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7:40 PM ET, January 13, 2011

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Richard PéRez-PeñA / The Caucus:
Christie Says Palin Needs to Go Unscripted to Contend for 2012  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey says it's way too early to handicap the field of his fellow Republicans who might run for president in 2012, but on Wednesday he voiced a few sharp words about the most famous one.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Barack Obama takes opportunity Sarah Palin missed  —  In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two forces that could prevent them from retaking the presidency next year.  —  At sunrise in the east on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest …
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Palin to Do TV Interview Monday  —  Sarah Palin is scheduled to sit for her first extended interview since the Tucson shooting rampage on Monday night, on the Fox News Channel.  —  An executive at Fox News Channel said that Ms. Palin would appear on the program of the conservative host Sean Hannity …
Michael Shear / The Caucus:
Obama and Palin, a Tale of Two Speeches  —  President Obama spoke Wednesday night at an event at the McKale Memorial Center honoring the shooting victims in Tucson.  —  Wednesday was bookended by two remarkable — and remarkably different — political performances that demonstrated the vast expanse of America's political landscape.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama recaptures his 2004 voice
Discussion: Weigel
The White House:
Remarks by the President at a Memorial Service for the Victims …
Ezra Klein:
Politics to a child  —  There's a line from the president's speech …
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison won't seek re-election in 2012  —  gjeffers@dallasnews.com  —  Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.  —  In a letter to supporters, Hutchison said she enjoyed serving Texas.  —  “I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Thoughts on Hutchison  —  Regardless of the official reasons for Kay Bailey Hutchison's retirement announcement today I have to wonder how much of it has to do with her not wanting to risk losing a primary to the Tea Party next year.  —  Hutchison's approval rating with Republicans on our last Texas poll was just 58%.
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
'It's time for a new person,' U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Conservatives Accuse Obama Of Lying About Giffords Opening Eyes; Her Doctors Disagree  —  In one of the most cynical displays in recent memory, following the lead of Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, several conservative websites - including Fox Nation and MRC arm CNS News - suggested that President Obama lied …
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Arizona Republic:
Black bag found may be tied to Giffords shooting, authorities say
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Doctors cite ‘major milestone’ in Rep. Giffords's recovery, remain cautious
Discussion: The Politico
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
If Elected President, Pawlenty Tells Fischer He'll Reinstate Don't Ask, Don't Tell  —  There are few Religious Right leaders active today who can compete with the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer in terms of openly hostile bigotry against gays, Muslims, and all those who do not share his radical worldview:
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Homophobia First.  —  Kyle at Right Wing Watch transcribes …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Pawlenty To Bryan Fischer: I'd Support Reinstating DADT
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner Didn't Really Snub Obama, Tucson Memorial  —  House Speaker John Boehner is catching a lot of flak for missing last night's memorial service in Tucson, reportedly declining an Air Force One invitation from President Obama in order to slap backs and clink glasses at an RNC event.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
John Boehner turns down Air Force One ride to Tucson  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the victims of Saturday's shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems settle on branding for GOP repeal effort: “The Patient's Rights Repeal Act”  —  “The Patient's Rights Repeal Act.”  —  At a House Dem leadership meeting last week, Dem leaders decided that this is the phrase they will officially use to brand the House GOP's push to repeal health reform, aides tell me.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP to move quickly on healthcare 1099 tax repeal
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
GOP in a bind over healthcare repeal vote
Daisy Hernandez / NPR:
Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief … Daisy Hernandez (no relation to Daniel Hernandez) is the co-editor of Colonize This!  Young Women on Today's Feminism.  —  I wasn't the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judge's murder
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
CAIR Says Poster Warning Against Helping FBI is Misinterpreted  —  Image from the CAIR website that uses a poster encouraging people not the talk to the FBI to promote an upcoming conference.  —  The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Verum Serum
Joyce Wadler / New York Times:
