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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 46% Favor, 40% Oppose Repealing Healthcare Law — Three-quarters of Republicans favor repeal; 64% of Democrats oppose it — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans do not strongly endorse the new Republican House majority's efforts to repeal the landmark healthcare legislation passed last year.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Buckle Up for Round 2 — The health care reform law was signed 10 months ago, and what's striking now is how vulnerable it looks. Several threats have emerged — some of them scarcely discussed before passage — that together or alone could seriously endanger the new system. These include:
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New York Times:
Republicans Are Given a Price Tag for Health Law Repeal, but Reject It — WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to repeal President Obama's health care law would add $230 billion to federal budget deficits over the next decade …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
CBO says health care repeal would deepen deficit
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New York Post:
Rudy gearing up for DC run — Confident that he'd have a chance to win, Rudy Giuliani is rounding up his top political advisers for a possible 2012 presidential run, sources tell Page Six. — Sources say the tough-talking former mayor “thinks the Republican race will be populated …
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Amelia Chasse / New Hampshire Journal:
Romney flexes muscle in first NH Primary poll while Palin and others lag behind
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Ballot Box, Weigel, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and GOP 12
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Report: Rudy Giuliani may run again
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Indecision Forever and GOP 12
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs was forced out by new henchman William Daley — I wondered yesterday whether Robert Gibbs jumped or was pushed and noted that President Barack Obama's words indicated that it was “not an entirely voluntary departure”. — It's being reported by John King …
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
A Shift in Tactics, Not in Ideology
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The Note:
The Note: Will Obama Sink Or Swim In 2012?: Jobs Report Holds Clues
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Elizabeth Williamson / Wall Street Journal:
President Revs Up Campaign to Make Peace With Business
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Private Sector Improves Jobs Picture Only Moderately — The United States economy ended the year by adding 103,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department said Friday, a number that missed expectations. In addition, the unemployment rate fell to 9.4 percent last month from 9.8 percent.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Key Numbers In Unemployment Report Not So Good
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Ezra Klein:
103,000 new jobs in December; unemployment down to 9.4 percent
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Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Parts of the Constitution inadvertently skipped in ‘historic reading’ on floor — The U.S. Constitution has still never been read in its entirety and in order on the House floor. — During Thursday morning's “historic reading,” one member apparently skipped Article 4 Section 4 and part …
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Boehner v. Pelosi: House Leaders Spar Over Significance of Jobs Report
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Memo to Speaker Boehner: If You Won a Congessional Majority …
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David Dayen / news.firedoglake.com:
MA Supreme Court Deals Banks a Major Blow on Foreclosure Fraud, in the Ibanez Case — In a major ruling in the Massachusetts Supreme Court today, US Bank and Wells Fargo lost the “Ibanez case,” meaning that they don't have standing to foreclose due to improper mortgage assignment.
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Tracy Alloway / FT Alphaville:
A court case to challenge securitisation standards [updated]
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ABCNEWS:
Pawlenty: Sarah Palin Is a ‘Force of Nature’ — Although former Gov. Tim Pawlenty no longer holds the executive seat in Minnesota, that doesn't mean he is hanging up his political hat for good.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Levi's Vindication: The Self-Exposure Of Sarah Palin — As a long-standing Palin hysteric, I have to confess a mite less concern in 2011 than at any time since she has been farcically commanding the attention of the political class. Not much has changed essentially: Palin's favorable ratings remain roughly where they have been.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Texas Omen — These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. — Wait — Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
To House GOP, illegal immigration is a jobs issue — With Republicans now in control of the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials are going to be answering a lot of questions in the next two years. “We're going to start fast,” …
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Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Two Members Appear to Break Rules on First Day of New Congress — Two House Republican members, Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick and Pete Sessions, missed their swearing in on Wednesday as they attended a fundraiser in Fitzpatrick's honor at the U.S. Capitol. These two not-quite-yet Congressmen …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves resolution fixing problem with missed swearing-in
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The Note:
Bernanke Warns Jobs Recovery Could Take Years, Urges Action on Deficit Problems — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke today told Congress that if the pace of job creation continues at December's levels - when 103,000 jobs were added to payrolls …
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Bob Willis / Bloomberg:
U.S. Adds 103,000 Jobs in December, Unemployment at 9.4%
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Sumathi Reddy / Metropolis:
Church Leaders Blast NYC Abortion Numbers … Archbishop Timothy Dolan joined other religious leaders Thursday vowing to work to reduce the number of abortions in New York City. — Leaders of various faiths denounced figures that showed that 41% of pregnancies in the city were terminated in 2009.
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Mzielinska / CBS New York:
39 Percent Of NYC Pregnancies Result In Abortion
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Brian / Right Wing Watch:
Heritage Foundation and Media Research Center Join CPAC Boycott — Last February the Media Research Center's director of media analysis Tim Graham defended the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) from a charge that the event was “once a venue for the radical fringe.”
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Indecision Forever
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Another CPAC Dust-Up Over Gays
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New York Times:
U.S. Sends Warning to People Named in Cable Leaks — WASHINGTON — The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful …
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A. Barton / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Hinkle: Debates of 2010 Raised More Questions — Time's passage winnows the chaff from the country's big debates. So look back at two of the chief disputes from 2010. You will find something curious in the kernels. — The first debate concerned health-care reform.
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