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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.
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Michael Scherer / Time:
Emanuel, Eyeing Chicago Run, Could Leave the White House in October — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Olivier Douliery / Getty Images — White House aides are preparing for the possibility that Rahm Emanuel may step down as chief of staff as soon as early October if he decides …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Reacts to (NYT Report About) Woodward Book
White House Reacts to (NYT Report About) Woodward Book
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Associated Press, The Enterprise Blog, Sweetness & Light and Pajamas Media
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.
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Quinnipiac University:
Toomey Up 7 Points In Pennsylvania Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters, Especially Independents, Disapprove Of Obama — Republican Pat Toomey has hit the magic 50 percent mark as he leads Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak 50 - 43 percent in the race for Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat …
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Ballot Box, The Fix, The Eye and Pollster.com All Content
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Paladino board botch
Paladino board botch
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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
Three Reasons You'll Miss Larry Summers
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Don't Replace Larry Summers With a CEO
Don't Replace Larry Summers With a CEO
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
The Carter-Obama Comparisons Grow
The Carter-Obama Comparisons Grow
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Weasel Zippers, Eunomia and Don Surber
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.
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell: Coons has made ‘some very anti-American statements’ — Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell (R) took aim at New Castle County Executive Chris Coons (D) Tuesday night during an appearance on Fox News. — O'Donnell referenced an article Coons wrote in college in which he referred to himself as “a bearded Marxist.”
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Felicia Sonmez / The Fix:
Christine O'Donnell: I'm not doing any more national TV interviews
Christine O'Donnell: I'm not doing any more national TV interviews
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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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The Politico:
Harry Reid's botched battles
Harry Reid's botched battles
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Jim Webb Iffy On Tax Cuts, Worries $250k Cutoff Too Low
Jim Webb Iffy On Tax Cuts, Worries $250k Cutoff Too Low
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Oliver Willis and Washington Monthly
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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ChattahBox News Blog, DownWithTyranny! and New York Magazine
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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.
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Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
Barack Obama seeks divine intervention on health care reform — With nothing else working, President Barack Obama is asking religious leaders to help him sell the public on health care reform. — POLITICO listened in to an Oval Office conference call Tuesday, where Obama …
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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Here Thursday, Health Reform Confuses Many
Here Thursday, Health Reform Confuses Many
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Republicans send 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 …
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Bruce Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama, Warren and The Imperial Presidency
Obama, Warren and The Imperial Presidency
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The Atlantic Online
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
Huffington snags N.Y. Times star
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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 …
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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.”
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culturekitchen, Outside the Beltway, TigerHawk, Scared Monkeys, The American Pundit and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Chris Christie ‘not ready’ for 2012 run — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who's captured the imagination of conservatives enthralled by his fiscal maneuvers to cut spending, said on Wednesday that any talk of him seeking the Republican presidential nomination is premature because he's “not ready.”
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Outside the Beltway and FrumForum
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Bill Clinton: Russian immigrants and settlers obstacles to Mideast peace — Russian immigrants to Israel have emerged as a central obstacle to achieving a Middle East peace deal, according to former President Bill Clinton. He voiced fears that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) …
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Israpundit, Israel Matzav, Yourish.com, Weasel Zippers and Commentary