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Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Obama launches reelection campaign with e-mail, web video — The president pledges to focus on his job, but will pick up the tempo of campaigning this month with several fundraisers. The campaign is hoping to raise a record $1 billion. — President Obama speaking in March (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images))
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Announces Reelection Bid — President Obama opens his reelection campaign on Monday with a familiar cast of consultants; an economy that's improving, sluggishly; wars that he is struggling to extract himself from; and an implacable partisan fight in Congress that might shut down the government by week's end.
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Pajamas Media and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama launches reelection campaign with video — President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign Monday morning with a web video posted on his website. — “It Begins With Us” features a series of supporters from around the country explaining why they support the president …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Begins Re-Election Facing New Political Challenges — President Obama confirmed Monday morning that he will seek another four years in the White House, launching a re-election campaign that will ask Americans to endorse the status quo over the increasingly vocal calls from Republicans for a fresh start in Washington.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty ribs Obama's reelection announcement
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CNN and Pat Dollard
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama launches 2012 reelection bid with ‘it begins with us’ video
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Clinton: Shutdown would hurt GOP but might not be ‘traumatic’ for economy — A government shutdown might not have a “traumatic” effect on the economy, former President Bill Clinton said Monday. — Clinton, who faced a shutdown during his 1995 budget negotiations with congressional Republicans …
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The Politico, Connecting.the.Dots and FrumForum
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Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: GOP seen as more reasonable in spending-cut debate — A plurality of likely voters believes Republicans have been more reasonable than Democrats in the negotiations over spending cuts. — A new poll conducted for The Hill showed 41 percent polled said the GOP had been …
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Hot Air and National Review
Suzan Clarke / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton Calls ‘Birther’ Doubts About Obama's Citizenship ‘Ludicrous’ — Former President Believes U.S. Should Arm Libya's Rebels — Continuing outcry by “birthers” — a small but vocal movement which questions whether President Barack Obama was actually born on U.S. soil …
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Ballot Box
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Obama administration not to “shut the door” on the possibility of arming rebels fighting against Muammar Qadhafi's regime in Libya. — “I might need to know a little more …
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Weasel Zippers
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Aim: Cut $4 Trillion — Budget Plan Would Transform Medicare, Reset Budget Debate; Democrats Balk — Republicans will present this week a 2012 budget proposal that would cut more than $4 trillion from federal spending projected over the next decade and transform the Medicare health program …
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Fox News:
(CROSSTALK) — WALLACE: Are we talking 20 percent?
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Republicans Propose $4 Trillion in Cuts Over Decade
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Yglesias, Wonk Room, Paul Krugman, Marginal Revolution, USA Today and Washington Post
The Politico:
Budget countdown: Deal or no deal?
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Yglesias, Right Wing News and Firedoglake
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
A Tea Party Star Stirs Iowans, and She Isn't Palin — WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Sarah Palin, the reigning heroine of many social conservatives, has given few signals that she will make a presidential bid. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 on the strength of his appeal …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: fight or fall in line
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ABCNEWS, Taegan Goddard's … and Roll Call
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
It Doesn't Get Any Clearer Than That: “Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war” — Here's what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today about Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Koran, which has been used an excuse by Afghanis to murder 22 people, including seven United Nations workers:
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Lindsey Graham: 'Freedom of Speech is a Great Idea But We're in a War'
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The Politico, Another Black Conservative, Mediaite, NewsReal Blog and theblogprof
Ynetnews:
‘NYT refused to publish Goldstone retraction’ — Source close to South African judge claims he initially approached liberal publication to print his letter of regret - and was rejected. New York Times says in response it does not comment on editorial process — Eldad Beck
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Ben Smith's Blog and Elder of Ziyon
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Cathy Hayes / IrishCentral:
Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State?
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Washington Post, Israel Matzav, Don Surber and Atlas Shrugs
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A SUCKER'S BET.... The effort to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year will be the principal challenge for policymakers over the next few days, but while that work continues, congressional Republicans will also start a massive fight over the next budget.
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That Mr. G Guy's Blog
The Politico:
Jon Huntsman, the rock ‘n’ roll years — Jonny Huntsman didn't quite make it through his senior year of high school, and the cause was pretty plain to his classmates. One recalled the long-haired, diffident Salt Lake City high schooler sitting next to him in history class “hitting his desk as if it were a piano.”
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Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
Paul Krugman:
Diminished Individualism Watch — A few weeks back I commented on a George Will column in which he said that … So I think that it is my civic duty to report that yesterday, as I got off Amtrak 161 from Trenton to Washington — having spent 2 1/2 hours being made more amenable to collectivism …
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Grist
Nick Pryer / Daily Mail:
Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus? The incredible story of 70 ancient books hidden in a cave for nearly 2,000 years — The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine.
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Maggie's Notebook and theblogprof
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Politico's Roger Simon: 'Obama's The Greatest Orator Of Modern Times' — Politico's Roger Simon said Sunday Barack Obama is the greatest orator of modern times. — Chatting with Howard Kurtz on CNN's “Reliable Sources,” Simon also said journalists are just now looking beyond …
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Michelle Malkin, Breitbart.tv and JammieWearingFool
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