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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Liberal blogger directly confronts David Axelrod, accuses White House of “hippie punching” — Top Obama adviser David Axelrod got an earful of the liberal blogosphere's anger at the White House moments ago, when a blogger on a conference call directly called out Axelrod over White House criticism …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Blogger Susie Madrak Asks David Axelrod: “Do You Know What Hippie Punching Means?” — No respect. (photo: Neubie on Flickr) — Some fireworks at the end of an otherwise uneventful conference call with White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod, when blogger Susie Madrak took the White House …
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Pam's House Blend
Susie / Suburban Guerrilla:
Life is funny — I just got off a White House conference call …
Life is funny — I just got off a White House conference call …
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MyDD and The Other McCain
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fun: Axelrod, lefty bloggers get testy with each other on conference call
Fun: Axelrod, lefty bloggers get testy with each other on conference call
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Pajamas Media
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Colbert appearance causes mixed feelings — Comedian Stephen Colbert's scheduled appearance on Capitol Hill Friday elicited mixed reactions from lawmakers, with some grateful for his participation and others incensed he had been invited in the first place. — The star of Comedy Central's …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Judiciary chairman asks Colbert to leave after statement — House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) asked comedian Stephen Colbert to excuse himself from a subcommittee hearing on Friday. — Conyers, during opening statements at a hearing of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration …
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Right Wing News and FrumForum
Lyneka Little / Speakeasy:
Stephen Colbert to Testify in Washington Today … Stephen Colbert to Testify in Washington: Comedy Central humorist Stephen Colbert is set to testify before a House subcommittee on immigration at 9:30 a.m. today. Yes, you heard that right. Colbert is scheduled to appear alongside United …
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The Caucus and Shot in the Dark
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Downhill With the G.O.P. — Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill. — I've always liked that story, but the truth is that the party received hardly any votes.
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The Daily Dish, Online NewsHour, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Washington Post, Prairie Weather and bjkeefe
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PUSHING BACK AGAINST A ‘WAR ON ARITHMETIC’.... Paul Krugman's column today does a nice job explaining that one of the nation's “great political parties” seems to have launched a “war on arithmetic.” … This is [probably] definitely an obscure reference, but there was an episode of “The Simpsons” …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Senate leaders drop plans for pre-election vote on extending tax cuts — Senate leaders on Thursday abandoned plans to extend a broad array of tax cuts before the November elections, delaying a vote that could affect tax rates for virtually every American. — “Democrats believe …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TPMDC, The Plum Line and Outside the Beltway
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Pete Rouse / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats again fail to pass campaign disclosure law
Senate Democrats again fail to pass campaign disclosure law
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Politics Daily
David Rogers / The Politico:
Dems punt tax vote to lame duck
Dems punt tax vote to lame duck
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Wonk Room, The Washington Independent, The Note, The Hill and FrumForum
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Delay a Vote on Bush Tax Cuts
Senate Democrats Delay a Vote on Bush Tax Cuts
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Think Progress, Politics Plus, The Plum Line and The New Republic
The Hill:
Democrats put off votes to extend Bush tax cuts until after midterm election
Democrats put off votes to extend Bush tax cuts until after midterm election
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Liberty Pundits Blog
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Senate Won't Vote on Bush-Era Tax Cuts Until After Elections
Senate Won't Vote on Bush-Era Tax Cuts Until After Elections
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Commentary and The Page
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
SENATE POLL: Senate race in dead heat between Reid, Angle — Race remains knotted with six weeks until election — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and GOP challenger Sharron Angle tied with 43 percent of the vote in a new poll that suggests most Nevadans won't gamble on half a dozen other little known contenders.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Brawl erupts at Reid, Angle election forum — Supporters of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and his GOP challenger Sharron Angle brawled at the end of a Senate race forum at a local Christian school. — A half-dozen bystanders tried to separate the combatants, one male Angle backer and two female Reid supporters …
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The Confluence and MarketWatch
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Hidden Under Tax-Exempt Cloak, Political Dollars Flow — Alaskans grew suspicious two years ago when a national organization called Americans for Job Security showed up and spent $1.6 million pushing a referendum to restrict development of a gold and copper mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay.
