memeorandum: Discord Among Allies (New York Times)

11:50 AM ET, March 24, 2011

Top Items:

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

CNN Exclusive: Bachmann to form exploratory committee in June, possibly earlier — Washington (CNN) - CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, GOP 12, Ballot Box, Ben Smith's Blog, USA Today, Wonkette, The Politico, Cubachi, Outside the Beltway, The Page, TPMDC, AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos

ABCNEWS:

Palin 2.0? Bachmann Tells ABC News, “I'm In!” — Tea Party Darling Says She Wants In on Conversation, would announce by Summer or earlier. — Just over ten months before next February's Iowa caucuses Sarah Palin is returning from a recent trip to Israel.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Taegan Goddard's …

Andy Barr / The Politico:

Bachmann rips ‘robed masters’ — DES MOINES - Ripping judges as “black-robed masters,” Michele Bachmann praised conservative Iowans on Wednesday for sacking three members of the state Supreme after they legalized gay marriage. — Bachmann, speaking to a group of home school advocates …

Discussion: USA Today, Big Government, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.

The Note:
The Note: Confusion Reigns In Washington As Mideast Erupts

Discussion: Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway and The Politico

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — White House: Libya fight is not war, it's ‘kinetic military action’ — In the last few days, Obama administration officials have frequently faced the question: Is the fighting in Libya a war? From military officers to White House spokesmen up to the president himself …

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs, Sweetness & Light, RedState, Conservatives4Palin, The Lonely Conservative, Fox Nation and Fox News

The Politico:

Unanswered questions about Libya — It's hard to find a precedent for a president ordering U.S. military forces into action, then heading off for a five-day tour of Latin America, but that's just what President Barack Obama did when he approved the deployment of air and naval assets to establish a no-fly zone over Libya.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Pirate's Cove

Washington Post:
Fears grow of humanitarian crisis in besieged Libyan city

Discussion: The Greenroom, Eunomia, Pajamas Media and The Other McCain

New York Times:
Discord Among Allies

Discussion: msnbc.com and Swampland

The White House: Aboard Air Force One, En Route Andrews Air Force Base

Hamid Ould Ahmed / Reuters:
Rebels say 16 dead in Misrata, hospital attacked

Discussion: New York Times and The Investigative Project …

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Dear Reuters, You Must Be Kidding — This is from a Reuters story on the Jerusalem bombing earlier today: … Those Israelis and their crazy terms! I mean, referring to a fatal bombing of civilians as a “terrorist attack”? Who are they kidding? Everyone knows that a fatal bombing …

Discussion: Power Line, Booman Tribune, Weasel Zippers, Elder of Ziyon, Pajamas Media, Israel Matzav and Harry's Place

Crispian Balmer / Reuters:

Bombing near Jerusalem bus stop kills woman, 30 hurt — (Reuters) - A bomb planted in a bag exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish district of Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring at least 30 people, in an attack police blamed on Palestinian militants.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, American Power, Elder of Ziyon and Biased BBC

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

'I'm through whining about a liberal press,' says Sarah Palin — Sarah Palin insists she's done complaining about the liberal media. — Speaking to Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Wednesday night, the former Alaska governor shrugged off what she contends is a double standard in the way conservative women are treated.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN, Wonkette and The Daily Dish

John Doyle / Globe and Mail:

How television created and then killed Sarah Palin's political prospects — Last I heard about Sarah Palin was contained in a story with the headline, “Sarah Palin tours India and Israel to get to grips with foreign policy.” — It was tempting to see this headline in itself as illuminating, if not incisive.

