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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Move to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Stalls in Senate — WASHINGTON — With Congress increasingly paralyzed by the partisan fury of the midterm elections, the Senate on Tuesday voted against taking up a major military bill that includes a provision allowing the repeal of the “don't ask, don't tell policy” regarding gay soldiers.
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Senate deals blow to 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal in 56-43 vote — The Senate on Tuesday dealt a significant blow to the Obama administration's efforts to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. — In a 56-43 vote, Senate Democratic leaders fell short of the 60 votes …
Wall Street Journal:
Why the GOP Should Repeal DADT
Why the GOP Should Repeal DADT
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The Huffington Post:
Collins Equates Senate Debate With 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy
Collins Equates Senate Debate With 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy
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Firedoglake, Wake up America and Oliver Willis
Fhardingj / CNN:
Dana Bash: Sen. Collins' not so secret phone call
Dana Bash: Sen. Collins' not so secret phone call
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Michelle Malkin, The Note, Taylor Marsh, The Politico, Hot Air and The Democratic Daily
Brian Darling / The Foundry:
Obstructionism in the Senate
Obstructionism in the Senate
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A plain blog about politics, Firedoglake and Liberty Pundits Blog
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Cloture Fails on Defense Authorization Bill as Republican …
Cloture Fails on Defense Authorization Bill as Republican …
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The Plum Line, AMERICAblog News and Open Congress
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dems will try again Thursday to pass campaign finance bill through Senate
Dems will try again Thursday to pass campaign finance bill through Senate
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The Washington Independent
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Summers Expected to Leave White House After Election — White House officials expect Lawrence Summers to leave his job as the president's National Economic Council director after November's congressional elections, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Helen Thomas to headline fundraisers
Helen Thomas to headline fundraisers
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Top White House Economic Adviser to Depart
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell down 15 points in new poll — In Delaware, the tea is lukewarm. — A new Fox News poll, conducted Sept. 18 and released Tuesday, shows Democratic Senate nominee Chris Coons leading Republican Christine O'Donnell by 15 points, 54 to 39 percent.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Christine O'Donnell is toxic and hurting GOP — Christine O'Donnell's victory provides the clearest sign yet that the Tea Party is damaging GOP prospects, as opposed to acting merely as an energizing and rebranding force, and a new Fox poll in Delaware shows this as clearly as you could want.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos, Salon and RADAMISTO
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls Track Tea Party Influence in 5 Battleground States — The Tea Party movement is changing the face of American politics in 2010, with midterm elections shaping up as a referendum on the movement's small government message versus President Obama's big government agenda.
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Public Policy Polling, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, FoxNews.com and Verum Serum
Chicago Sun Times:
Rep. Jackson: I did nothing wrong but ‘deeply sorry’ over ‘social acquaintance’ — Chicago congressman vows to remain in office in wake of Sun-Times report regarding fund-raiser — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said Tuesday he is “deeply sorry” for having “disappointed some supporters” …
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Fund-raiser: Jackson behind $6M Senate-seat scheme — Feds had questions about Senate-seat deal and flights for a Jackson acquaintance — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return …
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Andrew Greiner / NBC Chicago:
Jesse's Girl? — Jesse Jackson Jr. doesn't deny involvement …
Jesse's Girl? — Jesse Jackson Jr. doesn't deny involvement …
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Hot Air, The Other McCain and Weasel Zippers
Igor / Wonk Room:
McCain Ignores Testimony Before His Committee, Claims Military Doesn't ‘Seek Out’ Orientation — This afternoon, immediately after the Senate failed to invoke cloture on a defense authorization measure which included an amendment to gradually repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell …
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National Review, Good As You, Federal Eye, Towleroad News #gay, AMERICAblog News, Joe. My. God. and Box Turtle Bulletin
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Advocate:
McCain Pressed on Military Outing
McCain Pressed on Military Outing
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Ezra Klein:
Federal Reserve won't help, won't explain why — As expected, the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee met today, and decided against doing anything further to stimulate the economy. But it's worth reading their news release explaining — or, more accurately, not explaining — why.
