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Will Paul Ryan Propose a Giant Tax Hike To Make Tax Cuts For the Rich Affordable? — Based on Carl Hulse's reporting from yesterday it's clear that Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) intends to go through with his plan to replace Medicare with vouchers to buy private health insurance, and then cut spending on the vouchers.
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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 …
Paul Krugman:
Privatizing Medicare — So they're really going to propose it. — More when we have some details. But two key points: — 1. Privatizing and voucherizing Medicare does nothing whatsoever to control costs. We've seen that from the sorry history of Medicare Advantage.
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Washington Monthly, The Incidental Economist and AMERICAblog News
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: He's in — In email and video to supporters, Obama announces his re-election bid... NBC's 2012 battleground map... Why Obama is in right now: It's all about raising the money. So why isn't Romney in yet?... Is Paul Ryan's budget plan — which revamps Medicaid and Medicare …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Taegan Goddard's …, The New Republic, Washington Post, Fox News and Maggie's Notebook
Fox News:
(CROSSTALK) — WALLACE: Are we talking 20 percent? — RYAN: Our numbers are moving around right now, so we're basically trying to get government back toward its historic size. — WALLACE: Which is what? — RYAN: Right now we're at about 25 percent of GDP.
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msnbc.com and The New Republic
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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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama launches reelection campaign with video
Obama launches reelection campaign with video
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CNN, Another Black Conservative, American Power, The Lonely Conservative and FrumForum
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Obama Announces Reelection Bid
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
L.A. Times Announces Obama's New Campaign Website - http://www.latimes.com
L.A. Times Announces Obama's New Campaign Website - http://www.latimes.com
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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, Pat Dollard, The Moderate Voice, 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
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Group: GOP hopefuls support defunding Planned Parenthood
Group: GOP hopefuls support defunding Planned Parenthood
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Now Libya steps on President Obama's message — President Barack Obama's decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect for the White House is the way it's undermining his efforts …
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Questions and Observations, The Other McCain and Right Wing News
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Suzan Clarke / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton Calls ‘Birther’ Doubts About Obama's Citizenship ‘Ludicrous’
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton Calls ‘Birther’ Doubts About Obama's Citizenship ‘Ludicrous’
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Ballot Box
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Obama re-election launches with email, website
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels
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Weasel Zippers
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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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Ballot Box, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, msnbc.com, The Last Tradition, The Note, American Power and The Politico
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Will Media Give Monday's Nationwide Union Rallies As Much Coverage As Tiny Tea Party Event?
Will Media Give Monday's Nationwide Union Rallies As Much Coverage As Tiny Tea Party Event?
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The Right Sphere and Eschaton
Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line
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ABCNEWS and Associated Press
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
KSM to be tried by military commission at Gitmo; Holder set to make announcement today — Attorney General Eric Holder today will announce that self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad will be tried in a military commission, CBS News has learned.
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Michelle Malkin, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Emptywheel
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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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National Review, Pajamas Media, Wonkette, NY Daily News, Vox Popoli, Breitbart.tv and Cold Fury
Steve Chapman / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's ‘Bloodbath’: Can We Believe the Hype? — Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011, attacking Libya.
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Eunomia, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and AmSpecBlog
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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 The Moderate Voice
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
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John Phillips: Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012 — If Hillary Clinton's primary voters and President Obama had their relationship status listed on their Facebook pages, it would change from “Married” to “It's complicated.” — To be fair, Hillary voters never fell in love with Obama, they just fell in line.
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The Radio Patriot, Don Surber and Sipsey Street Irregulars
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The Case For Freshman Ineligibility — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took the opportunity of “March Madness” to note the scandalously poor academic performance of the unpaid professional basketball players who NCAA schools pretend are student athletes.
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Get Schooled and Eschaton
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
GOP shouldn't panic if whites become a minority — Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone — Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 census results say. Many go on, sometimes with relish …
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National Review
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Truth, Still Inconvenient — So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What's the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Republicans called for last week's Congressional hearing on climate science.