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11:40 AM ET, March 12, 2013

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Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023  —  The goal can be reached, with no new taxes, while increasing spending 3.4% annually instead of the current 5%.  —  America's national debt is over $16 trillion.  Yet Washington can't figure out how to cut $85 billion—or just 2% of the federal budget …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Humility or Cynicism?  Whatever is Driving Obama is Better Than Nothing  —  Tumbling polls have turned the president into the schmoozer-in-chief  —  President Obama's burst of congressional and public outreach coincides with declining poll numbers.  (AP Photo)
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
In President's Outreach to G.O.P., Past Failures Loom  —  WASHINGTON — For all the attention to President Obama's new campaign of outreach to Republicans, it was four months ago — on the eve of bipartisan budget talks — that he secretly invited five of them to the White House for a movie screening …
Politico:
Is he serious?  —  President Barack Obama's unusual tour of Capitol Hill this week could answer a central question dogging his renewed effort to strike a grand bargain on deficit reduction:  —  How serious is he?  —  Starting Tuesday, Obama will shuttle between basement House meeting rooms …
Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes  —  WASHINGTON — If President Barack Obama had piled up political capital with his impressive re-election, it's largely gone.  —  His approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in more than a year, with more voters now turning thumbs …
Discussion: Post Politics and Hot Air
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Ryan to rally GOP on 10-year plan  —  The target set by Ryan (R-Wis.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is more aggressive than the one Democrats rejected last year that took until nearly 2040 to balance.  —  Ryan will take center stage for the third year in a row to roll …
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Weasel Zippers and First Read
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's make-believe budget
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
House and Senate Work Simultaneously to Create Budgets, a Rarity
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Washington Examiner:
Byron York: Ted Cruz pushes for vote to stop funding for Obamacare  —  “Some senators may choose to hurl insults and personal attacks,” says new Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.  “That's their prerogative.  I have no intention of reciprocating.”  —  Cruz wouldn't name names, but clearly …
Discussion: Hit & Run
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
A reality check for Ashley Judd
New York Post:
The ‘fair share’ White House  —  Those who make the rules should play by them.  Especially a White House that lectures the rest of America about the importance of paying your “fair share” of taxes.  —  So we were struck by IRS reports that no fewer than 40 aides to President Obama still owe …
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Save the sequester, crush the children!  —  If American politics has but one purpose in modern times, it is to crush the hopes and dreams of young people everywhere.  —  And this is why President Barack Obama's closing of the White House to public tours makes so much sense.
Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Halts New York City Soda Ban … A state judge on Monday stopped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration from banning the sale of large sugary drinks at New York City restaurants and other venues, a major defeat for a mayor who has made public-health initiatives a cornerstone of his tenure.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Judge Invalidates Bloomberg's Ban on Sugary Drinks
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Launches Major Restructuring Of Digital Strategy  —  The Republican National Committee on Monday began what leaders described as a significant overhaul of its digital strategy, NBC News reported.  —  Mike Shields, chief of staff for the RNC, told NBC he's begun the work of …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Sarah B. Boxer / First Read:   RNC to launch major digital overhaul following election inquiry
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat  —  (CNSNews.com) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.”
David S. Cloud / Los Angeles Times:
New Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel tries to find his balance  —  A three-day visit to Afghanistan is a rocky beginning for the Defense secretary, who had faced a bitter confirmation fight.  Now awaiting him is $47 billion in budget cuts.  —  Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, arrives in Germany on Monday.
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Masoud Popalzai / CNN:
5 Americans killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
After Watering Down Financial Reform, Ex-Senator Scott Brown Joins Goldman Sachs' Lobbying Firm … During his nearly three years in the U.S. Senate, Scott Brown (R-MA) frequently came to the aid of the financial sector — watering down the Dodd-Frank bill and working to weaken it after its passage …
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Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown to join Boston law firm Nixon Peabody
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Rush Limbaugh Sides With Rand Paul: ‘The Neocons Are Paranoid’  —  The most popular conservative demagogue in America signals that hawkish foreign policy dogma may be losing its hold on the GOP.  —  In the Spring of 2011, I wrote a widely ignored article arguing that the Republican Party's …
Discussion: Ross Douthat and Mondoweiss
Associated Press:
Sarah Palin tackles ‘War on Christmas’ in new book  —  ‘Amidst the fragility of this politically correct era, it is imperative that we stand up for our beliefs before the element of faith in a glorious and traditional holiday like Christmas is marginalized and ignored,’ Palin says.
Discussion: The Raw Story and Post Politics
Mark Gongloff / The Huffington Post:
FDIC Secretly Settling Bank Cases For Years With ‘No Press Release’ Clause: Report  —  At the request of rule-breaking bankers, a top U.S. regulator has for years settled bank cases in secret, raising the bar on just how far regulators are willing to go to help the industry they regulate.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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E. Scott Reckard / Los Angeles Times:
In major policy shift, scores of FDIC settlements go unannounced
Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
How Does Jeff Sachs Explain the Great Recession?  —  Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious  —  First, let me recommend Mark Thoma, who takes apart Sachs' very crude representations of Paul Krugman's positions.  I want to circle back to one particular point that leaped out at me:
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Kick Off Efforts To Break GOP Filibuster Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  —  On Tuesday, Democrats will use what would normally be a straightforward exercise of the Senate's advise and consent powers to begin a political campaign aimed at preserving one of the party's signature Obama-era accomplishments.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Arutz Sheva:
Volunteer who Opposed Dutch Hitler Admirers in Hiding
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Next ‘war on women’ front: Pennsylvania governor race?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Copy Clinton on guns, Feinstein tells Obama
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Eric Shawn / Fox News:
Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
CBC leader concerned Obama has named no blacks to new Cabinet
The White House:
Remarks By Tom Donilon, National Security Advisory to the President: “The United States and the Asia-Pacific in 2013”
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Daniel J. Mitchell / Townhall.com:
Semi-Automatic Pastry Warrants Two-Day Suspension for 7 Year Old
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Medicaid Expansion Is Rejected in Florida
Associated Press:
Colorado Senate OKs gun control bill
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama phones Sen. Kirk
Discussion: Politico