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1:50 PM ET, September 18, 2009

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Baucus and the Threshold  —  So Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has released his “mark” on proposed legislation — which would normally be the basis for the bill that eventually emerges from his committee.  And serious supporters of health care reform will soon face their long-dreaded moment of truth.
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Ezra Klein:
What's Wrong With the Finance Bill?  An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller.  —  Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) chairs the Finance Committee's Health Care Subcommittee.  His support will be crucial — maybe even decisive - in getting health-care reform out of the Finance Committee.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Snowe: I Haven't Changed, My Party Has  —  It would be easy to over-interpret this statement from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), but it would be a mistake to dismiss it.  —  “I've always been a Republican for the traditional principles that have been associated with the Republican party since …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SNOWE: ‘MY PARTY HAS CHANGED’.... It seems unlikely that Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, Congress' least-conservative Republican, would leave the GOP altogether.  She's been with the party this long, and unlike Arlen Specter, Snowe has no reason to worry about the security of her seat.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
What Baucus Got Right
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care  —  Republicans see a backdoor move toward ‘amnesty’  —  President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senior Democrat turns healthcare debate into fight over immigration  —  Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is putting Democrats in a bind by seeking to let illegal immigrants benefit from the healthcare overhaul.  —  Menendez, the only Hispanic senator, has considerable leverage with Democrats …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama, Too Subtle to Lie, Misleads on Health Reform  —  You lie?  No. Barack Obama doesn't lie.  He's too subtle for that.  He . . . well, you judge.  —  Herewith three examples within a single speech — the now-famous Obama-Wilson “you lie” address to Congress on health care — of Obama's relationship with truth.
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Latest Updates on Protests in Iran  —  To supplement coverage of new opposition protests on Friday in Iran by our Times colleagues Alan Cowell and Robert Worth, The Lede is tracking reports of the events online.  Readers who are in Iran or in touch with people there are encourage to use …
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Gateway Pundit:
MASSIVE PROTESTS IN IRAN On Qods Day (Video)
Discussion: Snapped Shot and The Jawa Report
Reuters:
Iranian president raises stakes against Israel
Discussion: Right Pundits and protein wisdom
Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:
Opposition, Pro-Government Protesters Clash in Tehran
Discussion: Below The Beltway and Swampland
BBC:
Clashes erupt at Iran mass rally
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Amid Protests, Iran Leader Calls Holocaust a Myth
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market  —  Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale.  What to do?  —  Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, It's Not About Race  —  You wouldn't know it to look at me, but I go running several times a week.  My favorite route, because it's so flat, is from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol and back.  I was there last Saturday and found myself plodding through tens of thousands of anti-government “tea party” protesters.
Wall Street Journal:
Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional  —  Why an individual mandate could be struck down by the courts.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington.
Wall Street Journal:
Bankers Face Sweeping Curbs on Pay  —  Fed Plans to Limit How Lenders Can Structure Compensation for Executives, Traders, Loan Officers; 5,000 Firms Affected  —  Policies that set the pay for tens of thousands of bank employees nationwide would require approval from the Federal Reserve …
Associated Press:
Analysis: ‘Racist’ claims defuse word's power  —  With the word being used so often, it's harder to define its meaning  —  Everybody's racist, it seems.  —  Republican Rep. Joe Wilson?  Racist, because he shouted “You lie!” at the first black president.  Health care protesters, affirmative action supporters?
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Walter Mitty / Breitbart.tv:
OBAMA '07 REVELATION: HEALTH CARE REFORM REQUIRES TAX HIKES — SAVINGS JUST A THEORY  —  “I've pushed people on the idea of paying higher taxes in order to implement the system.”
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Missile Plan Might Not Satisfy Russia  —  WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama reached the lectern to announce his plans to reconfigure missile defense plans in Europe, critics at home and abroad were accusing him of knuckling under to Russia.  And to be sure, Russia was happy …
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National Review:
Indefensible  —  President Obama knows how to put a smile …
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Finally, Kudos for the Status Quo  —  From the start of the health-care debate, the president has always posed a choice (one as “false” as any of the “false choices” he routinely derides): my way or the status quo.  And the status quo is supposed to be so awful, so unacceptable, that of course we'll take ObamaCare.
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Washington Post:
Duo in ACORN Videos Say Effort Was Independent  —  Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent  —  The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O'Keefe III's alley.  Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp …
Michelle Malkin:
Olympic-sized boondoggle: What Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama are up to  —  In Culture of Corruption, I spotlight the intimate relationship between Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's crony lawyer Valerie Jarrett and First Lady Michelle Obama.  —  Jarrett's slum lord record in Chicago …
Michael Silence / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Memo to the DNC: What were you thinking?  —  The add essentially takes a non-issue for a vast majority of people and reminds the world how many czars Obama has.  Geez.  Talk about keeping a story alive.  The RNC should list the ad as an in-kind contribution.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and RedState
Robert Lang / WBAL Radio:
See Video: Heckler Removed From Obama College Park Speech  —  Thousands of University of Maryland College Park students mixed with the general public inside the Comcast Center today to hear President Barack Obama put in another pitch for his health care reform proposal.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
O'Reilly endorses the public option, which he previously called ‘socialism.’  —  Last night on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly actually told a Heritage Foundation scholar who was fear-mongering government-backed health care that he favors a public option: … Watch it:
Brian M. Rafferty / Queens Tribune:
Pagan ‘King’ Has Council GOP Nod  —  Dan Halloran, the Republican candidate for City Council facing primary winner Kevin Kim in the 19th District, already has a leadership role in a vast community that very few people know about - or understand.  —  Halloran is the “First Atheling,” or King …
 
 
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Gerald Herbert / Associated Press:
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New poll finds Americans not buying Obama's light-at-the-end-of-the-recession talk
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Katherine Mangu-Ward / Reason:
“If We Can't Stop It, We Can't Stop Anything”
Discussion: Big Government
Jimmy Z / Washington Examiner:
ACORN=SEIU  —  Same Physical Address 1024 Elysian Fields, New Orleans