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Sen. Scott Brown / The Politico:
Why I don't back Ryan Medicare plan — As part of the 2012 budget discussions, Congress is dealing with Medicare reform. This debate is long overdue, since its increasing cost must be addressed if we are serious about the nation's growing $14 trillion debt and $1.6 trillion annual deficit.
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The Politico:
Republicans ignored warnings on Paul Ryan plan — It might be a political time bomb — that's what GOP pollsters warned as House Republicans prepared for the April 15 vote on Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget, with its plan to dramatically remake Medicare. — No matter how favorably pollsters …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Dish, The Mahablog, msnbc.com and The Raw Story
Digby / Hullabaloo:
“The Tea Party itch has not been scratched”: How the Ryan plan went down — “The Tea Party Itch Has Not Been Scratched” — Any political observer with even a modicum of sense could see that the Ryan Plan was going to be a complete disaster. And most of us have been wondering ever since what the hell made them go for it.
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The Politico, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, The New Republic, pandagon.net, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor nudges Rep. Ryan to jump into 2012 White House race
Cantor nudges Rep. Ryan to jump into 2012 White House race
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The Politico, GOP 12 and The Page
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Things Done Changed
Things Done Changed
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The Politico, Outside the Beltway and Eschaton
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and Mediscare — Paul Ryan's GOP critics are ObamaCare's best friends.
Republicans and Mediscare — Paul Ryan's GOP critics are ObamaCare's best friends.
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The New Republic and Betsy's Page
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
What GOP leaders were thinking on Medicare
Daily Mail:
The best-protected car in the world... defeated by an Irish ramp: Obama's limo ‘The Beast’ gets stuck at U.S. Embassy — Red faces all round as President and First Lady forced to swap vehicles for trip to ancestral home — It's supposed to protect him from terror attacks but President Barack Obama …
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The Other McCain
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Daily Mail:
We didn't realise you were such a big Jedward fan, Michelle. First Lady looks the part as she arrives in a windswept Ireland — Ireland put on a traditional welcome for the Obamas today - a windy one. — The President of the United States breezed in today on the first stop of his four-country, Six-day European tour.
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Political Punch, Michelle Malkin, The Lonely Conservative, Big Journalism, Mediaite and The Jawa Report
A.G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Death Toll Rises to Nearly 100 From Missouri Tornado — JOPLIN, Mo. — Much of this southwestern Missouri city lay in ruins on Monday morning after a massive tornado, the latest storm to ravage the Midwest and South this spring, tore through the area, killing at least 90 people.
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The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, Wake up America, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, The Lede, The Hill and Balloon Juice
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AccuWeather.com:
More Severe Weather Expected Today
More Severe Weather Expected Today
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Wizbang
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Obama monitors response to Joplin, Missouri tornado from abroad
Obama monitors response to Joplin, Missouri tornado from abroad
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CBS News, Politics and HotAirPundit
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Biden tells donors: Keep me in mind for 2016 — Vice President Joe Biden surprised a gathering of donors in Cincinnati last week when he floated the prospect of his succeeding President Barack Obama in the White House. — Biden, who started in the Senate young and would be just 70 in 2012 …
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The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Pundit Press, GayPatriot, Pajamas Media, Questions and Observations, Politics and HotAirPundit
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gingrich: 'I'm not a Washington figure' — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) said he doesn't view himself as a “Washington figure,” positioning himself as an anti-D.C. candidate in his campaign for president. — Gingrich railed against the Washington, D.C. establishment …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Newt Gingrich, citing record, says ignore record
Newt Gingrich, citing record, says ignore record
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Daily Kos
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Next President Isn't Currently Running (Updated) — There's no GOP operative for whom I have higher regard than former RNC chair and senior Bush advisor Ed Gillespie. He deserves to be taken seriously when he says (according to Politico): “For all intents and purposes, the field is set.
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Spectator:
Obama's achievement: the mouse that roared — I don't know what strategic purpose Obama had in mind for addressing the Middle East impasse when last Thursday he made the first of a series of speeches on the subject. Whatever this may have been, that speech produced one satisfactory result.
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Via Meadia, Pajamas Media, CFR.org, Harry's Place, Big Peace, Democracy in America and Left Coast Rebel
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Eric Cantor:
Leader Cantor's Remarks to AIPAC
Leader Cantor's Remarks to AIPAC
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Firedoglake, Weasel Zippers, Capital J | JTA and Talking Points Memo
Scott / Power Line:
Cantor at AIPAC — Republican House Majority Leader Eric …
Cantor at AIPAC — Republican House Majority Leader Eric …
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Pajamas Media, Ironic Surrealism, Sister Toldjah and Big Peace
Josh Margolin / New York Post:
Obama digging up dirt on potential opponent Chris Christie — President Obama's re-election campaign is trying to dig up dirt in the Garden State. — Despite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's repeated pronouncements that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination …
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The Other McCain, Ballot Box, Pajamas Media, WyBlog, GOP 12, Betsy's Page, Verum Serum, Nice Deb, JammieWearingFool, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
Governor Arne Carlson:
THE PRESIDENCY: A BIT SHORT IS PAWLENTY — One thing is certain about Monday's Presidential announcement by former Governor Tim Pawlenty: he will not bring up the fact that he presided over one of the larger tax increases in Minnesota's history. Yes, that is quite correct.
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Iowa Caucuses, Politics, TPMDC and The Politico
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Pawlenty Campaign Already Dead? — Tim Pawlenty's hometown newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, ran the story of his presidential campaign announcement on the Obituary page this morning, City Pages reports.
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The Blotter, Little Green Footballs, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Truth outweighs consistency — Jon Huntsman was asked on Friday about his support for the Recovery Act, and the fact that in 2009, he wanted the stimulus to be bigger, not smaller. — Huntsman said his problem with the Recovery Act had to do with taxes. “[M]y take was, let's stimulate business,” he told George Stephanopoulos.
The Note:
Is Donald Trump Back in the 2012 Race? — ABC News' Sheila Marikar and Rick Klein report: Perhaps Donald Trump didn't really bow out after all. — The billionaire business mogul phoned into Fox News' “Fox & Friends” this morning to lament the state of the Republican field.
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Reuters, Daniel W. Drezner, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Weigel and FrumForum
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates — The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history. The court majority says overcrowding has caused ‘suffering and death.’ In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns ‘terrible things are sure to happen.’
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Orange Punch, Blog of Rights, The Jawa Report, Gawker and CNN
Will Kane / San Francisco Chronicle:
Harold Camping ‘flabbergasted’; rapture a no-show — (05-22) 19:18 PDT ALAMEDA — The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well. — “It has been a really tough weekend,” said Harold Camping …
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Simply Left BehindThe …, newsfeed.time.com, Gothamist, Runnin' Scared and Gawker
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When Austerity Fails — I often complain, with reason, about the state of economic discussion in the United States. And the irresponsibility of certain politicians — like those Republicans claiming that defaulting on U.S. debt would be no big deal — is scary.
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Politics, Questions and Observations, Paul Krugman, Wall Street Journal and Northern Reflections
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven? — David Brock has spent the last decade apologizing to liberals for his role in creating the vast right-wing conspiracy. Now he's trying something more ambitious and hoping it gains him the respect he craves from the White House.
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Mediaite, Althouse and Ben Smith's Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Now popular Republicans ‘not natural-born citizens’ — Rising stars of GOP in doubt because parents from overseas — MIAMI, Fla. - Are U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal natural-born citizens of the United States, and thus eligible for the presidency?
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Democracy in America, FP Passport, Weigel and Joe. My. God.