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4:05 PM ET, August 7, 2009

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Leah Thorsen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Six people, including P-D reporter, arrested at Carnahan meeting  —  UPDATE: St. Louis County police say six people were arrested.  Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances.  Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform  —  As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don't agree.  Today, I'm going to step over that line.  —  The recent attacks by Republican leaders …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Town Hall Mob  —  There's a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting.  The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.'s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion.
Wall Street Journal:
‘You Are Terrifying Us’  —  Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care.  There's a new tone in the debate, and it's ugly.  At the moment the Democrats are looking …
Gateway Pundit:
RAW VIDEO!!.....TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED— 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!... 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members  —  ** RAW VIDEO from Missourah blog:  —  A black conservative was attacked by the Carnahan-supporting mob.  —  At least one SEIU member is arrested by St. Louis police in this video:
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
Meet the Mob  —  You've heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll.  By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you'd think it was a motley crue of Hell's Angels.  —  Let me introduce you to the mob:  —  I am the mob.  My kids are the mob.
Adam Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Protesters drown out Tampa health care summit
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   Pearlstein Dubs Health Reform Opponents “Political Terrorists”
K. Daniel Glover / Accuracy in Media:
The Media Take Aim At ‘The Mob’
Discussion: Right Wing News
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
BREAKING: Carnahan staffer admits to causing trouble?
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Town Halls Turning Into Town Brawls
Discussion: Think Progress and Ezra Klein
CBS News:
Teabaggers Shout Down Tampa Bay Town Hall
Discussion: Doug Ross and NewsBusters.org
CNN:
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Florida, will announce that he is resigning his seat, three GOP sources tell CNN.  —  The sources said that Martinez will officially announce his intention to step down on Friday.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Mel Martinez resigning  —  Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) will be resigning from the Senate, according to several senior Republican sources familiar with his thinking.  —  He made the announcement at a morning staff meeting, where he said he will not be returning to the Senate after the August recess.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
FL-Senate: Martinez to Resign
The Campaign Spot:
Mel Martinez, Leaving Office a Little Early?  (UPDATED)
Jack Healy / New York Times:
247,000 Jobs Lost in July; Rate Falls Slightly to 9.4%  —  The American economy lost 247,000 jobs in July, and in a reversal, the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 9.4 percent, the government reported Friday.  —  Although businesses are expected to keep cutting jobs through the rest of the year …
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Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Did The Unemployment Rate Really Go Down?  —  As Derek wrote …
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Presenting new rules for radicals  —  If you're a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading.  If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity.  (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov.)
Discussion: Dr. Helen
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Dodd, Conrad cleared in Countrywide probe  —  The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday dismissed complaints against Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.) over their participation in Countrywide Financial Corp.'s VIP lending program.  —  But the panel cautioned the senators …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Reactions to Rush Limbaugh's Obama/Hitler comparison  —  [updated below (ADL) - Update II (Simon Wiesenthal Center)]  —  As I noted yesterday, the comparison of an anonymous person in the 2004 MoveOn.org ad contest of Bush to Hitler generated a massive media firestorm for a full week …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GOP political tactics and media inanity in a nutshell
New York Times:
Taliban Leader in Pakistan Is Reportedly Killed  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Baitullah Mehsud, the main leader of Pakistan's fearsome Taliban movement, was killed Wednesday in a C.I.A. drone missile strike, two Taliban fighters said Friday, though American and Pakistani officials could not confirm the reports.
Abf / We'll Know When We Get There:
Sincerely, John Hughes  —  I was babysitting for my mom's friend Kathleen's daughter the night I wrote that first fan letter to John Hughes.  I can literally remember the yellow grid paper, the blue ball point pen and sitting alone in the dim light in the living room, the baby having gone to bed.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user  —  A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries  —  Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects.  —  Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting …
Hartford Courant:
The Tea Baggers Are Back — Crazy as Ever  —  Ah, democracy!  It never works better than when informed citizens gather in town hall meetings to discuss and debate the issues of the day.  —  But, oh, democracy!  It's never more damaged than when partisan zealots plot to disrupt town hall meetings …
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Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Ex-DNC Chief on Obama's Problems (and How He Can Fix Them)  —  An entrenched group of Senate Democrats and a staff that lacks governing experience is undermining President Obama's power, says former Democratic National Committee Executive Director Brian Lunde.  —  Take Obama's initiative to overhaul health care, he says.
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
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The Hill:
Axelrod gives Dems their health talking points
Discussion: The Foundry
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Gillibrand Rival Won't Run in Primary  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Carolyn B. Maloney announced Friday that she had changed her mind and had decided not to mount a Democratic primary challenge against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in next year's election.
 
 
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