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2:55 PM ET, July 23, 2009

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William Kristol / PostPartisan:
Obama Attacks Docs and Cops  —  President Obama spent most of his press conference tonight denying what President Kennedy famously affirmed — that to govern is to choose.  Obama promised us health care this is at once better and cheaper, with both more regulation and more freedom to choose …
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Boston Herald:
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis  —  Denies he's a racist, won't apologize  —  The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics …
ABCNEWS:
Backlash: Obama's Comments on Gates' Arrest Stirs Reaction  —  White House Says President Was Not Calling The Police Officer Who Arrested Gates Stupid  —  The Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the officer's union …
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Obama Goes Off-Topic, Clearly  —  When a politician says “Let me be clear,” what follows is often anything but.  It's a tradition in obfuscation that probably got a big boost from Richard Nixon's “Let me make this perfectly clear,” one of that president's signature phrases.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama on Gates arrest: No regrets  —  President Barack Obama, who has stirred some controversy with his comment that Cambridge, Mass., police acted “stupidly” in the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., does not regret any of his questioned remarks at last night's news conference.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dan / Riehl World View:
Obama Destroyed His Post-Racial Theme
Discussion: Right Wing News
Washington Post:
At Press Conference, Obama Condemns Arrest of Harvard Scholar
Discussion: Reason and Swampland
The New Republic:
Race, Power, and the Law
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi backs off recess healthcare deadline  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the House can go home for its August recess without passing a massive overhaul.  —  Pelosi dismissed concerns expressed by many Democrats that a monthlong delay could give opponents more chances to rally opposition to the bill.
Discussion: Hot Air, Roll Call and Campaign Silo
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Dems punting on August deadline  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the Senate would not attempt to pass sweeping health care reform until after returning from the August recess.  —  “It's better to get a product that's based on quality and thoughtfulness than on trying …
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Reid: No health care vote in Senate until fall
Reuters:   Senate leader Reid says healthcare bill in September
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Senate Leader Reid: Health Care Bill in September
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Reid bends on healthcare deadline
Discussion: TPMDC
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CNN:
Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe  —  (CNN) — About 30 people, including some New Jersey mayors and several rabbis, were arrested Thursday in a federal investigation of public corruption, the U.S. attorney's office in Newark, New Jersey, said.  —  The probe also involves a …
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
2 N.J. Mayors Arrested in Broad Inquiry on Corruption
Time:
Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days  —  Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude.  For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon …
New York Times:
Obama's Fifth News Conference  —  Following is a transcript of President Obama's fifth news conference, the fourth given in prime-time, as provided by Federal News Service.  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening.  Please be seated.  —  Before I take your questions, I want to talk for a few minutes …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
At big moment, Obama goes small  —  President Barack Obama came alive about 50 minutes into Wednesday night's news conference — when somebody finally changed the subject.  —  The president's remarks on his chosen subject, health care, were cautious and choreographed, hemmed in on one side …
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor  —  The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives.  —  And we've got the latest example.  —  On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded …
CNN:
North Korea launches attack on Clinton  —  BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) — North Korea launched a scathing personal attack on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday after she likened the leadership in Pyongyang to “small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention.”
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Harold Meyerson / Los Angeles Times:
GOP: Going Over the Precipice  —  Because of a quirk in California's Constitution, the minority Republicans have managed to push through a budget that makes the state sicker and dumber.  Where is the Democrats' white knight?  —  The most basic principle of any democracy is that of majority rule …
Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing  —  Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority's health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.  —  House Republicans are crying foul …
Discussion: Hot Air, Moe Lane and JammieWearingFool
New York Times:
Experts Dispute Some Points in Health Talk  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama showed great fluency in the intricate details of health policy at his news conference on Wednesday night, but experts said some of his points were debatable.  —  Mr. Obama said doctors, nurses, hospitals …
 
 
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