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New York Post:
Liberal media goes on attack against GOP's Boehner — Tweet — The heat is on Republican leader John Boehner. — Liberal media outlets are trying to smear the highest-ranking Republican in the House just weeks before the midterm elections with a deal-breaking scandal before he has a chance …
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Liberty Pundits Blog, Gateway Pundit and JammieWearingFool
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New York Post:
A NY earthquake? — Tweet — New York may emerge as the epicenter of a political earthquake on Nov. 2. This longtime blue-state bystander could elect a Republican governor, dethrone House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and topple the Democratic majority in the US Senate.
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The Moderate Voice and Liberty Pundits Blog
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Now He's Lost Margaret Carlson — Obama's problem goes far deeper than his insolent style. — If he's lost Margaret Carlson, he's lost Middle America. Sorry if you disagree, but somehow, to our mind, that joke just never gets old. Carlson, a fixture at Time magazine before jumping …
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Don Surber and Liberty Pundits Blog
David Mercer / Associated Press:
U. of Ill. denies William Ayers emeritus status — URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois on Thursday denied 1960s radical William Ayers emeritus faculty status after trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy noted Ayers dedicated a book to, among others, the man who killed Kennedy's father, Robert F. Kennedy.
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Michelle Malkin and Betsy's Page
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Iconography of the Pledge — The visual iconography of the Pledge to America is fascinating. It's full of photos of what I think are Republican members of Congress meeting with real Americans to better understand their problems and their burning desire for large deficit-financed tax cuts for rich people.
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Outside the Beltway, USA Today, The Apothecary and Politics Daily
Caleb Howe / Caleb's blog:
November is Coming — Where do you stand? — Normally at RedState we post a brief description of any videos we post. But this one ... you just have to watch it. — November. It's coming. — Video created and produced by Ben Howe.
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Ruby Slippers, Flopping Aces and Babalú Blog
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Romney: Possible, but “not easy” to beat Obama — At a Wednesday gathering of capital financiers in LA, Mitt Romney said Barack Obama will be a tough foe in 2012, partially because the economy will probably be better, and the POTUS will be in a boasting kind of mood.
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The New Republic
Scott / Power Line:
An appeal to Yale alumni — A group of Yale alumni has put together an insurgent campaign on behalf of Michael Horowitz ('64L) for the next election of an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation. The Yale alumni group has come together on the shared conviction that Horowitz's election …
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National Review
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Who Stands for Standing? — The legal doctrine of “standing,” as in standing to sue, doesn't usually get people's juices flowing — even people like newspaper editors who (take my word for this) tend to regard the topic as dry and technical, more suitable for courthouse geeks than general readers.
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Law Blog
Damian Paletta / Real Time Economics:
Volcker Spares No One in Broad Critique — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker scrapped a prepared speech he had planned to deliver at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Thursday, and instead delivered a blistering, off-the-cuff critique leveled at nearly every corner of the financial system.
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The Big Picture and Economist's View
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Goodbye to the Clinton Majority, Those Lucky Dems, and More! — 1. Goodbye To The Clinton Majority? Recently, Franklin & Marshall College put out a poll of Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, in the Philadelphia suburbs, that shows incumbent Democrat Patrick Murphy …
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National Review, Capital Tonight and Left Coast Rebel
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Rep. Mike Pence is likely to seek higher office, say fellow House Republicans — Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) will likely launch a bid for higher office after the November elections, according to several House Republicans. — Pence won the presidential straw poll at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday …
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FrumForum
MyFOX Detroit:
Chrysler Auto Workers Busted — Jefferson North Plant in Detroit — myFOXDetroit.com Staff - We're all rooting for the auto industry to come back stronger than ever. It affects every one of us here in metro Detroit and across the country because it's so important to our economy.
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Speech Hostile to Gays Constitutionally Unprotected, Speech Hostile to Whites Constitutionally Protected? — James E. Graves, Jr., a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Senate Judiciary Committee will be considering …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Senate Republicans launch $1 million ad buy in West Virginia — 1. The National Republican Senatorial Committee will launch ads in the West Virginia Senate race today, a seven-figure expenditure that strongly suggests the party thinks they can pull off an upset in the Mountain State.
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The Note, Plain Dealer, Hotline On Call and The Page
CNN:
Virginia puts woman to death by lethal injection — From Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN — Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) — Teresa Lewis, called the mastermind in the murder-for-hire deaths of her husband and stepson, was executed Thursday night, Virginia Department of Corrections officials said.
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