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11:50 PM ET, August 3, 2009

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KTLA:
Obama ‘Joker’ Poster Causing a Stir in L.A.  —  Obama “Joker” Poster  —  What do you think?  —  When you're taking flak... ÃÂyou know you're over the target,and the person who made this poster is shining the light of truth on the Obama administration.
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Steven Mikulan / LA Daily:
New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster  —  A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.  Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.
Hideaki Tailor / Weekly World News:
OBAMA JOKER POSTER  —  LOS ANGELES, CA - A poster depicting President Obama as Batman's The Joker has begun appearing around Los Angeles.  —  Someone has been creating posters of President Obama in the famous face paint of The Dark Knight's Joker, famously depicted by Heath Ledger.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Blue-State Blues  —  We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn't see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America.  But as the president contemplates his faltering poll numbers and his stalling health-care push …
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Ezra Klein:
Should We Envy Texas?  —  Ross Douthat has a strange column today arguing that Texas — yes, Texas — represents the sort of “model” economy that Barack Obama promised but can't quite seem to achieve.  “The president wants to govern America like a blue state,” writes Douthat.
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Durbin Responds To Lobbyist-Run Efforts To Harass Town Halls: We 'Won't Fall For A Sucker-Punch Like This'  —  ThinkProgress reported today on the growing number of angry right-wing activists viciously harassing Democratic, as well as moderate Republican, members of Congress on health care reform.
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Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Doggett calls protesters a ‘mob’
Postcards:
Doggett says he's more resolved than ever to pass a health-care plan
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’  —  [Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for “birther” debunking.]  —  One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther” …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Obama Brief on State Secrets Rankles the Left  —  A Supreme Court filing from the Obama administration last month has set off alarm bells on the left.  —  The filing was a friend-of-the-court brief, and it mostly dealt with an excruciatingly technical question about the attorney-client privilege.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
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Hotline On Call:
McCain To Vote “No” On Sotomayor
Discussion: Hot Air and Wonkette
Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Republican support for Sotomayor looks paltry
Discussion: The Page
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The scope — and dangers — of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  I want to return to the subject of GE's silencing of Keith Olbermann both because there are new facts I've obtained that shed light on what happened here and because this is one of …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Are Democrats In For An August Slaughter?  —  Democrats know the rulebook.  The tactics being used against them by Republican and conservative groups were perfected by the party when it set out to defeat President Bush's Social Security privatization proposals.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Ambinder  —  Marc Ambinder seems to think the tea-bagger effort …
Weekly Standard:
And That's the Way It Wasn't  —  From the Scrapbook.  —  It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York Times, which we reproduce here for your delectation:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Michelle makes new friend on “The View”
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 things to watch during recess  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner has predicted a “very, very hot summer.”  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bracing for what she calls “the fight of our lives.”  —  Sleepy, sweltering August, typically a month for congressional beach getaways …
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David Corn / Politics Daily:
Obama's Anger Problem?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Paul Krugman:
In defense of Michelle Malkin  —  No, really.  She's been getting a lot of grief from progressive bloggers for saying that extended unemployment benefits cause higher unemployment, and attributing that view to Larry Katz, who has gone to some pains to say that he believes no such thing.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Shirts  —  When members of Congress hold ‘town hall’ meetings in their districts, they should expect to hear from their constituents, many of whom won't agree with what they're selling.  And it's not just that hypothetical, unconnected-with-interested- parties ‘citizen’ we're talking about.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Tea Party Town Hall Strategy: “Rattle Them,” “Stand Up And Shout”
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Both Parties Have Their Fanatics  —  Fully 35 percent of Democrats believe George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Fully 28 percent of Republicans believe Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States.  —  Meet the fanatical third.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
Discussion: Danger Room, Emptywheel and On Deadline
The Hill:
Tax trial balloon pops  —  The Obama administration on Monday quickly shot down a trial balloon it floated over the weekend that opened the possibility of new taxes on the middle class after the idea came under heavy fire from labor unions, liberal leaders and Republicans.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Vents as Overhaul Stumbles  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Discussion: Clusterstock and zero hedge
Juan Cole / Salon:
Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  You two right-wing populists have a surprising amount in common  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in Mashhad, Iran, on Friday; Gov. Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 26.  —  Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
GOP Polling Charts Galore  —  For anyone who enjoys a) charts and b) speculating about who will win the Republican presidential primary in 2012, Pollster.com has just greatly improved your life: the site is now tracking favorability ratings for Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, as well as Sarah Palin.
Andy Vineberg / phillyBurbs.com:
Murphy hears it from both sides of issue  —  At two public events on Saturday, the hot topic was health care reform.  —  The plan was for Congressman Patrick Murphy to discuss health care reform and other hot-button topics with his constituents on a one-on-one basis.  —  The plan didn't last long.
Discussion: TPMDC, Philly.com and D-Day
 
 
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Forbes:
Why Was Biden There?  —  A racial parsing of the “beer summit.”
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected