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Lbentzterp / CNN:
McCain: Hopes Obama considers Lieberman for defense secretary — Washington (CNN) - Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, tells CNN he believes his good friend Joe Lieberman would make a good defense secretary for President Obama, calling him “one of the most informed members of the Senate on national security issues and homeland security issues.”
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Clinton says she won't commit to serving second term at State — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she hasn't committed to serving a second term in the Obama administration and is looking forward to an eventual return to private life. — “That's not something …
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Taylor Marsh, CNN, The Politico, Shakesville and FrumForum
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Before banning ‘crosshairs,’ CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann — CNN's John King is attracting a lot of notice — and some ridicule — in the blogosphere for his on-air apology after a guest used the word “crosshairs” during a report on Chicago politics Tuesday.
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John / Power Line:
Palin for President? Forget It — The time has come to put any thoughts of Sarah Palin running for President to rest. I say that not because I dislike her; on the contrary, I'm a fan. I think she did an excellent job as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and has been an effective spokeswoman …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, American Power and Mediaite
Marissa Calhoun / CNN:
CNN Poll: Palin unfavorable rating at all time high — Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the former Alaska governor. That 56 percent unfavorable figure is up seven points …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: House Republicans Explain Why They Won't Give Up Their Own Government-Sponsored Health Care — With the Republican legislative agenda increasingly focused on repealing health care reform, many observers are beginning to question whether GOPers in Congress will personally abide …
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The Note:
Say What? Democrat Compares Republicans to Nazis — ABC News Jonathan Karl reports: The newfound civility didn't last long. Political rhetoric in Congress doesn't get much nastier than the words of one House Democrat during the debate on repealing the health care law.
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Politics Daily, In Session and Confederate Yankee
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Democratic lawmaker compares GOP health law claims to Nazi ‘lies’ — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.) on the House floor Tuesday night compared Republican claims about the healthcare reform law to lies perpetrated by the Nazis that led to the Holocaust. — Cohen, who is Jewish …
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Weasel Zippers
Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
The new Clintonian Obama is playing offense, and building momentum — Three months after an electoral “shellacking” that threatened to derail his agenda and his reelection, Obama is on a roll. — President Obama — the centrist, Clintonian version — is rolling.
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Stating the obvious
First thoughts: Stating the obvious
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Harry Reid calls Chinese leader Hu Jintao a ‘dictator’
Harry Reid calls Chinese leader Hu Jintao a ‘dictator’
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Michelle Malkin, The Note, Pundit & Pundette and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Worst Case — How health care reform really could get repealed—and why the repercussions would go well beyond health care. — Steven Hyder, 40, runs his own legal practice out of a shared office in downtown Monroe, Michigan, a blue-collar town south of Detroit.
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Suzy Khimm / Mother Jones:
Health Reform by the Numbers
Health Reform by the Numbers
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TalkLeft, The New Republic and Ezra Klein
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily:
Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate — Suggests controversy could hurt president's re-election chances — Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published today that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within …
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Liberal Values, Moonbattery, Classical Values and Vox Popoli
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Gabrielle Giffords to be released from hospital on Friday — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be released from a Tucson, Ariz., hospital Friday just under two weeks after she suffered a gunshot wound to her head. — Giffords is set to be moved from the University Medical Center to Houston's Institute …
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Salon, TPMDC and Outside the Beltway
Janie Har / Oregonian:
U.S. Rep. David Wu loses staffers, political team amid complaints of public behavior — Since the November election, U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., has lost at least six staffers plus the leadership of a veteran campaign team that guided him to a seventh term amid complaints about his public behavior.
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Video Captured ‘Calculated’ Gunman in Tucson — TUCSON — The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords …
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Ron Charles / Washington Post:
Ron Charles reviews ‘O: A Presidential Novel’ — By Anonymous. — Simon & Schuster. 353 pp. $25.99 — Like the people who end up running for president, this anonymous novel about Barack Obama's reelection campaign isn't as good as you hoped or as bad as you feared.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
O: A guessing game
O: A guessing game
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New York Magazine and No More Mister Nice Blog
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Parenting by Gays More Common in the South, Census Shows — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Being gay in this Southern city was once a lonely existence. Most people kept their sexuality to themselves, and they were reminded of the dangers of being openly gay when a gay church was bombed in the 1980s.
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National Enquirer:
WHY OBAMA IS SCARY SKINNY — The real reason behind PRESIDENT OBAMA's shocking weight loss - he's secretly battling stomach parasites, say sources. — The pencil-thin president caught the parasites on a trip last year to Hawaii, where he and his family also vacationed over Christmas, according to top political insiders.
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Tim Mak / FrumForum:
Steele: “I Know How Caesar Felt” — This past weekend, RNC Chairman Michael Steele lost his bid for reelection. Sitting down with FrumForum as he ponders his next move, perhaps the thing that gets the garrulous Steele most quiet is a mention of his successor, Wisconsin State Republican Chair Reince Priebus.
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Associated Press:
DA: Pa. abortion doc killed 7 babies with scissors — PHILADELPHIA — A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a “house of horrors” clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive …
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Jay Reeves / Associated Press:
New Ala. gov: Just Christians are his family — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critics who questioned Tuesday whether he can be fair to non-Christians.
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DealBook:
Study Points to Windfall for Goldman Partners — Goldman Sachs executives have long been among the most richly paid on Wall Street in the best of times. They are now poised to reap a windfall that was sown in the dark days of the financial crisis in 2008.
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footnoted.com, Felix Salmon, New York Magazine, POWIP, msnbc.com, Gawker, Clusterstock and The BLT
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In Wreckage of Lost Jobs, Lost Power — Alone among the world's economic powers, the United States is suffering through a deep jobs slump that can't be explained by the rest of the economy's performance. — The gross domestic product here — the total value of all goods and services …
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Ezra Klein, Yglesias, Felix Salmon, The Huffington Post, Economix and Prairie Weather
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Pickering, Hills, Sullivan, Beinart, Dobbins, More Ask Obama Administration to Support UN Resolution Condemning Illegal Israeli Settlements — A letter from an array of concerned policy commentators and practitioners, academics, and former government officials about the resolution pending …
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FrumForum and Ben Smith's Blog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Ron Paul for Senate? — The top two choices of Texas Republicans to be their Senate nominee next year are David Dewhurst...and Ron Paul. The duo is basically tied with 23% saying Dewhurst would be their top pick as the GOP candidate and 21% picking Paul. — Maybe a couple years ago …
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New York Magazine and National Review
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The White House Looks for Work — Three days before Christmas, President Obama gathered his economic team in the West Wing's Roosevelt Room to review themes for his State of the Union address. The edge-of-the-cliff crisis he inherited had passed, but with more than 14 million Americans still out of work …
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Opinionator, TalkLeft and Connecting.the.Dots
Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
D.C. ANTI-WALMART PROTESTERS PLAN MARCH ON DEVELOPER'S HOME WITH ‘TARGET’ FLYER — A group of Washington, D.C. protesters upset about the possibility of a Walmart store coming to their area is hoping to send the potential developer of the proposed store a message.
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