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6:10 PM ET, May 11, 2009

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NY Daily News:
Meghan McCain a real pain at D.C. dinner  —  Political blogger Meghan McCain isn't exactly the toast of D.C. right now.  —  Sen. John McCain's daughter — who writes online for The Daily Beast and will soon release a book about life as a Republican — lost it after getting stopped by security …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Harry, Louise and Barack  —  Is this the end for Harry and Louise?  —  Harry and Louise were the fictional couple who appeared in advertisements run by the insurance industry in 1993, fretting about what would happen if “government bureaucrats” started making health care decisions.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: Wanda Sykes, Rush Limbaugh and the Politics of Humor  —  (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)  —  In politics, as in life, there is a fine line between stupid and clever — to paraphrase the great philosopher (and lead vocalist of Spinal Tap) David St. Hubbins.
Dana Milbank / Rough Sketch:
Etch-a-Sketch: Limbaugh Edition  —  Good morning.  —  Today, let us try a new game in which I, the Sketchwriter, get you, the Sketchreader, to do my work for me while I go to the gym, eat lunch and listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.  I call this Etch-a-Sketch.
Discussion: Don Surber
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Steele: “I'm the Gift That Keeps on Giving”  —  Chatting with the GOP chair—and other tales from the White House Correspondents' Dinner.  —  Post Comment  —  This past weekend at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner and the pre- and post- parties and events …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IS THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY ON OBAMA'S SIDE?  IS OBAMA ON THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY'S SIDE?  —  Jon Cohn is enthused.  Paul Krugman is excited.  Maybe I'm just churlish.  Maybe I'm getting cranky as I age.  But I can't shake my skepticism about today's big health care announcement.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: SCOTUS SHORTLIST?
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Lupica: Wanda doesn't deserve a pass for crass
Discussion: Fox News
Ben Shapiro / Big Hollywood:
Wanda Sykes' Gutless Performance
Discussion: Hot Air and FOX Forum
The Corner:   ‘Game-Changer’?  —  The Great and Powerful Oz may want us …
Caitlin Taylor / Political Punch:
WH Dings Comedian for Joke at WH Correspondents' Dinner
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Politics Daily
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
White House distances itself from Wanda Sykes's joke about Rush Limbaugh.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
John / Power Line:
Wanted: One Funny Comedian
Discussion: Commentary and Booker Rising
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
U.S. Replaces Commander in Afghanistan in War Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is replacing the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, less than a year after he took over, marking a major overhaul in military leadership of a war that has presented President Obama with a worsening national security challenge.
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Lindsey Ellerson / The Note:
U.S. Commander in Afghanistan to Be Replaced
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates Recommends Replacement for Top Command in Afghanistan
Discussion: Associated Press and ThreatsWatch
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney  —  There's a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars.  —  Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and release …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Bob Graham: I Wasn't Told About Waterboarding Or EITs In My Briefing  —  Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not briefed about the use of either waterboarding or enhanced interrogation techniques during …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Romney camp hits back at Steele for Mormonism comments  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - In an unusual move for the person tasked with being his party's top cheerleader, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is shining a light on the political vulnerabilities of one of the GOP's top figures …
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Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
It's Time for Michael Steele To Resign
Jorr / Christian Science Monitor:
Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse  —  It was as though Vice President Biden time-warped back to last fall.  Because on Sunday he was in full campaign attack mode.  —  Oh, it was an idyllic setting.  Nobody saw it coming.  The vice president had just finished delivering …
Discussion: The Swamp and Top of the Ticket
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Resistance Is Futile  —  They told me that if I voted for McCain …
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
SEIU may be linked to ultimatum on withholding stimulus funds  —  California officials say the union may have influenced a federal requirement that a pay cut be reversed for home healthcare workers.  —  Reporting from Sacramento — Officials in the governor's office say a politically powerful union …
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National Post:
David Frum: Quick fix today, crisis tomorrow in Obama's White House
Discussion: Swampland
Rasmussen Reports:
Congress Pushes Cap and Trade, But Just 24% Know What It Is  —  The gap between Capitol Hill and Main Street is huge when it comes to the so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation being considered in Congress.  So wide, in fact, that few voters even know what the proposed legislation is all about.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Public Deeply Ignorant About Cap and Trade
Discussion: The Bellows
The Huffington Post:
Pete Sessions: Obama Hurting Economy To Consolidate Power  —  Rep. Pete Sessions, head of the House Republican committee tasked with electing more GOP members, has a unique theory as to why unemployment continues to rise: Obama wants to wipe out capitalism.  —  Deep into a New York Times item Monday …
Discussion: Think Progress
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Gay Miss CA Director Goes Nuclear On ‘Henchman’ Carrie Prejean & Traditional Marriage Advocates  —  Openly gay director of the Miss California pageant, Keith Lewis, held a presser today and shamed the heck out of traditional marriage supporters; mark that 7 times.
Discussion: GayPatriot
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Forced Chrysler's Creditors to Blink  —  President Barack Obama's auto task force heard a blunt message early this spring from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the largest lender to Chrysler LLC.  In any deal to remake the troubled auto maker, Chrysler would have to repay its lenders all $6.9 billion it owed.
Discussion: Ideoblog
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
“You don't need banks and bondholders to make cars”?
Mary Flood / Houston Chronicle:
Kent sentenced to 33 months behind bars  —  Federal judge headed to prison for trying to hinder inquiry into sex offenses  —  Samuel Kent, who wielded power as a federal judge for 18 years, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today for obstructing justice.
Discussion: TalkLeft, JONATHAN TURLEY and Law Blog
Timothy Williams / New York Times:
U.S. Soldier Kills 5 Comrades in Iraq, Military Says  —  BAGHDAD — The United States military said Monday that five American soldiers had been shot to death by a fellow soldier who opened fire on them at one of the biggest American bases in Baghdad, and that the suspected shooter was in custody.
Jerusalem Post:
Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out  —  Article's topics: Sheikh Tamimi, Benedict XVI  —  Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, launched a poisonous verbal attack at Israel at a Monday night gathering attended by Pope Benedict XVI.
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and the ‘Public Option’  —  A case in which compromise means government health care.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  So Democrats have declared their willingness to use a parliamentary tactic to force a far-reaching restructuring of U.S. health care through Congress on a partisan vote.
Discussion: Townhall.com and Weekly Standard
 
 
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Financial Times:
Shortages stir coffee and sugar prices
Discussion: Don Surber
Malcolm Venable / Virginian-Pilot:
In Norfolk, musician will.i.am backs McAuliffe for governor
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Santorum on Specter: “Arlen is With Us on the Votes That Matter”
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Hate Crime Nonsense
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MOTIVATIONS.... Dick Cheney stuck up for Rush Limbaugh yesterday …
Discussion: The Page
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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
Stanford ‘was informant for US anti-drug agents’
Discussion: TalkLeft
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Who Monitored The Torture?
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Elizabeth Edwards' Reality Problem
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
On Guns and Climate, the Elites Are Out of Touch
Richard Florida / Atlantic Correspondents:
The Suburban Bulldozer  —  Amazing video of brand new suburban homes …