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2:00 PM ET, February 27, 2009

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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Conservatives Confident Their Day Is Coming  —  Tucker Carlson closed out the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference to a chorus of boos.  His crime: informing a crowd of youngish, frustrated conservatives that if they wanted to succeed, they had to copy The New York Times.
Discussion: Eunomia, Reason and Michelle Malkin
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Senator calls Obama 'world's best salesman of socialism'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president's spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.  —  Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina …
Discussion: Firedoglake, Salon and The Reaction
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Huckabee blasts McCain, warns of socialism
Discussion: Donklephant and Hot Air
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Iraq Withdrawal Plan Gains G.O.P. Support  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama won crucial backing on Thursday for his Iraq military withdrawal plan from leading Congressional Republicans, including Senator John McCain, the party's presidential nominee, who spent much of last year debating the war with Mr. Obama.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Nineteen Months, Redux
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Washington Post:
Obama to Announce U.S. Troop Withdrawal in Iraq
Discussion: The Nation, The Corner and The Caucus
CNN:
Steele to CPAC: The Republican party is just fine  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Capping off a day of conservative soul-searching, strategizing and navel-gazing at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele announced Thursday …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Steele's New GOP Message: “My Bad”; Bachmann To Steele: “You Be Da Man!”  —  Michael Steele sure has an interesting idea for how to rebrand the Republican Party: Loudly announcing at CPAC that they messed up, and pledging to do better now.  —  “Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Climate of Change  —  Elections have consequences.  President Obama's new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years.  If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course.
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Reid joins Pelosi in opposing weapons ban revival  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in opposing any effort to revive the 1994 assault weapons ban, putting them on the opposite side of the Obama administration.  —  Reid spokesman Jim Manley …
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Meg Marco / Consumerist:
The “Worst Food Product Ever” May Have Been Found  —  Pork Brains In Milk Gravy.  Could it be the worst food product ever?  It does have 1170% of your daily cholesterol per serving.  Mmmm.  More »
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Climate Science in A Tornado  —  Few phenomena generate as much heat as disputes about current orthodoxies concerning global warming.  This column recently reported and commented on some developments pertinent to the debate about whether global warming is occurring and what can and should be done.
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
RE: Fred Hiatt  —  Speaking of Fred Hiatt's absurd claim that people who don't like George Will spreading global warming misinformation should “debate” him, rather than expect the Post to run a correction ...  Yesterday's Washington Post featured op-eds by Henry Kissinger, David Broder, Bill Kristol, David Ignatius, and George Will.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Associated Press:
Mayor who sent watermelon e-mail says he'll resign  —  LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title “No Easter egg hunt this year.”
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Political Machine
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Think Progress:
Exclusive: Joe the Plumber suggests some members of Congress should be shot.  —  On Wednesday, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would “probably be in jail” because he'd be charged with “slapping some member.”  He added, “And that's not [bull] either.”
Financial Times:
Insight: Time to expose those CDOs  —  Just how much should a debt vehicle backed by subprime mortgage bonds be worth these days?  Two years ago, most banks and insurance companies assumed the answer was close to 100 per cent of face value - or more.  —  Since then, however, that “price” …
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Now That's What I Call Toxic!
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CNBC:
Steep GDP Revision Puts Economic Loss at 6.2%  —  The U.S. economy contracted more sharply than initially estimated in the fourth quarter, government data showed on Friday, as exports plunged and consumers cut spending by the most in over 28 years amid a severe recession.
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Noam N. Levey / Chicago Tribune:
Obama administration may rescind ‘conscience rule’  —  Officials say the move seeks to clarify rules for health care workers  —  WASHINGTON — Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration Friday will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows health-care workers …
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Revolution  —  Paid for by the people.  —  In the closing weeks of last year's election campaign, we wrote that Democrats had in mind the most sweeping expansion of government in decades.  Liberals clucked, but it turns out even we've been outbid.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Right's Civil War  —  Predictions of a “conservative crack-up” tend to be a dime a dozen in American politics, and it rarely happens.  But this month, I really do get the sense that we're witnessing the opening rounds in a significant battle inside the conservative movement.
NPR:
Taxpayer Beware: Bank Bailout Will Hurt  —  Listen Now  —  · A single piece of paper may just be one of the most surprising and illuminating documents of the whole banking crisis.  —  It's a one-page research note from an economist at Deutsche Bank, and it outlines in the clearest terms …
 
 
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Mike Levine / Fox News:
Chicago Man Arrested for Allegedly Targeting Obama With HIV-Infected Blood
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Jihad Watch
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Un-Rove  —  I've learned for two years now not to under-estimate Obama.
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Senate to investigate CIA's actions under Bush
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Yale's Tobin Guides Obama From Grave as Friedman Is Eclipsed
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NYUK, NYUK, NUKE.... What is it about conservatives and their attitudes …
Discussion: The Reaction and Wake up America
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Uncertain Trumpet  —  On Tuesday night, President Obama talked …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and marbury
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Breaking: Ex-Pres. Bush has trouble getting Dallas paper delivered
National Journal Online:
Congressional Insiders Poll
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and TalkLeft
Brett Neely / Bloomberg:
Arsonists Torch Berlin Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woe
Discussion: Riehl World View and The Corner
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
$25 Billion to Promote Electric Cars Is Untouched
 

 
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