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2:25 AM ET, March 6, 2009

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Washington Post:
Gupta Steps Aside  —  Updated 7: 24 p.m.  —  Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has told network officials will not leave his television career to become the U.S. Surgeon General, according to sources familiar with his decision.  —  Gupta, who had been described …
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CNN:
Poll: Do Americans want government health care reform?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - As President Barack Obama hosts a Thursday summit at the White House on health care reform, recent national polling suggests that nearly three out of four Americans support government programs to improve the country's health care system.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE BANALITY OF PROGRESS.  —  The speech ended.  “Let's get to work,” the President said.  The attendees — a mixture of congressmen, advocates, stakeholders, and analysts — filed down the long hall to their breakout sessions.  Another reporter turned to me.  “What did you think of the speech?”
Jim Cramer / Mainstreet.com:
My Response To The White House  —  When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.  —  I fight to help viewers and readers make and preserve capital.
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Rove Hits White House For Thinking ‘Everything Through From A Political Perspective’  —  Yesterday, in a piece that has become a media and right-wing favorite, Politico's Jonathan Martin suggested that the White House hatched the strategy framing Rush Limbaugh as the face of the Republican party.
Cyrus / E-Voter Institute:
RNC-YA  —  Washington, DC — Two years ago I left a prominent technology company in Silicon Valley to join the Republican National Committee as e-campaign director to elect the next Republican president.  We lost, but there was more than a software glitch that contributed to our November 2008 defeat.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
RNC member calls on Steele to quit  —  Michael Steele should resign as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, according to a committee member from North Carolina.  —  In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman …
THE WEEK News & Opinion:
The Limbaugh schism  —  For conservatives, the news of the week …
Discussion: MyDD
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter  —  President Barack Obama doesn't go anywhere without his TelePrompter.  —  The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president's prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.  —  Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Sticks to the Script
Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Top Treasury Candidates Pull Out  —  Nazareth, Atkinson Decline to Endure Vetting Process, Adding to Geithner's Strain  —  WASHINGTON — Two candidates for top jobs at the Treasury have withdrawn their names from consideration, complicating already troubled efforts by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Bill Seeks $500 Billion for FDIC Fund
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Daily Pundit
Daniel Wagner / Associated Press:
Treasury secretary's choice for deputy withdraws
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Los Angeles Times:
California Supreme Court signals mixed response to Proposition 8  —  As foes and supporters of the gay-marriage ban argue before the court, the justices appear ready to uphold the ban, but they also sound reluctant to invalidate same-sex marriages already performed.
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Elliot Blair Smith / Bloomberg:
Bank Charges May Surge as Mortgages Marked to Market  —  Patricia Greenberg's townhouse in Irvine, California, was losing about $10,000 a month in value when she received a letter in February 2008 that looked too good to be true: An investor was offering to cut her $472,000 mortgage by 26 percent and her monthly payment by a third.
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Hilzoy / Washington Monthly:
One In Eight
Discussion: Angry Bear
Amy Hoak / Wall Street Journal:   Delinquent Mortgages Hit Record Level
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama the Cheapskate: 25 DVDs for Gordon Brown?  —  The British have begun to worry about the “special relationship” in the Anglosphere since the election of Barack Obama.  First, the visit from Gordon Brown failed to get the usual Rose Garden joint-presser treatment from the White House this week.
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Michael Gove / Times of London:
First Lady Michelle Obama shows even she has a gift for the gaffe
Think Progress:
Bachmann: GOP Must ‘Do Everything We Can To Thwart’ Obama From Securing ‘A Power Base...For All Time’  —  Conservative talker Bill Bennett interviewed Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) on his radio show this morning.  During the interview, Bennett asked, “Why [is Obama siding] …
Discussion: TPMDC, PoliGazette, Pharyngula and Salon
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Schumer Privately Tells White House He's Concerned About Freeman On Israel  —  Senator Charles Schumer has privately expressed concerns directly to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about Chas Freeman, the Obama administration's pick to head the group that prepares some of the intel community's …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Defense Contractors Gird for Fight  —  The F-22 Raptor is produced by Lockheed Martin, the largest American defense contractor.  (U.S. Air Force photo)  —  With President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he intends to attack wasteful Pentagon spending, one of the most powerful …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Danger Room and ATTACKERMAN
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   Military-Industrial Complex Planning to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Lobby for Waste
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Toomey to challenge Specter again  —  Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) will challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in a primary for the second straight cycle, according to Pennsylvania GOP sources.  —  The Allentown Morning Call reported Thursday that two friends of Toomey's have said the Club for Growth chief has decided to enter the race.
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Josh Drobnyk / Pennsylvania Ave.:
Toomey tells friends Senate run is on
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Obama Preferred Over Reagan — In Fox News Poll  —  Are we still a center-right nation, as many Republicans continue to insist?  And can the GOP revive itself through a return to the spirit of Ronald Reagan, as Rush Limbaugh has said?  —  Check out this question from the new Fox News poll …
Discussion: The Plum Line and The Impolitic
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
PLEASE GROW UP  —  There's often a lot of game-playing in getting appointees approved by the senate.  But this requires more attention.  The senate Republicans are refusing to give a vote to two of President Obama's key (hopefully soon to be) economic advisors — Austan Goolsbee and Cecilia Rouse.
RushLimbaugh.com:
Thanks to All of Our Defenders  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, on a roll.  The Last Man Standing.  Defending conservatism against the onslaught — happily, by the way.  —  I want to take a moment here and thank some people who this week have come to my defense …
Discussion: Power Line
Kate Barrett / ABCNEWS:
Dr. Gupta Withdraws Name for Surgeon General  —  CNN Doctor Prefers to Stay at the Network, Leaving Another Unexpected Vacancy for Obama Team  —  Sanjay Gupta says he is no longer in the running to be the nation's next surgeon general, CNN reported today, as President Obama brought health care to center stage.
Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit
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Lisa Demer / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin bucks pressure in Supreme Court appointment  —  SCRUTINY: Selection went against push from Alaska Family Council.  —  ldemer@adn.com  —  Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday picked an Anchorage judge to fill the latest vacancy on the Alaska Supreme Court despite efforts by a conservative Christian group …
Gary Duffy / BBC:
Rape row sparks excommunications  —  A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.  —  The girl, aged nine, who lives in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, became pregnant with twins.
Discussion: PoliGazette and Associated Press
 
 
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