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9:25 AM ET, August 19, 2009

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New York Times:
Democrats Seem Set to Go Alone on a Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC poll: Doubts over Obama health plan  —  NBC poll: Misperceptions abound on president's health overhaul initiative  —  WASHINGTON - Two weeks since raucous congressional town-hall meetings on health care became a national story — and days after President Barack Obama began holding his own town halls …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Drudge: Democrats ready to go it alone on ObamaCare?  Update: NYT link added  —  A teaser for an NYT bombshell due out later.  Normally I wouldn't post on it until the article's up but this can only mean that they're going to go all out for the public option and use “reconciliation” if need be to nuke the filibuster in the Senate, no?
The Huffington Post:
Kyl: Co-Ops A “Trojan Horse” For Public Option, GOP Won't Support  —  A key member of Republican leadership in the Senate declared on Tuesday that a cooperative approach to health insurance was merely a “Trojan horse” for a government-run system.  —  In a conference call with reporters …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
David Axelrod's Very Big Problem  —  The allegations in this Bloomberg story —if true— pose a huge problem for a senior advisor to the president, David Axelrod.  This is the heart of the problem: … The problem is that Axelrod's former firm is currently receiving huge fees …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Woman yells ‘Heil Hitler’ to Jewish man praising Israel's national health care system.  —  Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide — despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
It's Time to Give Up On the Public Option  —  Enough already with the public option!  —  It is not the be-all and end-all of health-care reform.  It is not the long-awaited safety net for the uninsured.  And if, as many liberals hope, it turns out to be nothing more than Medicare for All …
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The Huffington Post:
Labor Warns Dems: We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Public Plan
Discussion: Politics Daily
Mike Zapler / Mercury News:
Fiorina takes a step toward challenging Boxer in 2010  —  SACRAMENTO — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina inched closer Tuesday toward a run for U.S. Senate next year, filing paperwork that will allow her to begin raising money for polling, political consultants and other preparations …
Discussion: GayPatriot and Instapundit
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Fiorina takes initial step to challenge Boxer
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Sam Dagher / New York Times:
Massive Explosions Kill Dozens in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — At least 45 people were killed and 300 wounded in a series of truck-bomb and other attacks on Wednesday that rocked areas around official buildings in central Baghdad, the interior ministry said.  —  The explosions, at least …
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BBC:   Dozens killed in Baghdad attacks
Nat Hentoff / Jewish World Review:
I am finally scared of a White House administration  —  The members of that ultimate federal board will themselves not have examined or seen the patient in question.  For another example of the growing, tumultuous resistance to “Dr. Obama,” particularly among seniors, there is a July 29 …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
I Am Vaguely Calling You Out  —  This is a message for all you Chicken Littles, you handwringers, you wannabe strategists, you people who have suggestions or doubts: I am vaguely calling you out.  —  Who you are is not really important.  Why I am vaguely calling you out is also not important.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Kevin Drum / MoJo Blog Posts:
60 Votes  —  Quick background: Republicans will filibuster any healthcare bill that reaches the floor of the Senate, and it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster.  If a healthcare bill includes a public option provision, it's vanishingly unlikely that we can find those 60 votes.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In Appraisal Shift, Lenders Gain Power and Critics  —  Mike Kennedy, a real estate appraiser in Monroe, N.Y., was examining a suburban house a few years ago when he discovered five feet of water in the basement.  The mortgage broker arranging the owner's refinancing asked him to pretend it was not there.
Discussion: The Big Picture and Clusterstock
Martin Feldstein / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Is All About Rationing  —  Overspending is far preferable to artificially limiting the availability of new procedures and technologies.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama's health plan.
Haaretz:
Sweden newspaper: Israel kills Palestinians, harvests their organs  —  A leading Swedish newspaper reported this week that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs, a claim that prompted furious condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitic blood libel from a rival publication.
Jo Becker / New York Times:
A Conservative's Road to Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy  —  Theodore B. Olson's office is a testament to his iconic status in the conservative legal movement.  A framed photograph of Ronald Reagan, the first of two Republican presidents Mr. Olson served, is warmly inscribed with “heartfelt thanks.”
Ryan Sager / New York Times:
Keep Off the Astroturf  —  WITH the “public option” part of President Obama's health care reform plan looking dead in the water, many of its supporters are taking issue with the legitimacy of its opposition.  “We call it ‘Astroturf,’ ” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said of the protesters at town-hall meetings.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Why ‘Obama-care’ is failing  —  The president and his supporters are blaming the wrong people for his healthcare woes — they should look in the mirror.  —  To listen to the White House and its supporters, in and out of the media, you would think that opposition to “Obama-care” is the hobgoblin of a few small minds on the right.
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC POLL: PLURALITY OPPOSES PUBLIC OPTION  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  The question of whether or not the eventual health-care reform legislation will include a public/government option to compete with private insurers has dominated the health-care debate over the past two days.
Spiegel Online:
Danish Conservatives Call for Burqa Ban  —  The immigration spokesman for Denmark's Conservative Party is calling for a ban on the wearing of burqas in public.  He says the garment was introduced by the Taliban and is “not Islamic at all.”  —  Denmark's Conservative Party said this week …
Caroline Baum / Bloomberg:
Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter Office: Caroline Baum  —  Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) — “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine.  It's the Post Office that's always having problems.”  — Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009  —  No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service.
Brian Macker / Washington Examiner:
RHO1953  —  I can't say that I agree with her about anything, but at least she's consistent and not a hypocrite, unlike the vast majority of democrats.  They were anti-war until their man decided to be a war-monger.  Now they are silent.  I suppose they will go back to being anti-war after Obama leaves office.
Discussion: Power Line
Richard A. Posner / Atlantic Correspondents:
Honesty about the Stimulus  —  On August 6, Christina Romer, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave a talk (it can be read at http://blog.prospect.org/blog/weblog/ DCEconClubprint.pdf) entitled “So, Is It Working?  An Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at the Five-Month Mark.”
Discussion: Economist's View and RADAMISTO
Quinnipiac University:
Voters Say 4 - 1 New York State Government Is Broken, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; More Would Dump Their State Senator To Clean House  —  New York State government is dysfunctional, voters say 77 - 19 percent, and 58 percent say it is “the worst” or “among the worst” in the nation …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting  —  A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Allison Rupp / Billings Gazette:
Enzi: Reform health care in stages  —  CASPER - Congress should approach health care reform in steps, instead of trying to put together a comprehensive package said U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.  —  Health care is so massive that reforms can't be made with one major bill …
 
 
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Obama to preach his healthcare message to religious leaders
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