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10:30 PM ET, April 5, 2011

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James C. Capretta / National Review:
What Real Leadership Looks Like  —  House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan has laid out a vision for 21st-century governance that will become the GOP program for 2011, 2012, and beyond.  —  It is unquestionably the boldest budget plan ever offered (including Reagan's first budget) …
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Free exchange:
Best budget ever  —  PAUL RYAN has officially revealed the House Republicans' budget proposal, and we will have a detailed analysis of it up in short order.  Reactions to the plan will vary (sharply, it's safe to say).  But whatever your take on the policy proposals, it's worth approaching …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Ryan to 32M Americans: No Insurance for You  —  House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan has published his proposal for downsizing the federal government.  In the hours and days to come, you're going to hear a lot of different numbers from his proposal.  But let me draw your attention to a figure that's not in there: 32 million.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Ryan's Budget Plan Is Ridiculous, But It Could Shift the Debate
Discussion: The Foundry, Hullabaloo and TPMDC
Geoff / Ace of Spades HQ:
Ryan's Plan: Necessary But Not Sufficient (Bumped)
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Budget Ignores CBO To Claim Health Care Repeal Will Reduce The Deficit
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan …
Discussion: Salon and HotAirPundit
New York Times:
Budget Stances Harden as Deadline Nears for Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — In dueling news conferences just moments apart, President Obama and the speaker of the House, John A. Boehner, dug in their heels on Tuesday over terms of a budget deal to stave off a partial shutdown of the federal government as early as Saturday.
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Boehner ups ante: $40B in cuts  —  President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that he would not sign another stopgap spending bill without an agreement first on the 2011 budget, even as Republicans upped the ante, signaling that a $40 billion package of cuts might have the makings of a deal to avert a shutdown Friday.
The Politico:
Boehner: Dems ‘win’ in shutdown
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Note
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner's office says no deal was reached in White House talks
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Bristol Palin's Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention  —  In 2009, Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie's Foundation.  Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie's Foundation released …
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Rachel D'Oro / The Huffington Post:
Bristol Palin's Teen Pregnancy Work Earned Her $262K … Bristol Palin , GuideStar Bristol Palin , Bristol Palin GuideStar , Bristol Palin Teen Pregnancy , Bristol Palin Teen Pregnancy Earnings , Bristol Palin Teen Pregnancy Work , Guidestar , Palin Teen Pregnancy , Politics News
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Conservative Opposition To Human Happiness  —  Adam Serwer reports from Charles Murray's “State of White America” address.  Long story short, though, folks have gotten kind of soft: … This put me in mind of Monica Potts' review of Kay Hymowitz: … Hymowitz's argument, essentially …
Discussion: American Prospect and pandagon.net
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
The Seriousness Of Cutting Taxes On The Rich
David Brooks / New York Times:
Moment of Truth  —  It was a season of fiscal perestroika.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Wasserman Schultz to lead DNC  —  President Barack Obama has settled on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, top Democratic sources said Tuesday.  —  Wasserman Schultz, 44, was chosen for her strength as a fund-raiser and as a television messenger …
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John Cook / Gawker:
CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch  —  The Center for Public Integrity is reporting that an unnamed former ABC News journalist was an FBI informant during and after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, passing along tips and revealing a source.  We know who it is.  More »
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Poynter
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The Center for Public Integrity:
Agents treated reporter like informant, raising question: Who else?  —  A once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, pumping the reporter to ascertain the source of a sensational but uncorroborated tip …
Paul Krugman:
The 2022 Medicare Crisis  —  Matt Yglesias has a very good point: the supposed transition strategy under the Ryan plan, in which everyone currently under 55 gets Medicare as we know it, while everyone younger than that gets vouchers that won't be enough to buy adequate insurance, sets up an unstable political dynamic.
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M.S. / Democracy in America:
You put the load right on me  —  PAUL RYAN'S plan to replace Medicare with a system of vouchers for seniors to buy health care on the private market has only been vaguely described, as of this writing.  But there is one thing about it that's fairly clear, regardless of what's in the details …
Romalley / Fox Nation:
Fired NPR CEO Rips Sting Artists, Admits Rest of Establishment is ‘Terrified’  —  Fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York and lashed out at the videographers who exposed the bigotry in her organization, calling the undercover sting an “abomination.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Sara Jerome / The Hill:
Ex-NPR chief: House Republicans have thrust NPR into ‘turmoil’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
King: Holder should resign for criticizing Gitmo prisoner trial reversal  —  The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee suggested that Attorney General Eric Holder should resign after criticizing Congress for interfering with the trial venues for the detainees at Guantánamo.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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New York Times:
Cowardice Blocks the 9/11 Trial
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Parody gets more views than real Obama launch  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee's parody of Obama's 2012 campaign, released Friday, now has 665,000 views on YouTube.  —  Obama's real launch video, released yesterday: Just 168,000.  —  YouTube's metrics tend to lag a bit …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Kloppenburg = A Vote Against the Bill.”  —  A pro-Kloppenburg yard sign that works as an anti-Kloppenburg yard sign (for 1 if not 2 reasons):  —  Meade and I voted at around 11.  He was #399 and I was #401 at our polling place (the First Congregational Church).
Discussion: Hot Air
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
French interior minister facing legal action over Muslim comments  —  Claude Gueant, France's interior minister is facing legal action after declaring that the “growing” number of Muslims in France posed “a problem”.  —  “It's true that the increase in the number of faithful in (Islam) …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in NH, Trump makes things interesting  —  Mitt Romney's still the clear early front runner to take the Republican primary in New Hampshire next year but for the first time in our polling of the race PPP finds someone within single digits of him...Donald Trump.
Steven A. Camarota / Publications:
Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs  —  Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies.  —  Thirteen years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) …
Discussion: National Review and The Foundry
 
 
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