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3:45 PM ET, July 21, 2009

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David Brooks / New York Times:
Liberal Suicide March  —  It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America.  You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.  —  They brought in pollsters to their party conferences …
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The Live Feed:
Most will carry Obama press conference; time shifted after NBC balked  —  UPDATED: After some hesitation and a time shift, three major broadcast networks have agreed to carry Barack Obama's latest primetime news conference.  —  The event was announced Friday afternoon as Obama battles …
Wall Street Journal:
Let's Face It: Obama Is No Post-Partisan  —  Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama's political appeal rested on his vision for a “post-partisan future.”  The post-partisan future was one of the press corps' favorite phrases.  It served as shorthand for the candidate's repeated references to …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Overblown Overreach  —  David Brooks, predictable enough, says Democrats are overreaching and destined to reap the whirlwind.  Frankly, I have some doubts about this.  Remember yesterday's Washington Post poll that was full of bad news for Barack Obama?  The one about how the public is losing faith in him and his agenda?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Commentary
The Heritage Foundation:
Morning Bell: Obama Admits He's “Not Familiar” With House Bill  —  With the public's trust in his handling of health care tanking (50%-44% of Americans disapprove), the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to pass Obamacare: all Obama, all the time.
The Huffington Post:
Obama Calls On Bloggers To Keep Health Care Pressure On Congress
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Voters scared of Obama's rushed ‘experiments’
David Rogers / The Politico:
W.H. gains momentum in F-22 fight  —  With a vote set for high noon on Tuesday, the political tide in the Senate has shifted to now favor the White House and Pentagon in their pivotal fight to strike new procurement funds for the F-22 fighter.  —  Just last week, conventional wisdom held …
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Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Bowing to Veto Threat, Senate Blocks Money for Warplanes  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 58-40 on Tuesday to strip $1.75 billion for seven more F-22 fighters from a military spending bill, handing President Obama a crucial victory in his efforts to reshape the military's priorities.
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Senate Votes Down Funds for F-22s
Lawrence Korb / The Huffington Post:
Fighting Over Fighter Jets: Obama, Gates and the F-22
Discussion: The New Republic
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Health-Care Firms Have Supported Lawmakers Debating Reform  —  Key Senator Baucus Is a Leading Recipient  —  As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation …
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Ezra Klein:   Why Does Max Baucus Take This Money?
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Harvard Professor Jailed; Officer Is Accused of Bias  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Colleagues of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's most prominent scholar of African-American history, are accusing the police here of racism after he was arrested at his home last week by an officer investigating a report of a robbery in progress.
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Susan Donaldson James / ABCNEWS:
Benjamin: Too Heavy to Be Nation's Top Doc?  —  Leading Experts Say Dr. Benjamin, Though Stellar Nominee, Gives Wrong Message  —  Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, Obama's pick for the next surgeon general, was hailed as a MacArthur Grant genius who had championed the poor at a medical clinic she set up in Katrina-ravaged Alabama.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
VPOTUS, overheard: ‘Many beautiful women’  —  From Peter Spiegel's pool report from Kiev:  —  VPOTUS and Yushchenko were seated a table in the back of the pub with their two translators, the mayor and vice mayor of Kiev, and the head of the presidential secretariat....  Yushchenko was talking about Ukrainian churches.
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:   Biden: Kiev has most beautiful women
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter  —  Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.  —  Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark …
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter
Wall Street Journal:
The Fed's Exit Strategy  —  The depth and breadth of the global recession has required a highly accommodative monetary policy.  Since the onset of the financial crisis nearly two years ago, the Federal Reserve has reduced the interest-rate target for overnight lending between banks (the federal-funds rate) nearly to zero.
Los Angeles Times:
Budget accord reached  —  Calling for deep cuts and avoiding broad tax hikes, Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agree on ways to close California's $26.3-billion deficit.  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced today that they have reached a deal …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Amman begins stripping state's Palestinians of citizenship  —  Article's topics: Jordan, Palestinians, West Bank, PLO  —  Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be “resettled” …
Jeff Sharlet / Salon:
Sex and power inside “the C Street House”  —  Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family  —  Editor's note: Sharlet is the author of the bestselling “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.”
Ellen E. Schultz / Wall Street Journal:
Top Earners' Pay Erodes Social Security  —  Fund Expected to Be Exhausted in 2037  —  The nation's wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty pay packages in the financial world.  —  Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S. …
Simon Johnson / The Baseline Scenario:
Three Myths about the Consumer Financial Product Agency  —  This guest post was contributed by Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University.  (Update: more on the case for a CFPA in her YouTube video, released yesterday.)
reason.tv:
Why America Shouldn't “Buy American”  —  Is your iPod unpatriotic?  —  Its 451 parts are made in dozens of nations, and creating the little doodads employs thousands of foreigners.  Final assembly is done in China—a country that right-wingers and left-wingers alike fear is an economic threat to the U.S.
Discussion: Say Anything and Hot Air
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Shut Up, Obama Explained  —  “The time for talk is through.”  — President Obama, talking to liberal bloggers on a conference call Monday night.  —  The Democratic bills in the House and Senate are a thousand pages long.  They're still changing as committees try to mark them up …
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Is the Sun Missing Its Spots?  —  The Sun is still blank (mostly).  —  Ever since Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German astronomer, first noted in 1843 that sunspots burgeon and wane over a roughly 11-year cycle, scientists have carefully watched the Sun's activity.
 
 
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Obama to lobby Energy and Commerce Dems
Discussion: Boston Globe and Pajamas Media
JTA:
Cantor: Set Mideast policies in ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Obama's Strategy to Reverse Manufacturing's Fall
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Moderates Republicans and the GOP Field
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed
Megan McArdle:
The Biggest Obstacle to Bike Commuting
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Vitter vulnerable? Depends
Guardian:
More on centrist logic  —  Following up on yesterday's post …
Discussion: The New Republic and Ezra Klein
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WAY TO GO, SNOWE?.... If the Democratic campaign for health care reform …
Discussion: TPMDC and SEIU
NY Daily News:
President Barack Obama authorizes extended Secret Service guard …