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12:45 PM ET, September 16, 2009

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The Hill:
Snowe falls away, leaving Senate Dems without GOP support on healthcare  —  Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she could not back the Finance Committee's bill.
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New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Draws Fire on Both Sides  —  WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday that he could not support sweeping health care legislation drafted in more than three months of bipartisan negotiations by the chairman of the panel …
The Note:
Dem Senator Warns of ‘Big, Big Tax’ on Middle Class in Baucus Bill  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Young Adults May Pay Big Share of Health-Care Reform's Cost  —  As health-care legislation advances through Congress, the young adults who were so vital to President Obama's election are emerging as a significant beneficiary of his top domestic priority, but they are also likely to play a major role in funding any reform.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Most Important Number in Politics Today  —  Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) unveiled his health care bill this morning without any Republican support.  Photo by Melina Mara of the Washington Post  —  That's the number of Republican Senators who ultimately signed on to the health care bill put forward …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
From an Obama Ally, Alarm Bells on Health Reform  —  With apologies to E.F. Hutton: When Ron Wyden talks about health-care reform, people should listen.  When Ron Wyden balks at a Democratic health-care reform proposal, people should definitely listen.  —  The Democratic senator from Oregon …
Max Baucus / Wall Street Journal:
The Senate Is Ready to Act on Health Care  —  Our reform plan would protect the market for innovation.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Over the past decade, American families and businesses have seen their health-care costs skyrocket.  Today, employer-based coverage for a family of four typically costs more than $13,000.
David Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Baucus Releases Senate Health Care Proposal
Discussion: Don Surber
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn  —  WASHINGTON — For months during last year's presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.
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Los Angeles Times:
From ACORN, a mighty controversy grows  —  After the release of several videos highlighting atrocious behavior by some of its workers, the liberal advocacy group needs to clean house.  —  The videos, aired mostly by Fox News and other cable news outlets, are truly shocking …
Michelle Malkin:
What's missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN
Discussion: Riehl World View
Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:
How The New York Times “Covers” The News
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Rasmussen Reports:
12% Say Most Opponents of Obama Health Care Plan Are Racist  —  Twelve percent (12%) of voters nationwide believe that most opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan are racist.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of voters disagree, and 21% are not sure.
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Acorn Runs Off the Rails  —  'We're just community organizers, just like the president used to be.'  —  On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to strip Acorn, the premier community organizing group on the left, of more than $1.6 million in federal housing money meant to assist low-income people obtain loans and prepare tax forms.
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Andrew Edwards / sbsun.com:
ACORN organizer rips video  —  SAN BERNARDINO - The head organizer for California ACORN says a new video that appears to show a staffer at the organization's San Bernardino office is fake journalism.  —  The video, which was posted shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday on a Web site called Big Government.com …
SpeakupAmerica / CBS News:
Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year  —  Posted by Declan McCullagh The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.
Pulling It Together …:
Simple Arithmetic  —  This week we put out our annual benchmark survey of employer health coverage and costs.  Two numbers jumped off the pages.  —  The first number was the average cost of a family health insurance policy in 2009: $13,375.  To put that number in context, if you are an employer …
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Wall Street Journal:
Another Health-Care Invention
Discussion: Commentary
Evan Miller / The New Argument:
BREAKING: DNC, OFA Dump Demand for the Public Option  —  Organizing for America has dropped the demand for the public option from their open letter to members of Congress.  As recently as Sept. 11, the letter featured on OFA's Health Care Action Center stated that health care reform must:
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beliefnet:
Rush Limbaugh hits racial bottom, digs  —  Gang, some of you are going to crack on me hard for this, but I just took down the post from earlier today about the white kid being beat up on the bus by the black bullies.  I used that incident to talk about black male violence …
John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
If Jay Leno Wants Better Reviews He Can Start By Removing the Lapel Flag  —  Critics love David Letterman.  They love him because he's mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure (or their child) who might derail Leftist causes.
Discussion: Liberal Values and Reuters
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
As Right Jabs Continue, White House Debates a Counterpunching Strategy  —  Facing a near-daily barrage of attacks from conservative opponents, White House officials are engaged in an internal debate over how hard to hit back, even as they have grown increasingly aggressive in countering allegations they deem to be absurd.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A McMahon in the Senate?  —  World Wresting Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon (R) will formally enter the Connecticut Senate race today, adding a celebrity element to a contest that promises to be among the most competitive in the country.  —  “Washington is out of control …
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Votes are lined up to appoint a senator  —  Top Democrats press for Mass. bill  —  Senate President Therese M. Murray has not pushed the bill.  —  Legislative leaders on Beacon Hill believe they have narrow majorities in both chambers to give Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint …
Discussion: Philly.com and The Moderate Voice
Megan Fox / New York Post:
Ny Dems give ACORN pimp-slap  —  Cuomo probe & council $$ freeze in ‘brothel’ affair  —  State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday launched an investigation into pork-barrel grants given to ACORN by state lawmakers, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn froze all city funding earmarked …
Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Plan and the Exchanges  —  Color me impressed.  I've argued before that the Health Insurance Exchanges are the most important piece of health-care reform, and they're being unacceptably weakened and constrained.  The House bill, for instance, specifically allows businesses with only 20 or fewer people to join.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Ignoring a Law on Foreign Relations  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has declared that President Obama can disregard a law forbidding State Department officials from attending United Nations meetings led by representatives of nations considered to be sponsors of terrorism.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 
 
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