memeorandum: RNC Surpasses Major Donor Goal Under New Chairman (Tricia Miller/Roll Call)

7:40 AM ET, February 21, 2011

Top Items:

Moderate Wisconsin Republicans Offer Compromise — With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate …

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, JSOnline, Lakeshore Laments, protein wisdom, Weasel Zippers and The Right Sphere

Fox News:

12K State Workers Could Be Fired Without Budget Deal, Wisconsin Governor Warns — Saturday: Protesters gather down State Street in Madison, Wis., after a rally outside the Wisconsin State Capitol. A few dozen police officers stood between supporters of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on the muddy east lawn …

Discussion: Doug Ross, The Huffington Post, TPMDC, Don Surber, GayPatriot, National Review, Cubachi, Pundit Press and JammieWearingFool

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Wisconsin Power Play — Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin's new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday — Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: “It's like Cairo has moved to Madison.”

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and NewsBusters.org

New York Times:
As Republicans See a Mandate on Budget Cuts, Others See Risk

Discussion: The Page

Monica Davey / New York Times:
Protesters in Wisconsin Say They Are Staying Put

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and The Page

Washington Examiner:
Battle of Wisconsin threatens unions' political might

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Conservatives4Palin

Meredith Shiner / Reuters:
Protesters, impasse remain in Madison

Discussion: The Politico and Pundit & Pundette

Robert Costa / National Review:
Walker: ‘We are willing to take this as long as it takes’

Discussion: Cold Fury, JSOnline and The Other McCain

Ian Black / Guardian:

Libya on brink as protests hit Tripoli — Muammar Gaddafi's son warns of civil war in state television address as regime tries to halt uprising — Muammar Gaddafi's son went on Libyan TV to defend his father's 41-year rule of Libya as protests spread to the capital Tripoli.

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, Hot Air, Sky Dancing, Harry's Place, Sic Semper Tyrannis, Libya February 17th, The Hill, Pajamas Media, The Gateway Pundit, BBC, Reuters and The Reaction

BBC:

Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war — Sayf al-Islam, Colonel Gaddafi's son, appears on Libyan TV and accuses people outside Libya of provoking violence — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Sayf al-Islam, has warned of civil war in the country.

Discussion: Aljazeera, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Pajamas Media and Mother Jones

Aljazeera:
Libya clashes spread to Tripoli

Discussion: Firedoglake, Unqualified Offerings and The Daily Dish

Guardian:
Libya on the brink as protests hit Tripoli

Discussion: Harry's Place and Libya February 17th

Ian Black / Guardian:
Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'

Discussion: Maggie's Notebook

New York Times:
Qaddafi's Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen

Discussion: Aljazeera, FP Passport, EA WorldView, Maggie's Notebook, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Dish and Sky Dancing, more at Mediagazer »

CNN:
Libyan leader's son proposes major reforms — unless unrest continues

Discussion: The Jawa Report and New York Magazine

Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again

Discussion: Guardian, AMERICAblog News and News: News blog

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

A View From The Hard Right — Don Surber: … Instapundit links to this post also decrying the Egyptian revolt, as an opening for Islamist rule. Torture-defender Andy McCarthy is also disturbed by Sheikh Qaradawi's return. (Dish coverage of Qaradawi here, here, and, more skeptically, here.)

Discussion: National Review, Instapundit and Don Surber

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Yuppie Revolution In Egypt Is Over, The Islamist Revolution Has Begun

Discussion: Power Line, American Power, Secular Right and PoliPundit.com

Associated Press:

Wis. union head calls on teachers to go to work — MADISON, Wis. — The head of Wisconsin's powerful teachers' union is calling on educators to return to classrooms Monday and Tuesday rather than continue being absent to protest an anti-union bill at the state Capitol.

Discussion: Tammy Bruce, Michelle Malkin, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Scared Monkeys

MacIver Institute:
Protesting Teachers Could Reap $6 Million from Taxpayers to Attend Rallies

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The Greenroom

Guardian:

US official in Lahore deaths was CIA spy — • Raymond Davis employed by CIA ‘beyond shadow of doubt’ — • Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men — • Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled — • Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind

Discussion: Sic Semper Tyrannis, Reuters, Emptywheel, Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller

Tricia Miller / Roll Call:

RNC Surpasses Major Donor Goal Under New Chairman — The Republican National Committee raised $5.7 million in January, and new Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday that $3.5 million of the total came in after his election Jan. 14. — “We owe a lot of our success to major donors …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Lakeshore Laments

Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:

Call for Protests Unnerves China — BEIJING—Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a “Jasmine Revolution” in China by protesting in 13 cities—just a day after President Hu Jintao called for tighter Internet controls to help prevent social unrest.

Discussion: PoliPundit.com, FrumForum and Dean's World

Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Chinese Security Officials Respond to Call for Protests

Discussion: Hit & Run

Mark Williams / Mark Williams News & Commentary:

FIGHT THE SEIU WITH TACTIC THEY USE AGAINST US - THIS WEEK! — Late Update: Follow the civil discussion by Obamites in the “comments” section below — . — http://action.seiu.org/page/s/ solidarityaction — . — That link will take you to an SEIU page where you can sign up as an …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Plunderbund, Little Green Footballs, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mercury Rising and Hullabaloo

Anchorage Daily News:

Former aide rips Palin in leaked book manuscript — UNPUBLISHED: Former governor broke election law, Bailey alleges. — A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin's closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign …

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin, Washington Post and George's Bottom Line

Irish_Grinder / New York Post:

Topics — Salsumba: so who from Columbia was going to walk into Bagdada and “just arrest” Sadaam? Maybe you? You sir/ma'am are an illiformed nitwit. — SSGT Maschek< you are outstanding! These Columbia BD's are so smart they are stupid.......

Discussion: Power Line, Common Sense Political Thought, Michelle Malkin, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Moonbattery, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Patterico's Pontifications, Atlas Shrugs, Instapundit, Moe Lane, JammieWearingFool and American Power

Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:

Soros: Fox News like Nazis in way it deceives people — Last year, it was announced that billionaire George Soros gave his first ever contribution to Media Matters, an organization that puts a specific emphasis on criticizing the Fox News Channel. Now we may know the reason why Soros has made this donation public.

Discussion: Fire Andrea Mitchell! and NewsBusters.org

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:

Marking Davis's Confederate Inauguration — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — One hundred and fifty years and one day later, the South did it again. — Before a cheering crowd of several hundred men and women, some in period costume and others in crisp suits, an amateur actor playing Jefferson Davis …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mock, Paper, Scissors, The Volokh Conspiracy and FrumForum