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2:25 PM ET, May 20, 2009

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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
California voters exercise their power — and that's the problem  —  Residents relish their role in the lawmaking process, but they share the blame for the state's severe dysfunction.  —  Californians are well known for periodic voter revolts, but on Tuesday they did more than just lash …
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Eric Bailey / Los Angeles Times:
California voters kill budget measures  —  Only salary curbs survive in a rout of Schwarzenegger's slate of reforms  —  Reporting from Sacramento — The “big five” elected leaders — Schwarzenegger and the legislative chieftains from both houses — are slated to begin closed-door meetings today upon …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Calif. Voters Reject Measures to Keep State Solvent  —  LOS ANGELES — A smattering of California voters on Tuesday soundly rejected five ballot measures designed to keep the state solvent through the rest of the year.  —  The results dealt a severe setback to the state's fragile fiscal structure …
Megan McArdle:
Is California Too Big to Fail?  —  So what about California?  A reader asks.  Ummm, that's a tough one.  No, wait, it's not: California is completely, totally, irreparably hosed.  And not a little garden hose.  More like this.  Their outflow is bigger than their inflow.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama's biggest critic: Krauthammer  —  The dinner guest that night at George Will's house in Chevy Chase was intellectually nimble, personally formidable and completely baffling, recalled columnist Charles Krauthammer - who was getting his first up-close look at President-elect Barack Obama.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
A Small Man  —  This blog has had many differences with Joe Klein of Time magazine, whom I once considered a very friendly acquaintance before he accused me and those who argued for an aggressive policy in Iraq and with Iran of being war criminals and began spouting anti-Semitic conspiracy nonsense that …
The Politico:
Obama, Cheney plan dueling speeches  —  President Barack Obama will attempt to regain control of a boiling debate over anti-terrorism policy with a major speech on Thursday—an address that comes on the same day that former Vice President Cheney will be weighing in with his own speech on the same theme.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Stand Up, Joe Klein, So We Can Kick Your A**  —  Times columnist and sensitive liberal Joe Klein actually said this about Charles Krauthammer:  —  “He became Ground Zero among the neo-cons, but he's vastly smarter than most of them,” said Time's Joe Klein, an admirer and critic who praised Krauthammer's …
ABCNEWS:
Democrats on Capitol Hill Rebel Against President Obama's Guantanamo Bay Plan  —  Lawmakers Reject Funding To Shut Down Detainee Center At Gitmo, Want Obama To Present A Plan For How The White House Plans To Close The Facility  —  The U.S. Senate today voted overwhelmingly to block funding …
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Feinstein: California prisons are 'eminently capable of holding …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A LEADER WHO WON'T LEAD.... Hilzoy mentioned this overnight …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
FBI director concerned about Gitmo releases
Mark Joseph / Fox News:
Obama Tries to Restore Order on Gitmo, After Senate Blocks Closure Funds
Discussion: New York Post
Theresa Cook / Legalities:
Judge Wood Goes to Washington  —  Just two days after Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm's sudden appearance in Washington set off a flurry of speculation about Supreme Court interviews, here's something that actually could be significant:  —  Federal Appeals Court Judge Diane Wood …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Begins Interviewing Potential Supreme Court Picks
Discussion: Washington Post and Reason
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Colorado judge is latest SCOTUS name to surface
Associated Press:
Clinton: Iran can't have nuclear arms capability  —  WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that a nuclear-armed Iran is “going to spark an arms race” in the Middle East.  —  In an appearance before a Senate Appropriations panel, Clinton reiterated …
Discussion: rubber hose and The Page
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Edward Yeranian / Voice of America:
Iran Claims to Have Test-Fired Mid-Range Missile
Discussion: Power Line and Atlas Shrugs
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran says it tests missile, Israel within range
Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
Why Pelosi Should Step Down  —  The case against Nancy Pelosi remaining Speaker of the House is as simple as it is devastating:  —  The person who is No. 2 in line to be commander in chief can't have contempt for the men and women who protect our nation.  America can't afford it.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
RNC showdown over ‘socialist’ resolution may be avoided  —  OXON HILL, Maryland (CNN) — Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders avoid a possible dispute over a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to re-name their party the “Democrat Socialist party.”
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: When Steele Talks, Republicans Check Their BlackBerrys
Discussion: Rough Sketch, The Caucus and The Swamp
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cheney Grabs a Third Term  —  Dick and Rummy are at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, holding court.  The maître d' fawns.  Waiters hover.  Tourists snap pics on their digital cameras.  Cable chatterers stop by to ingratiate themselves.  —  It isn't so much that Dick and Rummy are back.
Tom Golisano / New York Post:
ADIOS, NEW YORK  —  TAXED OUT OF THE STATE  —  I LOVE New York.  But how much should it cost to call New York home?  Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.  —  Politicians like to talk about incentives …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Clinton-era hard drive missing from archives  —  A massive amount of sensitive, national security-related information from the Clinton administration has gone missing from the national archives.  —  The Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) …
ABCNEWS:
America's Richest Givers Hold Secret Meeting  —  Oprah, Gates, Buffett Gather in NY to Compare Notes About Charity, Economy  —  Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coordinate strategies …
Discussion: City Room and The Impolitic
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands  —  KABUL — Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Bristol Palin Exposes Her Sometimes Isolated Life  —  Bristol Palin's pretty, lightly freckled face was nowhere to be seen on the overhead screen as images from her high-school senior slideshow - photos from the prom and a Class of 2009 portrait set against the Alaska snow - played during May 14's Wasilla High commencement ceremony.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Democrats' Assault On the CIA  —  In a little over 100 days, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have delivered a series of blows to the pride and morale of the Central Intelligence Agency.  —  It began with the release of the Justice Department memos …
 
 
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Bettina Wassener / New York Times:
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Silla Brush / The Hill:
Democrats seek financial rescue of minority-owned broadcasters
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
And Then There Was Only Guantánamo . . .
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Zvika Krieger / The New Republic:
Huntsman, Interrupted  —  Spending time with the man who wants …
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