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12:20 PM ET, July 28, 2009

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New York Times:
Health Policy Now Carved Out at a More Centrist Table  —  WASHINGTON — On the agenda is the revamping of the American health care system, possibly the most complex legislation in modern history.  But on the table, in a conference room where the bill is being hashed out by six senators, the snacks are anything but healthy.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Powers That Be  —  He's got the beet sugar.  —  Not to just keep flogging a dead horse endlessly, but it does strike me as worth noting that when you read a puff piece in The New York Times about the Gang of Six bipartisan dealmakers in the Senate that vast power is being wielded by people who …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and Paul Krugman
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Key Democratic provisions fading fast  —  Bipartisan negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee are moving closer to eliminating two health care provisions favored by many Democrats - a mandate on employers to provide insurance or pay a penalty, and a government insurance option, a senator and health care insiders said Monday.
CNN:
New CBO study: Public health care option won't dominate system
Discussion: Liberal Values
Jacob S. Hacker / Washington Post:
Health Care for the Blue Dogs
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Chamber praises Baucus, jabs at House health bill
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Bachmann blocks resolution declaring Hawaii to be Obama's birthplace.  —  Today, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) introduced a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood.  The resolution also proclaims the state as President Obama's birthplace, a point …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
House Dem Putting GOPers On The Spot By Introducing Measure …
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:   Birthers back Hawaii-Obama resolution
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
‘Obama unlikely to present peace plan’
Scott Mayerowitz / ABCNEWS:
Frothy Diplomacy: What Beer Will Obama Pick?  —  The President Hopes to Ease Tensions by Drinking Beer with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley  —  The easy part for President Obama might have been getting Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard University scholar …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and The Awl
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Gateway Pundit:
Sen. McCaskill's Office Holds Town Hall— TEA PARTY BREAKS OUT  —  Senator Claire “ACORN” McCaskill's office agreed to hold a town hall meeting on Obamacare.  —  A massive Tea Party Protest broke out!  —  Check this out:  —  This tea party protester fired up the crowd:
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Shatner Does The Palin Farewell Speech  —  I haven't blogged on Sarah Palin's bizarre farewell speech, but Conan O'Brien's inspired idea to stage a dramatic reading by William Shatner has wakened me from my dogmatic slumbers:  —  Of course the definitive bizarre Shatner vocal performances can be found on his album The Transformed Man.
Discussion: Althouse and Newshoggers.com
Pareene / Gawker:
Sarah Palin's Gradual Descent Into Incoherency  —  Remember how Sarah Palin graduated from her fiftieth college with a degree in communications?  What the hell happened to addle this woman's mind so much that she can no longer form logical sentences?  We went to the tapes to investigate.
Martin Feldstein / Washington Post:
Obama's Health-Care Reform Plan Is Not the Answer  —  For the 85 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, the Obama health plan is bad news.  It means higher taxes, less health care and no protection if they lose their current insurance because of unemployment or early retirement.
Richard A. Posner / Atlantic Correspondents:
Liberals Forgetting Keynes  —  In a striking turn in the unedifying history of business-cycle economics, John Maynard Keynes's masterpiece, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), was ignored by liberal and conservative macroeconomists alike until the collapse …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Power of Posterity  —  Every day, I check a blog called Marginal Revolution, which is famous for its erudite authors, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, and its intelligent contributors.  Last week, one of those contributors asked a question that is fantastical but thought-provoking …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP's teachable moment on the risks of Obamacare  —  Pick your average member of the House of Representatives, one who has a lot of work to do but hasn't been deeply involved in crafting the massive health care makeover bill.  Who knows more about what's in that bill — Mr. Average Democrat, or Mr. Average Republican?
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Foreclosures Are Often In Lenders' Best Interest  —  Numbers Work Against Government Efforts To Help Homeowners  —  Government initiatives to stem the country's mounting foreclosures are hampered because banks and other lenders in many cases have more financial incentive to let borrowers lose …
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Ruth Simon / Wall Street Journal:   U.S. Effort to Modify Mortgages Falters
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Bashing Goldman Sachs Is Simply a Game for Fools: Michael Lewis  —  From the moment I left Yale and started working for Goldman Sachs, I've felt uneasy interacting with those who don't.  —  It's not that I think less of Goldman outsiders than I did while I remained among you.
Discussion: The Opinionator and Gawker
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Newsweek's Obama Correspondent Joins Administration  —  Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Discussion: Swampland, The Note and Townhall.com
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems have huge day with Latinos  —  Republicans' dilemma in connecting with the growing Hispanic electorate will be on vivid display Tuesday: GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote overwhelmingly against confirming Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latino nominee to the Supreme Court.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FURTHER BLURRING THE LINES.... I continue to be fascinated by the shrinking differences between the nutty, right-wing fringe and the Republican establishment.  Lee Fang flagged this gem yesterday. … Gohmert was on quite a roll, insisting that health care reform will “absolutely kill senior citizens …
Discussion: Think Progress and Prairie Weather
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Study, Texting Lifts Crash Risk by Large Margin  —  The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions.
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Q & A with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal  —  You have said that in Afghanistan protecting the population is the top priority.  What does that mean you stop doing?  —  It means we put as much of our effort as we can to establish security for the population and we stay there so those other critical parts …
Stephen Battersby / New Scientist:
Is Pluto a planet after all?  —  HOW many planets are in the solar system?  The official answer is eight - unless you happen to live in Illinois.  Earlier this year, defiant Illinois state governors declared that Pluto had been unfairly demoted by the International Astronomical Union …
Discussion: The Awl
 
 
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