthful indiscretions to GQ magazine is now clarifying her account: She says she was not kidnapped nor forced to do drugs by Paul.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
NYT On The So-Called Ground Zero Mosque.  —  The New York Times has a new piece up on Faisal Rauf and Daisy Khan, the couple behind the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero that has brought rank Islamophobia into the Republican mainstream:
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Andy McCarthy / National Review:
The Government Confiscates Your Money to Build Mosques
John F. Harris / The Politico:
Primary night yields good news for President Obama and Democrats  —  The headline victory of the primaries belonged to Sen. Michael Bennet, who gallops to a surprisingly wide nine-point victory over challenger Andrew Romanoff.  AP  —  President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Tea Party wins again
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Reid courts Hispanics  —  GOP blocking immigration reform, senator tells Latinos  —  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday slammed Republicans for blocking comprehensive immigration reform and told Hispanics they shouldn't be treated differently because “their skin's a tone darker” …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Rubio: Reid's Comment on Hispanics “Outrageous,” “Ridiculous”
Neil Steinberg / Chicago Sun Times:
Former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowsi has died  —  Dan Rostenkowski was the most important congressman ever to represent Chicago, “Mr. Chairman” of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, confidante of presidents, pride of the Polish community and bringer of millions upon millions …
Discussion: CNN, Politics Daily, The Hill and Lynn Sweet
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Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Dan Rostenkowski, Lawmaker Touched by Scandal, Is Dead
Fhardingj / CNN:
Americans split evenly on gay marriage  —  Americans are split on the issue of same-sex marriage, according to a new CNN poll.  —  (CNN) - Nearly half of all Americans think the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll.
Discussion: LGBT POV, Hot Air and AMERICAblog Gay
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Jonathan Rauch / NY Daily News:
The radical gay rights ruling: Leading supporter of same-sex …
Discussion: Commentary
Fhardingj / CNN:
Overwhelming majority oppose mosque near Ground Zero
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Politics
Telegraph:
Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich  —  For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.  —  But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged …
Aaron Gould Sheinin / Georgia Elections News:
Handel concedes GOP nomination for governor to Deal  —  Update 2:49 p.m.: Gov. Sonny Perdue has now weighed in as well.  While it was long rumored that he would support Karen Handel for the nomination, the outgoing governor stayed cautiously on the sidelines in the primary and the runoff.
NY Daily News:
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater emerges from jail, basks in new status as celebrity  —  Fired-up flight attendant Steven Slater was walking on air as he emerged from jail Tuesday night as a folk hero.  —  “I knew there was a brouhaha about this, but while I was on the inside …
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Why the GOP really wants to alter the 14th Amendment  —  As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of “anchor babies” — the children of foreigners who scurry …
Mike Morris / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Crowd waiting for housing vouchers gets rowdy  —  A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd.  —  Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Townhall.com
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Study Looks at Tax Cut Lapse for Rich  —  WASHINGTON — As debate heats up over President Obama's proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy but to extend them for everyone else, a nonpartisan Congressional analysis circulated on Capitol Hill on Tuesday provides a look at the impact …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Kerry: McMahon ‘roid rage attacks’ need to be stopped  —  Connecticut Senate nominee Linda McMahon's “GOP/WWE roid rage attacks” need to be stopped, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Wednesday.  —  Kerry took a shot at McMahon's past as CEO of the wrestling outfit a day after she won …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
The Obsolescence of Barack Obama  —  The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it.  —  Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation's rescue.
Discussion: Nice Deb
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elite Isolation  —  It seems to me that this chart is the key to understanding today's political economy:  —  Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate.
Tracy Alloway / FT Alphaville:
Hamp - it's worse than we thought  —  So the US Treasury's centrepiece mortgage modification programme — Hamp — is something of a failure.  That much we knew already.  —  But Laurie Goodman over at Amherst Securities brings up another point.  —  The programme actually has a lower success rate …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Pam Spaulding / Pam's House Blend:
NC: PHB exclusive video of NOM's Brian Brown at Raleigh rally - plus I am mistaken for a fundie (!)  —  My high-quality vid is still uploading, but I have this lower-res version for those excited to see the flopsweat on Brian Brown's brow ASAP.  So the background first — I did this on my lunch hour …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The case for the Bush card  —  I raised an eyebrow yesterday at Democrats belief that they could re-run the 2010 election against George W. Bush, but perhaps it's not a total fantasy.  —  PPP's Tom Jensen just noted some new polling data on the subject:  —  [51% of undecided voters …
 
 
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Stable Hand / The Jawa Report:
AQAP: Overthrow Saudi Monarchy/Kill All Christians
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Bob Willis / Bloomberg:
U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Widens to $49.9 Billion in June
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Don Surber
PewResearch.org:
34% - Was TARP Passed Under Bush or Obama?
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Weigel and Daily Kos
New York Times:
The Well-Grounded Senator  —  Every 15 minutes of a senator's …
Discussion: Left in the West
Barbara Liston / Reuters:
(Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday …
Ynetnews:
‘Barak wanted to avenge border incident, attack Lebanon’
Discussion: Yourish.com and Pajamas Media
The Hill:
Senate will reconvene to pass border security
Discussion: The Swamp, The Politico and TPMDC
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
More “Leadership” Can Be Counterproductive
Discussion: The Politico and TalkLeft
 Earlier Items: 
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Low Approval of Congress Not Budging, Now 19%
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama: ‘I know how to politick pretty good’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Hugh Hewitt Lacerates Lib Talkers
Discussion: Freedom's Lighthouse
Paul Wiseman / USA Today:
Feds rethink policies that encourage home ownership
 

 
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