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Huckabee Letter: Obama Surrounds Himself “With Morally Repugnant Political Whores” — A letter sent by the group Citizens United, over Hucakbee's signature, says the day Obama was sworn into office is “the day the country started going to pot.” Huckabee demands the letter be “pulled,” …
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Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled — Mike Huckabee is firmly denying that he approved a fundraising letter which refers to President Obama's advisers as “morally repugnant political whores.” — “This was a complete surprise to me,” Gov. Huckabee said in a statement to POLITICO, sent via a spokesperson.
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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Walker, Kleefisch lead in recall — Milwaukee, Wis. - A new Marquette Law School Poll shows that with three weeks to go until the recall election Governor Scott Walker has taken a six-percentage point lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 50-44 percent, among likely voters.
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Walker Dislikes Job Numbers, So He'll Put Out His Own
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Obama, Boehner clash at White House over debt-ceiling hike — President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) clashed during a White House meeting on Wednesday, with the Speaker telling the president that he was “not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt,” Boehner's office said.
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Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don't talk about raising taxes. — The line you often hear in Washington is that Republicans won't talk taxes and Democrats won't talk entitlements. The two parties, the thinking goes, are similarly irresponsible, albeit on opposite sides of the budget.
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Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Boehner attacks Obama's courage
Boehner attacks Obama's courage
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying — Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It's a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. — Romney's speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen.
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Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His ‘Strategies For Economic Growth’
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts
Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts
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[UPDATED] The joke that Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell at the WHCA dinner … UPDATE: Tapper confirms to Dylan Stableford that he helped Kimmel: — “I tried to help Jimmy with the temperature of the room. And yes, I thought that joke would cause the room to turn against him …
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Kimmel cut WHCD joke per Jake Tapper's advice — Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD) late last month in Washington. But after consulting with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, Kimmel decided several were too over-the-top to make the cut.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate — President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. — Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.
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Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility
Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility
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Politico:
Obama and Romney's common foe — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spend a lot of time trumpeting their differences, but they do share at least one common conviction: disdain for a political news media they see as eager to vaporize them for the sheer sport of it.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hot Air interview with Mitt Romney — Earlier today, I had an opportunity to speak with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney about the campaign and the economy, as well as Romney's official endorsement of Connie Mack in the Republican primary for the US Senate race in Florida.
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No media love for asymmetric polarization — “Polarization also has affected the two parties differently. The Republican Party has drifted much farther to the right than the Democratic Party has drifted to the left.... In other words, the story of the past few decades is asymmetric polarization.”
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Daily Kos, Blogging Blue, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, the daily howler and Balloon Juice
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. DeMint defends his role in upset in Nebraska's GOP Senate primary — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is not apologizing for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars through his leadership fund in Nebraska's Senate Republican primary, despite criticism from a Republican colleague.
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Politico, Michelle Malkin and The Gateway Pundit
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10 things about Deb Fischer's win
10 things about Deb Fischer's win
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Did a WikiLeaks document doom Iranian ‘Mossad agent’? — Leaked diplomatic cable apparently pointed to Majid Fashi, who was hanged in Tehran on Tuesday for allegedly killing a nuclear scientist — W — ikiLeaks may have been responsible for exposing Majid Jamali Fashi …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Buh-Bye — Over recent days we've been following the story of Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook, now resident in Singapore, who has renounced his citizenship to avoid the big time tax bill that would have come with the Facebook IPO windfall. But will Saverin ever be able to set in the US again?
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The 3 economic charts that could crash Obama's reelection hopes — Vice President Joe Biden is telling Ohio voters today that “things really are starting to come back.” — Is one of those “things” the U.S. economy? Because as the following three charts show, the U.S. economy …
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Gallup, Rush Limbaugh and Doug Ross
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Mary Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, found dead — NEW YORK - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday. — Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn't know the cause of her death at age 52.
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Warning Signs in Wisconsin for Obama — In a potentially ominous sign for the Obama campaign, a new poll has declared Wisconsin a true tossup state, finding President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a 46%-46% tie among likely voters. — As the Obama team eyes potential paths to victory in November …
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TPMDC — National Coalition For Men Endorses GOP Version Of VAWA Bill — House GOP legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act got an unexpected endorsement Tuesday — one that Democrats couldn't be happier with. — In a letter to all members, provided to TPM by Democratic aides …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Crossroads launches $25 million, monthlong ad campaign hitting Obama — Republican-aligned Crossroads GPS is going up with a $25 million TV ad buy over the next month seeking to set the table for November's general election and define President Obama. — The massive TV buy from the policy arm …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Crossroads matches Obama $25 million buy, airs tough new spot
Crossroads matches Obama $25 million buy, airs tough new spot
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TPMMuckraker — Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards — “Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama's father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem?
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Dan Spector / CJAD 800:
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean gets in a car accident while on the air with CJAD — Former Vermont Governor and Democratic Party Presidential candidate Howard Dean was in Montreal today, attending a luncheon where he discussed the US presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Team Mitt ‘physically’ blocks journos — Tweets from the campaign trail: … The Romney campaign did not return a request for comment or explanation (obviously).
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