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11:40 AM ET, May 6, 2009

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Paul Kane / Capitol Briefing:
Senate Democrats Deny Specter Committee Seniority  —  The Senate dealt a blow tonight to Sen. Arlen Specter's hold on seniority in several key committees, a week after the Pennsylvanian's party switch placed Democrats on the precipice of a 60-seat majority.  —  In a unanimous voice vote …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Party Switch Costs Specter His Seniority on Senate Committees  —  The Senate last night stripped Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) of his seniority on committees, a week after the 29-year veteran of the chamber quit the Republican Party to join the Democrats.  —  In announcing his move across the aisle last week …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:   Senate Dems to Specter: Hello, rookie
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret U.S.-Israel nuclear accord in jeopardy  —  President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say.
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Dan Williams / Reuters:
Israel would inform, not ask U.S. before hitting Iran  —  TEL AVIV (Reuters) - When he first got word of Israel's sneak attack on the Iraqi atomic reactor in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan privately shrugged it off, telling his national security adviser: “Boys will be boys!”
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch
Natasha Mozgovaya / Haaretz:
Peres to Obama: No choice but to compare Iran to Nazis
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Complicated Question  —  I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene.  —  Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much younger.
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Wendy Button / The Politico:
Poverty another casualty of Edwards affair
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
John Edwards's Wife Speaks About His Affair
Discussion: The Politico and Liberal Values
WSB-TV:
College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader  —  COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they're thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own.  Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.
Philip Johnston / Philip Johnston's blog listings:
Should we be banning this US ‘shock jock’?  —  The Home Office has issued the latest list of people it believes should not come to the country because they hold extremist opinions.  —  It is a state's prerogative to decide who it wants to come to its country.  That is, after all, what a visa system is for.
Discussion: Don Surber
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Washington Post:
Obama Relies on Inner Circle in Looking for Souter's Supreme Court Successor  —  President Obama's first selection of a Supreme Court justice is being managed by a small group of senior advisers, and the process will last at least into next week before producing a candidate who the administration hopes …
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Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Ginsburg: Court needs another woman
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post
Anchorage Daily News:
Palin to hit East Coast event — or not  —  DINNER: Blogs say she'll attend; governor's spokeswoman says she “may” be in the area this weekend.  —  Daily News staff and wire reports  —  Is Gov. Sarah Palin going to New York City and Washington, D.C., this weekend?
Discussion: GOP 12
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: Republican Recruiting Recovering
Discussion: Roll Call and Politics Nation
New York Times:
U.S. Says Bank of America Needs Cushion of $33.9 Billion  —  The government has told Bank of America it needs $33.9 billion in capital to withstand any worsening of the economic downturn, according to an executive at the bank.  —  If the bank is unable to raise the capital cushion …
New York Post:
OBAMA'S TAX DODGERS . . .  Here's a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel's name out of the discussion.  —  Somehow, it doesn't further your case.  —  Yet that's precisely what Obama did Monday, singling out the powerful Harlem congressman …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Steele yields powers to foes in RNC  —  Accepts limits on spending  —  Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds …
New York Times:
Plan to Sell Chrysler to Fiat Clears Bar  —  By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and JONATHAN D. GLATER  —  The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Chrysler on Tuesday took a significant step toward allowing the sale of most of the automaker to Fiat, approving the bidding procedures advocated …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Forbes
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Corzine Allies Plan Attack in G.O.P. Primary  —  Allies of New Jersey's Democratic governor, Jon S. Corzine, are so worried about his re-election prospects that they are going to start spending and advertising heavily — in the Republican primary.  —  Mr. Corzine's allies plan to attack …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Tortured Logic  —  Hit me Bybee, one more time.  —  Remember the Rule of Law?  In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles.  Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where he could either lie under oath or suffer massive personal and political embarrassment …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Confederate Legacy  —  Ed Kilgore has a very interesting post on a new trend sweeping conservative politics in Dixie—"sovereignty resolutions" that appear to assert states' rights to unilaterally invalidate federal action, a doctrine last seen in the hands of John C. Calhoun, the great antebellum theorist of white supremacy.
David Barstow / New York Times:
Inspector at Pentagon Says Report Was Flawed  —  In a highly unusual reversal, the Defense Department's inspector general's office has withdrawn a report it issued in January exonerating a Pentagon public relations program that made extensive use of retired officers who worked as military analysts for television and radio networks.
Discussion: Reason and Swampland
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Skeptical Administration Keeping Karzai at Arm's Length  —  Skepticism of Afghan Leader Shapes Policy  —  Afghan President Hamid Karzai began talking as soon as his luncheon guests had taken their seats in his wood-paneled dining room at the presidential palace in Kabul …
Michael Barone / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
White House puts UAW ahead of property rights  —  Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company's headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich.  —  As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Power Line
The Center for Public Integrity:
Key Findings  —  The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges.
 
 
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