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1:40 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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House repeals healthcare law, 245-189
Erika Niedowski / The Hill:
House Republicans move on from repealing health law to replacing it
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal
Discussion: NationalJournal.com and Salon
Wall Street Journal:
The Repeal Vote  —  An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Right Turn
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Repeals Obama Health Care Law in Symbolic Act
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?
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huck adviser to be Hill CoS
Discussion: CNN, Swampland, Daily Kos and GOP 12
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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Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
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.
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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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.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
High-level Iowa meets for Bachmann
Discussion: GOP 12
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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Lynn Sweet:
Obama 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago: Smoot to step …
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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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 …
Discussion: NJDC Blog and FrumForum
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The Note:
Rick Santorum Calls Obama's Abortion Stance ‘Remarkable For A Black Man’
Discussion: Weigel and Religion Dispatches
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 …
CNN:
CNN Poll: JFK remains most popular past president  —  (CNN)-It's a golden anniversary Thursday for John F. Kennedy's inauguration.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner will mark the 50th anniversary with a tribute ceremony, that will include remarks by Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: The Politico
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama presidency a success or failure?
Discussion: The Politico
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 …
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
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.
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.”
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” …
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: Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Fox News:
Republicans Introduce Bill to Ban Federal Funding for Abortion Procedures  —  Calling it a top priority of the Republican agenda, House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday gave a top designation to a bill introduced by New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith that would ban the use of any federal funds from being used for abortions.
People-Press.org:
Economy Dominates Public's Agenda, Dims Hopes for the Future  —  Less Optimism about America's Long-Term Prospects  —  The public's policy agenda is again dominated by the economy and jobs with other major issues viewed as less important.  Fully 87% say that strengthening the economy …
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Hill
 
 
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The Note:
No Apology Here: Congressman Cohen Defends Nazi Comment
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Guardian:
Officer married activist he spied on
Discussion: newsfeed.time.com and msnbc.com
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Republican rivalries begin in race for Lieberman seat
Discussion: CNN and CT Politics 2011
New York Post:
Topics  —  They should sue the state for all the additional …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael Scherer / Time:
Mitt Hits the Road Again
Discussion: GOP 12, Ben Smith's Blog and Swampland
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Tencer / Raw Story:
Trust in Fox News plummets: poll
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama enjoys 2012 edge in bellwether state of Ohio
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (update: option disappears)
Bradley Blackburn / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Stands on Both Feet, Looks Out Window
Discussion: The Wire and American Power