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6:50 PM ET, March 27, 2009

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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Reid: Roberts 'didn't tell us the truth'  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate - and that the United States is now “stuck” with him as chief justice.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Pro-Life Democrat Harry Reid Says He Could Support Abortion Provision in Health-Care Bill  —  At a breakfast meeting with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor this morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he could vote for a health care bill that included insurance coverage for abortion.
Discussion: Hot Air
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Reid to liberals: Back off  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that liberal groups targeting moderate Democrats with ads should back off, saying pressure from the left wing of his party won't be helpful to enacting legislation.  —  “I think it's very unwise and not helpful,” Reid said Friday morning.
The Huffington Post:
Senators Get Nasty: “You're Good” ... “Your Wife Said The Same Thing” (VIDEO)  —  Marking up budget legislation can be a brutal affair, often beginning early and lasting long into the night.  —  But buried within the hours of debate in the Senate on Thursday is an exchange you'd be more likely …
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Grassley: ‘Your Wife Said the Same Thing’  —  Priceless.  Chuck Grassley gets Kent Conrad good at Thursday's Senate Budget Committee markup. … Courtesy of the C-SPAN Video Library.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Conrad-Grassley Budget Sex Talk? Not.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Touting Her Currency Conspiracy, Bachmann Insists: ‘This Is Not Michele Bachmann Being A Kook’  —  Earlier this week, right-wing fanatic Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) started peddling false conspiracy theories that the world was moving toward a unified global currency — and that the U.S. might join …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bachmann and Beck Double-Down on Currency Conspiracy Theory  —  Michele Bachmann was recently on Glenn Beck's radio show, so that two of the right-wing's most prominent nutters could talk, inaccurately, about currency issues: … Here, for once, Beck is on the money.
Discussion: Alas, a blog
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Bachmann Blasts Obama's “Economic Marxism,” Calls For “Orderly Revolution” To Save Freedom  —  Wow.  Just plain wow.  This past Wednesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show, and sharply reiterated her calls for revolution in America, warning against the imminent dangers of tyranny under Barack Obama:
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
White House Won't Rule Out Troops for Pakistan War (Updated)  —  President Obama has just laid out his new war strategy.  And he's made it clear that the fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  So I asked Dennis McDonough, with the National Security Council: Does that mean U.S. ground forces in Pakistan?
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Robert Kagan / PostPartisan:
Obama's Gutsy Decision on Afghanistan
The New Republic:
What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Politico
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Obama: Taliban and al-Qaida must be stopped
Discussion: TIME.com
New York Times:
Obama Sets New Afghan Strategy
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Obama widens war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan
Michaelscherer / Swampland:
Obama Goes To War
Discussion: The Reaction and Danger Room
New York Times:
Obama Unveils Afghan Plan to Add Troops and Set Goals
Jamison Foser / Media Matters:
Gibbs ridicules media's teleprompter obsession  —  Washington Post reporter Lois Romano interviews White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:
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Associated Press:
Jury Finds Kan. Doctor Not Guilty in Abortion Case  —  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was acquitted Friday of misdemeanor charges stemming from procedures he performed, but moments after the verdict was announced the state's medical board announced …
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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Kansas doctor acquitted in late-term abortion case
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
Conservatives embrace the Snuggie  —  “Never let it be said that conservatives and libertarians have no sense of humor,” says Americans for Tax Reform's Derek Hunter, who's been doing his best to photograph fellow conservatives sporting the trend of the moment: the Snuggie.
Lionel / The Huffington Post:
God Bless Bill Maher  —  And now, the award for best critical thinking by a television news commentator.  The nominees are (Drumroll): Bill Maher . . . and that's the only nominee.  He wins.  —  I watched Mr. Maher this weekend (March 20) on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jeremy P. Jacobs / The Hill:
Dems' internal poll shows edge in N.Y. race  —  Bidding for New York's 20th district seat, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco by two percentage points in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's internal polling.  —  The poll, obtained by The Hill …
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Michael Yon:
Obama on Afghanistan: Disappointing  —  27 March 2009  —  President Obama has just spoken on AfPak.  I closed my eyes and listened closely to his words, coming via the BBC from the other side of the world.  —  The President's words were disappointing.  He talked about our goal to reach …
Discussion: TigerHawk
Michael J. Totten:
Baghdad in Fragments  —  Many third world cities look better at night than during the day.  Darkness hides shabbiness.  You have to imagine what the city actually looks like.  If you live in a first world city yourself, you might fill in the blanks with what you're familiar with.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Pajamas Media
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
GOP Leadership Rivals Throw Mike Pence Under the Bus  —  I've seen a lot of people link to this Glenn Thrush Politico item, but I have a slightly different take on it: … To me the salient point here is that Pence's spokesman is almost certainly telling the truth here …
Byron York / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
On Spending and the Deficit, McCain Was Right  —  Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits.  Denouncing an “orgy of spending and enormous deficits,” he turned to John McCain during their presidential debates last fall and said, “We have had, over the last eight years …
Jason Noble / Kansas City Star:
Missouri Highway Patrol retracts controversial report on militia activity  —  The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies.
New York Times:
As New Lawyer, Senator Was Active in Tobacco's Defense  —  The Philip Morris Company did not like to talk about what went on inside its lab in Cologne, Germany, where researchers secretly conducted experiments exploring the effects of cigarette smoking.  —  So when the Justice Department tried …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Market Mystique  —  On Monday, Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, responded to criticisms of the Obama administration's plan to subsidize private purchases of toxic assets.  “I don't know of any economist,” he declared, “who doesn't believe that better functioning capital markets …
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
BREAKING: UPS Announces It Will Stop Advertising On Bill O'Reilly's Show  —  In response to our Stop Supporting The O'Reilly Harassment Machine campaign, UPS told us yesterday that it was investigating whether to continue supporting O'Reilly's show.  “We are sensitive to the type …
John Cook / Gawker:
Sarah Palin Adviser's Secret Scientology Plot to Take Over Washington  —  John Coale, currently advising Sarah Palin on running for president in 2012, is a Scientologist.  And according to a memo obtained by Gawker, Coale once plotted to use friendly politicians to advance the power-hungry cult's agenda.
J. Justin Wilson / LaborPains.org:
“How do you spell hypocrisy?  S.E.I.U.”  —  “How do you spell hypocrisy?  SEIU!”  —  That was the chant today in front of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  The SEIU “broke their union contract,” and laid off 75 unionized staff members.  Those workers picketed the union today …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, AmSpecBlog and Hot Air
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
A Target-Rich Environment  —  Karl Rove made a habit of employing this strategy in the salad days of the Bush revolution: draw out the more voluble, more controversial, more trigger-happy Democratic voices and use them reductively, cutting off more legitimate debate with more legitimate Democrats.
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE RNC POLLS ITS SUPPORTERS.... The Republican National Committee …
Discussion: Wonkette
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
PART OF THE PROBLEM  —  We're listening to the bank CEO press …
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