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Modeled Behavior and Macro and Other Market Musings
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August indicates that the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months. Household spending is increasing gradually, but remains constrained by high unemployment …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Alaska Senate — Alaska Senate: Miller (R) Holds Double-Digit Lead Over McAdams (D), Murkowski — Republican Joe Miller attracts 42% of the vote in the first Rasmussen Reports poll of the Alaska Senate race since GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski announced her write-in campaign to try to keep her job.
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Aharding / CNN:
Murkowski likely to be stripped of committee
Murkowski likely to be stripped of committee
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Joe / Joe. My. God.:
CONFIRMED: Sen. Saxby Chambliss Admits “All Faggots Must Die” Comment Came From His Atlanta Headquarters — I've just gotten off the phone with Atlanta Journal-Constitution political writer Jim Galloway who says that Sen. Saxby Chambliss has confirmed that the “All faggots must die” …
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“All Faggots Must Die”
“All Faggots Must Die”
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Mediaite, Box Turtle Bulletin and AMERICAblog Gay
Dana Goldstein / The Daily Beast:
Clinton Warns Liberals — trending topics - CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE - COLLEGE RANKINGS - GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK - FASHION WEEK - CHRISTINE O'DONNELL — The former president meant to talk up his philanthropy on Monday night—but first he had a message for disaffected Democrats planning …
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New York Times, Ezra Klein and Swampland
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John Podesta / The Politico:
GOP and deficit: Death by 1000 cuts — If the federal government collected a dime for every time someone said, “All we have to do to balance the budget is cut spending,” we wouldn't have a deficit problem. Far from true deficit hawks, these “deficit peacocks” all fail to acknowledge …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
New poll: Tax cut fight is winner for Dems in battleground states — If this new poll conducted for the labor powerhouse SEIU doesn't persuade Dems to hold a vote on extending the middle class tax cuts, then nothing will. — The toplines of the poll, which were first reported by Alex Burns …
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SEIU, The Politico, Daily Kos, The Political Carnival and Balloon Juice
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Lieberman Wants To Start A Bipartisan, High-Income Tax Cuts Gang
Lieberman Wants To Start A Bipartisan, High-Income Tax Cuts Gang
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Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Steve Singiser / Daily Kos:
WI-Sen/WI-Gov: Dems hurting with six weeks to go — Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. U.S. Senate. 9/18-9/19. Likely Voters. MoE 3.8% (6/27 results) — Ron Johnson (R) 52 (43) — Sen. Russ Feingold (D) 41 (45) — An enormous enthusiasm gap, coupled with a Republican nominee fresh …
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The Politico:
FLOTUS's stump sked announced — With midterm elections just weeks away, Michelle Obama will use her star power to launch a fundraising blitz for imperiled Democratic candidates, hitting at least six states for eight congressional races beginning next month, senior administration officials announced on Tuesday.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Close Race in West Virginia — PPP's first look at the West Virginia Senate contest finds a very tight race with John Raese up 46-43 on Joe Manchin, a result within the poll's margin of error. — The contest provides a fascinating choice for voters in the state who love their Democratic Governor …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Generic Ballots May Underestimate Democrats — In the last couple of posts on our House forecasts, I've noted that the generic congressional ballot tends to show worse results for Democrats than other indicators like polls of individual House races. The generic ballot, as of last week …
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National Review and Talking Points Memo
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Pointing Fingers — Douthat argues that liberals add fuel to the culture wars: … I agree with Ross that the attempt to link O'Donnell's belief that masturbation is morally wrong to “socialism” is truly a long stretch. But it is not a stretch to connect it to the illiberal theoconservative social project …
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Ross Douthat, Balloon Juice and The New Republic
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Can I ‘call him an a—hole?’ Andrew Cuomo in tizzy after GOP foe Carl Paladino questions his manhood — ALBANY - Stung by Carl Paladino's below-the-belt attacks, an angry Andrew Cuomo summoned his war council on Monday to figure out how to fight back against his slash-and-burn GOP rival.
N.C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies — Some of the country's most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children …
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Filibuster's Shameful Tradition of Crushing Rights Continues with DADT — A more popular Filibuster? (photo: David Boyle in DC on Flickr) — The proud shameful tradition of the filibuster in our august broken Senate being used by a small group of privileged elites to deny rights to segments …