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1:30 PM ET, September 9, 2009

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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Too late for Obama to turn it around?  —  Plus: The left's visionaries lost their bearings on drugs — but the GOP is led by losers  —  What a difference a month makes!  When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Endorse Public Plan in Speech  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a high-stakes speech Wednesday to Congress and the nation, will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system that has divided lawmakers and voters for months.
Paul Krugman:
Why the public option matters  —  Most arguments against the public option are based either on deliberate misrepresentation of what that option would mean, or on remarkably thorough misunderstanding of the concept, which persists to a frustrating degree: I was really surprised to see Joe Klein worrying …
The Hill:
Tide turns against public option on eve of President Obama's address  —  Political momentum appeared to swing sharply against the public health insurance option prized by liberals Tuesday, on the eve of President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Despite Fears, Health Care Overhaul Is Moving Ahead  —  WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom, here and around the country, is that the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda — remaking the health care system to cut costs and cover the uninsured — is on life support and that only a political miracle could revive it.
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Congress has already exempted itself from Public Option
Sarah Palin / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care  —  The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Media Challenge: Will They Take The Palin Bait?  —  Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, has every right to submit an opinion piece on health care to the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, and they've got every right to print it.  —  But Palin's existence …
Geoffrey Dunn / The Huffington Post:
Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Our One-Party Democracy  —  Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Baucus moves forward with bill  —  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday that he will push ahead with a comprehensive health care reform bill with — or without — Republican support and start a committee markup the week of Sept. 21.
Discussion: The Note
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Barnes: Five Question for Obama
Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush  —  Smoke billows up Tuesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the military entrance to Kabul's airport, killing at least three.  Read the story.  (Photo by Hal Bernton of the Seattle Times.)
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Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Taliban Ambush in Eastern Kunar Kills Four U.S. Marines
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Attacks on Sunstein Frustrate Conservative Fans  —  On January 8, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein would be nominated to run the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.  It was a surprising choice for a job, created in 1980 …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Hot Air, TPMCafe and NewsReal Blog
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Massachusetts Democratic Senate Primary  —  Coakley Takes Early Lead In Race To Fill Kennedy's Senate Seat  —  State Attorney General Martha Coakley is the early leader in the Democratic race to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of longtime Massachusetts Senator Edward M.
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Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Senate race taking twists
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
‘E&P’ Asked Not to Report on ‘NYT’ …
Daily Mail:
‘Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby’  —  Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early.  —  They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court arguments under way in campaign case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled on Wednesday with whether to allow corporations and labor unions to pay for political campaigns and end a century of legislative efforts to curb such spending.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
High Court Weighs Rules On Campaign Finance
Discussion: Reason and AMERICAblog News
Associated Press:
Obama disapproval on health care up to 52 percent  —  WASHINGTON — An Associated Press-GfK poll says that public disapproval of President Barack Obama's handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent.  —  The same survey shows that 49 percent now disapprove of his overall performance as president.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After Thesis Uproar, McDonnell's Strongly Worded Comments on Gays Resurface  —  ‘Homosexual Conduct’ Comments ‘Irrelevant’ to Campaign, He Says  —  In January 2003, then-Del. Robert F. McDonnell helped gavel in one of the most extraordinary judicial reappointment hearings in Virginia history …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Less Spocky, More Rocky  —  As soon as I started covering Barack Obama, I knew he was going to be trouble.  —  Not Global Trouble, like W. and Dick Cheney.  Or Hanky-Panky Trouble, like Bill Clinton and John Edwards.  Or Tedious Trouble, like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
With one simple sentence, ABC News confirms the death of Beltway journalism  —  It's from an online report about the Obama school “controversy,” and it's written by Dan Harris.  In his piece, Harris notes that conservatives pre-emptively blasted Obama's stay-in-school speech even though conservatives …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and ABCNEWS
The Center for Public Integrity:
The Murtha Method … For months, a cloud has swirled around Congressman John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and the relationship that Murtha and other subcommittee members had with the PMA Group, a lobbying firm filled with former subcommittee aides.
Discussion: Washington Wire and The Hill
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
U.S. ‘Unlikely’ to Recoup Auto Outlay, Panel Finds  —  The federal government is unlikely to recoup all of the billions of dollars that it has invested in General Motors and Chrysler, according to a new congressional oversight report assessing the automakers' rescue.
Discussion: Ztower, AmSpecBlog, Wonk Room and The BLT
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As an Exotic Mortgage Resets, Payments Skyrocket  —  Edward and Maria Moller are worried about losing their house — not now, but in 2013.  —  That is when the suburban San Diego schoolteachers will see their mortgage payments jump, most likely beyond their ability to pay.
cop.senate.gov:
The Use of TARP Funds in Support and Reorganization of the Domestic Automotive Industry  —  The Congressional Oversight Panel's September oversight report, “The Use of TARP Funds in Support and Reorganization of the Domestic Automotive Industry,” follows the money and examines how tens …
New York Times:
Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon for Banks  —  When Peter Means returned to graduate school after a career as a civil servant, he turned to a debit card to help him spend his money more carefully.  —  So he was stunned when his bank charged him seven $34 fees to cover seven purchases …
 
 
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John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
What Difference Will Obama's Speech Make?
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The Huffington Post:
Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Toward Tax Reform
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Analysis: Public Option Is Likely Popular in Most Blue Dog Districts
Discussion: Capitol Briefing and Hullabaloo
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Using Public Option (And Big Government) As Wedge Against Dems
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Let's End the Fear-Mongering Over Abortion
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What Obama Says vs. What He Does
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