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Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole — Which Tea Partiers Are Getting Hundreds of Thousands of Government Dollars? — The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending.
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Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
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The Politico:
Tea partiers warn GOP on dealmaking
Tea partiers warn GOP on dealmaking
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, ThinkProgress and Fox Nation
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
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CNN, National Review, Hot Air, The Politico and FrumForum
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
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Billy House / NationalJournal.com:
Tea Party Leverage Fading in Spending Talks?
Tea Party Leverage Fading in Spending Talks?
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Dot Earth, The Note and FrumForum
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Clinton To Congress: Obama Would Ignore Your War Resolutions — Update: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who asked Clinton about the War Powers Act during a classified briefing, said Clinton and the administration are sidestepping the measure's provisions giving Congress the ability to put a 60-day time limit on any military action.
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The Politico:
Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates win no love on Capitol Hill
Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates win no love on Capitol Hill
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Hillary Clinton's top score
Hillary Clinton's top score
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
On The Latest From Libya — I'm still absorbing this news and don't want to vent immediately, because there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war, and is now actively discussing whether to arm …
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C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels — WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and contact rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces, according to American officials.
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WISC-TV:
Judge Says Union Bargaining Bill Not In Effect — Sumi Amends Temporary Restraining Order — MADISON, Wis. — The contentious collective bargaining law that strips most public workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights and force them to contribute more to their pension and health plans …
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Sumi rules that union law not in effect; state to comply — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, continuing the turmoil over a measure that sparked massive protests …
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Douglas Stanglin / USA Today:
Syrian TV accuses detained Egyptian American of spying
Syrian TV accuses detained Egyptian American of spying
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Aaron_Sharockman / St. Petersburg Times:
Democrat chastized for saying ‘uterus’ on House floor — During last week's discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker's paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats consider proposing tax hikes — Senate Democrats are discussing plans to introduce tax policy changes that they say would raise federal revenues and broaden the budget debate beyond discretionary spending cuts. — Democrats feel they have been boxed by Republicans into a debate …
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
An Arizona Senate Race Waits to See if Giffords Emerges to Run — TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials …
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer — In March 2009 the Campaign for America's Future, a top progressive group in Washington, launched a campaign called “Dog The (Blue) Dogs” to pressure conservative Blue Dog Democrats to support President Obama's budget. When he heard about the effort …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Iowa GOP threatens effort to strip Florida of 2012 Republican convention — The chairman of Iowa's Republican Party on Thursday backed an effort to possibly move the 2012 Republican National Convention out of Florida if that state sticks to its January primary date.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: The Day After 9-11 Van Jones Led Rally Where They Cheered American Killers (Video) — Hero of the Left- — Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King reported recently at Big Government on a long lost video of Van Jones leading a rally in Oakland, California the day after 9-11 where they cheered the American killers.
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
The unbeatable Republican? — Massachusetts is a deeply Democratic state, one in which barely more than 15 percent of the seats in the state Legislature are held by Republicans and fewer than 15 percent of all registered voters belong to the GOP. So it's hardly surprising that national Democrats …
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Pundit Press and National Review
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
Tapper offers Carney ‘straw men’ — The temperature in the White House briefing jumped up Wednesday afternoon as Jake Tapper and Jay Carney vented some of their frustrations with each other publicly. — At one point, Tapper dissed Carney by saying he could provide a “room full of straw men” for the White House press secretary.
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Mocks Newt Gingrich: ‘He Has More War Positions Than He Has Wives’ — Potential GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has been in hot water lately after ThinkProgress caught him flipping his position on the Libyan war rapidly over the span of just a few weeks …
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party — The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in “Don't Tread on Me” T-shirts. — But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Rubio Takes the Lead — Urges Congress to authorize military action, endorse regime change. — THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained the text of a letter freshman senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent tonight to the Senate majority and minority leaders. In it, Rubio proposes that the Senate authorize …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
GOP plans $1 trillion cut to Medicaid — House Republicans are planning to cut as much as $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, when they unveil their fiscal 2012 budget early next month, according to several GOP sources.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
In Republicans' 2012 budget plan, Rep. Ryan gives Social Security a pass
In Republicans' 2012 budget plan, Rep. Ryan gives Social Security a pass
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National Review, Wonk Room, Swampland and The Page
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award — The president accepted a transparency award in a closed, undisclosed meeting. — President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NOT ROMNEY'S STRONGEST SUBJECT.... He can't talk about health care. He can't talk about energy. He can't talk about social issues. When he tries to talk about national security, it doesn't go well. — So former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) is sticking to the one issue everyone else should be talking about: jobs.
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Braley and Loebsack paired, King with Latham in proposed new U.S. House map — Congressmen Tom Latham and Steve King, both Republicans, now both live in what would be Iowa's 4th Congressional District, under a redistricting plan released by the Iowa Legislative Services Agency today.
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