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7:45 PM ET, September 9, 2009

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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.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
Thomas Friedman is a Liberal Fascist — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  Mark beat me to it, but I must put in my two cents.  Thomas Friedman writes: … So there you have it.  If only America could drop its inefficient and antiquated system, designed in the age before globalization and modernity and …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN PONDERS ‘ONE-PARTY DEMOCRACY’.... I'd overlooked Thomas …
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
GOP Lawmaker's Graphic Sex-Bragging Caught On Tape  —  We've all seen those stories where a careless politician gets a little too candid when speaking into a hot mic.  But this one's really in a whole different league.  —  [RELATED SLIDESHOW: TPM'S HISTORY OF THE SEX-SCANDALOUS FALL OF THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT]
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Shelby Grad / L.A. Now:
O.C. Assemblyman Duvall resigns amid recorded sexual comments  —  Orange County Assemblyman Michael Duvall, who was caught on an open mike making sexual comments, resigned today.  —  “I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly …
Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Vulgar CA Assemblyman Caught On Open Mic Bragging About Various …
Discussion: pandagon.net
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BEWARE OF LIVE MICROPHONES.... California state Rep. Michael Duvall …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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.
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Obama Pitched Universal Health Care to Students in Meeting Prior to His Speech on Education  —  (CNSNews.com) - Prior to his nationally broadcast speech to students on Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a pitch for health care reform in a discussion with 40 freshmen at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va.
Discussion: RBO and Townhall.com
Fox News:
Ahead of Obama Speech, Baucus Says ‘Public Option’ Cannot Pass Senate
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP leaders haven't met Obama for health talks since April  —  The ball is in President Obama's court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning.  —  Boehner told reporters that the president …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House talking points blast Palin  —  A source sends on the talking points the White House is circulating to allies in advance of President Obama's speech, most of them reiterating familiar themes of momentum and security.  —  But the White House has also chosen specifically to focus …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Snowe: White House Needs to Compromise on the Public Option
Discussion: D-Day, TalkLeft and Open Left
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House official: Public option ‘not an end in and of itself’
Discussion: The Politico
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Two precedents in jeopardy  —  Analysis  —  If supporters of federal curbs on political campaign spending by corporations were counting on Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to hesitate to strike down such restrictions, they could take no comfort …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Supreme Court sharply questions ban on corporate spending
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Creigh Deeds in '99: “NO SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS”
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Obliterating the Post's Latest Hit Piece on McDonnell — By: Jim Geraghty
Drudge Report:
WHIP COUNT: DEMS LACK THE VOTES  —  At least 44 more moderate Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record in opposition to the current health care bill in the House, a Hill source claims.  Likewise, at least 57 liberal Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record saying …
Discussion: Don Surber and Hot Air
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Health Care in the Senate: An Interview with Chuck Schumer.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Weiner: “I Don't See Any Way” I Can Vote For Bill Without Public Option
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 …
Jesse Lee / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
The Speech Tonight  —  With all of the TV chatter and bickering, it might be easy to forget what makes health insurance reform such a monumental issue.  It is not about the fortunes of one political party or another; it is about the anxiety and insecurity Americans face …
Discussion: LiveWire, Row 2, Seat 4 and Hullabaloo
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   Preview of Obama's Speech Tonight
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 …
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Jim Myers / Tulsa World:
Boren says Congress should push for removal of unconfirmed “czars”
Discussion: Political Punch and Hot Air
The Huffington Post:
GOP Picks One-Time “Birther” To Rebut Obama's Health Care Speech [UPDATED]  —  UPDATE: An eagle-eyed reader points out that Boustany, after espousing his “Birther” views on camera, below, caved and retracted his statement on a Louisiana KPEL radio show.  —  Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The GOP vs Fiscal Conservatism  —  Charlie Cook and others are predicting a sea-change in public mood, with support for the GOP rising because of deficits.  This strikes me as an amazing thing.  It makes Charlie Brown, the football and Lucy look like the model of intelligent interaction.
Discussion: Swampland and Liberal Values
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FISCAL CONSERVATISM.... David M. Walker, the comptroller general …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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.
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 …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
New Revelations Raise Questions About Justice Sotomayor's Temperament  —  It seems that Sonia Sotomayor celebrated her official ascension to the Supreme Court with a little dance party at the Irish Channel Pub in Chinatown here in DC:  —  Now as Sommer Mathis notes, this is a terrible bar:
Discussion: DCist, Above the Law and Wonkette
Gillian Reagan / New York Observer:
Are the Days of Drudge Over?  —  Just over a month ago, Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent and current communications director for the Obama administration's Health Reform Office, appeared in a video posted on the White House's official blog titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things.”
Jennifer Lebovich / MiamiHerald.com:
11 accused of faking voter registration cards in Miami-Dade  —  Eleven people hired to register potential voters in Miami-Dade County before last year's presidential election were being sought Wednesday for falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards.  —  The Miami-Dade State Attorney's …
Discussion: TPMCafe and The Hinterland Gazette
 
 
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Middle of Nowhere  —  Splitting a baby is actually a bad thing.
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
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Christopher Orr / The New Republic:
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