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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Gibbs to Leave as White House Press Secretary — Updated Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary and close confidante to President Obama, said Wednesday that he will step down and become an outside political adviser to the president and his re-election campaign.
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Gibbs: Senator Obama Only Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling in 2006 Because He Knew It Would Pass Anyway — On Sunday, President Obama's top economic adviser, Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee, cautioned members of Congress not to “play chicken” by voting against raising …
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CNSNews, Weasel Zippers, Power Line and Hot Air
Adrienne LaFrance / Civil Beat:
Obama's Winter White House an Illegal Rental
Obama's Winter White House an Illegal Rental
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Tammy Bruce
The Huffington Post:
Dean Endorses Bill Daley, Rips Outgoing Obama Aides For ‘Contempt’
Dean Endorses Bill Daley, Rips Outgoing Obama Aides For ‘Contempt’
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Taylor Marsh
msnbc.com:
Conversations sparked by photojournalism
Conversations sparked by photojournalism
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The Gateway Pundit, Tammy Bruce and The Politico
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Mulvaney, Against Raising Debt Ceiling, Admits He Doesn't …
GOP Rep. Mulvaney, Against Raising Debt Ceiling, Admits He Doesn't …
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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and George's Bottom Line
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Howard Dean endorses Daley for chief of staff, rips White House
Howard Dean endorses Daley for chief of staff, rips White House
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The Politico, CNN, The Nation, Weasel Zippers and TPMDC
James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Debt ceiling politics
Debt ceiling politics
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ThinkProgress, Commentary, No More Mister Nice Blog, Clusterstock and The Daily Dish
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Wire:
Obama to Visit Chamber on Feb. 7
Obama to Visit Chamber on Feb. 7
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The Caucus, Politics Daily, TPMDC and The ChamberPost
Ezra Klein:
A very smart speech by Speaker Boehner — If you spent the afternoon watching C-SPAN, as I did, you heard applause. A lot of it. Over and over again. And when John Boehner took the podium to be sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it swelled back up, and stayed there.
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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 …
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
New team, same rules
New team, same rules
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John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: President Michele Bachmann? — Sources: Tea Party Favorite Is Mulling a Presidential Bid in 2012 — Forget the fervent chatter speculating that Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering launching a campaign to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bachmann considering White House bid, aides say
Bachmann considering White House bid, aides say
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PostPartisan and Right Pundits
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Michele Bachmann for President?
Michele Bachmann for President?
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The Daily Caller
Sean Higgins / Investor's Business Daily:
Hoyer: Tea Party People Come From Unhappy Families — On the eve of his demotion by voters from House Majority Leader to House Minority Whip, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Hoyer offered this insight into the psychology of the Tea Party movement: … So, there you have it.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Howard Dean on Tea Party: ‘Last Gasp of the 55-Year-Old Generation’
Howard Dean on Tea Party: ‘Last Gasp of the 55-Year-Old Generation’
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Mediaite, Fausta's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Nice Deb and Fox Nation
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.
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Cubachi:
Palin effective again: Death panels removed from medicare regulation — Sarah Palin's effective usage of pinpointing in few words what Obamacare is all about has ringed across the mainstream media and conservatives across the country. — I remember when there were a few conservatives …
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Doug Ross and Liberty Pundits Blog
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning
U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Here it is: The filibuster reform package! — Here's a copy of the filibuster reform resolution that Senate Democrats will introduce later today, sent over by an aide to Tom Udall, one of the key Senators driving this campaign. — While the broad outlines of the proposal were already public …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Ben Nelson on filibuster: ‘The last thing we need to do is start changing rules’
Ben Nelson on filibuster: ‘The last thing we need to do is start changing rules’
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Omaha World-Herald, The Note, The Daily Beast, Washington Monthly and Firedoglake
Henri Paget / ninemsn:
KFC employee screams insults at customer — A worker at a KFC restaurant in Sydney has been suspended after he was filmed screaming vicious insults and threatening to attack a customer. — The violent outburst happened at a Halal-friendly KFC in Punchbowl on December 26 …
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The Jawa Report, Andrew Bolt, American Power and Tim Blair
Naomi Wolf / Guardian:
Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named — The shielding of sex-crime accusers is a Victorian relic. Women are moral adults and should be treated as such — As Swedish prosecutors' sex-crime allegations against Julian Assange play out, one aspect of the case merits serious scrutiny.
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Christian Science Monitor:
Could you pass a US citizenship test? — In order to become a US citizen, immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test. American citizenship bestows the right to vote, improves the likelihood of family members living in other countries to come and live in the US, gives eligibility for federal jobs …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
Granite Status Exclusive: Santorum hires Mike Biundo to head his PAC in NH — WEDNESDAY UPDATE: THE FIRST 2012 HIRING. Mike Biundo, the veteran Manchester conservative political strategist who guided Frank Guinta's campaigns for mayor of the state's largest city and then for the U.S. House …
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Tim Kane / The Atlantic Online:
Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving — Why are so many of the most talented officers now abandoning military life for the private sector? An exclusive survey of West Point graduates shows that it's not just money. Increasingly, the military is creating a command structure that rewards conformism and ignores merit.
Philly.com:
Man found in landfill tied to arson attempt — Source: John P. Wheeler 3d planted incendiary devices at a neighbor's home in Del. days before his disappearance. — Police in Delaware have discovered evidence that a former Pentagon aide may have been involved in an attempted arson days before his murder …
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Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Pentagon Is Poised to Cancel Marine Landing Craft — It was supposed to be a tank that swims, a new way for the Marines to storm hostile beaches. — But as military budgets come under pressure, the 38-ton landing craft that turns into an assault vehicle seems destined to be the next bit of high-tech wizardry to bite the dust.
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Danger Room and SWJ Blog
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Billionaire David Koch Entertains Newly Elected Republicans On The First Day Of The New Congress — Today, as Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) was sworn in as the Speaker of the House for the 112th Congress, ThinkProgress witnessed a group of Koch Industries lobbyists entering the Capitol along …
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