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6:40 PM ET, March 24, 2009

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The Huffington Post:
Specter Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act  —  UPDATE: Senator Specter ended speculation on where he would come down on the Employee Free Choice Act by declaring, on the Senate floor, that he would oppose the legislation until the economy improves.  —  “The problems of a recession …
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United States Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania:
Senator Specter Speaks on Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check  —  Washington D.C.  —  Watch Video Clip  —  U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today spoke on the Senate floor concerning the Employee Free Choice Act/Card Check.  —  Senator Specter's full floor statement, including the appendix, follows:
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Specter delivers death blow to labor union bill  —  Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced Tuesday he will oppose card check, giving an apparent death blow to the most important congressional issue to organized labor.  —  Specter made the dramatic announcement in a floor speech.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
SPECTER DEALS BLOW TO CARD CHECK
Discussion: Associated Press
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Report: Specter To Oppose Cloture On “Card Check”
Discussion: Clusterstock
Susan Davis / Washington Wire:
Sen. Specter Expected to Oppose Card Check Bill
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Breaking: Specter Confirms He'll Vote Against Employee Free Choice
Discussion: Open Congress
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Specter Doesn't Close Door on Card Check Forever
Discussion: The Corner and Shopfloor
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney  —  Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.  —  Displeased with the former vice-president's recent media appearances …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The GOP's Cheney Problem  —  The least popular vice-president in memory is not helping the Republicans regroup - according to this piece from the Hill.  But Cheney is not giving these disgraceful and classless interviews to help the GOP.  He's giving them because it is beginning to dawn …
Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Culture Shock  —  What happened when one conservative Web site ventured outside the movement bubble.  —  Last May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism.
Christopher D. Carroll / The Economists' Forum:
Treasury rewards waiting  —  Maybe it was worth the wait.  —  Judging from preliminary details, the US Treasury's plan to rescue the financial system is a lot savvier about the relationship between financial markets and the macroeconomy than are the usual-suspects: critics from both left …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bank of America Analyst Thinks Treasury Plan Won't Work
Discussion: The Politico, On Deadline and D-Day
Associated Press:
Bunning: McConnell making fundraising difficult  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning is blaming his fundraising difficulties on a fellow Kentucky Republican, Senate Minority Floor Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  Bunning said during a conference call Tuesday that McConnell and Texas …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
McConnell's sabotaging me, Bunning says
Discussion: Enraged Conservative
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: NRSC ad targets Obama on hypocrisy
Discussion: Cassy Fiano and Moe Lane
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Coleman won't rule out federal appeal  —  Former Sen. Norm Coleman is still considering taking his election lawsuit to the federal court if he's unsuccessful in reversing Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the Minnesota Senate recount.  —  Speaking to reporters at the Capitol …
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Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
FEC says donors can pay Coleman, Franken legal bills
Discussion: TPMDC and MSNBC
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Reines storm: Clinton conflict brews  —  Hillary Clinton's departure for the State Department was meant to end the era of Clinton drama, and to leave the turmoil of her campaign behind.  But one former Clinton aide, now a senior adviser to Secretary Clinton, has brought at least some of that drama along with him.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
The Russia Reset Button Doesn't Work
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
A major difference between conservatives and progressives  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  One of the linchpins of the Bush presidency, especially during the first term (and well into the second, until he became a major political liability), was the lock-step uncritical reverence …
Discussion: TalkLeft and American Power
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems Hammer GOP's New “Too Many Ideas” Strategy  —  Dems are opening fire on the GOP in response to our story below, which quotes Mitch McConnell's spokesperson saying that the GOP will start attacking the Obama administration for throwing out too many ideas on the economy, with not enough cohesion.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP's Next Attack Line: Obama Administration Has Too Many Plans, Not Enough Cohesion
Discussion: Washington Monthly and MyDD
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Forbes:
Money For Nothing  —  Jilted Wall Street donors should rethink future political donations.  —  An honest politician, as an old saw has it, is one who stays bought.  If this is true, then we have the most dishonest bunch of officeholders ever, and it may lead Wall Street to reconsider its donations in the future.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Moe Lane
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
K-Lo & Crew: Only Republicans Should be Honored at Catholic Colleges  —  Right-wing Catholics are furious that President Obama is [defiling the sanctity of] delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame.  —  K-Lo called it “disgraceful,” grunting, “They took a giant step away …
Michael Brooks / New Scientist:
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe  —  Related editorial: We must heed the threat of solar storms  —  IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light.  Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived.
Discussion: The New Republic
Erin Durkin / NY Daily News:
Madoff's pain is a Queens man's gain  —  Someone is finally making some money off Bernie Madoff.  —  A Queens construction worker used the swindler's prison number to play the lottery and won $1,500.  —  Ralph Amendolaro, 50, noticed the digits under Madoff's mug on the front page …
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms  —  Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy  —  The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers …
CNN:
Meghan McCain: ‘I support the president’  —  (CNN) — Meghan McCain, a contributor to TheDailyBeast.com, is the daughter of Sen. John McCain and Cindy McCain.  But it's her recent verbal sparring with conservative Republicans that's put her in the spotlight.
CNBC:
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz  —  The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
TAMMY BRUCE.  —  It's worth considering the full context of Tammy Bruce's comments on Michelle Obama yesterday.  Bruce said this of the first lady: … Right.  Nothing that makes a racist comment more obvious than a self-conscious attempt to qualify it as not being racist.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House bonus bill is buried by the Senate  —  President Obama and Senate Democrats have buried a bill passed last week by the House that would have heavily taxed executive bonuses at bailed-out firms.  —  Despite the public outcry over $165 million in bonuses awarded at troubled insurer AIG …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama seeks filter-free news  —  At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.
Discussion: The Swamp
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Summers briefs $5k conference goers  —  National Economic Adviser Larry Summers is conducting a private briefing at the White House Tuesday afternoon for about 100 financial industry executives attending a $5,000-a-head conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal.
Discussion: Open Left
Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Meet With Banking Chiefs  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to meet with about a dozen of the U.S.'s top banking chiefs in an unusual gathering designed to discuss the administration's plans to shore up the financial sector.  —  Attendees are expected …
Discussion: Clusterstock
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Campaign films may get OK  —  Analysis  —  Because a government lawyer pushed his argument as far as logic would carry it, an alarmed Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to create a new exception to federal power to regulate what advocacy groups can say during national political campaigns.
Discussion: Election Law, pw and Althouse
Jeffrey A. Miron / CNN:
Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence  —  Editor's note: Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University.  —  CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) — Over the past two years, drug violence in Mexico has become a fixture of the daily news.
 
 
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Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Make Haste, Slowly  —  President Obama's financial rescue plans have two limiting factors.
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