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6:25 PM ET, October 8, 2009

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The Huffington Post:
Dean: If I Were A Senator I'd Vote For Opt-Out Public Option  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  One of the most respected progressive voices on health care reform said on Thursday that he could live with and even support a compromise to the public plan that would grant states the right to reject the option entirely.
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Sen. Arlen Specter / The Huffington Post:
Supporting a Robust Public Option  —  As debate continues on much needed health care reform, I urge my Senate colleagues to support a robust public option plan.  It's important that the President's ideas on the public option be implemented to maintain a level playing field.
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Left claims 218 in sight
Kent Garber / US News:
Dean: Public Option Will Hurt Democrats in 2010 Elections
Discussion: Daily Kos and rubber hose
Tony Romm / The Hill:   Pelosi to submit multiple public options for CBO scoring
Michael Scherer / Time:
Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press  —  There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job.  There were instead several such moments.  —  For press secretary Robert Gibbs, the realization came in early September …
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Michelle Malkin:
Do the Watusi: Art, imitation, and the Obamas
Discussion: freerepublic.com and Snapped Shot
Christopher Hayes / The Nation:   Tuesdays With Rahm  —  If you've spent time in progressive circles …
Quinnipiac University:
American Voters Oppose Obama Health Care Plan, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; GOP Gets Lowest Grades Since Obama Elected  —  American voters oppose 47 - 40 percent President Barack Obama's health care reform plan, and don't want an overhaul that only gets Democratic votes …
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Pollster.com:
Articles and Analysis  —  9/30-10/4/2009; 1,500 adults, +/- 3% margin of error
Discussion: Hot Air
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Corzine Points a Spotlight at His Rival's Waistline  —  It is about as subtle as a playground taunt: a television ad for Gov. Jon S. Corzine shows his challenger, Christopher J. Christie, stepping out of an S.U.V. in extreme slow motion, his extra girth moving, just as slowly, in several different directions at once.
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Washington Post:
McDonnell Widens Lead in Virginia Governor's Race  —  Republican Withstands Rival's Attacks on Conservative Social Views  —  Republican Robert F. McDonnell has taken a commanding lead over R. Creigh Deeds in the race for governor of Virginia, as momentum the Democrat had built with an attack …
Michelle Malkin:
Breaking: House ethics panel expands Rangel probe  —  Can Charlie Rangel please stop committing new ethics and financial transgressions so the House Ethics panel can finish all the old investigations first?!  —  Word is just breaking on the Hill that the House ethics committee has once again expanded its probe into his corruptocracy:
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
House ethics committee announces expanded investigation into Rep. Rangel
Discussion: The Note
The Politico:
Ethics panel expands Rangel probe
Discussion: Swampland
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
O'Reilly to Bachmann: You ‘drive the far-left crazy’ because you're ‘good looking.’  —  Last night, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly discussed why she is “second to Sarah Palin in far-left angst,” setting off a conversation between the two about why Bachmann faces …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Wonkette
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
REPORT: ‘We Will Overthrow The Government’ — Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices  —  Last week, the right-wing media outlet Newsmax — which receives 4 million unique monthly visitors and 130,000 print subscribers — published a column by conservative author John Perry arguing …
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Matt Osborne / The Huffington Post:   Treason and Sedition  —  Article III of the Constitution defines …
BBC:
French minister in ‘boy sex’ row  —  France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for “young boys” in Thailand.  —  The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following …
Discussion: Shakesville, Swampland and Wonkette
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
House GOP leaders voting against defense bill  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
House Approves Hate-Crimes Measure as Part of Defense Funding
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
ROMAN POLANSKI BACKERS GAVE $34K TO BARACK OBAMA, DNC  —  Movie industry types calling for the release of director Roman Polanski last year gave $34,000 to Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic Party, FEC records show.  —  Polanski's arrest late last month by Swiss authorities …
New York Times:
In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery  —  WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions.  Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs …
Pew Research Center:
Americans Following Health Care, Economic News  —  Many Aware of Swine Flu Vaccine Arrival  —  The public continued to closely track news about health care reform last week, while the media divided its attention across a range of foreign and domestic stories.
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Counterinsurgency  —  In early March, after weeks of debate across a conference table in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the participants in President Obama's strategic review of the war in Afghanistan figured …
Vince Lattanzio / NBC Philadelphia:
Little Soldier Girl “Didn't Want to Let Go”  —  Four-year old Paige didn't want to say goodbye to her daddy before he was shipped off to Iraq  —  A family photo that shows a little girl beside her father and his fellow soldiers in uniform as they prepare to go to war has resonated well beyond the tight knit Bennethum clan.
Wendy Button / Politics Daily:
Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Without Insurance Now  —  For the first time in my life, I am without health insurance and it is a terrible feeling.  —  In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points …
Discussion: Hot Air and Don Surber
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains  —  Martin Fletcher at Forward Operating Base in Wardak province, Afghanistan  —  American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Burr looking better  —  There is probably no politician in the country whose fate better exemplifies the shift in the national political climate over the last four months than Richard Burr.  —  His approval this month comes in at a very mediocre 36% with an almost equal 35% disapproving of his work in the Senate.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Independents  —  I was listening to all the gasbags drone on all day yesterday about how the “independents” are all unhappy with Obama and are probably going to vote for the Republicans again when just a couple of years ago they were all unhappy with Bush and voted with the Democrats.
David Roman / Wall Street Journal:
Asian Central Banks Intervene as Dollar Tumbles  —  SINGAPORE — The U.S. dollar continued to tumble against most Asian currencies Thursday, prompting a wave of foreign-exchange intervention by central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand seeking to limit damage to their export industries.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
The FTC's Mad Power Grab  —  The commission's preposterous new endorsement guidelines.  —  If you're a blogger and you write about goods or services—and what blogger doesn't write about books, movies, music, theater, restaurants, home theaters, laptops, manicures, clothing, tutoring …
Wall Street Journal:
Intelligence Fiasco Footnote  —  The authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  When it comes to politicized intelligence in the Bush years, the critics may finally have a point.  Perhaps the work of America's intelligence agencies was manipulated …
Paul Krugman:
Is health on the way?  —  Jonathan Chait may be tempting fate a bit here, but it is increasingly looking as if reform has weathered the storm.  —  The key point about health care is that the Democrats have the votes if they hang together.  Against that, there are clearly some Democratic senators …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and TheDailyBanter.com
 
 
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Discussion: Commentary
Martin Feldstein / Washington Post:
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US News:
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