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Wisconsin Poll: Support for Budget Cutting, Not for Weakening Collective Bargaining Rights — Most Wisconsin voters oppose efforts to weaken collective bargaining rights for union workers but a plurality are supportive of significant pay cuts for state workers.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rasmussen: Walker Flailing — Rasmussen is out with a new poll that is frankly just devastating for Gov. Walker. Just devastating. We'll have a full write up momentarily. (Update: Here's our write-up.) But the thing that stuck out to me was the age distribution.
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Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Ohio Vote Puts Curbs on Unions in Reach — Ohio state senators narrowly approved a bill that would prohibit public-employee unions representing 400,000 state and local workers from bargaining over health benefits and pensions, while also eliminating the right to strike.
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Cubachi, ThinkProgress, The Politico, Firedoglake, Roll Call, Liberty Pundits Blog, Pundit Press, FrumForum and UrbanGrounds
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Lawyer for Ohio Police Union Tells Republican State Senator: ‘Funny Thing About Cops, They Hold Grudges’ — Ohio's state Senate yesterday passed S.B. 5, which would limit the power of government employee unions. Among those voting for the measure was state Sen. Frank LaRose, a 31-year-old freshman Republican from Akron.
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HazZzMat, RedState and American Power
Josh Kraushaar / Hotline On Call:
Labor Loses Big In Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) owes his Wisconsin gubernatorial colleague Scott Walker (R) some serious gratitude. While nearly all the media attention and labor activism has been centered in Madison over Walker's controversial budget bill, Kasich is on the verge …
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Plain Dealer, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Indecision Forever and New York Times
Jon Terbush / TPMDC:
Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Wisconsinites Side With Unions On Collective Bargaining
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Prairie Weather
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOUSE REPUBLICAN RAISES SPECTER OF IMPEACHMENT.... Late last week, disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who knows a little something about the practice, raised the prospect of presidential impeachment. The Republican, perhaps best known for leading the crusade against President Clinton …
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Maggie's Notebook, The Atlantic Online, Wonk Room, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHITE HOUSE TO HOST BUDGET TALKS.... Once in a great while …
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The Caucus
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Anti-Muslim Protestor Throws Crosses At Feet Of Man Praying By White House (VIDEO)
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The Awl
iowahawk:
Longhorns 17, Badgers 1 — Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice. Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize.
People-Press.org:
Fewer Are Angry at Government, But Discontent Remains High — Republicans, Tea Party Supporters More Mellow — The public remains deeply frustrated with the federal government, but fewer Americans say they are angry at government than did so last fall. Overall, the percentage saying …
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Yglesias, The Atlantic Online, Taegan Goddard's …, The Political Carnival, The Politico, Saint Petersblog and The Hill
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Chased by a tiger — NBC/WSJ poll suggests GOP is caught between a cliff (independents who might not like deep budget cuts) and a charging tiger (a Tea Party that does)... What's popular and unpopular to cut... The poll on Wisconsin and the state budget battles …
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration — More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school's popular “Human Sexuality” class.
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Outside the Beltway, Fausta's Blog, theblogprof and Michelle Malkin
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JSOnline:
Senate Republicans threaten missing Democrats with contempt — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Republicans in the state Senate ordered Democrats to return to the chamber by 4 p.m. or be found in contempt of the Senate. — If they do not return by then …
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, The Political Carnival and TPMDC
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Bryan Polcyn / WITI:
Government e-mails reveal plot to stall budget repair bill — Madison mayor tried to get bill stalled while he signed new contracts — Before protesters stormed the capitol, the mayor of the city of Madison tried to pull a fast one. The governor's budget repair bill was on the fast track …
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JSOnline, National Review and Pajamas Media
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Conspiracy to stall WI budget-repair bill?
