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12:15 PM ET, April 18, 2011

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The Politico:
What's Donald Trump really after?  —  Despite an almost universal refusal by Republican establishment figures and the press to take him seriously, Donald Trump is taking very concrete steps toward forming - and announcing - a presidential campaign.  —  He has interviewed at least two people …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Obama 49%, Trump 34%  —  President Obama leads Donald Trump by 15 percentage points in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, but the president is unable to top the 50% level of support even against an opponent some are deriding as a joke.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Let's Not Be Civil  —  Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party's values — in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society.  Immediately thereafter, as always happens when Democrats take a stand, the civility police came out in force.
CNBC:
S&P Affirms US AAA Rating, Cuts Outlook to Negative  —  Standard & Poor's on Monday downgraded the outlook for the United States to negative, saying it believes there's a risk U.S. policymakers may not reach agreement on how to address the country's long-term fiscal pressures.
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Matthew Saltmarsh / New York Times:
S.&P. Lowers Outlook for U.S., Sending Stocks Down  —  Shares on Wall Street opened sharply lower and Treasury prices fell on Monday after the Standard & Poor's rating firm lowered the outlook for the United States to negative, saying that there was a risk that lawmakers might not reach agreement …
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Balloon Juice
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Vandals Break In WI Office - Steal Fleebagger Recall Petitions Hours After It Was Announced Enough Signatures Were Collected (Video)  —  On Thursday Wisconsin conservatives announced that they had collected enough signatures 15,000 to recall fleebagger Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay.
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wtaq.com Featured Story News:
Green Bay Police Investigating ‘Recall Hansen’ Office Burglary
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Middle-Class Tax Trap  —  “Let's tell the truth,” Walter Mondale said, accepting the Democratic nomination in 1984.  “Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you.  I just did.”  —  Three months later, Mondale lost 49 states, and liberal politicians learned a valuable lesson.
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
TheDC Exclusive: Conservatives hit Beck for taking content without attribution  —  A number of conservative activists and bloggers say they're furious at media magnate Glenn Beck for what they call content theft.  Over the past several years, Beck has relied on video, audio and written content …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Huntsman team plans South Carolina campaign  —  Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - If ambassador to China Jon Huntsman does decide to run for president after returning to the United States in early May, his advisers are planning to make a serious play for South Carolina, the early primary state …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Ben Smith's Blog
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Bachmann non-committal on first GOP debate
Robin Bravender / The Politico:
President Obama to ignore ‘czar’ ban  —  President Barack Obama is planning to ignore language in the 2011 spending package that would ban several top White House advisory posts.  —  House Republicans tacked on language to the contentious spending bill to cut the salaries for four so-called czars …
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New York Times:
President Heads West to Sell His Deficit Plan
Discussion: Wonkette and FrumForum
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
As debt ceiling vote nears, the pressure's on House Republican freshmen  —  They ran against debt.  They swore and swore again that they'd cut up the nation's credit card.  —  But now the 87 freshmen House Republicans are facing intense pressure from administration officials …
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg:
Ryan Budget Plan Defended as Republicans Return Home to Voters  —  First-term Representative Bobby Schilling is getting ready for some uncomfortable conversations.  —  The pizzeria owner-turned-Republican lawmaker supported his party's 2012 budget plan that passed in the House last week …
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New York Times:
The New Republican Landscape  —  Six months after voters sent …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and POWIP
CNN:
Arrest made in connection with Texas wildfire near Austin  —  Dallas (CNN) — Texas authorities have made an arrest in connection with one of hundreds of blazes scorching the state in what a Forest Service official called the “perfect storm for wildfires.”  —  A man has been arrested …
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Elliott Blackburn / Reuters:
Texas seeks more help as wildfires burn Austin homes
Wall Street Journal:
Where the Tax Money Is  —  Obama targets the middle class while pretending to tax only the rich.  —  A dominant theme of President Obama's budget speech last Wednesday was that our fiscal problems would vanish if only the wealthiest Americans were asked “to pay a little more.”
Reuters:
Al-Jazeera has fans in Obama W.H.  —  In the halls of American power, the Arab Spring has brought Al-Jazeera in from the cold.  —  Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster's reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GANG OF SIX ‘VERY CLOSE’ TO AN AGREEMENT, INTENDS TO ‘MAKE EVERYBODY MAD’.... Two months ago, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a member of the bipartisan “Gang of Six” deficit-reduction talks, said the group was “getting close” to striking a deal.  Two weeks ago, however, the negotiations …
Discussion: The Politico, Firedoglake and msnbc.com
Rebel Pundit:
Unhinged Lunatics Message to Madison Tea Party & Sarah Palin  —  These protesters at the Madison, Wisconsin Tea Party Protest featuring Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin unleashed a furious message in the following video.  Unfortunately, we have absolutely no idea what this message means...
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Relieve Pain by Swearing, Study Says  —  Hey, after all these years, I'm vindicated at last: … And, indeed, some of what we were taught in schools was wrong.  —  For instance, the story has it Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me death.”  He really said: “Wear one of those dreadful Tory hats?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Ha'aretz: Bibi, Barak, Lean Toward Confronting Iran; Mossad More Skeptical  —  This weekend brought us a fascinating and complicated report from Ha'aretz's Amir Oren, who suggests that the early success of the Iron Dome missile-interception system makes it somewhat more likely that Israel …
New York Times:
Justice, Too Much and Too Expensive  —  HABEAS corpus: it is, as Alexander Hamilton suggested, the “bulwark” of a Constitution.  A habeas petition gives a single federal judge the authority to decide if a prisoner is being held unlawfully and order his release.
Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Trump: Rove “devastated” by Romney's performance  —  On Fox & Friends this morning, Donald Trump fired back at Karl Rove for calling him a “joke candidate.” … Trump then offered another reason for Rove's comments. … Trump's assertion that Romney is doing poorly in the polls is hardly air-tight …
Discussion: FrumForum
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Democrats eye Army general for Texas Senate race  —  Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, may enter the open-seat Senate race in Texas as a Democrat, POLITICO has confirmed.  —  Democrats expect that Sanchez will run for the seat of retiring GOP …
Discussion: CNN, Ballot Box and Off the Kuff
 
 
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David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Still Split About Whether Their Taxes Are Too High
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Douglas Kmiec resigns as U.S. ambassador to Malta
Alex Guillén / The Politico:
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Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Radial Islamist groups gaining stranglehold in Egypt
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
President Whatever finds things not going his way
Carolyn Kellogg / Jacket Copy:
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