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3:20 PM ET, April 24, 2009

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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Republican Senate Primary  —  Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%  —  Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania's 2010 Republican Primary.  Fifty-one percent (51%) …
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Washington Post:
In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense  —  Some Feared That a Partisan Outcry Could Obstruct Larger Agenda  —  As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration.
Washington Post:
Obama Rejects Truth Panel  —  Commission Would Have Investigated Abuses in Terrorism Fight  —  President Obama rebuffed calls for a commission to investigate alleged abuses under the Bush administration in fighting terrorism, telling congressional leaders at a White House meeting yesterday …
John / Power Line:
Voters Unimpressed By Dems' “Torture” Theme
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Key Dem Senator Likely To Vote Against Top Obama Legal Nominee  —  Uh oh.  This could signal real trouble for a key Obama nominee under assault by the right: Office of Legal Counsel chief Dawn Johnsen, a fierce Bush critic who would be at the center of the war over whether Obama …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
White House Worried About Johnsen Nomination  —  Dawn Johnsen's nomination to head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is in trouble, White House officials said today.  Vote counters believe that she is several votes shy of the 60 needed to avert a filibuster.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Frank in 2005 — Bubble?  What bubble?  —  Barney Frank argued this week that he had always warned about the excesses of pushing home ownership and had advocated for rentals instead.  Our friends at Verum Serum couldn't believe their ears, because Frank has long been one of the loudest …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Reconciliation Now Has a Date: October 15  —  It's been in the works for a while and now, according to senior Captiol Hill staffers, it's a done deal: The final budget resolution will include a “reconciliation instruction” for health care.  That means the Democrats can pass health care reform …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obtained: Cheney's Request Form Detailing The Two CIA Torture Docs He Wants  —  I've just obtained from the National Archives the actual request form that Dick Cheney submitted for CIA documents he claims will prove that torture worked.  —  Cheney requested all of two CIA documents, a total of 21 pages.
Discussion: Emptywheel and Daily Kos
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
A Glimpse of the Dark Side
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and The Plum Line
USA Today:
Poll: Public thinks highly of Obama  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's opening months in the Oval Office have fortified his standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.  —  As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In First 100 Days, Obama Meets or Exceeds Expectations
Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesotans won't know second Senator until at least June  —  The state Supreme Court set the schedule today for the legal showdown between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman over the Senate seat that has been vacant since January.  —  Minnesotans won't know who will be their second U.S. Senator until at least June.
Discussion: The Page, Hotline On Call and MSNBC
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Minnesota Supremes Set Schedule For Coleman's Appeal — Giving Him More Time
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Reclaiming America's Soul  —  “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.”  So declared President Obama, after his commendable decision to release the legal memos that his predecessor used to justify torture.  Some people in the political and media establishments have echoed his position.
John Cook / Gawker:
Ambushing Bill O'Reilly's Ambusher  —  Gawker has some questions for Jesse B. Watters, the Fox News producer that Bill O'Reilly likes to send out to ambush his enemies.  So we're outside his building in Long Island.  Right now.  (Hi, Jesse!)  —  This apartment building is the last known address …
Caitlin Taylor / Political Punch:
Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; Former CIA Official Says Former Colleagues 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'  —  The Obama administration could have opted to go all the way to the Supreme Court to try to keep these photographs from public view …
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
US to release prisoner abuse pictures
Discussion: The Raw Story and Truthdig
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Gingrich vs. Gore in global warming showdown  —  It's Gingrich vs. Gore at Friday's global warming hearing.  —  The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has added former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill Friday.
Discussion: The Swamp and Michelle Malkin
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Taliban Spokesman Blames American Women  —  Update |  1:25 p.m. Britain's Channel 4 News aired a video report on Thursday night showing Taliban forces on the streets of the strategically important Pakistani town of Buner, just 70 miles from the country's capital, Islamabad.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Palin, Fundraising Firm Part Ways  —  Campaign Solutions, a Republican consulting firm advising Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee, has parted ways with the former Republican vice presidential nominee.  —  The group had been working with the Palin operation to raise money …
WORLDMag.com:
On the road again  —  Giving speeches, taping television shows, and making music with his friends: a day in the life of Mike Huckabee, once and (maybe) future presidential candidate |  Marvin Olasky  —  NEW YORK—"Is accompanying Willie a little scary?"  I was kidding Mike Huckabee …
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Why Don't We All Focus On “Looking Forward”  —  There's a bar in the East Village that offers five shots of anything for ten bucks.  I'm going there tonight, and taking 10 shots of anything the crowd reccommends.  Then I'm going to stand on the street soliciting random women for sex.
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Ryan Avent / Portfolio:
The Stress Test Blind Alley  —  Today, the government will begin discussing the results of its stress tests with heads of the nation's 19 larger banks in meetings in Washington and will release the methodology of the tests to the public.  Then, of course, we'll all sit around twiddling …
www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Chris Matthews changes book title Jon Stewart mocked  —  Could the interview Chris Matthews called “the worst he's ever had” have something to do with his decision to change the title of his most recent book before its paperback edition is released?  —  In 2007, the “Hardball” host went on …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BANANA REPUBLICS.... To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, Republicans keep using this phrase, but I don't think it means what they think it means.  —  On Tuesday, Karl Rove argued on Fox News that accountability for Bush administration officials who broke the law would make United States …
Washington Post:
Getting Real on Wind and Solar  —  Why are we ignoring things we know?  We know that the sun doesn't always shine and that the wind doesn't always blow.  That means that solar cells and wind energy systems don't always provide electric power.  Nevertheless, solar and wind energy seem …
Forbes:
A Banking System We Can Trust  —  Turn all financial firms into mutual funds.  —  Before throwing more money at Wall Street, let's understand what our financial system was supposed to deliver, what it did deliver and what price it charged.  —  The system was supposed to channel …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
John Leo / Wall Street Journal:
A Limited Love of Liberty  —  A former ACLU board member says that the organization has lost its way.  —  When the American Civil Liberties Union comes under attack, the salvos are often launched from the right.  The ACLU, after all, is as enthusiastic about protecting the interests of feminists …
 
 
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CNN:
Mary Matalin signs on as CNN contributor
Catherine Rampell / Economix:
The Dow as a Roller-Coaster Ride (Literally)
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel Gives Credit to Tea Partiers
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Armenian slaughter ‘reckoning’
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Plank
Brad / Think Progress:
Bachmann: CO2 ‘is a natural byproduct of nature.’
Discussion: Wonk Room
Bruce Alpert / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Vitter opposes prosecutions of terror interrogators; Cao …
Discussion: Think Progress
Cliff May / The Corner:
Re: Not Pro-Torture, Just Pro-Facts
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Sally Goldenberg / New York Post:
WILD-FIRED BY THE ZOO  —  CUTS WILL OUST HUNDREDS OF BRONX BEASTIES
Discussion: Gawker, The Awl and Gothamist
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ENSIGN KEEPS PUSHING IT.... I'd hoped we were past this nonsense by now.
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis:
Nuremberg and American Exceptionalism
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