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1:30 PM ET, March 5, 2013

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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
Discussion: American Prospect
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush immigration flip could upend amnesty debate
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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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Washington Post:
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.
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft and American Prospect
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John Feehery / The Hill:   Tag-teaming Obama  —  Don't tell the Tea Party, but the tag team …
Peter Foster / Agence France Presse:
Barack Obama a ‘dithering, controlling, risk-averse’ US president
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
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!
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.
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 …
Discussion: Politico
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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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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:   Ryan: New Medicare Plan Won't Affect Americans ‘In Or Near Retirement’
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 …
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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Associated Press:
North Korea vows to cancel Korean War cease-fire amid talk of new sanctions, continued U.S. military drills
Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker and The Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Urges a Right to Unlock Cellphones  —  WASHINGTON — For a decade consumers have been able to keep their cellphone numbers even if they switched their wireless carriers.  On Monday, the Obama administration and the Federal Communications Commission said consumers should also be able …
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Andrea Peterson / ThinkProgress:
The White House Agrees: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
Discussion: loc.gov and 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.”
Discussion: The Other McCain and Whiskey Fire
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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Feinstein: White House to share legal opinions on armed drone strikes  —  The White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee access to all legal opinions justifying the use of armed drone strikes, Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday.
Discussion: CNN
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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.
Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
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 .
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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 …
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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Mark Trumbull / Christian Science Monitor:
Tax revenue to hit record this year. So is spending ‘the problem’?
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Credit rating agencies shrug off sequester, say more cuts needed
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
U.S. Disavows 2 Drone Strikes Over Pakistan
Discussion: FP Passport, DAWN.COM and emptywheel
Kevin / Lowering the Bar:
UPDATE II: School Offers Counseling for Students Troubled by Pastry-Gun Incident
Discussion: Hit & Run
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Dow Reaches Record High, Spurred by Fed and Profits
Reuters:
Budget crisis eases as Republicans seek to avoid shutdown
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
 Earlier Items: 
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Speaking Fees Bring Booker $1 Million; He Says He ‘Kept Very Little of It, if Any’
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Politico
New York Times:
Obama Names 2 to Fill E.P.A. and Energy Posts
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Feds keep hiring with sequesters in place: 400 jobs posted on first day back
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
BBC:
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez suffers new severe infection
Talking Points Memo:
Florida House Committee Blocks Medicaid Expansion
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Balloon Juice
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Gov. Chris Christie fumes over sequester
Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, Althouse and BuzzFeed