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Charles Krauthammer Slams Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint Over Delaware Endorsement — On Monday's edition of Fox News' “Special Report with Bret Beir,” columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC) for endorsing Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Hotline On Call, Outside the Beltway, GayPatriot and GOP 12
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Krauthammer: Palin's and DeMint's endorsements of O'Donnell are destructive, capricious, irresponsible — Via the Right Scoop. There's nothing here that you haven't heard before, but since “true conservatives” are in RINO-stomp mode towards Paul Mirengoff and John McCormack and Jim Geraghty …
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Mediaite, Real Clear Politics, CNN, Conservatives4Palin.com, The Right Scoop, The Other McCain and Riehl World View
Aharding / CNN:
Palin robocall for Christine O'Donnell
Palin robocall for Christine O'Donnell
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The Page, The Note and The Other McCain
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After Volatile Primary Season, G.O.P. Faces New Test — As the long and turbulent primary season of the midterm election campaign drew to a close on Monday, the Republican establishment was placing its confidence on hold and bracing for the prospect that voters in yet another state would send …
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Boehner Plays Central Role in Democratic Ad
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Washington Wire, The Politico and Reuters
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Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party
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The Politico, Classical Values, Ballot Box and The Freedomist
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
2 Insurgents Could Hurt G.O.P. Chances for Senate Takeover
2 Insurgents Could Hurt G.O.P. Chances for Senate Takeover
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Questions and Observations, The Huffington Post, Doug Ross, New York Times, National Review, Facebook and The Mahablog
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Wonkbook: GOP doubles down on Bush tax cuts; possible recess appointment for Warren; EPA vote — Republicans spent much of yesterday walking back John Boehner's conciliatory comments on the Bush tax cuts. Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP, in particular, made it clear that either everyone …
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The Politico, Wonk Room, White House.gov Blog Feed and Prairie Weather
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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama May Name Warren as Interim Consumer Finance Agency Head
Obama May Name Warren as Interim Consumer Finance Agency Head
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Outside the Beltway and Swampland
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W.H. denies plan to avoid Warren fight
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Think Progress, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, New York Times, American Banker and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
House Dems Will Not Force Vote On Middle Class Tax Cuts
House Dems Will Not Force Vote On Middle Class Tax Cuts
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Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Plum Line, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, TalkLeft and Balloon Juice
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
McConnell intros Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010 — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky drew the line in the sand with President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday, introducing the Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010 to extend the Bush tax cuts of 2001 …
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Reid seeks to move 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal legislation
Reid seeks to move 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal legislation
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Firedoglake and Liberty Pundits Blog
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Reid to schedule 'Don't Ask' vote next week
Reid to schedule 'Don't Ask' vote next week
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The Confluence, AMERICAblog Gay, Wonk Room, Pam's House Blend, The Politico, Open Left and Congress Blog
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Don't ask, don't tell' policy facing a Senate vote next week
'Don't ask, don't tell' policy facing a Senate vote next week
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Blumenthal Up Just 6 Points In Connecticut Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Much McMahon Support Is Anti-Blumenthal — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters …
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The Hill, USA Today, Pollster.com All Content, Taegan Goddard's … and Weigel
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Mitch Daniels makes White House moves — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has been holding a series of private dinners with top Republican business leaders, policy hands and donors from around the country since this spring, an indication that he's thinking more seriously about a presidential bid than he publicly lets on.
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Confessing to Crime, but Innocent — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed. — At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted …
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The Moderate Voice
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama seeks his inner Bill Clinton and feels voters' pain — President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot sun with them and “feel their pain.” — He was meeting with a Fairfax family for a backyard discussion on the economy …
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The Caucus, Right Wing News, Pundit & Pundette, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Elevating John Boehner (and will it work)
Elevating John Boehner (and will it work)
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The Hill, iowahawk, TPMDC, Slate, Betsy's Page, Don Surber and Weigel
The Hill:
Democratic aides may get cold shoulder from K Street after midterms — Democratic congressional aides aiming for a big payday from K Street have seen their value plummet with their party's declining fortunes, according to corporate headhunters and lobbyists.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Only Nixon Could Go to China — How Obama can help ease “Islamophobia.” — “One of the things that I most admired about President Bush was after 9/11, him being crystal-clear about the fact that we were not at war with Islam,” President Obama said in his Friday press conference.
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Document drop: Breaking: DOJ Inspector General will investigate Obama voting rights record — Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration's selective enforcement …
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Washington Examiner, TPMMuckraker, Weasel Zippers and JOSHUAPUNDIT
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Clyburn: Dems aren't thinking about a future without Pelosi — A top House Democrat dismissed the notion that the party is planning for a future without Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as its leader in the House. — House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said he knew nothing about rumors …
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John / Power Line:
Did Castle Vote to Impeach Bush? — The madness continues, as activists who support Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Senate primary have stepped up their attacks on Mike Castle by alleging that he voted to impeach President Bush. That will come as a surprise to those who wonder …
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Riehl World View, Michelle Malkin and Patterico's Pontifications
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Liberal despair: Age of irrationality — A couple of influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama today float the same notion: That we're living in a fundamentally unreasonable age, that voters basically can't be trusted, and that democracy is just barely muddling through.
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TalkLeft, Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish and RedState
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Delaware and NH General Election Number Preview — Just finished the general election numbers in Delaware and New Hampshire. Not going to release them until Wednesday when we have nominees but in one case the conventional wisdom about who's more electable was confirmed and in the other it was not:
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The Politico and Hot Air
The White House:
Remarks of President Barack Obama -As Prepared for Delivery - Back to School Speech Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — Hello Philadelphia! It's wonderful to be here. Today is about welcoming all of you and all of America's students back to school - and I can't think of a better place to do it than Masterman.
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Washington Post, Joanne Jacobs and The Page
Sherry Devlin / Missoula Editor:
We didn't “sneak in” to Sarah Palin's speech — First: This blogpost is not about politics. — Second: Contrary to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's warning to the standing-room-only crowd at this afternoon's Teen Challenge fundraiser in Missoula, the media did not “sneak in” to her speech.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Think Progress, The Political Carnival, News Hounds and Missoulian
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G.O.P. Allies Drive Ad Spending Disparity — Outside groups supporting Republican candidates in House and Senate races across the country have been swamping their Democratic-leaning counterparts on television since early August as the midterm election season has begun heating up.
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Commentary, DownWithTyranny!, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Wall Street Journal:
AIG Plots End to U.S. Aid — Insurer and Treasury Discuss Accelerating the Sale of Government's Stake — American International Group Inc. and its government overseers are in talks to speed up an exit plan designed to repay U.S. taxpayers in full while enabling the giant insurer to regain independence …
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naked capitalism, FrumForum and The BLT
Paul / Power Line:
U.S. government hails ominous news from Turkey — The most significant event of the weekend, I would argue, occurred in Turkey. There, voters approved a sweeping package of constitutional reforms and, in the process, gave Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a vote of confidence.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Jerusalem Post, Commentary and JOSHUAPUNDIT
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“I Love The Mosque” Shirts Printed by Activists to Challenge Islamophobia — What's Your Reaction: — People say you worry more as you get older. I am wondering if it is that exact sentiment that is resonating in me now. It's 10pm on Friday night, September 10th …
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Weasel Zippers and American Power