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Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up — View Photo Gallery — Sen. Robert Menendez: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has been embroiled in a controversy involving his relations with a Miami campaign contributor and the awarding of a security contract at a port in the Dominican Republic.
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David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Washington Post report confuses one prostitute with another in bid to debunk Menendez allegations — The Washington Post mistook one prostitute for another Monday in a report that initially seemed to debunk a November 2012 Daily Caller exposé of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Disagrees With His Own Book Hours After It's Published — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) told MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday that he would support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants “if you can craft that in law where you can have a path to citizenship …
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Jeb Bush's Poorly Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's new book was aimed at nudging a reluctant Republican Party toward reforms that would allow illegal immigrants to live and work without fear of deportation. — But by recommending only legal residency …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Jeb Bush: Heartbroken by Mitt Romney loss — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday that while Mitt Romney didn't run the best campaign, his loss “breaks my heart.” — “I wish Mitt Romney was president right now because I think we'd have someone who would be in the midst of trying to forge consensus …
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush's Immigration Flip Flop Stuns Reformers — After years of building a reputation as the “good” Republican on immigration, Jeb Bush shocked the reform community on Monday by ruling out a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a position solidly to the right of prominent GOPers like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
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Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Jeb Bush reverses stance on immigration: No citizenship path for undocumented
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Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The Powerless Presidency — Last Friday's press conference by Barack Obama marked the end of an era. It was March 1st, the day that the sequester was set to kick in, and the President had just come from a meeting with congressional leaders in the Oval Office.
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Andrea Peterson / ThinkProgress:
The White House Agrees: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Urges a Right to Unlock Cellphones
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Washington Post:
Obama's second-term Cabinet to play bigger policy role
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David Rogers / Politico:
House GOP rolls out stop gap spending plan
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
GOP still playing blame game after 2012 — Four months after taking an electoral pounding, Republicans can't agree on what went wrong in 2012 — let alone on a path to recovery. — Each week brings a new diagnosis of the party's woes. Karl Rove says it's candidate quality.
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
“In the real world we were kidding ourselves”
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Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Theatrical Slut Shaming: Daily Caller Attacks Ashley Judd For Nude Scenes — It's a sign of how anxious the right wing is about the possibility that Ashley Judd might run for Senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that the attacks on her have geared up before she's even formally entered the race.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ashley Judd's War With Kentucky's Coal Industry Could Doom Candidacy
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Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller:
Ashley Judd, potential U.S. Senate candidate, sure has done a lot of on-screen nudity
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Paul Krugman:
Urk, Charlie Rose Edition — Well, we'll see how it comes out after editing, but I feel that I just had my Denver debate moment: I was tired, cranky, and unready for the blizzard of misleading factoids and diversionary stuff (In 1997 you said that the aging population was a big problem!
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama job approval tumbles — President Obama's job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection. — His approval rating was 46 percent between Feb 29 and March 2, down from 53 percent a week earlier.
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Pew Research Center:
Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion — The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys. This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that compared …
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Talking Points Memo:
Florida House Committee Blocks Medicaid Expansion — A key committee in the Florida House of Representatives on Monday rejected an expansion of the state's Medicaid program as proposed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) last month, Reuters reports: … Republicans currently hold majorities of 26-14 in the Senate and 76-44 in the House.
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Crooks and Liars
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Bill Cotterell / Reuters:
Florida Medicaid expansion suffers legislative setback
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Human Events, protein wisdom, Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama's Thirteen Words — Remember George W. Bush's famous “16 words”? They came from Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, where Bush said: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
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The Other McCain and Whiskey Fire
Roger Simon / Politico:
GOP wants crazy after all these years — In politics, snubs are more important than invites. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and social conservative, has been refused a speaking spot at the Conservative Political Action Conference to be held next week just outside Washington .
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The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Poll: Most feel sequester will personally affect them — Analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred Backus — Congress and President Obama continue to remain at odds on how best to reduce the federal deficit — causing …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Prairie Weather
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gun talks hit a snag in Senate over universal background checks — The centerpiece of President Obama's gun violence agenda is in peril amid a deadlock among Senate negotiators over how to implement and enforce a proposal requiring background checks for private gun sales.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pundits blowing it on sequester debate — Republicans are waving around a column by the New York Times' Bill Keller that pins the blame for the sequester on the President. The title is “Obama's fault,” and Keller's effort is reminiscent of plenty of other punditry we've seen that adopts …
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Deficit reduction target reached, but no one's happy
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Seeing the Forest and The Political Carnival
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