memeorandum: Strong U.S. job growth, rising wages set stage for Fed rate hike (Lucia Mutikani/Reuters)

10:50 AM ET, March 10, 2017

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

A Bill So Bad It's Awesome — It has long been obvious to anyone following health policy that Republicans would never devise a workable replacement for Obamacare. But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.

Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare — House Republican leaders narrowly tailored their Obamacare repeal bill to avoid violating Senate rules, but conservatives are pushing back with advice of their own: tear up the rulebook. — A growing number of conservative lawmakers …

Discussion: The Hill and The Week

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:

The Note: Health care disconnect — TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS with ABC's RICK KLEIN and VERONICA STRACQUALURSI — The big story: Here at the halfway point of President Trump's first 100 days, a question looms: Which version of reality to believe? The one where the House is marching toward passing …

Discussion: Washington Post

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Hayes to GOP Rep.: ‘Why Are You Rushing So Fast’ on Obamacare Replacement?

Discussion: CNN and Raw Story

Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Paul Ryan PowerPoint Presentation: “This Is The Closest We Will Ever Get” To Obamacare Repeal

Discussion: Breitbart and MARK-CM

Nate Cohn / New York Times: Why Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose With the G.O.P. Repeal Bill

Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Inside the Senate GOP resistance to Trumpcare

Discussion: Politico, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon and Breitbart

Jason Squitieri / CNN:
Rep. Jordan criticizes GOP Obamacare plan after meeting with Trump

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Signal

Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
White House Casts Pre-emptive Doubt on Congressional Budget Office

Discussion: Politico, The Week and Political Wire

Patricia Cohen / New York Times:

Steady U.S. Job Growth Sets Stage for Fed to Raise Interest Rates — Employers added 235,000 workers to their payrolls in February, the government reported on Friday, a hefty gain that clears the path for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate when it meets next week.

Discussion: USA Today, Political Wire, Forbes and NPR

Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Strong U.S. job growth, rising wages set stage for Fed rate hike

Discussion: The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and Politico

Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, ThinkProgress, CNBC, The Guardian, Daily Kos and Scared Monkeys

Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs in Trump's first full month

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 235,000 jobs in Feb, vs 190,000 expected

Discussion: Politico

Sharon Begley / STAT:

House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results — little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.

Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:

Mexican foreign secretary goes straight to the White House, skips usual channels — Mexico's top diplomat came to Washington Thursday for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House. — Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met …

Discussion: Political Wire, Taylor Marsh, Axios and Washington Post

Carol Giacomo / New York Times:
Why Is Mr. Tillerson in a Perpetual State of Duck and Cover?

Discussion: Bloomberg, Poynter, Just Security and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »

Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/PhoneBook:

South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests — As discussed last night, in a historic ruling, the South Korean Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment decision against President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office on Friday …

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, Refinery29, The Diplomat, The Week and Political Wire

Alexandra Rosenmann / Raw Story:

Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble — This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media. — Last summer, the United Kingdom voted to leave …

Discussion: Mediaite

Jeremy Diamond / CNN:

In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion — Such a move, however, could blow up the already fragile efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act — Washington (CNN)The White House is privately lining up behind conservative calls to roll …

Discussion: Washington Post and RedState

CNN:

Sources: FBI investigation continues into ‘odd’ computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization — (CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, The Hill, Political Wire, Axios and Hot Air

Delia Gallagher / CNN:

Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests — Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy. — In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an …

Discussion: Raw Story

Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:

Trump administration sends judges to immigration detention centers: sources — The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ImmigrationProf Blog

Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
AG SUGGESTS OPENNESS TO REVIEW OF PREDECESSORS' ACTIONS

Discussion: Power Line

Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:

Malik Obama shares photo of brother Barack's Kenya ‘certificate of birth’ — An Obama has joined the birther movement. — Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, tweeted image of what appears to be Barack's birth certificate. — Except it's not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya.

Discussion: The Last Tradition

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Malik Obama Tweets Alleged Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Kenya

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Little Green Footballs

Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:

U.S. Spies Live in Fear of Trump's Next Tweet — As Friday evening draws to a close around Washington, D.C., the city's tight-knit and secretive national security clan goes to sleep with a new unease. It's not Syria or Iran or even North Korea they're most worried about.

Discussion: The Guardian

Russell Berman / The Atlantic:

Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer — Donald Trump won Kansas last November by just over 20 points, and in the coming days he's expected to give the Jayhawk State's voters their reward: a new governor. — The president reportedly will name Governor Sam Brownback …

Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:

Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers — Readers of The Right Stuff long knew that founder “Mike Enoch” had two main interests: technology and white supremacy. Posts on the neo-Nazi site have included discussion of “a new blogging platform built on node.js,” …

Discussion: Raw Story

MSNBC:

Sen. Murphy: Wikileaks release is ‘suspiciously timed’ — Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, says the WikiLeaks release seems to be timed purposefully for a moment of weakness for President Trump. ... more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:

The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache — On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.” Immediately afterward, it posted two startling tweets asserting that “C.I.A. hacker malware” posed a threat to journalists …

Discussion: claytoonz, more at Mediagazer »

Letitia Stein / Reuters:

Americans oppose bathroom laws limiting transgender rights: poll — The majority of respondents to a new U.S. poll opposed laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identities and indicated growing acceptance for gay rights, a nonpartisan research group said on Friday.

Discussion: Political Wire and Axios

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery — The TBS comedy program “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” apologized on Thursday for broadcasting a segment in which a writer who has talked about his cancer diagnosis was mocked for having what the program called “Nazi hair.”

Discussion: CNN, OUTSET, Breitbart, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Fox News Insider, Washington Post, The Week, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and RedState

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Bill Clinton: Resurgent nationalism ‘taking us to the edge of our destruction’ — Don't buy what purports to be nationalism that's engulfed politics in America and all over the world, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday; what's actually at play, he argued, is more insidious and interconnected than that.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Root and AOL