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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Republicans Call Obama's Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama's proposal to impose a minimum tax rate on those who earn more than $1 million a year was met with derision Sunday by Republican lawmakers, who said it amounted to “class warfare” and a political tactic intended …
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The Huffington Post, Runnin' Scared and Gawker
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to propose $3T in cuts, pledge to veto tax cuts for wealthy — President Obama on Monday will unveil his vision for deficit reduction and tax reform in the Rose Garden, threatening to veto any bills that don't raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
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The Politico
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Rep. Paul Ryan Rips Obama's Jobs Plan; Herman Cain Defends His ‘999’ Tax Proposal — Special Guests: Rep. Paul Ryan, Herman Cain … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace. — President Obama takes on entitlements and wants to raise taxes on millionaires to cut the nation's debt, while continues a hard sell on his jobs plan.
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Crooks and Liars and Campaign 2012
Wall Street Journal:
New Obama Deficit Plan
New Obama Deficit Plan
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Los Angeles Times and The Political Carnival
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to propose new tax rate for millionaires
Steve Chapman / Chicago Tribune:
Why Obama should withdraw — When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, his slogan was “Morning in America.” For Barack Obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine. — The sputtering economy is about to stall out, unemployment is high, his jobs program may not pass …
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The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Left Coast Rebel, YID With LID and The Crawdad Hole
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The Huffington Post:
Bill Clinton: Dick Cheney ‘Sowing Discord’ With Suggestion That Hillary Run Against Obama In 2012 … On Sunday, former President Bill Clinton laughed off former Vice President Dick Cheney's suggestion that Hillary Clinton should challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.
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Power Line
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’ — Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
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David Goldstein / MiamiHerald.com:
Black caucus head treads line between criticizing, supporting Obama — WASHINGTON — As the debate over jobs turns into the latest political tug-of-war, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri walks a careful but candid line. — As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus …
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YID With LID, Hot Air, The Crawdad Hole and The Raw Story
Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Michelle Le search turns up body in Sunol Canyon — Sunol — Ten days after Hayward police arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering a nursing student whose body has not been found, a volunteer searcher discovered human remains Saturday in rural Alameda County.
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ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, L.A. NOW and Associated Press
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Israel: Adrift at Sea Alone — I'VE never been more worried about Israel's future. The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security — the peace with Egypt, the stability of Syria and the friendship of Turkey and Jordan — coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government …
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, ThinkProgress, Israel Matzav, YID With LID, Salon and Elder of Ziyon
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John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Palestinian envoy: UN petition for membership will be presented Fri.
Palestinian envoy: UN petition for membership will be presented Fri.
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Reuters
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Egghead and Blockheads — THERE are two American archetypes that were sometimes played against each other in old Westerns. — The egghead Eastern lawyer who lacks the skills or stomach for a gunfight is contrasted with the tough Western rancher and ace shot who has no patience for book learnin'.
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The Moderate Voice, Don Surber, CANNONFIRE, Northern Reflections, Althouse and Prairie Weather
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Rick Perry, Uber Texan
Rick Perry, Uber Texan
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Mediaite, Hot Air, And So it Goes in Shreveport, The Crawdad Hole, Connecting.the.Dots and Althouse
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Tucker Carlson's THE DAILY CALLER's DISGUSTING POST — I really don't understand my friend Tucker Carlson. He owns the website The Daily Caller and it currently has on its front page the most vile story — referring to a sex act with Governor Sarah Palin as a “womb shifter.” It is even the headline.
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The Other McCain and Riehl World View
Paul Krugman:
Hysteresis Begins — The slump in the United States and other advanced economies is the result of a failure of demand — period, end of story. All attempts to claim that it is somehow structural, or maybe the result of reduced incentives to produce, have collapsed at first contact with the evidence.
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Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
New York Magazine:
Obama's Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What's Really in Ron Suskind's Revealing New Book About the White House — President Obama. — Adam: Hi, Frank. So there's a little commotion about this new book Confidence Men, by Ron Suskind, which is being published on Tuesday.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
W.H. pushes back hard at Suskind
W.H. pushes back hard at Suskind
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Politics, New York Magazine, The Crawdad Hole, Ben Smith's Blog, Pajamas Media and National Review