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9:10 PM ET, May 13, 2009

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Huma Khan / Political Punch:
President Obama Reverses Course on Releasing More Detainee Abuse Photographs  —  President Obama defended his decision to fight the release of photos showing detainee abuse Wednesday afternoon, saying it would only put American troops in harms way and create a backlash against Americans.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Left Rises Up Against Obama  —  President Barack Obama's reversal on the release of detainee photos has angered the liberal left, a perceived poke in the eye that has left some questioning Obama's commitment to progressive policies.  —  In brief remarks before heading to Arizona to deliver …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Real Clear Politics
MSNBC:
In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos  —  Images reportedly depict the abuse of prisoners by U.S. military in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will try to block the court-ordered release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops allegedly abusing prisoners …
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Obama orders stop to detainee photo releases  —  (CNN) — President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, according to an administration official.  —  The Defense Department was set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama Reverses Course On Torture Photos
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Very Lame  —  The White House has decided to reverse course …
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Obama reversed photo position out of concern for troops, Gibbs says
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Roger Simon / The Politico:
GOP to rebrand Dems as ‘socialists’  —  A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”  —  When I asked if such a resolution …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Socialist Schmocialist  —  They're finally getting serious: … Awesome.  But they've missed a huge opportunity here.  They could try to “rebrand” the Democrats as the National Socialist American Worker's Party, which would have been rilly, rilly kewl cuz then they could have merged Obama's picture with Hitler 'n stuff.
Discussion: Open Left
Ed Kilgore / Democratic Strategist:
The GOP's New “Evil Empire”  —  Like a lot of non-Rush-Limbaugh listeners, when I first heard that a large faction of Republican National Committee members was pushing for a formal resolution calling on GOPers to start referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party,” …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
No Clamor for High Court Appointee to Be Woman, Minority  —  As in 2005, majority of Americans say gender, race, and ethnicity of appointee don't matter  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Despite the widely reported expectation that President Barack Obama will be looking for a qualified woman …
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The Huffington Post:
Sotomayor's Medical History Sparks Wider Debate
Discussion: Wonkette and Ben Smith's Blog
CNN:   Obama reportedly to name high court pick soon
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Not one dime to the NRSC  —  If you have Facebook, I encourage you to join the group.  —  You know, I can slightly understand the NRSC getting into the Chaffee race, though it was a stupid waste and mismanagement of funds.  —  I can kind of understand them getting behind Specter.
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
GOP senators back move to center with Crist
Rick Hasen / Election Law:
PREDICTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL NOMINATE JUDGE DIANE WOOD OF SEVENTH CIRCUIT  —  With all the talk about whom the President should nominate, there's been less focus on whom the president will nominate.  You can look at the Intrade predictions market here, which reflects Judge Sotomayor in the lead …
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Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:   ASK A FEMINIST: IS IT SEXIST? SOTOMAYOR EDITION.
Kristina Wong / The Note:
Pelosi Leaves Unanswered Questions on Interrogation Briefings  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports: The intelligence briefings received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2002 have developed into a recurring distraction for congressional Democrats.  —  Instead of arguing over whether waterboarding …
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omg!:
Shanna Moakler Resigns as Miss California Pageant Director  —  The day after Carrie Prejean was told she could keep her Miss California crown, Shanna Moakler has resigned, she confirms to Usmagazine.com exclusively.  —  “Since the press conference yesterday, I had a chance …
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Barack Obama, Wanda Sykes and the Politics of Humorlessness  —  There's nothing un-funnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning.  —  Which is why we probably shouldn't quarterback a comedian over coffee when she was performing for a crowd primed on cocktails.
John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found  —  No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo.  The voluptuous woman depicted is, to say the least, earthier, with huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitalia.  —  Nicholas J. Conard …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Olbermann sneers at “St. Carrie of La Jolla” for seven minutes  —  Not his ugliest performance ever — not even his ugliest with respect to Miss Cali — but possibly his most gutless.  I'll let one of his sharpest lefty critics, Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler, explain:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama, Neocon In Chief  —  From extending and deepening the war in Afghanistan, to suppressing evidence of rampant and widespread abuse and torture of prisoners under Bush, to thuggishly threatening the British with intelligence cut-off if they reveal the brutal torture inflicted on Binyam Mohamed …
Discussion: Commentary
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Fierce Urgency Of Whenever  —  I lived through eight years of the Clintons and then eight years of Bush.  Through it all, gay people were treated at the federal level like embarrassments or impediments.  With Clinton, we were the means to raise money.  With Bush, we were the means to leverage votes by exploiting bigotry.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
GOP PAC warns Senate Republicans  —  The National Republican Trust PAC, currently the best-funded and most aggressive independent Republican group, has dispatched a round of letters to Republican senators threatening to go after senators who back President Obama's judicial nominees.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
SEC Poised to Charge Mozilo With Fraud  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission staff is readying civil fraud charges against Countrywide Financial Corp. co-founder Angelo Mozilo, in what would be the highest-profile government legal action against a chief executive connected to the financial crisis.
Discussion: Law Blog and Zero Hedge
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Re: Did the President Read Andy McCarthy Today?  —  K-Lo, that's welcome news and let's hope the president does the patently obvious right thing.  But speaking of “patently obvious,” what really concerns me relates to Bill's second point: “The Obama DOJ is full of left-wing ideologues.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Fausta's Blog
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Audio: Schumer in 2004 on enhanced interrogation techniques; Update: Hypocrisy confirmed  —  In fairness, I don't know that I've heard Senator Chuck Schumer among the voices looking to round up a lynch mob for those in the Bush administration who approved, conducted, or advised …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Flopping Aces
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Obama Pushes Broad Rules for Oversight of Derivatives  —  WASHINGTON — Marking its first major effort to overhaul financial regulation, the Obama administration will seek new authority to supervise the virtually unregulated complex financial instruments, known as derivatives …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Balloon Juice
The Huffington Post:
Ben Nelson All Alone In Quest To Block Health Care Reform  —  Sen. Ben Nelson announced at the beginning of this month that he opposed the creation of a public health care plan that people would have the option to buy into.  He'd be gathering together a coalition of like-minded senators to oppose the plan …
Les Christie / CNNMoney.com:
Foreclosures: ‘April was a shocker’  —  A record number of foreclosure filings took place during April, but the number of repossessions fell 11%.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Foreclosures in April exceeded even March's blistering pace with a record 342,000 homes receiving notices of default …
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells  —  What are we to make of yesterday's report from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that Social Security will run out of assets in 2037, four years sooner than previously forecast, and Medicare's hospital fund …
 
 
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Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Senate Rejects Limit on Credit-Card Interest Rates
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Caitlin Taylor / The Note:
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New York Post:
HILL THRILLED BY CAMPAIGN ‘CHEAT’
Discussion: The Plank
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
‘A small number of individuals’
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Judson Berger / Fox News:
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Reporter Furious Over ASU Denying Obama A Honorary Degree; Students Not Upset
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
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 Earlier Items: 
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Working the refs. It works!
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
David Axelrod: 'Wait, wait, don't tell me'
Discussion: Chicago Breaking News
Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Billboard: Certify Franken
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