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6:20 PM ET, March 3, 2009

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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?  —  I don't buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans.  —  Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.
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The New Majority:
LIMBAUGH AT CPAC  —  President Obama and Rush Limbaugh do not agree on much, but they share at least one thing: Both wish to see Rush anointed as the leader of the Republican party.  Here's Rahm Emanuel on Face the Nation yesterday: “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party.”
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Limbaugh Attacks Stephanopoulos, Says ABC Falsely Reported That Eric Cantor Disagreed With “Fail” Remark  —  Okay, the Limbaugh wars have just taken yet another weird new turn — Rush is claiming that a high profile GOP leader who appeared to disagree with his professed hope that President Obama …
Washington Whispers:
GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired  —  Apology to Rush Limbaugh aside, new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is coming under fire from his own GOP troops to shut up and focus on his job of organizing the party and raising money, not fighting with his own political kind.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
So if Rush runs the GOP, does Michael Moore head the Dems?
Discussion: The Swamp and The Moderate Voice
Peter Hamby / CNN:
DNC chair: Limbaugh is the GOP's ‘Wizard of Oz’
Discussion: The Swamp and pandagon.net
Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:
Ugly and Incendiary  —  Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh began …
Discussion: Midwest Voices and The Reaction
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org:
CNN Host D. L. Hughley: Republicans ‘Literally Look Like Nazi Germany’
Discussion: Say Anything
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Moderate Manifesto  —  You wouldn't know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates.  We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do.  We like his investments in education and energy innovation.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
“We're Sorry” — Obama voters express their regrets  —  The drones Obama voters have begun sending me photos expressing their sorrow in voting for the Won.  —  I'll post them all when I have a chance.  —  Update: Michelle Malkin suggested that David Brooks might want to join the apologetic crew.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
David Brooks surprised to find Obama is, in fact, a statist liberal
Discussion: The Corner
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MUSHY, MEANINGLESS MODERATION.... During last year's presidential …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Joe Klein / Swampland:   On Moderation  —  David Brooks writes today as a moderate …
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Does ABC News understand how income tax works?  —  ABC News reports on “upper-income taxpayers” who are trying to reduce their income so they avoid proposed tax increases on those earning more than $250,000.  —  According to ABC, one attorney “plans to cut back on her business …
Discussion: pandagon.net, TPMCafe and Hullabaloo
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Bullish Obama Suggests Nation Should Buy!  Buy!  —  President Obama told Americans to take a look at investing in the stock market this afternoon, a remarkable utterance for an American president, especially as the Dow Jones Industrial Average proceeds on its course Southward.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy  —  As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame.  —  As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama and Brown Pledge Cooperation
Discussion: The Politico
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Extraordinary Measures  —  A new memo shows just how far the Bush administration considered going in fighting the war on terror.  —  In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside …
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Kleinheider / Post Politics:
MTSU POLL: One In Six Tennesseans Admit To Telling Racist Jokes About The President  —  The newest poll on state and national issues in Tennessee is out from our friends over at Middle Tennessee State University complete with charts and graphs.  Some of the more interesting findings below.
Discussion: Think Progress
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Michelle Cottle / The New Republic:   How Many Racists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Paul Krugman:
Zombie financial ideas  —  Calculated Risk looks at the latest plan floated by the Treasury — to make low-interest, non-recourse loans to private investors who buy bad assets — and immediately gets it: this is a plan to drive up the prices of toxic assets by creating a lot of moral hazard.
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Emblems to Stamp Projects Funded by the Stimulus Package  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:  —  Put a stamp on it — that's what the White House says.  —  President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus package …
CNN:
Hoyer says Congress, not the President, will decide on earmarks  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md, insisted Tuesday that Congress, not President Obama, would decide whether to put more limits on earmarks in upcoming spending bills.
Discussion: Say Anything
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Did Nancy Pelosi Fast Track Stimulus Bill Over Obama's Objections?
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Coleman camp asks that election result be ‘set aside’  —  Request was made as Franken's lawyers prepare to make their case.  —  For more than a month, Norm Coleman stressed flaws in Minnesota's election system.  —  And on Monday, Coleman lawyer Jim Langdon wrote the three-judge panel …
Little Green Footballs:
The Kindle 2 Review  —  Amazon's new Kindle 2 is more of an incremental improvement than a massive upgrade.  As a previous Kindle 1 owner, the new features and display improvements (and the fact that I read so much) make it worth the price, but if you already have a Kindle 1 your mileage may vary.
Jack Cafferty / CNN:
Cafferty: My crush on Michelle Obama  —  Editor's note: Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book, “Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream,” to be published in March.  He provides commentary on CNN's “The Situation Room” daily from 4 to 7 p.m. ET.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
TBogg:
You're in the high rent district  —  Approximately 2% of the American households make more than $250,000 a year and (you may find this hard to believe) a very high percentage of these high-earning go-getting producers spend their days commenting over at Michelle Malkin's place …
Discussion: American Power and Crooked Timber
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
The Case for Saving A.I.G., by A.I.G.  —  Inside the corridors of power in Washington, a 21-page document has been getting a lot of attention.  It is marked confidential and titled “A.I.G.: Is the Risk Systemic?”  —  The report, prepared for regulators by the American International Group …
Discussion: DealBook
Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Blacks, whites hear Obama differently  —  On his pre-inaugural visit to Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark for Washington's African-American community, President Barack Obama was asked by a cashier if he wanted his change back.  —  “Nah, we straight,” Obama replied.  —  The phrase was so subtle some listeners missed it.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.  —  The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself.  All religions do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret the wishes of a supreme being.
Discussion: Reason, Political Machine and Hot Air
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Smear Itself  —  The paranoia of Stephen Walt rears its ugly head once again.  —  Ever since he co-authored the wildly hyperbolic tome The Israel Lobby, Stephen Walt has been on his best behavior.  He has authored a lot of staid hard-realist commentary about foreign policy and kept his fulminations about …
 
 
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