Discussion: Mediaite and Guardian

Pete Kenworthy / WEWS-TV:

President Barack Obama gets locked out of White House — Staff wasn't ready for his return — Last Updated: 1 hour and 48 minutes ago — WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama had to try a couple of doors at the White House before finally gaining access to the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report

Washington Post:

Rep. Weiner sinks meat hooks into health-care law's attackers — Democrats would be better off if more of them acted like Weiners. — As the first anniversary of the health-care law approached this week, many Democratic lawmakers went to ground, leaving unanswered Republican accusations …

Discussion: Daily Kos, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Prairie Weather

Kate Nocera / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner: Waiver might work for New York

Discussion: Sweetness & Light, Scared Monkeys, Pundit Press, protein wisdom, The Gateway Pundit, Fox Nation, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces, Hot Air, Swampland and Firedoglake

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Weiner Says SCOTUS Will Rule Against Health Care Law, Paving Way For Public Option

Discussion: The Foundry, Daily Kos, Shakesville and Balloon Juice

Kareem Fahim / New York Times:

Rebel Insider Concedes Weaknesses in Libya — BENGHAZI, Libya — After the uprising, the rebels stumbled as they tried to organize. They did a poor job of defining themselves when Libyans and the outside world tried to figure out what they stood for. And now, as they try to defeat …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice

New York Times:
Campaign in Libya Could Take ‘Days or Weeks,’ France Says

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Let Us Count the Ways . . .

Discussion: alicublog

Quinnipiac University:

Ohio Voters Divided On Second Term For Obama, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; But Voters Like Him More Than Gov. Kasich — Ohio voters are split 45 - 46 percent on whether President Barack Obama deserves a second term, but they favor him over an unnamed Republican 2012 challenger 41 …

Discussion: Ballot Box, Metro, Pundit Press, CNN and Washington Post

Steve Inskeep / Wall Street Journal:

Liberal Bias at NPR? — Surveys show that millions of conservatives choose NPR, even with powerful conservative alternatives on the radio. — On the day NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller lost her job, I was reporting from Egypt. That evening, I had dinner with employees from NPR's Cairo bureau.

Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers

Yoav Zitun / Ynetnews:

Egypt Air removes Israel from map — Jordan stretches to sea in online map by Egypt's largest airline, though it continues to fly to Israel — Egypt Air, the largest airline in Egypt, has removed Israel from the map - literally. On its website, Ynet has learned, Jordan's land reaches the Mediterranean Sea.

Discussion: Power Line, Elder of Ziyon, The Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs, Maggie's Notebook and Israel Matzav

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes — All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Suburban Guerrilla, Sky Dancing, The New Republic and First Draft

Wall Street Journal:

Romney Aims for Fund-Raising Edge — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has quietly launched a 15-city push to secure financial commitments from big-money “bundlers,” hoping to reveal a fund-raising network that would establish him as the prohibitive frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, USA Today, The Caucus, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Mitt Romney Central, The Page and The Note

Da Techguy / Da Techguy's Blog:

Why Trump's Birth Certificate statement will resonate — ...in three sentences. — My wife is starting a new job, we will be getting new insurance because of it. We are REQUIRED to provide not only our marriage certificate but the long form copies of the birth certificates of both of our children.

Discussion: Don Surber and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Trump again questions Obama's birthplace

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Time, Firedoglake, The Page, The Politico and Betsy's Page

The Politico:

Unsustainable budget threatens nation — Repeated battles over the 2011 budget are taking attention from a more dire problem—the long-run budget deficit. — Divided government is no excuse for inaction. The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform …

Discussion: EconLog

Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:

Rights Are Curtailed for Terror Suspects — New rules allow investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warning, significantly expanding exceptions to the instructions that have governed the handling of criminal suspects for more than four decades.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Law Blog, The Raw Story, Balkinization and Emptywheel

David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times:

Libyan rebels appear to take leaf from Kadafi's playbook — Opposition officials in Benghazi, whose wide sweeps to detain alleged Kadafi supporters have drawn criticism, take journalists on a tightly controlled tour of detention centers. Many detainees say they're immigrant workers and deny fighting for Kadafi.

Discussion: Yglesias, democracyarsenal.org and Eunomia

Jon Clifton / Gallup:

Worldwide Approval of U.S. Leadership Tops Major Powers — U.S. also remains top desired destination for potential migrants — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States continues to achieve higher global approval ratings than China, Russia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Discussion: Oliver Willis and The Politico