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11:35 AM ET, September 22, 2010

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Steve Luxenberg / Washington Post:
Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war  —  President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Woodward Book Says Afghanistan Divided White House  —  WASHINGTON — Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book.
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Reacts to (NYT Report About) Woodward Book  —  ABC News' Jake Tapper reports:  —  Legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book “Obama's Wars” hasn't hit stores yet, but the New York Times' Peter Baker got a copy and has published some choice excerpts.  Some highlights, per Baker:
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Woodward's 'Obama's Wars' finds internal doubts, sniping …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and CNN
Associated Press:   Woodward Book Says Aides Doubt Obama's Afghan Strategy
Quinnipiac University:
Paladino Trails Cuomo By 6 Points In New York Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Small Tea Party Movement Backs Republican 4-1  —  Republican Carl Paladino, aided by a 4 -1 margin among Tea Partiers, trails New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for Governor …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Cuomo leads Paladino by six just points  —  Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo, who had led the GOP field by thirty points for most of the year, is now leading Republican rival Carl Paladino by just six points among likely voters, an astonishing new Quinnipiac University poll shows.
Discussion: CNN, FrumForum and Joe. My. God.
JammieWearingFool:
Oof: Paladino Within Six Points of Cuomo
Discussion: The Daily Politics
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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Joe / Joe. My. God.:
“All Faggots Must Die”  —  The above comment was left today by “Jimmy” on my post about the DADT cloture vote.  The IP address *appears* to resolve to the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office.  The ISP is “United States Senate.”  I'm confident that the JMG internet sleuths can get to the source.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Dems plan last-ditch vote on Disclose Act  —  Democrats plan to rally their troops for the final stretch of the campaign season by bringing up a campaign-finance transparency bill.  —  A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Tuesday announced plans for a last-ditch vote on the measure, dubbed the Disclose Act.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell: Coons has made ‘some very anti-American statements’
Jim Burroway / Box Turtle Bulletin:
The DADT Repeal Repertory Theater
Reuters:
Woman CEO sought for Summers job  —  Larry Summers isn't leaving the White House until the end of the year but President Barack Obama's team already knows the ideal candidate to replace him on the National Economic Council - a woman CEO.  —  The pick doesn't have to fit that bill precisely …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:   Three Reasons You'll Miss Larry Summers
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Summers Expected to Leave White House After Election
Wall Street Journal:
Economy Czar Summers to Depart
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE DRIVE TO BREAK FROM FORCED NEUTRALITY.... Peter Goodman, who's been a rising star at the New York Times, covering the economy and business news, agreed this week to leave the paper and sign on with the Huffington Post.  Goodman's move, a coup for the online outlet, is a reminder …
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Howard Kurtz:
Huffington snags N.Y. Times star
Robbie Brown / New York Times:
Lawsuits Accuse Megachurch Leader of Sexual Misconduct  —  ATLANTA — Two young men in Georgia said Tuesday that the pastor of a 33,000-person Baptist megachurch, Bishop Eddie L. Long, had repeatedly coerced them into having sex with him.  —  In two lawsuits filed in DeKalb County …
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Paul Krugman:
Who You Gonna Believe?  —  I went through my mail today, and got the usual batch of letters declaring that I'm wrong about everything, and that we should do the opposite of anything I say.  Hey, it's a free country.  —  But I found myself wondering, as I often do, about the determination …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Felicia Sonmez / The Fix:
Christine O'Donnell: I'm not doing any more national TV interviews  —  Delaware Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell (R) gave on Tuesday night one of her few national TV interviews since recording a stunning upset over Rep. Mike Castle (R) a week earlier.  She used the opportunity to announce …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
O'Donnell vows no more national media appearances
Discussion: CNN
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Murkowski punished over defiance; Burr to get top energy slot  —  Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.) is expected to take over as senior Republican on the Senate Energy panel after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) lost the position Tuesday.  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was behind the switch.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Murkowski brushes off punishment by the Republican leadership
Discussion: CNN
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”  —  “Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples.  The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes.  We all shared the same land.”
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Ally Financial legal issue with foreclosures may affect other mortgage companies  —  Some of the nation's largest mortgage companies used a single document processor who said he signed off on foreclosures without having read the paperwork - an admission that may open the door for homeowners across …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
GOP sends a message on spending  —  Republicans will try to block money requested by the Obama administration to implement Democrats' signature Wall Street and healthcare reforms in a stopgap spending measure expected to clear Congress next week.  —  The GOP is seizing on the administration's …
WTOV-TV:
Ohio Democrat Chair Fires ‘F-Word’ At Tea Party  —  Chris Redfern Makes Emotional Speech Before Steel Workers  —  CLARINGTON, Ohio — In the midst of a heated general election cycle, Ohio's Democratic Party chairman is admitting he used some “colorful language” during a political event in Monroe County Monday night.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
 
 
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Jim Webb Iffy On Tax Cuts, Worries $250k Cutoff Too Low
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