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11:15 AM ET, January 20, 2011

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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House repeals healthcare law, 245-189  —  The House voted on Wednesday to repeal the sweeping healthcare law enacted last year, as Republicans made good on a central campaign pledge and laid down the first major policy marker of their new majority.  —  The vote was 245-189.
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Erika Niedowski / The Hill:   House Republicans move on from repealing health law to replacing it
The Note:
Say What? Democrat Compares Republicans to Nazis
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Repeals Obama Health Care Law in Symbolic Act
David Streeter / NJDC:
NJDC Criticizes Comments of Representative Steve Cohen
Discussion: Raw Story and The Plum Line
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell ‘assures’ Senate vote on repealing health reform
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama bouncing back  —  The president's approval rating returns to the 50s, but challenges remain, according to the latest poll  —  Below:  —  Deputy political director  —  WASHINGTON — What a difference a few weeks can make.  —  Last month, Republicans were celebrating …
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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 …
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
POTUS's Big Numbers, What's Next in Health Care, Giffords …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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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Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huck adviser to be Hill CoS
Discussion: CNN and msnbc.com
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases  —  WASHINGTON — When the conservative financier Charles Koch sent out invitations for a political retreat in Palm Springs later this month, he highlighted past appearances at the gathering of “notable leaders” …
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Scalia, Thomas and Citizens United
Discussion: Raw Story
The Huffington Post:
Rep. Chris Murphy Announces Connecticut Senate Candidacy (EXCLUSIVE) … UPDATE: Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) formally announced on Thursday morning that he will be running for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)  —  In an exclusive statement …
Discussion: Washington Blade
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Kevin / Daily Ructions:
Murphy To Announce Senate Candidacy Thursday.
Discussion: The Fix, Ballot Box and Capitol Watch
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.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Business Leaders Make Cut at State Dinner With Hu  —  WASHINGTON - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter made the cut.  So did Bill Clinton and his wife, the secretary of state.  The heads of Microsoft, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Boeing and Walt Disney were on the list.
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Michael Scherer / Time:
Mitt Hits the Road Again  —  Once more, Willard Mitt Romney looked great, and not just because of his rugged jawline, which showed no sign of slackening, or his thick blow-dry, which had gone more gray in just the right places.  No, there was something else, a feeling in the air as he moved through his adoptive state — where else?
Discussion: GOP 12 and Ben Smith's Blog
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.
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.
Daniel Tencer / Raw Story:
Trust in Fox News plummets: poll  —  In the space of one year, Fox News has lost its perch as the most trusted TV news network in the US and is now average at best, a new survey has found.  —  A poll gauging public trust in TV news has found that PBS is the most trusted name in news, while trust in Fox News has dropped significantly.
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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.
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.”
 
 
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New York Times:
For Lieberman, an Exit Forged in Alienation
Discussion: The New Republic, Scocca and Gawker
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama enjoys 2012 edge in bellwether state of Ohio
Discussion: The Politico
Nicole Gelinas / National Review:
State of the Christmas Trees
Discussion: Don Surber and alicublog
Caroline Lucas / Guardian:
Mobilising the ‘home front’ to fight climate change | Caroline Lucas
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (update: option disappears)
CNBC:
Survey: US Doctors Fear Healthcare Reform
Discussion: The Foundry and Examiner
Lou Chibbaro Jr / Washington Blade:
Supreme Court rejects D.C. marriage challenge
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed killed U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, report finds
Discussion: Emptywheel and Poynter
Bradley Blackburn / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Stands on Both Feet, Looks Out Window
Discussion: The Wire and American Power
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama presidency a success or failure?
Discussion: The Politico
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Prepares to Lift Ban on Guantánamo Cases
ThinkProgress:
Glenn Beck And Sean Hannity Dropped From Philadelphia Radio Station
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Feministing
 

 
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