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Trump Not Running for President: ‘Decision Does Not Come Easily Or Without Regret’ — ABC News' Michael Falcone, Jen Wlach, Sara Just & Devin Dwyer report: — After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
BREAKING: Trump not running for president — (CNN) - Real estate mogul and television celebrity Donald Trump, who generated a media publicity blitz by saying he might run for president in 2012, announced Monday that he will instead remain a businessman. — “After considerable deliberation …
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CNN:
Full release: — “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country.
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Sean Daly / New York Post:
Big Trump news due today
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Donald Trump not running for president
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Ryan swipes at Gingrich: ‘With allies like that, who needs the left?’ — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) took a swipe Monday at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich after the former House Speaker criticized hiss proposed Medicare reforms. — “With allies like that, who needs the left?”
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Blasts House GOP's Medicare Plan — Presidential Candidate Calls It ‘Right-Wing Social Engineering,’ Agrees With Obama About Need for Insurance Mandate — White House hopeful Newt Gingrich called the House Republican plan for Medicare “right-wing social engineering,” …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Gingrich reaction: Republicans livid, accuse former speaker of hypocrisy in attack on Ryan — This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress.
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Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Gingrich Was for Ryan's Budget Before He Was Against It
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Jroot / newt.org:
Newt: I oppose the Obamacare mandate. Period.
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New York Times:
Judge Denies Bail to I.M.F. Chief in Sexual Assault Case — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was ordered on Monday to be held without bail over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Midtown hotel.
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New York Post:
French gals burned by pol ‘in heat’ — He's un animal. — IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acted like a “chimpanzee in heat” during a creepy previous grab-and-grope with a French journalist — an incident with eerie similarities to his alleged attack on a Manhattan hotel maid Saturday, according to an explosive interview.
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Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces further claim of sexual assault — Socialist party official says her daughter was left traumatised after alleged attack by Strauss-Kahn in 2002 — By this time next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn might well have been president of France.
ABCNEWS:
IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Charged With Rape, Sexual Abuse, Unlawful Imprisonment
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Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn to face fresh sex assault complaint
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Wall Street Journal:
As Debt Limit Reached, Agreement Still Far Off — The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default. — The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America Held Hostage — Six months ago President Obama faced a hostage situation. Republicans threatened to block an extension of middle-class tax cuts unless Mr. Obama gave in and extended tax cuts for the rich too. And the president essentially folded, giving the G.O.P. everything it wanted.
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Geithner tells Congress the US has reached $14.3T debt limit
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Paul Krugman:
What's In A Name? — Urk. Politico: … It's not misleading! I know that serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that's just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors' medical bills …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Game change: Battleground Poll finds Obama immune on economy: 72% personal support …
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David Carr / New York Times:
How Drudge Has Stayed on Top
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Gay CNN Anchor Sees Risk in Book — Don Lemon, the weekend prime-time anchor for CNN, was on the air on Sunday night this month when the news broke that President Obama would address the nation at the unusual hour of 10:30 p.m. — By the time the news network was confirming the reports …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sizing Up Iowa Without Huckabee — Mike Huckabee's decision not to run for president in 2012 may be the most consequential event of the Republican primary campaign so far. And nowhere will that impact be felt more than in Iowa, where Mr. Huckabee won the caucuses in 2008.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Romney's Path — With the field clarifying, Mitt Romney's interests …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Requiem for Huckabee — Most candidates for the highest office in the land spend months, if not years, currying favor with the rich and powerful: glad-handing at fund-raising dinners, schmoozing in mansions, pressing the flesh in Aspen and Manhattan and Nob Hill. — Not so Mike Huckabee.
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David Frum / CNN:
With no Huckabee, who in GOP will stand for jobs, middle class?
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
President Obama polls well despite jobs fears — Despite widespread disapproval of Barack Obama's handling of the economy, more than half of Americans approve of the president and are open to reelecting him. — The economy and government spending stand as the dominant issues on the minds …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Herman Cain sounds off on race, a debate win, and the need to simplify government — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - Herman Cain's handsome glass-walled office overlooks the first fairway of the Eagle's Landing Country Club in this exurb of Atlanta …
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