Don't Try This at Home: Adultery in the Marital Bed  —  THE woman who came to see Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer, had reason to be enraged: her husband was not only having an affair, he was also having an extravagant, money's-no-concern, fabled-and-faraway-beaches affair.
Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
Obama's Finest Hour  —  During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote a comparison of Barack Obama's Philadelphia speech on race with Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union address during his own 1860 campaign.  I noted that both men had to separate themselves from embarrassing associations …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House seeks momentum after lauded Tucson speech
Discussion: CNN
Wall Street Journal:
S&P, Moody's Warn On U.S. Credit Rating  —  LONDON—Two leading credit rating agencies on Thursday cautioned the U.S. on its credit rating, expressing concern over a deteriorating fiscal situation that they say needs correction.  —  Moody's Investors Service said in a report Thursday …
Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Romney Locks in Beeson, Newhouse for '12 Bid  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has secured both a pollster and a political director for his near-certain presidential bid this coming cycle, according to sources connected to Romney's 2008 presidential effort.
Megan Carpentier / TPMDC:
Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Wasserman Schultz Describe Giffords Opening Her Eyes  —  Last night, on the plane back to Washington with the President, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) described in more detail what they saw when, as President Obama said last night …
Discussion: Blog For Arizona and The Politico
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Wall Street Journal:
Why the Left Lost It  —  The accusation that the tea parties were linked to the Tucson murders is the product of calculation and genuine belief.  —  There has been a great effort this week to come to grips with the American left's reaction to the Tucson shooting.
Neal Ungerleiderwed / Fast Company:
Saudi Arabia Now Forcing News Bloggers to Obtain Licenses, Promote Islam  —  The Middle Eastern kingdom has just enacted one of the world's most stringent sets of blogging regulations: Non-citizens can't write about news, chat room users are encouraged to register with the government …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Elder of Ziyon
Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
Health Care Law Repeal Bill Rescheduled by Republicans for Next Week … If the post-partisan moment that President Obama spoke of Wednesday night ever came to fruition, it was certainly short-lived.  Less than a week after Saturday's attack in Tucson that critically injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
King will push ahead with gun bill despite GOP leaders' opposition
Wall Street Journal:
A Fifth Star for David Petraeus  —  The general clearly deserves to join the rank held by MacArthur, Marshall and Nimitz.  His promotion would also honor our troops and their mission in the war on terror.  —  On a cold December evening in 1783, at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Bernanke: Job Growth Not “At the Pace We'd Like” in 2011  —  Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke (photo: talkradionews)  —  Ben Bernanke spoke at a small business forum today, and basically said that the economy would grow in 2011 but not enough to boost hiring.
Discussion: CNBC and Eschaton
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
McCarthy unveils strict gun-control bill  —  The fiercest gun-control advocate in Congress released the text of a bill she plans to introduce next week that would outlaw high-capacity magazines like the one a gunman used to shoot 20 people in a matter of seconds in Arizona this weekend.
Discussion: Valley Fever and Weigel
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
What the left did wrong  —  Why were the last four days a mini-disaster for the swampland of the left?  It boils down to: facts, response and time.  —  Members of the left pounced first and didn't much care about the facts.  Before it was clear just how crazy Jared Loughner is …
 
 
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Tears and Rain  —  I've been thinking about the president's speech …
The Politico:
House learns to handle a shooter
Discussion: Gawker
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
‘Blood Libel’ and Beyond
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
The Daily Politics  —  BY CELESTE KATZ  —  Mayor Bloomberg struck …
Discussion: The Hill and Gothamist
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Pawlenty defends Palin, saying after shooting, she was ‘falsely accused’
Discussion: CNN
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Booker, Christie would fight to a draw
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Kane / The Atlantic Online:
Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Congressman's wife gets 30 days in jail for tax conviction
Discussion: Boston Globe
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
GOP's Gohmert plans to introduce bill to allow firearms on House floor
James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Gingrich visits South Carolina as presidential decision looms
Discussion: CNN and TPMDC
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Facing Challenge, Obama Returns to Unity Theme
 

 
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