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10:05 AM ET, March 4, 2009

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rush Job: Inside Dems' Limbaugh plan  —  Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high  —  NBC/WSJ poll shows gap between popularity of president and his policies  —  WASHINGTON - After Barack Obama's first six weeks as president, the American public's attitudes about the two political parties couldn't be more different, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
David Plouffe / Washington Post:
Minority Leader Limbaugh  —  The 2008 election sent many messages.  At the top: Americans wanted to turn the page on the politics of division and partisan pettiness, and they wanted a government — and country — that would put the middle class first.  —  Watching the Republicans operate …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Gets Strong Support in Poll  —  Popularity Can Help President Pursue Big Initiatives; Warning Signs on Health Care  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama enjoys widespread backing from a frightened American public for his ambitious, front-loaded agenda, a new poll indicates.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
GOP Seeks Balance With Conservative Icon Limbaugh  —  For a man who expresses no desire to lead the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh has a knack for creating problems for those who do.  —  Still smarting from consecutive electoral drubbings, Republicans now find themselves caught …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and BAGnewsNotes
Victoria McGrane / The Politico:   GOP splits with big business
The Hill:
Limbaugh basks in Obama's spotlight
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Byron York / www.dcexaminer.com:
The Growing Republican Unhappiness With Michael Steele  —  (AP File Photo) It's not just the TV appearances that have some Republicans worried.  —  Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's dust-up with Rush Limbaugh has brought to the fore so-far unspoken concerns …
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The Politico:
Steele trap?  GOP fears grow  —  A month after Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee, key party leaders are worried that the GOP has made a costly mistake — one that will make it even harder for them to take back power from the dominant Democratic Party.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Michael Steele: Limbaugh ‘distraction’
Washington Whispers:
GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired
Alan K. Ota / CQ Politics:
Democratic Revolt May Slow Obama Agenda  —  Democratic Reps. Jim Matheson of Utah and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona have joined a quiet revolt in the House that could slow some of President Obama's fast-moving priorities.  —  The two are among 49 Democrats from congressional districts …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:   NRA forces Pelosi retreat
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Moderates uneasy with Obama plan  —  Moderate and conservative Democrats in the Senate are starting to choke over the massive spending and tax increases in President Barack Obama's budget plans and have begun plotting to increase their influence over the agenda of a president who is turning out to be much more liberal than they are.
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Evan Bayh / Wall Street Journal:
Deficits and Fiscal Credibility
Discussion: CBS News, Commentary and Betsy's Page
Washington Times:
Top Democrats cross Obama on earmarks
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession  —  What does the worst recession in a generation look like?  —  It is both deep and broad.  Every state in the country, with the exception of a band stretching from the Dakotas down to Texas, is now shedding jobs at a rapid pace.
Discussion: The BLT and Pirate's Cove
Fox News:
Geithner Touts Tackling Tax Evaders After Failing to Pay Own Taxes  —  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that the Obama administration, which has been riddled with tax problems, is mounting plans to go after tax evaders.  —  FOXNews.com
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama Officials Defend Budget
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Stage of Fools  —  If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter.  —  There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on “this great stage of fools,” as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets.
Philip Webster / Times of London:
Ted Kennedy to be knighted  —  Comment Central: (Sir) Teddy...and Alan...and Bill...  Ted Kennedy, one of the leading members of the family dynasty that dominated American politics in the final decades of the last century, is to receive an honorary knighthood.
Chicago Sun Times:
Quigley takes the 5th  —  Mike Quigley, the Democratic nominee for Rahm Emanuel's congressional seat, said at his victory party Tuesday night he is ready to battle in Congress the way he has on the Cook County Board.  —  “To the special interests in Washington, I want to introduce myself …
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Dan Mihalopoulos / Chicago Tribune:
How Quigley claimed Democratic nomination in Rahm Emanuel race
Discussion: D-Day and MyDD
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
You're Dead?  That Won't Stop the Debt Collector  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The banks need another bailout and countless homeowners cannot handle their mortgage payments, but one group is paying its bills: the dead.  —  Dozens of specially trained agents work on the third floor of DCM Services here …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Deutsche Welle:
Russian President Won't “Haggle” Over US Missile Defense Plans  —  Russian President Dimitry Medvedev's comments came in response to a New York Times report that US President Barack Obama had written a secret letter to his Russian counterpart offering to halt the planned missile shield …
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Jules Crittenden:   Plausible Hilarity  —  Point, Ivan.  Medvedev is happy to talk …
Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Signals Backing for Union Law  —  MIAMI — President Barack Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders Tuesday in a videotaped address that the controversial Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his full backing for legislation that makes union organizing easier.
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
Wall Street on the Tundra  —  Iceland's de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.
SteveK / TVNewser:
White House Knocks Jim Cramer For Calling Obama Budget “Greatest Wealth Destruction By a President”  —  NBC's Tom Costello, on duty at the White House today, asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about some comments made by his CNBC colleague Jim Cramer.  On the Today show this morning …
Sippican Cottage:
My Father Asks For Nothing  —  My father asks me for nothing, really.  Every three months or so, I take him to his doctor, who pokes about him wondering what keeps him animated, and that's about it.  He's grown frail, and has discovered the joys of “Not Going.”
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh declares Ed Henry a “butt boy,” but “Jake Tapper is the one guy that's outside of the butt boy bubble in the White House press room”  —  You are right, I dont hear you saying any of those things.  But what I do hear you saying is things are better than they are.  —  You are wrong Rush.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and HorsesAss.Org
 
 
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