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The Fix:
Democrats' defection from Pelosi is historic — How divided are Democrats' right now? — With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party's speaker nominee in nearly a century.
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The Note, Ballot Box, Indecision Forever, Des Moines Register, Gallup, The Politico, Commentary, Washington Post and Politics Daily
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Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
'It's still just me'—Will Boehner Be the Anti-Obama?
'It's still just me'—Will Boehner Be the Anti-Obama?
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Washington Times, GayPatriot, Politics Daily, Ezra Klein, TigerHawk and Big Government
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
The 'people's House' takes up ‘We the People’ with symbolic floor reading
The 'people's House' takes up ‘We the People’ with symbolic floor reading
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The Plum Line, Yglesias, Gawker and Wonkette
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi perma-grins and bears it as she hands speaker's gavel to John Boehner
Nancy Pelosi perma-grins and bears it as she hands speaker's gavel to John Boehner
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Betsy's Page and Michelle Malkin
CNN:
Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds — Editor's note: Watch Anderson Cooper's interview with the author of the discredited study, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, on “AC360°” at 10 p.m. ET tonight. — (CNN) — A now-retracted British study that linked autism …
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Brian Deer / BMJ:
How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
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The Volokh Conspiracy, Gawker, The Incidental Economist, Balloon Juice and PointOfLaw Forum
Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
CBO's Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act — The House of Representatives is planning to consider a bill (H.R. 2) to repeal the major health care legislation enacted last March—that is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) …
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AmSpecBlog and National Review
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
New CBO Analysis: GOP's Push For Health Law Repeal Would Increase Deficit By $230 Billion Over 10 Years — Moments ago, the Congressional Budget Office released its cost estimate for the GOP's health care repeal bill — H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act …
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Wonk Room and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: CBO Paints Grim Picture of Repeal — A few days ago I asked whether the Republicans would wait for a Congressional Budget Office score before voting on their proposal to repeal health care reform. To their credit, they have. And the news from the CBO is exactly what you would have thought …
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Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
GOP bends its own new House rules — Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform. — But the new majority is already showing these promises aren't exactly set in stone. — After calling for bills to go through …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and Oliver Willis
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
The Constitution (as amended), The Schumer Model, Fast Break on GOP Backtracking, Crown Shots at Andy's Bar, Pelosi's Historic Loss of Support, Trivia — By Jonathan Allen (with an assist from Jake “Fast Break” Sherman) — THE READING OF THE CONSTITUTION, AS AMENDED …
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Plan Attack on Republican Repeal Effort
Democrats Plan Attack on Republican Repeal Effort
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The Politico
James Warren / The Atlantic Online:
No Pity for Robert Gibbs and His ‘Modest’ Salary — Perhaps it was the long flight back from Hawaii. But President Obama's first full day back on the job suggested a slight case of tone deafness. — In bidding a sort-of farewell to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, he noted the …
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Weasel Zippers
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Gibbs: Senator Obama Only Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling …
Gibbs: Senator Obama Only Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling …
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Washington Monthly, theblogprof, The Confluence, Weasel Zippers, CNSNews, Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air and Washington Post
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Gibbs defends Obama 2006 vote against raising debt ceiling
Gibbs defends Obama 2006 vote against raising debt ceiling
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Big Government, Right Turn and Commentary
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets — The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Web's notorious information anarchist, and some of the world's most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper. What followed was a clash of civilizations …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Vanity Fair portrays the WikiLeaks founder as a shrewd negotiator …
Vanity Fair portrays the WikiLeaks founder as a shrewd negotiator …
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Guardian
The Huffington Post:
Bill Daley Chief Of Staff Announcement Reportedly Coming Soon — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Read More: Bill Daley, Bill Daley Announcement, Bill Daley Chief Of Staff, White House. White House Chief Of Staff, William Daley, William Daley Announcement, William Daley Chief Of Staff, William Daley White House.
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Ezra Klein, Sunlight Foundation Blog, Fortune, The Reid Report, The New Republic, Mediaite, The Politico and The Hill
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
BULLETIN: BILL DALEY ANNOUNCEMENT AS CHIEF OF STAFF EXPECTED SOON …
BULLETIN: BILL DALEY ANNOUNCEMENT AS CHIEF OF STAFF EXPECTED SOON …
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Taegan Goddard's …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Volcker to step down from White House panel — (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker plans to leave his role as head of a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on the economy, sources familiar with the decision said on Wednesday.
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David Leonhardt / Economix:
Gene Sperling 101 — President Obama is said to be ready …
Gene Sperling 101 — President Obama is said to be ready …
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Mother Jones, Slate and Felix Salmon
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
McCain says he'll make 'Don't ask' repeal work — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday he would work to help implement the repeal of the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy, despite his opposition to that legislation. — McCain signaled he had made peace with the lame-duck bill …
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TPMMuckraker, Pam's House Blend and Towleroad News #gay
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Why Progressives Find It Difficult to Take the “Fiscal Responsibility” Movement Seriously — Portrait of the Deficit Hawk as a Liberal Democrat from Massachusetts — Yesterday was the presentation of the “Fiscy Awards,” which go to politicians that the fiscal responsibility movement likes:
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Journal's Paper on ESP Expected to Prompt Outrage — One of psychology's most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events. — The decision may delight believers …
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Gawker, Hullabaloo and The Agonist
CNN:
Elizabeth Edwards' will leaves everything to her children — (CNN) — Elizabeth Edwards left everything to her children, with no mention of her estranged husband, John Edwards, in her will. — “All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects …
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Politics Daily
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Elizabeth Edwards leaves John Edwards out of her will
Elizabeth Edwards leaves John Edwards out of her will
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Tammy Bruce and Moe Lane
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S. — Gulet Mohamed is an 18-year-old American citizen whose family is Somalian. His parents moved with him to the U.S. when he was 2 or 3 years old, and he has lived in the U.S. ever since. In March, 2009, he went to study Arabic …
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New York Times
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Steve King unveils birthright bill — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) isn't wasting any time with his immigration agenda, dropping a bill on the first day of Congress that goes after birthright citizenship. — King's measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country.
Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Original U.S. Constitution will not be read in entirety on House floor — If you plan to follow along with your own copy during Thursday's House floor reading of the U.S. Constitution, you might notice that some members reading aloud are skipping parts of the original document.
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The Hill:
President Obama's motorcade: A seatbelt-free zone? — Does President Obama wear a seatbelt in his presidential limo? He is supposed to, but there are indications that he doesn't. — After then-New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) was seriously injured in a car accident in 2007 …
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The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
Republicans to Spend $1.1 Million Reciting Constitution on House Floor — As we reported this morning, House Republicans will kick-start the 112th Congress tomorrow with a spirited recitation of the Constitution, a document whose recent relevance is due largely to the ideological and sartorial interests of the Tea Party.
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Commentary, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Colorlines, Don Surber, TPMDC, Raw Story and AMERICAblog News