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Big Government and Verum Serum
Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Support Lacking for Entitlement Reductions — WASHINGTON— Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country's mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, illustrating the challenge facing lawmakers …
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Washington Wire, Firedoglake, Online NewsHour, protein wisdom, In the Arena, The Daily Dish, Climate Progress, FrumForum, Right Turn, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, GOP 12, National Review, The Moderate Voice, The Page, Patterico's Pontifications, Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative, American Power, The Reaction, Whiskey Fire, Hot Air, Riehl World View, naked capitalism, Daily Kos and msnbc.com
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Voters deficit-worried but wary of cuts
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Ezra Klein, Hullabaloo, Washington Monthly, The Gavel, The New Republic, Yglesias, AlterNet and Mother Jones
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Tea party leader: John Boehner should go — A national tea party group is in revolt against House Speaker John Boehner and wants to see him defeated in a 2012 primary, arguing that he looks “like a fool” in the debate over spending cuts and makes less sense than actor Charlie Sheen.
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CNN, Little Green Footballs, Outside the Beltway and The Note
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Roll Call:
No Easy Path for Spending Deal
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The Hill, Firedoglake, The Hill, TPMDC and msnbc.com
Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Judge Roger Vinson issues stay of own ruling — U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled Thursday that implementation of the health law can proceed — but he gave the Obama administration just seven days to file an appeal. — Vinson issued a stay of his own Jan. 31 ruling that declared …
Pigeon O'Brien / The Huffington Post:
How the Edwards Affair Ended Up in the Enquirer — Lisa Druck was trouble. You'd run into her at Nell's where we all tended to hang out and she'd be in a panic. Some guy would be running from her, taxiing quickly to another club. She'd storm the bathrooms and you could hear her voice …
The Note:
Newt Gingrich Announces Exploratory Phase Of Presidential Campaign, Expresses Concern ‘For The Future Of Our Country’ — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — UPDATED: At a press conference in Atlanta on Thursday Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives …
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic Online and Ben Smith's Blog
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich affirms presidential intentions
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Cubachi, Ballot Box, Liberty Pundits Blog, GOP 12 and TPMDC
Philly.com:
Corbett's clueless new DEP commissioner — OK, here's something that might even be scarier than the latest report about the dumping of “mystery liquids” in Pennsylvania's water supply. The man that Gov. Tom Corbett is tasking to deal with the problem is utterly clueless.
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PennLive.com, Balloon Juice and KIKO'S HOUSE
Kenneth T. Walsh / US News:
Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests — In a new book, President Obama talks candidly about race and the presidency — African-Americans have been an integral part of the White House since it was built in part by slaves. In Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans …
Mohammed Abbas / Reuters:
Gaddafi bombs oil areas, faces crimes probe — AL-UQAYLA, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi struck at rebel control of a key Libyan coastal road for a second day Thursday but received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.
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Don Surber, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
To Surly, With Love: Are Teachers Overpaid? — Public school teachers are at the forefront of protests against state budget cuts and restrictions on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, and elsewhere. — Teachers have a lot to lose.
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Instapundit and Hot Air
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Rep. Giffords on list of endangered Dems — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on its list of the most vulnerable incumbents, released Thursday. — As Giffords remains in a Houston hospital, where she is recovering from the gunshot wound …
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CNN, The Politico, Swing State Project and HotAirPundit
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
‘This is my favourite killer outfit’: Face of Kosovan Muslim alleged to have shot dead two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport — This is the face of the man suspected of killing two U.S. soldiers in Germany in an Islamist rage. — The photo is from Arid Uka's Facebook page …
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Salon, The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, UrbanGrounds, The Politico and BBC
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama says he won't get involved in NFL labor dispute — President Obama said he won't get involved in the NFL's labor dispute as the league on Thursday heads toward a potential lockout. — The president said it is his expectation and hope that the league can work out a new collective bargaining agreement …
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FrumForum
Political Punch:
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera is ‘Real News’, U.S. Losing ‘Information War’ — ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear today that she is worried the United States is losing what she calls the “information war” abroad.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Ohio senator: GOP tries to take down unions, and so did Hitler and Stalin — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took to the Senate floor Thursday to defend labor unions, saying that dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin opposed them. — Brown said that unions have wrongly come under attack …
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Washington Monthly, Weasel Zippers and Cubachi
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