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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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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's make-believe budget — If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. — You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year's election.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Paul Ryan's budget: Social engineering with a side of deficit reduction — Here is Paul Ryan's path to a balanced budget in three sentences: He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and low-income programs.
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American Prospect and The Daily Caller
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Ryan budget slashes spending by $5.7T to reach 10-year balance
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Ryan Budget Plan Aims to Roll Back Obama Agenda
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Washington Monthly and Campaign for America's Future
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Ryan to rally GOP on 10-year plan
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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 …
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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)
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes
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Politico:
Is he serious? — President Barack Obama's unusual tour …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
House and Senate Work Simultaneously to Create Budgets, a Rarity
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The PJ Tatler
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
A reality check for Ashley Judd — What she's really up against, if she does run against Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Inside the numbers and history — A report over the weekend suggested that actress Ashley Judd has decided to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky next year.
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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!
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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 …
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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.
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The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Post Politics
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.”
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Althouse, Patterico's Pontifications, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
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 …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Outrageous!... Far Left Southern Poverty Law Center Puts “Singing Nuns” on Its Hate Groups Map — Outrageous... The far left Southern Poverty Law Center has once again put the “Singing Nuns” on its hate group map. — Here the Singing Nuns from Spokane sing “Ave Maria.” — A typical hate group, huh?
Bill Bolling:
Bolling Says No to Possible Independent Campaign for Governor — Richmond - Lieutenant Governor Bolling today released the following statement: — “When I suspended my campaign for the Republican Party's nomination for Governor, I indicated that I wanted to be a more independent voice for Virginia …
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NBCNews.com and Post Politics
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Officer Is Found Guilty in Cannibal Case — A New York police officer was convicted on Tuesday in a bizarre plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women. — The officer, Gilberto Valle, 28, could be sentenced to life in prison for one count of kidnapping conspiracy.
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The Raw Story
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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Law Blog, CANNONFIRE, Firedoglake, The Political Carnival and Prairie Weather
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Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown to join Boston law firm Nixon Peabody
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Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com, DealBook and Rumproast
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.
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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:
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Sky Dancing and Brad DeLong
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rove Says Media Should Stop Calling Elections Prematurely (VIDEO) — Karl Rove on Tuesday suggested that American media could learn something from the papal conclave about not calling elections prematurely — a point the Republican strategist argued futilely during an infamous on-air Election Night meltdown.
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The Raw Story
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November — She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal voting in 2008 and 2011.
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Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers, WLWT-TV and Michelle Malkin
Arutz Sheva:
Volunteer who Opposed Dutch Hitler Admirers in Hiding — Mehmet Sahin, a doctoral student, has had to go into hiding with his family after he received death threats. — The Dutch daily NRC writes that Mehmet Sahin, a doctoral student, has had to go into hiding with his family.
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The Jawa Report and Elder of Ziyon
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Palin, Trump Get Longer Speaking Slots at CPAC — Time to address conservatives from across the country at CPAC is a prime commodity, especially for politicians eyeing a 2016 run — and it's not being distributed equally. — According to an internal draft of the minute-by-minute schedule at CPAC …
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