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Quinnipiac University:
Obama Gets Lowest Approval, Reelect Score Ever, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; More Voters Oppose U.S. Involvement In Libya — American voters disapprove 48 - 42 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing and say 50 - 41 percent he does not deserve to be re-elected in 2012 …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Poll: Americans cooling on tea party — The tea party might be running out of steam. — The approval rating for the 2-year-old movement fell to 32 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research corporation poll released Wednesday, the lowest it's been since CNN first polled on the tea party in January 2010.
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Less Likely to View Obama as a Strong Leader — Six in 10 believe he is honest and trustworthy — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans have grown increasingly less likely to view President Obama as a strong and decisive leader since he took office. Roughly half now believe this aptly describes …
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The Politico, The Moderate Voice and Hot Air
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Unfavorable view of tea party on the rise — Washington (CNN) - Nearly half of all Americans have an unfavorable view of the tea party movement, putting it in the same company as the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new national poll.
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Firedoglake, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, USA Today, Liberal Values, The Political Carnival and The Page
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Dems: Calling it a ‘slowdown’ won't help
Dems: Calling it a ‘slowdown’ won't help
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Little Green Footballs, The Note, The Political Carnival and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Survey: Obama's approval rating at all-time low 42 percent
Survey: Obama's approval rating at all-time low 42 percent
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Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
Washington Post:
House Republican leaders turn to moderate Democrats for budget deal — Having difficulty finding consensus within their own ranks, House Republican leaders have begun courting moderate Democrats on several key fiscal issues, including a deal to avoid a government shutdown at the end of next week.
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Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Message to Republicans - Show us the cuts
Examiner Editorial: Message to Republicans - Show us the cuts
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
The Politico:
Eric Cantor and John Boehner diverge on budget
Eric Cantor and John Boehner diverge on budget
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Washington Post, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Daily Kos, New York Times and The Hill
The Politico:
Dems fear shutdown unavoidable
Dems fear shutdown unavoidable
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The Hill, CNN, National Review, Wake up America, Jill Stanek and The Hill
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BOEHNER EYES BLUE DOGS FOR BUDGET DEAL.... House Speaker John Boehner …
BOEHNER EYES BLUE DOGS FOR BUDGET DEAL.... House Speaker John Boehner …
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Washington Post, Prairie Weather and The Politico
New York Times:
Washington in Fierce Debate on Arming Libyan Rebels — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with some fearful that providing arms would deepen American involvement …
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Salon, Firedoglake, TalkLeft, Ross Douthat, Guardian, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, Danger Room, Wonk Room, No Cure for That, FrumForum, CBS News, RealClearWorld and Hot Air
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New York Times:
Pro-Qaddafi Forces Push Rebels Into Chaotic Retreat
Pro-Qaddafi Forces Push Rebels Into Chaotic Retreat
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JustOneMinute and FrumForum
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
‘Freelance Jihadists’ join Libyan rebels
‘Freelance Jihadists’ join Libyan rebels
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The Gateway Pundit, Right Pundits, Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
Stan Pillman / CBS Chicago:
Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S. — CHICAGO (CBS 2) - The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America. — People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau's Chicago office is leading the investigation.
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Maggie's Notebook
Marco Rubio / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Won't Vote to Raise the Debt Limit — Everyone in Washington knows how to cut spending. The time to start is now. — Americans have built the single greatest nation in all of human history. But America's exceptionalism was not preordained. Every generation has had to confront …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Coburn spars with Norquist over tax breaks for ethanol — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ripped conservative activist Grover Norquist on Tuesday for defending tax breaks that benefit special interest groups. — In a letter to Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform …
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Ben Smith's Blog, The New Republic, Washington Post and The Politico
The Right Sphere:
On Batsignals and Media Matters' Tax Exempt Status — While everyone is having a good laugh at Media Matters this morning, something in Howard Kurtz's article struck me as odd. In “Partisan Organizations Use Sound Bite Warfare”, Kurtz might have provided yet another reason why Media Matters 501(c)(3) status should be re-evaluated.
