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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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Wake up America, No More Mister Nice Blog, AmSpecBlog and Hot Air
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House repeals healthcare law, 245-189
House repeals healthcare law, 245-189
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Erika Niedowski / The Hill:
House Republicans move on from repealing health law to replacing it
House Republicans move on from repealing health law to replacing it
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Ezra Klein
Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal
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NationalJournal.com and Salon
Wall Street Journal:
The Repeal Vote — An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
The Repeal Vote — An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
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Hit & Run and Right Turn
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Repeals Obama Health Care Law in Symbolic Act
House Repeals Obama Health Care Law in Symbolic Act
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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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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing? — Are the political winds changing? ... New NBC/WSJ poll has Obama approval at 53%... Also, 40% now label him a political moderate — which is maybe why we haven't heard “Obama is a socialist” in a while... But is this bump for Obama …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Other McCain
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking stronger
Obama looking stronger
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GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's … and The Politico
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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Wake up America, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit and The Powers That Be
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James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
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JustOneMinute, The Atlantic Online, Detroit News, Hot Air and USA Today
Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
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The Atlantic Online, The Daily Caller and Ben Smith's Blog
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 …
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Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Suburban Guerrilla, Taylor Marsh, AMERICAblog News and Open Left
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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ABCNEWS, The Politico, The Note, Hot Air, Washington Post, Conservatives4Palin, GOP 12, National Review and TPMDC
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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.
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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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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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newsfeed.time.com, TPMMuckraker and Gawker
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
F.B.I. and Police Arrest More Than 100 in Mob Sweep
F.B.I. and Police Arrest More Than 100 in Mob Sweep
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New York Magazine, AOL News and Eschaton
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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Patterico's Pontifications
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P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Palm Beach Post Columnist Slams Parents of Rep. Giffords Doctor …
Palm Beach Post Columnist Slams Parents of Rep. Giffords Doctor …
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The Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin and Page2Live.com
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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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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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 …
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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.
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JustOneMinute, Mediaite, Conservatives4Palin and Classical Values
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 …
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The Politico
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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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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.
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Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Washington Wire:
White House Dinner: The Toasts — Here's the official transcript of the toasts by President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House dinner tonight. — REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT HU OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AT AN EXCHANGE OF TOASTS AT STATE DINNER
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Business Leaders Make Cut at State Dinner With Hu
Business Leaders Make Cut at State Dinner With Hu
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DealBook, Washington Wire, New York Magazine, Gawker, Taylor Marsh and The Caucus
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.
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Boehner
The Note:
No Apology Here: Congressman Cohen Defends Nazi Comment — ABC News Jonathan Karl reports: Congressman Steve Cohen, D-TN, says he has no intention of apologizing for comparing Republican rhetoric with Nazi propaganda. — “I didn't say anything that deserves an apology or requires an apology,” Cohen told ABC News.
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Hot Air, HotAirPundit and TPMDC