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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 …
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 …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush immigration flip could upend amnesty debate
Jeb Bush immigration flip could upend amnesty debate
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Taylor Marsh and Talking Points Memo
John Feehery / The Hill:
Tag-teaming Obama — Don't tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama. — The president convincingly won a second term in November, but since that time, the congressional Republican leadership has outfoxed …
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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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American Prospect and TalkLeft
Peter Foster / Agence France Presse:
Barack Obama a ‘dithering, controlling, risk-averse’ US president
Barack Obama a ‘dithering, controlling, risk-averse’ US president
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Chicago Boyz
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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Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP centrists balk at Ryan Medicare shift — House Republican centrists are furious that GOP leaders are considering abandoning their pledge not to change Medicare retirement benefits for people 55 years and older. — According to several sources, a handful of centrist GOP lawmakers attending …
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New Republic, The Plum Line, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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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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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
House spending bill requires Saturday mail delivery — The new House GOP spending bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail six days a week, against the wishes of the nation's postmaster general. — A House Appropriations aide confirmed that the spending measure …
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Washington Times and Outside the Beltway
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
2012 blame game: Will it ever end? — 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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Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Booman Tribune
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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: I won't make practice of passing bills without GOP support — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Tuesday he doesn't plan to make a habit of passing bills through the House that lack the support of a Republican majority. — “It's not a practice I would expect to continue long-term …
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
A tale of two falsehoods — Education Secretary Arne Duncan …
A tale of two falsehoods — Education Secretary Arne Duncan …
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The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, Politifact.com Truth …, Daily Kos and Weasel Zippers
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
ACORN, In New GOP Budget Bill, Would Be Defunded Again, Even Though It No Longer Exists — WASHINGTON — A new short-term budget bill introduced on Monday by House Republicans includes a bizarre provision banning federal funding to anti-poverty group ACORN, despite the fact that the group …
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The Political Carnival, The Raw Story, The Maddow Blog, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Reuters:
North Korea threatens to scrap armistice ending war — (Reuters) - North Korea threatened on Tuesday to scrap an armistice that ended the 1950-53 civil war and sever a military “hotline” with the United States if South Korea and Washington pressed on with two-month-long war games.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Week and Business Insider
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Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Politicians Massively Overestimate Conservatism Of Constituents: Study — Politicians, especially conservative ones, massively overestimate the conservatism of their constituents on the issues of gay marriage and universal health care, an academic paper published Sunday has found.
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Taegan Goddard's …
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Hotel boots rowdy Rodman over Kim Jong Un scene — Dennis Rodman, just back from visiting Kim Jong Un, was escorted out of the Time Hotel in Midtown on Sunday after spending hours at the restaurant bar loudly telling anyone who would listen what a great guy the North Korean dictator is.
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Red Alert Politics, Gothamist and Jammie Wearing Fools
O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Bill would forbid parents from getting no-fault divorce — Seven Republicans in the Iowa House are pushing a bill to prohibit parents of minor children from getting a “no fault” divorce and the proposal could be debated in a House committee this week. — A three-member subcommittee debated the bill today.
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story and Taegan Goddard's …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Army Spokesman Reminds Employees and Civilians Not to Criticize Commander in Chief — Stephen D. Abney, the chief public affairs official for the Army's Joint Munitions Command, recently sent a message to all 6,000 employees he speaks for: Don't criticize President Barack Obama or any political party to members of the press.
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Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
Yahoo! News:
Is your vanity license plate banned in D.C.? — Getting a politics-themed slogan on a vanity license plate in Washington, D.C. may be harder than you think. — According to the official list of banned D.C. plate combinations, it may take some extra creativity to get your idea accepted by the city's meticulous censors.
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Washington Examiner
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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Heritage Action for America
Roger Simon / Politico:
Simon: GOP yearning for crazy — 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
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
Reuters:
Exclusive: Goldman finds new way to do buyouts in face of Volcker — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc is trying to find ways to keep investing in the profitable, albeit risky, business of buying and selling companies without crossing a rule that will restrict private equity investing …
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Firedoglake
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Nearly 1 in 3 state sheriff groups now oppose Obama gun controls … Three more state-wide sheriff associations have joined those opposed to President Obama's kitchen sink approach to gun control, raising the number to 14, or nearly one-third of the nation's statewide police organizations.
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Weasel Zippers