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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can't Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family — Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC with Chris Jansing this morning to attack President Obama's new deficit reduction plan, which includes some tax increases on the wealthy.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why the White House changed course — President Obama's deficit-reduction plan (pdf) is most interesting for what's not in it. It does not cut Social Security by “chaining” the program's cost-of-living increases. It does not raise the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama throws ‘class warfare’ charge back in GOP's face — This has to be the clearest sign yet that Obama has taken a very sharp populist turn as he seeks to frame the contrast between the parties heading into 2012. During his remarks this morning, Obama directly responded to Republicans accusing him of …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Deficit Plan Cuts Entitlements and Raises Taxes on Rich — WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil a deficit-reduction plan on Monday that uses entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings to reduce government spending by more than $3 trillion over the next 10 years, administration officials said.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Behind Obama's newfound aggressiveness: GOP fear of the ‘trigger’ — It's probably true, as Greg wrote this morning, that Barack Obama's willingness to promote a jobs bill and now a deficit reduction package that are dead on arrival in the House — but will give the White House popular talking points …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama defends new taxes: 'This is not class warfare, it's math' — President Obama defended his proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy Monday and promised to veto any deficit reduction plan from Congress that cuts entitlement programs but doesn't raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Obama's deficit plan revs up Democrats
Obama's deficit plan revs up Democrats
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Draws New Hard Line on Long-Term Debt Reduction
Obama Draws New Hard Line on Long-Term Debt Reduction
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
What Obama Is Proposing for Medicare
What Obama Is Proposing for Medicare
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Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President on Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction
Remarks by the President on Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama Debt Reduction Plan a Sharp Pullback from Grand Bargain Territory
Obama Debt Reduction Plan a Sharp Pullback from Grand Bargain Territory
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Qwikster and the Dead — This morning I found an apology-laden missive in my inbox from Reed Hastings of Netflix, explaining that they'd really messed up the transition when they announced the end of free streaming, and that in order to fix it, they had . . . decided to more decisively split their DVD and streaming services.
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Reed Hastings / The Official Netflix Blog:
An Explanation and Some Reflections — I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. — It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes.
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Understanding Why Netflix Changed Pricing
Understanding Why Netflix Changed Pricing
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Mike Isaac / Epicenter:
Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video
Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Justice Department opposes Texas Congressional map — The Department of Justice on Monday expressed its opposition to the congressional map devised by Texas Republicans, claiming it does not meet the requirements of the Voting Rights Act and needs to be redrawn.
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
DOJ: Rick Perry's Texas Congressional Redistricting Map Violates Voting Rights Act
DOJ: Rick Perry's Texas Congressional Redistricting Map Violates Voting Rights Act
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The Daily Beast:
Bill O'Reilly's Civil War — The Fox News host thinks America is in dire straits—and what it needs is a history lesson. In this week's Newsweek, he tells Peter J. Boyer about his new book and why he likes Obama.
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Bill O'Reilly: Only Barack Obama more powerful than me
Bill O'Reilly: Only Barack Obama more powerful than me
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Susan Rice: Palestinians Are Delaying Creation of Their State — The anti-Israel Barack Obama, who has strengthened America's defense and intelligence ties with Israel (despite secretly hating it, as many Republican will tell you), also appointed the secretly Israel-hating Susan Rice …
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Tsuris — Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now.
The Tsuris — Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now.
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Mahmoud Abbas: ‘All hell has broken out’
Mahmoud Abbas: ‘All hell has broken out’
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Perry, Romney draw support from distinct groups — WASHINGTON - Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, in what is becoming a battle between the candidate who excites more Republicans …
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Greta Van Susteren: Tucker Carlson's a ‘pig’ for Palin story — Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is calling out Daily Caller owner Tucker Carlson as a “pig” and “purveyor of smut” for prominently posting a story with the headline: “Mike Tyson: Sarah Palin met the ‘womb shifter’.”
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Greta Van Susteren calls Tucker Carlson a ‘pig’
Greta Van Susteren calls Tucker Carlson a ‘pig’
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Leap / Law Enforcement Against Prohibition:
ONE DRUG ARREST EVERY 19 SECONDS IN THE U.S. — New FBI Numbers Reveal Failure of “War on Drugs” — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new FBI report released today shows that there is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. A group of police and judges who have been campaigning to legalize …
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Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily:
Elite team of 5 assigned to seek truth on Obama — Sheriff Joe picks ‘Cold Case Posse’ to investigate president's eligibility — Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND he has assigned a five-member “Cold Case Posse” to investigate the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate.
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Fill In the Blanks — Just a few winters ago my wife and I took our daughters to witness the inauguration of a man who had campaigned on hope and embodied possibility. We are pretty immune to political euphoria, but, circulating among the footsore pilgrims, we could imagine our country …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Rangel makes surprise appearance at Perry's N.Y. event — Washington (CNN) - Gov. Rick Perry's meeting Monday in New York with Hispanic business leaders had an unexpected guest in attendance: Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, who represents the district where the meeting took place.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Blockbuster Case Yields an Unexpected Result — WASHINGTON — People who hate Citizens United, last year's blockbuster campaign finance decision by the Supreme Court, tend to blame it for allowing secret money from corporations and unions to flood the political landscape.
Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries — President Obama's smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOPer says Obama's acting like a pirate — Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) reacted to President Obama's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy Monday by suggesting Obama is acting like a pirate. — “Watch ye purses & bury yr loot, the taxman cometh,” Ross tweeted, joking that Obama might …
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