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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 …
Washington Post:
Obama Reverses Position on Release of Photos of Detainee Abuse — President Obama will oppose the release of several dozen photos depicting abuse of detainees held in U.S. military custody abroad, reversing his previous position on the grounds that the pictures could inflame anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops.
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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Weighs Indefinite Detention — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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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
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:Very Lame — The White House has decided to reverse course …
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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.
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Pat Toomey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Welcome to our tent — The GOP has plenty of room for honest debate
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 — With President Obama's Supreme Court choice expected within weeks, the vetting process for prospective candidates has grown more intense. Judicial rulings, legal papers, public statements and financial records all are being pored over with eagle eyes.
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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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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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 …
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:
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Obama warns Netanyahu: Don't surprise me with Iran strike — U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran. The message was conveyed by a senior American official …
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Jon Basil Utley / Reason:
Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco — It's only a matter of time before President Barack Obama's vast popularity runs aground on his energy policies. In the name of saving the planet from global warming, he has delayed new oil drilling, an action that will have major political repercussions once the world economy recovers.
Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Senate Rejects Limit on Credit-Card Interest Rates — Despite complaints that banks and credit card companies are gouging customers by charging outrageous interest rates, the Senate on Wednesday easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates at 15 percent.
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Caitlin Taylor / The Note:
‘Top Line’: Colorado Senate Candidate — New Face for GOP? — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: — Ryan Frazier is not a well-known entity in Washington political circles. — But that may change soon — and if it does, the Republican Party may have a new face to showcase in 2010 and beyond.
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New York Post:
HILL THRILLED BY CAMPAIGN ‘CHEAT’ — CLINTON'S ‘FAWN’ CALLS AIRED AT $$-RAISER TRIAL — Hillary Rodham Clinton gushed to disgraced Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu that he would “single-handedly” help her win the presidency because nobody “has been more loyal and been more effective” in landing donations.
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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 …
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.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Graham: Bush admin saw law as unaffordable ‘nicety’ — In the midst of a spirited defense of the Bush administration's intentions in developing interrogation techniques, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) dropped a phrase that liberals may seize upon. — The Bush administration did not commit any crimes …
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