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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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
LA Weekly wets itself over Obama/Joker poster: “The only thing missing is a noose”  —  Hey, remember when it was cool to demonize the president, or even the presidential or vice-presidential nominee?  Sarahcuda had been on the national stage for all of eight weeks last year before she got the rabid vampire treatment.
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Counsel's Job Is at Stake  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House …
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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: Emptywheel and On Deadline
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama vs. Drudge  —  The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline, “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”
Michael Tanji / Danger Room:   White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns; Let's Not Replace Her.
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.
New York Times:
Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of U.S. Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to negotiate the release of two American television journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korean territory …
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Reuters:   Bill Clinton Reported Heading to North Korea
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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Koyaan / PolitiJab.com:   Kenyan Birth Certificate: PWNED!
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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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.
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Wizbang and D-Day
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Ambinder  —  Marc Ambinder seems to think the tea-bagger effort …
Wall Street Journal:
Teeing Up the Middle Class  —  Joe the Plumber's tax vindication is nigh.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Few of President Obama's 2008 campaign pledges were more definitive than his vow that anyone making less than $250,000 a year “will not see their taxes increase by a single dime” if he was elected.
Discussion: Commentary
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   Obama Renews Vow of No Middle-Class Tax Increase
The Hill:   Tax trial balloon pops
Gwen Ottinger / Washington Post:
When ‘Clunkers’ Are Greener  —  Want to be green?  Consider keeping your “clunker.”  —  The wildly popular “Cash for Clunkers” program is one of a number of policies funded by this year's stimulus package that encourage consumers to make major purchases in the name of the environment.
Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market  —  Rebate Program Prescribes Chemical to Stop Car Engines — for Good; Mechanics 'Can't Wait'  —  Robert Mueller deals in chemicals for a living — things that can unstick glue, thin paint, make plastic — but he'd never seen an order like the one he got for sodium silicate.
Discussion: Clusterstock
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Gateway Pundit:
Lib “Blue Dog” Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) Booed, Mocked & Laughed At During Town Hall (Video)  —  Another Day— Another Blue Dog Mocked at Obamacare Town Hall  —  Representative Steve Driehaus (D-OH) held a town hall on health care reform.  While Driehaus campaigned as a fiscal conservative …
Discussion: Little Green Links
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
‘Blue Dog’ Steve Driehaus ripped, mocked, booed and laughed …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Emails between Ensign NRSC lieutenants, Hamptons show affair was known inside organization more than a year ago  —  The emails, between Mike Slanker and Doug Hampton and Lindsey Slanker and Cindy Hampton, show the Slankers knew of the affair between John Ensign and Cindy Hampton while they were working …
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Dion Lefler / Kansas City Star:
Kansas casino partner linked to son's sex scandal
Laura A. Munson / New York Times:
Those Aren't Fighting Words, Dear  —  LET'S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage.  You're still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together.  The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other's eyes in candlelit city bistros …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Deeds' Problem  —  We'll have the new Virginia Gubernatorial poll out in the morning but there is so much to delve into that I'm going to start tonight.  —  Creigh Deeds is not doing well.  But it's not like he's bleeding Obama supporters- in fact the 5% of McCain supporters whose votes he's picking …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Blue Virginia
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And for the Blue Team?  —  We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down.  It's classic agitprop, very akin to the ‘Brooks Brothers riot’ down in Florida during the recount.
 
 
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