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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Krugman: Republicans Are Fiscally Irresponsible for Pushing Smaller Tax Cut, Threatening Much Larger One — This is sort of impressive: Paul Krugman simultaneously castigates Republicans for the fiscal irresponsibility of wanting to extend tax cuts for the rich that cost about $700 billion …
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DADT Held Hostage?
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Gene / The Hill:
WHIP COUNT: Democrats in favor of extending all of the Bush tax cuts
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The ‘tea party’ gears up for 2012 — The playbook for winning the Republican presidential nomination begins with a set of inviolable rules: Start early, raise millions, build an organization, and trudge across the country seeking the blessing of mayors and money men.
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Lisa Lerer / Business Week:
Jim DeMint's Path to Power — Some Republicans are bristling over his successful backing of Tea Party candidates — The phones wouldn't stop ringing at the Capitol Hill office of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint on Sept. 15, the day after Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Buckley rule — Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea Partyer Christine O'Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
O'Donnell In 2007: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains! — Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell has previously sounded the alarm against cloning and stem-cell research — and what she's described as the current terror of human-mouse hybrids.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
O'Donnell In 1996: Investigate Bill Clinton For Murder Of Vince Foster (VIDEO) — Here's another wonderful gem from Christine O'Donnell's past as a frequent guest on TV shows. Back in 1996, when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's finances were being investigated, O'Donnell complained that people …
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
O'Donnell: Evil Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids
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Wall Street Journal:
Why It's Time for the Tea Party — The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it. — This fact marks our political age: The pendulum is swinging faster and in shorter arcs than it ever has in our lifetimes. Few foresaw the earthquake of 2008 in 2006.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Is Ohio slipping from Democrats' grasp? — 1. New numbers out of Ohio from Quinnipiac University show Republicans running away with the gubernatorial and Senate races even as Democrats insist that they are still in the game in this most critical of electoral battlegrounds.
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Erika Bolstad / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski continues to mull write-in effort — A ‘HIGH HURDLE’: The decision she's about to unveil wasn't easy to reach. — ebolstad@adn.com — WASHINGTON - Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday she was seriously considering a write-in campaign even as she acknowledged that success would have an “extraordinarily high hurdle.”
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Maxine Waters's aides are expelled from event of Speaker Pelosi's — Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to speak.
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Four Things to Know About Delaware — If anything, the PPP (D) poll showing O'Donnell trailing New Castle County Executive Chris Coons by 16 points was only surprising because the lead was so small. After the divisive primary battle, the revelations about O'Donnell, and her lack …
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell, Coons face off in first debate before packed house
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Elizabeth Warren / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Fighting to Protect Consumers — Over the past several weeks, the President and I have had extensive conversations about the vital importance of consumer financial protection. — The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gregg: Warren will promote ‘social justice’ at consumer agency
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MoJo Articles:
A Tale of Two Sisters — Tea party/Christian right Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has long decried homosexuality; her sister Jennie supports gay rights and says she lives with a girlfriend. — Post Comment — Imagine the family dinners: two sisters, one running for Senate …
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Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
My Ex-Gay Life With the Tea Party Queen
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The Politico:
GOP to roll out election agenda — House Republicans are planning to roll out their election agenda over the next two weeks as they seek to take back the House majority, prepping a list of roughly 20 initiatives — including a few that seem driven by the tea party movement.
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Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
Hillary's Dangerous Mideast Leap — trending topics - COLLEGE RANKINGS - GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK - NY FASHION WEEK - MIDTERMS - CHRISTINE O'DONNELL - TEA PARTY — Unless the secretary of State knows something we don't, the Middle East peace talks will fail. And failure is worse than not negotiating.
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Arifa Akbar / The Independent:
Mao's Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’ — Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday.
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Quinnipiac University:
GOP's Portman Up 20 Points In Ohio Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Give Obama A 22-Point Thumbs Down — Republican Rob Portman holds a 55 - 35 percent lead over Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher among likely voters in the race for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat …
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Documentary? Better Call It Performance Art — CASEY AFFLECK wants to come clean. — His new movie, “I'm Still Here,” was performance. Almost every bit of it. Including Joaquin Phoenix's disturbing appearance on David Letterman's late-night show in 2009, Mr. Affleck said in a candid interview …
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Des Moines Register:
Sarah Palin in Iowa under political microscope — The political eyes of the nation and world will be watching Sarah Palin's scheduled appearance in Iowa Friday for signals about her plans. — More than 50 news media organizations, from as far away as London, plan to cover …
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Cheryl Robinson / CNN:
Paldino mailing sends a smelly message — New York (CNN) — Whew!! Something stinks! But before you run to take out the trash, check the stack of mail you just carried inside. — A few thousand New York household received an odoriferous gift in the mail from Carl Paladino …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Cornyn: Independents keep telling me we should focus on fiscal, not social, issues — Via lefty Greg Sargent, who notes that O'Donnell's big win in Delaware adds a new layer of nuance to this strategy: … I assume this explains why he's resisting pressure from the Family Research Council …
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