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Snark And Boobs
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
The Era of Sound-Bite Warfare
Live Action Blog:
Planned Parenthood CEO's False Mammogram Claim Exposed — Contact: Amy Kim, 323.454.3304, media@liveaction.org — WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30-A series of new undercover phone calls reveals that contrary to the claims of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and other supporters …
Discussion:
The Brody File, Erick's blog and That's What She Said
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Michael Barone on Wisconsin: Has the tea party given up? — It's not just Wisconsin. John Kasich in Ohio and Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania have seen their ratings sour too. But with Walker's polls now negative and the state supreme court election next week looking like a bellwether …
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Instapundit, Vox Popoli, PolitiFact and JSOnline
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Is the Tea Party pooped? It must keep making its case
Is the Tea Party pooped? It must keep making its case
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Nice Deb
CNN:
Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death — Shariatpur, Bangladesh (CNN) — Hena Akhter's last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. — Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her.
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Feministing
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Looking for Luck in Libya — There is an old saying in the Middle East that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. That thought came to my mind as I listened to President Obama trying to explain the intervention of America and its allies in Libya — and I don't say that as criticism.
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JustOneMinute, msnbc.com, Pajamas Media, Eschaton and The Caucus
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Schultz: ‘Are You With The Terrorists, Or Are You With The President Of The United States?’ — What's next: MSNBC hawking “America: Love It Or Leave It” bumper stickers? — The new fashion among the liberal network's anchors is to accuse critics of President Obama's Libya policy of being unpatriotic.
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Michelle Malkin, Questions and Observations and Pajamas Media
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama Sets Goal of One-Third Cut in Oil Imports — WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Wednesday for a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, and said the effort had to begin immediately. In a speech at Georgetown University , the president said that the United States cannot …
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JustOneMinute and Pirate's Cove
Joe Klein / Swampland:
American Embarrassment — It is always an education to watch our American writhings from overseas. It is particularly excrutiating watching the Republican Party presidential candidates who, on a daily basis, pronounce some ignorant racist or irreligious twaddle...which—amazingly enough—manages to be heard around the world.
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones and The New Republic
Washington Post:
On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric — Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press - The story that General Electric did not pay federal taxes last year was widely reported everywhere but NBC. — It's the kind of accountability journalism that makes readers raise an eyebrow …
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Company Town, Poynter and That's What She Said, more at Mediagazer »
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
GOP frosh to Harry Reid: You've failed — Freshman House GOP members will send a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday ratcheting up the pressure to pass a continuing resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year that “makes reasonable, responsible spending cuts”— and promise to protest daily until he does.
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The Hill, National Review and Wake up America
JSOnline:
Judge again blocks GOP collective-bargaining plan — But Van Hollen assistant says law is in effect — By Patrick Marley, Bill Glauber and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - For the second time in less than two weeks, a Dane County judge Tuesday issued an order blocking …
Hampton Roads Daily Press:
Man who attempted to assassinate Reagan wants more visits to Williamsburg — John Hinckley Jr. is petitioning for more unsupervised visits with family in Kingsmill — The accusation of Ronald Reagan's youngest daughter seems prophetic after Tuesday's federal court filing on behalf of John Hinckley Jr.
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The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post and Taylor Marsh
ABCNEWS:
Did Obama Administration Play Favorites With Energy Loans? — Green Firms Financed By Obama Fundraiser Steve Westly Score Millions in Federal Loans — When the White House announced the federal government would loan $465 million to Tesla, a California start-up company with plans to develop …
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Hot Air and Sunlight Foundation Blog
Kevin Yamamura / Capitol Alert:
Jerry Brown declares budget talks dead — Torey Van Oot and David Siders contributed to this report. — Gov. Jerry Brown announced this afternoon he halted negotiations with legislative Republicans over a deal to place taxes on the ballot to help resolve California's remaining $15.4 billion deficit.
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Balloon Juice
The Reliable Source / Washington Post:
Justice Antonin Scalia ticketed for GW Parkway fender-bender; will he take it to court? — Now here's a date in traffic court we'd like to attend: In the matter of Antonin Scalia and the George Washington Parkway pileup. — The Supreme Court justice was ticketed early Tuesday for his role in a four-car fender-bender.
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Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Wonkette, Above the Law, Law Blog, Gawker, New York Times, Firedoglake and National Review