memeorandum: Behind the Scenes, Plans for Insurance Exchange (Emily Ramshaw/New York Times)

9:25 AM ET, June 10, 2011

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

The Newt Gingrich campaign implosion — Newt Gingrich's top staff quit en masse Thursday, throwing into question whether his already troubled presidential campaign can continue. — Two sources close to the situation confirmed that campaign manager Rob Johnson, strategists Sam Dawson and Dave Carney …

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

The Problem Was the Wife — The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate's wife since 2000. — The euphemism offered by departing staffers was they disagreed with Gingrich's “strategy” for the campaign.

Discussion: Don Surber, Lisa Graas, The Other McCain, TPMDC, Pajamas Media, FrumForum, The New Republic and Mother Jones

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Gingrich presidential campaign implodes — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign imploded Thursday afternoon with his entire senior staff resigning en masse, according to multiple sources familiar with the moves. — “When the campaign and the candidate disagree on the path …

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, Political Insider, Democratic Strategist, GOP 12, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Trail Blazers Blog, Towleroad News #gay, Booman Tribune, The Political Carnival, FrumForum and AmSpecBlog

New York Times:
Gingrich Aides Quit en Masse Over Conflicts

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and The BRAD BLOG

Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich's entire paid Iowa campaign team resigns

Discussion: Washington Post, TPMDC, ABCNEWS, Politisite, USA Today, Lez Get Real, Swampland, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, RedState, New York Magazine, The New Republic, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and The Note

The Caucus:
Gingrich's Senior Campaign Staff Resigns

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Firedoglake, americanthinker.com, Wonkette and The Moderate Voice

Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:

Alaska poised to release Palin emails — FRIDAY: More than 24,000 pages will be available in Juneau. — JUNEAU — The state of Alaska will release thousands of Sarah Palin's emails from her first two years as governor today, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency.

Discussion: Politisite and FrumForum

Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:

Help analyze the Palin e-mails — UPDATE: We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the Palin e-mails. We've reconsidered our approach and now would like to invite comments and annotations from any interested readers. — Here's how to participate:Over 24,000 e-mail messages …

Discussion: The Politico, Atlas Shrugs, JammieWearingFool, Lynn Sweet, Don Surber, Pajamas Media, Taylor Marsh and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing — Rush Limbaugh joins supporters accusing Thatcher's circle of disgracing former PM with ‘Palin is nuts’ comment — A firestorm on the US right has erupted after the Guardian reported that Sarah Palin will be denied …

Discussion: Boing Boing and The Daily Dish

Derek Willis / The Caucus:
Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records

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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin film to get nationwide release

Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Conservatives4Palin

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Rule by Rentiers — The latest economic data have dashed any hope of a quick end to America's job drought, which has already gone on so long that the average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks. Yet there is no political will to do anything about the situation.

Discussion: TalkLeft, International Political …, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Prairie Weather

Lesley Wroughton / Reuters:

Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to World Bank — (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Swampland, Money Game, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and The Democratic Daily

Sean Collins Walsh / The Caucus:
A Date With Bill Clinton, for a Donation

Discussion: Hotline On Call

Rock Hackshaw / Room Eight:
NOTE TO ANTHONY WEINER: DO NOT RESIGN.

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Ben Smith's Blog

Barak Ravid / Haaretz:

Haaretz exclusive: Secret cables show Israel's battle plan over Palestinian UN bid — Foreign Ministry documents outline instructions to envoys to thwart international recognition of Palestinian state. — Israel has started mobilizing its embassies for the battle against UN recognition …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Guardian and Israel Matzav

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Romney will skip Iowa straw poll — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said Thursday that he'd be skipping the influential August straw poll of potential Iowa caucusgoers. — Romney, who won the 2007 straw poll, announced through his campaign that he would skip the Ames Straw Poll this cycle …

Discussion: CNN, Ben Smith's Blog, The Note and HotAirPundit

Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Romney to Skip Key Poll in Iowa

Discussion: Washington Post, MarketBeat, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, St. Petersburg Times, Moe Lane, Gawker, Talking Points Memo and FrumForum

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Romney to skip Ames

Discussion: The Page and GOP 12

Jon Terbush / TPMDC:

Poll: Majority Of Weiner's Constituents Think he Should Stay In Office — While lawmakers from Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-NY) own party have now begun to call for his resignation, a Marist poll released Thursday night finds that his constituents think he should stay.

Discussion: Questions and Observations, New York Post, Donklephant, ThinkProgress and FrumForum

The Note:
Anthony Weiner Should Not Resign Constituents Say in New Poll

Discussion: CNN, The Politico, Hit & Run, The Hill, JammieWearingFool, ABCNEWS and Ricochet Conversation Feed

New York Post:

Professor disaster — No billions or trillions needed — here's the simplest num ber to describe the dismal state of the US economy: — One. — With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that's the number of members from the original Obama economic team still working …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and National Review

Wall Street Journal:

The Lone Star Jobs Surge — The Texas model added 37% of all net U.S. jobs since the recovery began. — Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas.

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:

Anthony Weiner Is a Modern Human Being — My friend Morgan Rank owned an art gallery in East Hampton several years ago. He moved to Italy, living in the quiet countryside there for nearly a decade. We had lost touch and then, at an art event in New York, someone approached me and said, “Morgan is back.”

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, PopWatch, FishbowlDC, Salon, Shakesville and New York Magazine

Steven Erlanger / New York Times:

Ruling Favors a 10-Inch Citizen of France — PARIS — France was punished on Thursday for not taking proper care of its hamsters. — The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union's highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace …

Emily Ramshaw / New York Times:

Behind the Scenes, Plans for Insurance Exchange — Gov. Rick Perry has made no secret of his disdain for federal health reform or for one of its key tenets, a Travelocity-like state insurance marketplace in which consumers could choose from public and private health plans.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Oregonian and Healthwatch

Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:

Two separate and reliable source in Texas tell me serious preparations are being made for Governor Rick Perry, 61, to seek the Republican nomination for president. — Dave Carney and Rob Johnson — the former top Perry aides who on Thursday left Newt Gingrich's campaign …

Discussion: GOP 12, Lisa Graas, The Lonely Conservative and FrumForum

Bernie Becker / The Hill:

House Dems to call for expiration of Bush tax rates in debt-limit deal — A group of House Democrats is calling for any deal to raise the debt ceiling to bring about the end of the Bush tax rates for the wealthy. — The lawmakers, led by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), also say that …

BBC:

Leicester City Council ‘not ready’ for zombie attack — The FOI request said “councils across the kingdom” should be prepared for a potential zombie attack — A worried member of the public has forced Leicester City Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invasion.

Andy Newman / City Room:

Five People Shot on Boardwalk in Brighton Beach — The police investigated a multiple shooting on the Coney Island boardwalk near Brighton 5th Street on Thursday. — 11:30 p.m. | Updated For the latest updates, read the news article from Friday's paper.

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine and FrumForum