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3:20 PM ET, August 23, 2009

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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Lieberman: 'There's No Reason' To Deal With The Uninsured Until After The Recession  —  Last week, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), the most conservative member of the so-called bipartisan “Gang of Six” working on the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, stated that he preferred that Congress deal with reform incrementally.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Beltway consensus: the Left is to blame for health care battle  —  (update below)  —  The prevailing Beltway wisdom has now ossified that the problem with the health care debate is that those hardened Leftist ideologues cling childishly and petulantly to their little “public option” …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Marine goes nuclear on Democrat over ObamaCare  —  Via, er, HotAirPundit, red meat courtesy of the good folks who hijacked our last thread.  The Democrat in question is Brian “Brown Shirts” Baird, thus the pounding he takes here is extra gratifying.  Not sure I follow the Marine's point …
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Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
Garofalo: Tea Party Protesters ‘Functionally Retarded Adults’; Says ‘I Want My Country Back’ Code for ‘I Want My White Guy Back’  —  You probably already knew Jeanane Garofalo was no fan of conservatives, Republicans or just about anything that could be described as right of center.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Guns of August  —  “IT is time to water the tree of liberty” said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Obama's town-hall meeting in New Hampshire two weeks ago.  The Thomas Jefferson quote that inspired this message, of course, said nothing about water …
Ruth Wedgwood / Forbes:
Releasing Al-Megrahi Bodes Ill  —  It's bad news for future relations between Libya and the West.  —  At every turn, Libya has probed the weakness of the West.  On Dec. 21, 1988, the Libyan state intelligence service blew a Pan Am jet out of the sky, scattering bodies and wreckage over the countryside of Lockerbie, Scotland.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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Gaby Hinsliff / Guardian:
Gordon Brown in new Lockerbie storm
Discussion: Macsmind and AMERICAblog News
New York Times:
The Uninsured  —  One of the major goals of health care reform is to cover the vast numbers of uninsured.  But how vast, really, is that pool of people?  Who are they?  And how important is it to cover all or most of them?  —  Critics play down the seriousness of the problem by pointing …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Fox News:
‘Clunkers’ Program Benefits Foreign Automakers More, Data Shows  —  Smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles like the Toyota Corolla are top sellers, while buyers are trading in SUV's like the Ford Explorer to be scrapped, turning the already dwindling number of American car owners into the growing ranks of foreign car drivers.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Could Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam?  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama had not even taken office before supporters were etching his likeness onto Mount Rushmore as another Abraham Lincoln or the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt.  —  Yet what if they got the wrong predecessor?
Discussion: The Page, Taylor Marsh and Hullabaloo
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Swine Flu Campaign Waits on Vaccine  —  Only Third of Supply Is Expected for First Round of Vast Effort  —  Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications.
Discussion: ChattahBox News Blog
CNN:
Israel hits back over Swedish organ harvesting article  —  JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
New York Post:
PEEVED OBAMA TRUMPS PATERSON'S RACE CARD  —  By FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany and MAGGIE HABERMAN in New York  —  President Obama's aides were so furious that Gov. Paterson dragged him into a rant about racism that they sent a message sharply criticizing the governor's comments just hours after he made them, The Post has learned.
 
 
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Intimidation and Fraud Observed in Afghan Election
Discussion: D-Day and Associated Press
Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
Don't Let the Stimulus Lose Its Spark
Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Obama vacations where the elite meet
Discussion: The Confluence
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A Cul-de-Sac of Lost Dreams, and New Ones
Discussion: The Big Picture
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia Governor's Race Seen as Crucial to Timothy M. Kaine's Political Future
Discussion: Commentary
 Earlier Items: 
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Key Dems' Ethical Clouds Could Haunt Pelosi
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Senator seeks data on health insurer profits
Discussion: Emptywheel and Crooks and Liars
Arthur Martin / Daily Mail:
An overdraft?  That'll be £200 at Lloyds TSB (but only …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Don Surber