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3:30 PM ET, January 20, 2011

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The Fix:
A three-way pileup atop 2012 GOP presidential race  —  Former Govs. Mike Huckabee (Ark.), Sarah Palin (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Mass.) make up the top tier of the 2012 Republican presidential field, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News.
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Huckabee's book tour lavishes attention on Iowa, South Carolina  —  Washington (CNN) - Mike Huckabee will visit six cities in Iowa and five in South Carolina during his upcoming book tour - one more sign that the former Arkansas governor wants to keep his name in the presidential mix for 2012 …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Ben Smith's Blog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking stronger  —  PPP's monthly look ahead to next year's Presidential race finds Barack Obama in his best position against the major Republican contenders since 2009.  —  The GOP hopefuls who would make it most competitive against Obama continue to be Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, each of whom he leads by 5 points.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
John Berman / ABCNEWS:
Palin Checking 2012 Pulse in Iowa
Discussion: The Note
Mark Weaver / 630 WMAL:
Michelle Obama's ‘Get Moving’ Program Linked to Pedestrian Deaths  —  WASHINGTON — The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010 and the First Lady's program to get Americans to be more active could be partly responsible.
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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
First Lady's anti-obesity campaign could be causing more pedestrian deaths
Discussion: Guardian, Wonkette and FrumForum
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal  —  While the health care repeal that the House passed Wednesday has little chance of passage in the Senate, Republicans will probably succeed in eventually forcing a vote on the measure — albeit with at least a 60-vote threshold.
Discussion: NationalJournal.com and Salon
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How Should Dems Manage the Healthcare Repeal Circus?
Discussion: Yglesias and Ezra Klein
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Harkin to raise cash at Lady Gaga show
Discussion: CNN
Wall Street Journal:
The Repeal Vote  —  An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
Discussion: Right Turn
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A number of the House GOP's leading conservative members on Thursday will announce legislation that would cut $2.5 trillion over 10 years, which will be by far the most ambitious and far-reaching proposal by the new majority to cut federal government spending.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Republicans set down marker on spending: $2.5 trillion in cuts
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Washington Examiner:
Can't reduce federal spending?  Here's a plan to cut $2.5 trillion by 2021
Discussion: The Foundry and Big Government
David Brody / The Brody File:
Rick Santorum Responds to Brody File on Comment About President Obama's Race and Abortion  —  EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: RICK SANTORUM HAS JUST SENT THE BRODY FILE A STATEMENT ON THE STORY BELOW: … Abortion is a toxic subject.  Race is a toxic subject.  And soon to be GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rick Santorum plays race card on President Obama  —  In eye-brow raising comments, possible presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is questioning how President Barack Obama - as an African-American - can support abortion rights.  —  Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania …
The Note:
Rick Santorum Calls Obama's Abortion Stance ‘Remarkable For A Black Man’
Discussion: Weigel
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama to Close Political Office and Start 2012 Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will close the office of political affairs at the White House, aides said, restructuring his organization to prepare for his re-election campaign, which is to start building a fund-raising and grassroots operation based in Chicago by late March.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Biden: Obama has best record since FDR
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Ballot Box
The Note:
SPOTTED: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Waiting for Jury Duty  —  ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: If you thought Supreme Court justices are exempt from jury duty in their local courts, think again.  —  Justice Elena Kagan was spotted among a crowd of prospective jurors huddled in a waiting lounge this morning at D.C. Superior Court.
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Ezra Klein:
If Obama wants to be bold, he should be bold  —  Peter Baker has a lot of juicy tidbits about the frequent infighting and petty spats that split the White House economic team over the past two years, but the individual who comes off worst in the article is not Larry Summers or Christina Romer or Peter Orszag or Rahm Emanuel.
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Putting Out Presidential Feelers in Iowa  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tasked her aides with quietly gauging her level of support for a potential presidential campaign by making inquiries to a select pool of likely allies and grassroots activists in Iowa, RealClearPolitics has learned.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Palinoia, the Destroyer  —  What's behind the left's deranged hatred.  —  Why does their hatred of her burn so hot?  —  Ask them, and they'll most likely tell you: Because she's a moron.  But that is obviously false.  To be sure, her skills at extemporaneous speaking leave much to be desired.
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
FBI Rounding Up 100 Mobsters in Biggest Mafia Bust in New York History  —  Charges range from gambling to racketeering to murder  —  The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history.  More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection …
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Jose Lambiet / Page2Live.com:
Parents of Giffords' doc supported Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell with Palm Beach cash  —  The name of Michael Lemole, the University of Arizona neurosurgeon who's been treating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' brain injuries since the Jan. 8 shooting, may sound familiar to Palm Beachers.
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P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Palm Beach Post Columnist Slams Parents of Rep. Giffords Doctor …
The Huffington Post:
Obama's Social Security Talk Is Turning Voters Off, Pollsters Say … WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's apparent willingness to consider cuts in Social Security benefits may be winning him points with Washington elites, but it's killing him with voters, who see the program as inviolate …
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Reuters:
Fixing Social Security is progressive
Murphy / The Beast:
The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010  —  Charges: The A.Q. Khan of the culinary world, her secret recipes are demonstrably more dangerous to America than a nuclear armed North Korea.  When not delighting delusional hicks on “Huckabee,” she's cooking up coronary-clogging treats like the …
Discussion: Liberty Street, Althouse and Pharyngula
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Goodbye to a Guy Named Joe  —  On Wednesday, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced that he won't be a candidate for re-election in 2012.  Normally people look particularly appealing when they're promising to go away.  This time, not so much.  —  “I can't help but also think about …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Delusions of world-historical grandeur  —  One thing that is endlessly amusing about the contemporary right is their comical lack of historical proportion, their frequent tendency to compare their current situation to the plight endured by history's leading victims of oppression, persecution, and genocide.
Discussion: TPMDC
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   AN UNSHAKABLE PERSECUTION COMPLEX.... I missed the speech yesterday …
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Petraeus Team: Taliban Made Us Wipe Village Out  —  Expect more Afghan villages to be destroyed by American rockets and bombs — if, that is, the Taliban “saturate” them with homemade explosives and kick out the villagers.  But the U.S.-led coalition isn't going to destroy populated areas …
Discussion: Swampland and Gawker
Paul Bedard / US News:
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts  —  Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years.  Gone would be Amtrak subsidies …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Marisa Schultz / Detroit News:
Dingell, 84, to seek re-election  —  Washington - John Dingell, 84, plans to run for a 30th term and extend his reign as the dean of the U.S. House.  —  “It's the greatest job in the world,” Dingell, D-Dearborn, said today in acknowledging he's fund-raising for a 2012 re-election.
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
 
 
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Bail them out, regulate them, then work for them
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Hoyer loves his new view
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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Rep. Upton begins investigation of health-care bureaucracy
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Ohio, Wisconsin, Four More States, Join Challenge to Obama Health Care
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Officer married activist he spied on
Discussion: newsfeed.time.com and msnbc.com
New York Post:
Topics  —  They should sue the state for all the additional …
Discussion: New York Magazine
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Hubris heading for a fall
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama presidency a success or failure?
Discussion: The Politico