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5:30 PM ET, June 18, 2009

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Ezra Klein:
Health Care Reform in Danger  —  Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now.  The news out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was bad.  The Congressional Budget Office had scored a partial bill and the result was a total fiasco.
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The Huffington Post:
Daschle Urges Obama To Drop Federal Public Health Care Plan  —  The man once slated to head Barack Obama's health care system overhaul is now coming out against one of the chief components of that effort.  —  Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said on Wednesday that the Obama White House …
Eric Etheridge / The Opinionator:
Health Care Reform D.O.A.?  —  What's the latest assessment from those closely monitoring health care reform?  Prognosis negative.  —  “Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now,” wrote Ezra Klein this morning at the Washington Post.  —  “Attention fellow liberals …
Top Stories from CQ:
Honeymoon Over: It's On Obama's Watch Now
Discussion: Democracy in America
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Bipartisan group wants reconciliation off table
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Can Stop ObamaCare
CBS News:
Daschle, Dole Promote Bipartisan Health Care Plan
Discussion: The Confluence and Donklephant
Patrick Gavin / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Froomkin out at Washington Post (UPDATED)  —  In a move sure to ignite the left-wing blogosphere, washingtonpost.com columnist Dan Froomkin (author of the “White House Watch” blog) has been let go by the news organization, POLITICO hears.  In so many words, Froomkin was told that his blog had essentially run its course.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Washington Post fires its best columnist.  Why?  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  One of the rarest commodities in the establishment media is someone who was a vehement critic of George Bush and who now, applying their principles consistently, has become a regular critic …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Joseph Curl / Press Association:
Bush takes swipes at Obama policies  —  Defends interrogations  —  Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
U.S. Struggling for Right Response to Iran  —  Obama Seeks Way to Acknowledge Protesters Without Alienating Ayatollah  —  The political unrest in Iran presents the Obama administration with a dilemma: keep quiet to pursue a nuclear deal with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader …
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John Kerry / New York Times:
With Iran, Think Before You Speak  —  THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce the voting …
David Miliband:
Iran - elections  —  Here are links to two interviews on C4 and BBC News from last night with my views about events in Iran.  The scenes from Tehran, and reports from other cities, are remarkable.  The contrast of pre-election debate with post-election violence is deplorable.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Most Important Number in Politics Today  —  Seventy-two percent.  —  That's the number of people in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll who say that President Obama inherited the “current economic conditions” gripping the country as compared to just 14 percent who said the situation was the result mostly of his policies.
Discussion: msnbc.com
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New York Times:
Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:   FIRST THOUGHTS: THE RETURN OF ROSS PEROT?
Politics in Minnesota:
Two sources: Supreme Court ruling on U.S. Senate race to arrive tomorrow!  —  PIM has now heard from two sources on different sides of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race recount scene that the final Minnesota Supreme Court ruling is expected to arrive tomorrow, Thursday, June 18th.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court rejects DNA access claim  —  CORRECTION 3:50 p.m.: The paragraph describing the Court's ruling in Yeager v. U.S. was in error as published.  F. Scott Yeager has not been convicted of any crime.  See the UPDATE below, at the end of that paragraph.  —  Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court …
Steve Verdon / Outside The Beltway:
SCOTUS: No to Post Conviction DNA Testing
Discussion: Megan McArdle
The Independent:
Robert Fisk: Secret letter ‘proves Mousavi won poll’  —  They were handing out the photocopies by the thousand under the plane trees in the centre of the boulevard, single sheets of paper grabbed by the opposition supporters who are now wearing black for the 15 Iranians who have been killed in Tehran …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads  —  Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor's daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is cancelling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman's “Late Show” for the rest of the year.
Associated Press:
PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly  —  Rights group seeks compassion for curious and ‘least sympathetic animals’  —  WASHINGTON - The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
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Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
PETA Says No More Fly-Killing, Sends Obama a Humane Fly Catcher
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Global Insurance Fraud By North Korea Outlined  —  Government Has Collected Millions Of Dollars on Large, Suspicious Claims  —  For Kim Jong Il's birthday, North Korean insurance managers prepared a special gift.  —  In Singapore, they stuffed $20 million in cash into two heavy-duty bags and sent them …
Discussion: News Desk and Gawker
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Oberstar blasts White House, accelerates highway bill  —  Lawmakers pushed back aggressively against the Obama administration Thursday as they moved forward with the long-anticipated highway bill.  —  Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and Rep. John Mica …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
City Room:
Jet Lands at Newark With Dead Pilot  —  A Continental Airlines jetliner carrying 247 passengers landed in Newark shortly before noon on Thursday, after the flight's captain died midflight.  —  Two first officers took control of the plane, a Boeing 777, after the captain, who was 61 years old …
 
 
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In a Staff Shuffle, Signs of Obama's Direction on Mideast
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Pentagon Exam Calls Protests ‘Low-Level Terrorism,’ Angering Activists
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Demands Answers on Voter Intimidation Case Dismissal
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Good Neocons  —  Not all of them wish Ahmadinejad had won …
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