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10:25 AM ET, March 1, 2013

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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
House Republicans Cheer Boehner's Refusal to Negotiate on Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, the man who spent significant portions of the last Congress shuttling to and from the White House for fiscal talks with President Obama that ultimately failed twice to produce a grand bargain …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Sequester begins, with no end in sight for across-the-board cuts  —  Nineteen months after it was put into place, the sequester has arrived.  —  Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday — perhaps as late as 11:59 p.m. …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CNN and The Week
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
A Cheer or Two for Sequestration  —  From left, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House Speaker John Boehner speak at a news conference on Tuesday in Washington.  —  A lot of liberals I read are very hot to trot with the idea that Congress should just repeal sequestration tout court.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Washington Post:
Competing sequestration bills fail in Senate
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate rejects rival bills to prevent $85B sequester spending cuts
Brian Beutler http / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Republicans Kill Sequestration Alternative
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. endorses limited gay marriage right  —  The Obama administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to rule in the case of California's Proposition 8 that same-sex marriage should be required in eight more states, beyond the nine that already permit it, although it stopped short …
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New York Times:
U.S. Offers Broad Support for Gay Marriage Rights  —  The Obama administration threw its support behind a broad claim for marriage equality on Thursday, and urged the Supreme Court to rule that voters in California were not entitled to ban same-sex marriage there.
New York Times:
The White House Joins the Fight  —  President Obama made good on the promise of his second Inaugural Address on Thursday by joining the fight to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage.  Having declared that marriage equality is part of the road “through Seneca Fall and Selma and Stonewall …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Week
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
W.H.: Strike down Calif. gay marriage ban
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Red Alert Politics and CNN
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Press corps to Woodward: Really?  —  Bob Woodward has suggested that the White House threatened him.  Many of his colleagues in the press corps aren't buying it.  —  By the standards of this White House, a statement like the one senior White House official Gene Sperling wrote to Woodward last week …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama adviser didn't threaten Woodward, says White House
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Politico and Weasel Zippers
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Irked lawmakers say Kerry left them in the dark on Syria aid  —  Lawmakers on Thursday said the State Department left Congress in the dark about the administration's decision to aid rebel forces in Syria.  —  The leaders of the panels that cover foreign policy told The Hill they weren't briefed ahead …
Discussion: Hot Air and DownWithTyranny!
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Businessweek Warns That Minorities May Be Buying Houses Again  —  Bloomberg Businessweek is a genuinely great magazine that does an amazing job of making business and economics news accessible and interesting, but this way of illustrating a cover story about the return of aggressive mortgage lending products is really something else.
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Fox News:
Romney likens 2012 race to ‘roller coaster,’ in exclusive ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview  —  Mitt Romney, in an exclusive interview with “Fox News Sunday,” said the end of the 2012 presidential race was like getting off a roller coaster.  —  “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs.
Discussion: Politico, Gawker, The Fix and NBCNews.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ben Bernanke, Hippie  —  We're just a few weeks away from a milestone I suspect most of Washington would like to forget: the start of the Iraq war.  What I remember from that time is the utter impenetrability of the elite prowar consensus.  If you tried to point out that the Bush administration …
Discussion: msnbc.com
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Why Scalia's ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think  —  Justice Antonin Scalia quite deservedly came under fire yesterday for his claim that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”  If the justice were looking to confirm every suspicion …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
10 best ‘sequestration’ anagrams  —  Any way you dice it, sequestration is roiling Washington as the Friday deadline for a deal looms — and it turns out you can dice it about 15,000 ways.  The website wordsmith.org turned up 15,080 results for a search of “sequestration” anagrams.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Many Steps to Be Taken When ‘Sequester’ Is Law  —  WASHINGTON — At some point on Friday (no one will say precisely when), President Obama will formally notify government agencies that an obscure process known as sequestration is in effect, triggering deep, across-the-board budget cuts that will force federal spending to shrink.
Discussion: Guardian
Jim Avila / ABCNEWS:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Regrets Surprise Announcement of Immigrant Release  —  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had no part in a decision by underlings to release low-risk illegal immigrant detainees as a way to save money before the sequestration …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Hail Armageddon  —  “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.”  —  Think about that.  Worst case?  That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives.
 
 
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