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5:40 PM ET, January 20, 2011

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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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Paul Bedard / US News:
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
Discussion: Don Surber and Hit & Run
The Politico:
Republicans lay out $2.5 trillion in cuts
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE LAYS DOWN A RADICAL ‘MARKER’ …
Discussion: The Hill and TPMDC
David Weigel / Slate:
House Conservatives Introduce Spending Cuts: $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years
Discussion: RSC, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
First Lady's anti-obesity campaign could be causing more pedestrian deaths  —  Pedestrian deaths increased sharply during the first half of 2010, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA).  The reason may be First Lady Michelle Obama and her “Let's Move” campaign.
TBogg:   Michelle Obama Wants To Death Race 2000 Kill Your Fat Ass
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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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?
Sabato's Crystal Ball:   Presidential Possibilities
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Huckabee's book tour lavishes attention on Iowa, South Carolina
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.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How Should Dems Manage the Healthcare Repeal Circus?  —  It's a slow day, so let's do some political strategizing.  Here's what the LA Times has to say about yesterday's vote in the House to repeal healthcare reform: … Here's my take: Democrats are nuts to take this attitude.
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Senate Democrats and Health Care Repeal
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Wall Street Journal:
The Repeal Vote  —  An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Right Turn
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 …
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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.
Discussion: Law Blog
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases
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 …
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Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:
An update from the Chairman  —  When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today.  Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective sum of the world's knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process.
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.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Say Prayer Helped Save Congresswoman Giffords  —  Nearly 8 in 10 American voters say they believe prayers helped Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survive the Tucson shooting, according to a Fox News poll (Reuters).  —  Nearly 8 in 10 American voters say they believe prayers helped Arizona …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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.
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: No More Mister Nice Blog and TPMDC
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   AN UNSHAKABLE PERSECUTION COMPLEX.... I missed the speech yesterday …
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.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Police Seize ‘Large Amount’ Of Weapons From Blogger Who Praised Gifffords Shooting: ‘1 Down And 534 To Go’  —  Police in Arlington, MA this week seized a “large amount” of weapons and ammunition from local businessman Travis Corcoran after he wrote a blog post threatening U.S. lawmakers …
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.
The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Karl Rove begins to handicap the next presidential and Senatorial cycle  —  HH: Joined now by Karl Rove, author most recently of Courage And Consequence.  Karl, Happy New Year to you.  —  KR: Same to you.  How are you?  —  HH: I'm great.  I've got to ask you about this state dinner …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Hubris heading for a fall  —  It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, and in a recent speech that seemed like Larry Summers's swan song, the president's now-departed economic adviser warned that America is “at risk of a profound demoralization with respect to government.”
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
 
 
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The Politico:
House votes today to start ‘replace’ …
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New York Times:
Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries
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Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Giffords reading iPad, trying to speak
Discussion: The Hill, Wonkette and Gawker
Ezra Klein:
Kent Conrad to retire
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Give me $1 billion to cut the budget deficit
The Note:
Rush Limbaugh Mocks Chinese President Hu Jintao
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Walmart joins FLOTUS health push
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