memeorandum: MSM not even trying to hide their hate for Republicans anymore (Meryl Yourish/Yourish.com)

12:10 AM ET, September 20, 2010

Top Items:

Clinton says he was wrong on healthcare bill's popularity — Former president Bill Clinton, a champion of healthcare reform, admitted on Sunday that he made the wrong prediction about the popularity of President Obama's healthcare bill. — Initially, Clinton had predicted that the polls …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Questions and Observations, Scared Monkeys, Don Surber, Left Coast Rebel and Weasel Zippers

New York Times:

Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — President Obama's political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a national advertising campaign that would cast the Republican Party …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Pajamas Media

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:

Bill Clinton: Tea Party is ‘general revolt against bigness’ — Former President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Tea Party movement “reflects the feeling of a lot of Americans that they're getting the shaft,” but isn't clear what it stands for. — On CBS' “Face the Nation,” …

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
G.O.P. Insider Fuels Tea Party and Suspicion

Discussion: FoxNews.com, The Mahablog, Politerati, The Huffington Post and Politics Daily

CNN:
Murkowski: I was victim of ‘smear’ campaign

Discussion: The Hill, The Politico, protein wisdom, Talking Points Memo and Hotline On Call

Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Rove: Murkowski's write-in campaign is ‘sad and sorry’

Discussion: Chicago Boyz, Raw Story and Left Coast Rebel

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Bloomberg: Tea Party is a ‘boomlet’

Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and NewsReal Blog

Raven Brooks:
About that Tea Party convention... canceled

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Monthly and Crooks and Liars

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pushes Moderates in National Races

Discussion: The Caucus, Politics Daily, The Eye, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and FrumForum

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
In Iowa, Palin Skips Candidate Routine

Discussion: Commentary and No More Mister Nice Blog

Randall Chase / Associated Press:

O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment — LINCOLN, Del. - Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is making light of comments she made more than a decade ago when she was in high school about having dabbled in witchcraft. — “How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks …

Discussion: Think Progress, NewsBusters.org, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Moderate Voice

Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:

Karl Rove Says Christine O'Donnell Needs to Explain Witchcraft ‘Dabbling’ to Voters … Karl Rove, political mastermind for former President Bush said Sunday that Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party insurgent who won an upset victory in Delaware for the GOP Senate nomination, “can't simply ignore” …

Discussion: The Daily Dish, Instapundit, Gateway Pundit, delawareonline, Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits Blog

Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:

O'Donnell On ‘Witchcraft’ Comment: 'How Many Of You Didn't Hang Out With Questionable Folks?' — Anti-masturbation activist, witchcraft-dabbler, and GOP senate candidate Christine O'Donnell dodged her Sunday show appearances in order to attend a partisan fundraising picnic in Delaware today.

Discussion: Gawker and The Huffington Post

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Memo to the Right: “The Lombardi Rule” Is In Effect — We have heard so much about the supposed Buckley Rule, which Charles Krauthammer and other Mike Castle supporters over-simplistically synthesized as follows: … The Buckley Rule is for primaries. The Delaware primary is over.

Discussion: Riehl World View, Pundit & Pundette and Don Surber

Get_involved / Associated Press:

Colin Powell: Illegal Immigrants Fix My House — Former Secretary of State Urges Republicans to Support Path to Legal Status for Undocumented Workers — (AP) Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that - because they fix his house.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico: Colin Powell critical of President Obama

Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Powell holds off on next endorsement, says Obama should focus on ‘governing’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Media Decoder:

Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post — Howard Fineman, one of the more recognizable pundits on cable television and a correspondent for Newsweek for 30 years, is leaving the magazine to become a senior editor at The Huffington Post. — Mr. Fineman's move from a print medium …

Discussion: Mediaite, NewsBusters.org, New York Magazine and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »

Motoko Rich / New York Times:

For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again — VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Patricia Reid is not in her 70s, an age when many Americans continue to work. She is not even in her 60s. She is just 57. — But four years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments …

Discussion: Economist's View

Marianne Moran / Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Give States a Tool to Check Federal Power — Richmond, Va. — George Mason and James Madison were two Virginians who, while initially differing on the wisdom of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, ended up working together to craft the first 10 amendments.

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and Dean's World

DownWithTyranny!:

What's A Wanker To Do? —by Noah — I think Christine O'Donnell has ruined masturbation for me. She's in my thoughts now, polluting my inner world. — The teabaggers, Republicans, republikooks, or whatever we're supposed to call our culture's wackjob element these days are always fine ones …

Discussion: American Power and Hullabaloo