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Mj Lee / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh mocks GOP establishment — Rush Limbaugh mocked the Republican establishment on his radio show Wednesday for being “shocked” by Rick Santorum's three-state win, saying, “I can't believe how insulated they are.” — “They're literally shocked. The Republican establishment had no idea this was percolating out there.
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Rush Limbaugh:
Establishment Shocked by Santorum Sweep — RUSH: Rick Santorum, one night, three victories. CBS has the story: “Santorum Stunner: Sweeps 3 GOP Contests.” I've taken a gander throughout the Republican media, conservative media, and all over the place, and they are shocked. They're literally shocked.
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CNN:
TRENDING: Romney: Rivals are ‘Republicans who acted like Democrats’
TRENDING: Romney: Rivals are ‘Republicans who acted like Democrats’
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Politico, Ballot Box and National Review
CNN:
Trump: 'I don't get Rick Santorum;' talks Romney cabinet position
Trump: 'I don't get Rick Santorum;' talks Romney cabinet position
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ThinkProgress, American Prospect, Political Insider, Liberal Values, The Impolitic, Connecting.the.Dots and New York Times
CNN:
Bachmann: Santorum win a ‘shot across the bow’
Bachmann: Santorum win a ‘shot across the bow’
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Politico, The Hill and The Last Tradition
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Vows Not to Run for ‘Pastor in Chief’
Rick Santorum Vows Not to Run for ‘Pastor in Chief’
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Guardian
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Santorum Sweep Sets Stage for New Battle in Republican Race
Santorum Sweep Sets Stage for New Battle in Republican Race
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic Online:
Romney's Squeeze: Struggles With the Base and Independents Alike
Romney's Squeeze: Struggles With the Base and Independents Alike
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Washington Post, The Last Tradition and Prairie Weather
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Race Has Hallmarks of Prolonged Battle
G.O.P. Race Has Hallmarks of Prolonged Battle
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Why White House sees political opportunity in the contraception battle — (Public Religion Research Institute) The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— continues.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Invents New Front In Fake War On Religion: Obama Wants Female Catholic Priests
Santorum Invents New Front In Fake War On Religion: Obama Wants Female Catholic Priests
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The Loyal Opposition, Sky Dancing and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups
Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups
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Joan Frawley Desmond / The Daily Register:
USCCB Spokesman: Hawaii Bill ‘Not Much of a Compromise’ to Fix Contraception Mandate (1731)
USCCB Spokesman: Hawaii Bill ‘Not Much of a Compromise’ to Fix Contraception Mandate (1731)
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Bloomberg:
Obama Weighed Faith Politics in Contraceptives
Obama Weighed Faith Politics in Contraceptives
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Reuters, Politico, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller and Guardian
Michael Brendan Dougherty / Business Insider:
FORGET JOBS: The 2012 Election Is About The Culture War
FORGET JOBS: The 2012 Election Is About The Culture War
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Campaign Stops and Rod Dreher
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner, GOP pledge to reverse Obama birth-control mandate
Boehner, GOP pledge to reverse Obama birth-control mandate
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Politico, The Last Tradition, CNN and ThinkProgress
ABCNEWS:
Senate Democrats Say Obama ‘Reinforced’ His Stance on Contraception Mandate at Democratic Retreat — President Obama “reinforced” his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats' annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.
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ABCNEWS:
The White House Has No Opinion About Whether the Senate Should Pass a Budget - Today's Q's for O's WH - 2/8/12 — TAPPER: President Obama is going to be introducing his outline for a budget. Fed Chair Bernanke has said the lack of a budget having been passed by the Senate has had an adverse affect …
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RedState and The Lonely Conservative
Christopher Goins / CNSNews:
Hoyer: 'The Fact Is You Don't Need a Budget'
Hoyer: 'The Fact Is You Don't Need a Budget'
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Roland Martin suspended for homophobic tweets — On Super Bowl Sunday, Roland Martin of CNN issued some homophobic tweets that got him in trouble with gay organizations and this blog. CNN stayed silent on the matter, until just moments ago, when it issued this statement:
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval at New Low of 10% — Republicans and Democrats equally negative — PRINCETON, NJ — A record-low 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, down from 13% in January and the previous low of 11%, recorded in December 2011.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Republican Enthusiasm Issue is Real — The paltry turnout in the Republican Presidential contests over the last week reflects what we've seen in our recent national polling: Democrats are now more excited about voting this fall than Republicans are, reversing the enthusiasm gap that plagued the party in 2010.
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
GOP turnout troubles continue
GOP turnout troubles continue
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Guardian, FiveThirtyEight and Balloon Juice
Mike Blasky / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock — Loading the player... Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face.
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Damian Carrington / Guardian:
Asia's mountains ‘lost no ice in 10 years’ — Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less then previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern — • In pictures: the best images of the earth from space
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and Green
Mark Oppenheimer / Salon:
The making of gay marriage's top foe — Salon exclusive: How Maggie Gallagher's college pregnancy made her a single mom, and a traditional marriage zealot — In September 1978, Yale freshmen would not have voted Maggie Gallagher the member of the Class of 1982 most likely to get pregnant before graduation.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / Business Insider:
Cardinal Edward Egan Just Withdrew His Apology For The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal — St. John Chrysostom, once said “The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.” — Here's proof that he was right. — In an interview this week with Connecticut Magazine, Cardinal Edward Egan …
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City Room, News Desk, No More Mister Nice Blog, Rod Dreher and Joe. My. God.
Los Angeles Times:
Divided court rejects Proposition 8 — The 9th Circuit panel declares that California's gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional. — Opponents of Proposition 8 celebrate outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel ruled that the measure violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Six Republican Senators — Including Snowe And Collins — Co-Sponsored Federal Contraception Mandate In 2001 — Republicans have gone to war against President Obama's regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage, portraying the measure as a “government takeover” …
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The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
John J. Miller / National Review:
Tee Pawed — Last night's big loser was Mitt Romney. The runner-up: Tim Pawlenty, the former GOP governor of Minnesota. He just lost the veepstakes. — I like Pawlenty. Last year, when it became clear that Mitch Daniels and a few others weren't going to run for president …
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Laurel Ramseyer / Firedoglake:
Washington Legislature Is First in the Nation to Reverse its DOMA Mistake and Pass a Marriage Equality Bill — Fifteen years ago the Washington state Legislature overrode Gov. Gary Locke's veto and passed the discriminatory “defense of marriage act” (DOMA) to prevent gay and lesbian couples from obtaining civil marriage licenses.
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Justia, Poliglot and Washington Blade
Heritage Foundation:
The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government — Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011.
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Grassley: House GOP doing Wall Street's bidding on STOCK Act — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) accused his Republican counterparts in the House of doing the bidding of Wall Street by removing a provision from the STOCK Act that would have required political intelligence firms to register in a similar fashion to lobbyists.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
CPAC Set to Host White Nationalist Leader — Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, along with several Republican senators and congressmen, are set to appear at the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference, but the GOP brass aren't the only ones set to be at CPAC.
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