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3:40 PM ET, June 2, 2009

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Leader Of Conservative Opposition To Sotomayor Was Nailed For Hacking And Spying On Senate Dems  —  Manuel Miranda is back!  —  The New York Times reports that a coalition of heavyweight conservative groups has signed a letter pressuring Senate Republicans to filibuster Sonia Sotomayor.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Right demands tougher fight  —  Conservatives are demanding that Senate Republicans take a harder line on Sonia Sotomayor, with new signs of tension between the Hill GOP and elements of the Republican base over the direction the opposition should move in the Supreme Court fight.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Justices Gone Wild
Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Obama to Name N.Y. Congressman the Army Secretary  —  Representative John M. McHugh, a Republican congressman from New York, will be nominated by President Obama to be secretary of the Army, according to officials, as the administration continues to reach into the ranks of the opposition for executive appointments.
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KCCW-TV:
Sources: No 3rd Governor Term For Pawlenty  —  Watch The News Conference LIVE On WCCO.COM At 2 p.m.  —  ST. PAUL (WCCO) ― Two sources have confirmed that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will announce that he will not seek re-election in 2010.  —  The sources confirmed …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Bad News for Franken?
CNN:
CNN Poll: Many Americans hold unfavorable view of Muslim world  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Hours before President Barack Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that only one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.
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Amir Taheri / Times of London:
Barack Obama is blind to his blunders over Islam
Discussion: normblog
Telegraph:   Barack Obama should stop apologising for America
John / Power Line:
Dresden: Next Stop on Apology Tour?
Discussion: Little Green Links
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin links Tiller, Long slayings  —  Sarah Palin today picked up a widely heard theme on the right, using the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller to call attention to the murder of an army recruiter in Arkansas, allegedly by a self-styled Islamic militant:
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William Saletan / Slate:
Is it wrong to murder an abortionist?  —  If abortion is murder, the most efficient thing you could have done to prevent such murders this month was to kill George Tiller.  —  Tiller was the country's bravest or most ruthless abortion provider, depending on how you saw him.
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog:
Playboy 's “Top 10 Conservative Women We Hate to Love”  —  The Playboy article linked to on this blog listed 10 conservative women “they love to hate” adding their reasons why.  The blog included the link but only used the names of the women listed.  But the Playboy article also included …
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Caleb Howe / ActiCons:
The Playboy Article  —  Screenshots below the fold.  Not edited for content.  My full story on this goes up at Redstate tomorrow.  —  CLICK FOR FULL SIZE
Discussion: Daily Dose
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Quagmire Ahead  —  On Jan. 21, 1988, a General Motors executive named Elmer Johnson wrote a brave and prophetic memo.  Its main point was contained in this sentence: “We have vastly underestimated how deeply ingrained are the organizational and cultural rigidities that hamper our ability to execute.”
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James Bennet / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Mitt Romney Should Run GM
ABCNEWS:
Recruiter Shooting Suspect Under FBI Investigation  —  Man Accused of Killing One Recruiter, Wounding Another, Spent Time in Yemen  —  The suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of one soldier and the critical injury of another at a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting booth today …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Cheney Edges Away From Claim That CIA Docs Will Prove Torture Worked  —  There's a very revealing moment buried in an interview that Dick Cheney gave to Fox News last night that really gives away his game plan on torture.  —  Specifically: Cheney seemed to edge away from the claim …
Discussion: Emptywheel, D-Day and Obsidian Wings
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The Huffington Post:
Cheney: “There Was Never Any Evidence ... Iraq Was Involved In 9/11” (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Raw Story
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Most oppose closing Gitmo  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.  —  By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed.
Shannon McCaffrey / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Feds spike voter citizenship checks in Georgia  —  ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
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George L. Priest / Wall Street Journal:   The Justice Department's Antitrust Bomb
Wall Street Journal:
Busy Not Running GM  —  And not choosing GM's office space.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  President Obama announced the bankruptcy of General Motors yesterday before GM's CEO even spoke, and the feds will soon own 60% of the company.  But whatever you do, please don't think the government is now running GM.
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New York Times:
Foreclosures: No End in Sight  —  A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures.  Unfortunately, there's little evidence, so far, that the Obama administration's anti-foreclosure plan will be able to stop it.
New York Times:
Chinese Company Said to Be Buyer of Hummer  —  GUANGZHOU, China — General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a carmaker …
Wall Street Journal:
Why Obama Voted Against Roberts  —  ‘He has used his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak.’  —  The following is from then-Sen. Barack Obama's floor statement explaining why he would vote against confirming Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (September 2005):
Discussion: Donklephant
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Dems pressure Obama on Israel  —  As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to the Arab world, the administration's escalating pressure on Israel to freeze all growth of its settlements on Palestinian land has begun to stir concern among Israel's numerous allies in both parties on Capitol Hill.
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Matt Friedman / Politicker NJ:
On 101.5, Lonegan calls poll ‘retarded’ and one Jersey Guy endorses Merkt  —  GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan says his own campaign polling shows him trailing Christopher Christie by just four percentage points  —  In a radio interview tonight, gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan called …
Discussion: Washington Wire
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Jane Fleming Kleeb / The Huffington Post:
DC's Got It Wrong with Nelson (and Other Red States)
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Moe Lane:
Dick Durbin knew all along that Blagojevich was selling off the seat.
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Randall Jeppesen / KSL-TV:
Some suggest Josh Romney as potential lieutenant governor pick
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James Fallows:
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
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David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Citigroup Is Halting Some Payouts
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Would Mike Dukakis Have Won the 2008 Election?
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A New Iran Overture, With Hot Dogs
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