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3:00 PM ET, August 27, 2009

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Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Pols eye once-in-a-generation opening  —  The death of Democratic titan Sen. Ted Kennedy, which creates the first Senate opening in Massachusetts in 25 years, is likely to release the pent-up ambitions of a long line of Democrats who will find the upcoming special election hard to pass up.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ROMNEY FOR SENATE?.... Whether Massachusetts law is changed or not, the state will host a special election in January to fill the vacancy left by Sen. Edward Kennedy.  It's likely that Massachusetts will elect a Democrat, but it's also likely that Republicans will at least field a candidate.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Who Will Replace Kennedy?
Discussion: Time and The Plank
Fox News:
Richardson Probe ‘Was Killed in Washington’  —  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won't be criminally charged in a federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations.  —  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PREDICTING POLITICIZATION.... It looks like word went out yesterday about what leading conservative voices should say about Ted Kennedy's death: complain about the memorial service that hasn't happened yet. … All of this came the same day Kennedy's death was announced.
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The Politico:
Kennedy's legacy shapes Obama's path  —  Through two years of wearying campaigning, defeats and victories, the cool, disciplined Sen. Barack Obama rarely was overcome by emotion.  Once was on the eve of the election, when his grandmother died.  —  The other time, a close aide recalled, was when Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsed him.
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Teddy Davis / ABCNEWS:
‘Win One for Teddy,’ Say Dems Pushing for Health Reform
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Andrew Breitbart Unleashes A Torrent Of Invective Against Sen …
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Obtained: The RNC's Health Care Survey  —  I just chatted with Raymond Denny, the 64-year-old La Center, Wash., man who received the RNC's “2009 Future of American Health Survey,” which alleged that President Obama's health reform plans might discriminate against Republicans.  Here's the survey question:
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dems: RNC mailing “scurrilous” and “baseless”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Steele Confused, Overwhelmed By NPR Interview: 'Now Wait A Minute.  Hold up. ...  You're Trying To Be Cute.'  —  In an interview with Michael Steele, NPR's Steve Inskeep repeatedly asked the RNC chairman to explain why Republicans keep defending Medicare at the same time they claim …
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Key Democrat suggests party moderates ‘brain dead’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who've pushed for changes in health care legislation are “brain dead” and out for insurance company campaign donations.  —  Moderate Blue Dog Democrats …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
CBS News:
Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data  —  Posted by Declan McCullagh One of the problems with any proposed law that's over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details.  Take the Democrats' proposal to rewrite health care policy …
Laura Saunders / Wall Street Journal:
Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future?  Better Pay Your Taxes First  —  Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman.  —  State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites …
Wall Street Journal:
The Real CIA News  —  Interrogations were carefully limited, briefed on Capitol Hill, and yielded information that saved innocent lives.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Whoever advised people to be skeptical of what they read in the papers must have had in mind this week's coverage of the documents about CIA interrogations.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Big winners in Cash for Clunkers: Toyota, Honda, and Nissan; Update: Parts business big losers?  —  The Obama administration spent three billion dollars subsidizing the destruction of 700,000 vehicles in order to boost car sales.  Which auto makers actually benefited from these American tax subsidies?
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Even The New Republic now calls for a party purge of corporate-owned “centrists”  —  The New Republic, 2004, endorsing Joe Lieberman for President: … TNR's Jonathan Chait, in The Los Angeles Times, 2006, viciously condemning those who mounted a primary challenge against Lieberman (an “anti-Lieberman jihad"):
Discussion: Daily Kos and The New Republic
Rebecca Smith / Telegraph:
‘Cruel and neglectful’ care of one million NHS patients exposed  —  One million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report released today.  —  In the last six years, the Patients Association claims hundreds of thousands …
Ellis Goodwin / Chickasha Daily-Express:
Inhofe slams health reform  —  At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it.  —  “I don't have to read it, or know what's in it.  I'm going to oppose it anyways,” he said.
David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Ted Kennedy death gets expected coverage from cable news networks  —  To the casual viewer, cable news coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy's death Wednesday lined up as neatly as the punch line in a joke about the alleged political agendas of those channels.  —  Starting from the safe premise …
Forbes:
The Stimulus Is Definitely Working?!  —  Proponents ignore both fact and reasoning.  —  The bloviators of the blogosphere have been in full roar the past few weeks over the claimed success of the economic stimulus program.  Much of this was ignited by Christina Romer …
Megan McArdle:
The Power of the Gun  —  A lot of commenters seem sure that having a legal gun around substantially increases the likelihood that someone will, in a moment of rage, shoot someone—so sure that they are clearly convinced I am a lunatic for even suggesting otherwise.  I understand the intuition, and maybe it's right.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Mary Mapes knew Bush volunteered for Vietnam: CBS report  —  This story by Bernard Goldberg certainly takes me back to the early days of my blogging career.  Shortly after the 2004 Republican convention, Mary Mapes produced a segment for 60 Minutes II that alleged that George W. Bush …
 
 
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Daphne Eviatar / The Washington Independent:
Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture
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Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Stop The ACLU
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Uncles  —  They seem kind of hostile to the president.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
A Welcome Chill
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
William Booth / Washington Post:
Mayhem Crosses the Border With Informers
Discussion: TalkLeft
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Health Care Legislation Has Stopped Falling, But Most Still Opposed
Will Inboden / Shadow Government:
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Matt Mackowiak / The Huffington Post:
Gov. Rick Perry's Anti-Washington Rhetoric is Political Double Talk
Discussion: Anne Schroeder's Blog and GOP 12
Christopher Hayes / The Nation:
The Secret Government
Discussion: Swampland, Wonk Room and ATTACKERMAN