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3:30 AM ET, October 8, 2009

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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Senate GOP Folding Over Health Care Reform [updated]  —  I am told quite reliably that in a meeting today on Capitol Hill, Republican Senators began to rapidly move toward concessions on health care because they are afraid they cannot hold their members.  Some Republicans are now thinking of supporting a government program.
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Preliminary Analysis of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman's Mark As Amended  —  CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have just issued a preliminary analysis of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman's mark for the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 …
Barb Shelly / Midwest Voices:
Bob Dole outs naysayer Mitch McConnell  —  Bob Dole supports health care reform.  —  “This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes,” the former Republican Senate majority leader and presidential candidate told an audience in Kansas City today.
The Huffington Post:
Dems Discussing Public Option With Opt-Out Clause: The Silver Bullet?  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Senate Democrats have begun discussions on a compromise approach to health care reform that would establish a robust, national public option for insurance coverage but give individual states the right to opt out of the program.
Ezra Klein:
Meet the New Health-Care System, Not That Different From the Old Health-Care System  —  You probably can't see that table particularly well.  Click on it, and it'll enlarge.  It comes from one of the final pages of the Congressional Budget Office's score (pdf) of the Senate Finance Committee's bill …
Dave Helling / KansasCity.com Prime Buzz:
Dole: Health care reform coming late this year or next; “you lost” when Clinton-era reform failed  —  Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole says “there will be a signing ceremony” for a health care reform bill either late this year or early next.  —  But the former presidential candidate says he isn't sure what the bill will say.
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Reid ‘Likely’ to Make Entire Health Bill an Amendment to Unrelated Tax Bill That House Passed in March  —  (CNSNews.com) — A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Is Winning the Health-Care Debate  —  Gallup says independents now favor Republicans by nine points.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Passing health-care reform could be harmful to the health of congressional Democrats.  —  Just look at how President Barack Obama's standing has fallen as he has pushed for reform.
Igor / Wonk Room:
CBO: New Baucus Deficit Neutral Bill Costs $829B, Will Reduce Deficit By $81 Billion Over Next Decade  —  The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the new version of the Senate Finance Committee's health bill “will result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $81 billion over the 2010-2019 period.”
Megan McArdle:
Baucuscare: Score!  —  So, the CBO report is out, and my estimate of the contents is totally wrong.  WonkRoom has a pretty good summary:  —  Old CBO Score Of Baucus Bill  —  New CBO Score Of Baucus Bill  —  Costs  —  Reduce deficits: $49B/10yrs  —  Net Cost: $500B/10yrs  —  Gross cost: $774B/10yrs
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL  —  The internet is alive with the sound of people analyzing the CBO's “scoring” of the Max Baucus aka Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill.  Before everyone gets too deeply into their thoughts, please keep in mind the following (get ready, all CAPS, bold, indented signifies a really important concept):
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
CBO: Baucus bill costs $829 billion, reduces deficit by $81 billion  —  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a cost estimate of the healthcare reform bill under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee, concluding it would increase federal spending by $829 billion over 10 years …
Tevi Troy / National Review:
Eight Thoughts on CBO — By: Tevi Troy
humanevents.capwiz.com:   Legislative Alert Center
The Huffington Post:
Bob Dole: Health Care Will Pass, GOP Should Get On Board
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CBO: Baucus's ObamaCare bill would reduce deficit by $81 billion over 10 years
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
This, Apparently, Is Not a Joke — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez  —  Barack Obama has this hanging in the White House:  —  It proves a gift to Nick Schulz.
Discussion: The TrogloPundit
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Daily Mail:
Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress  —  Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR's Treatment Of Rape  —  In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad.  She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
McCaughey And Me  —  I said my piece about this on this blog a while back.  I do not think it's professional to air the specifics of internal battles after the fact, and I take full responsibility for being the editor of the magazine that published the piece.  I accepted an award for it.
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The Atlantic Online:   Andrew's Bio  —  Andrew Sullivan was born in August 1963 …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
In Private Meeting, Pelosi Floats Watered-Down Public Option, Frustrating Liberals  —  Just when things were looking good for the public option...  In a meeting today between House leaders and rank and file Dems in the capital, Nancy Pelosi frustrated many liberals by suggesting that they consider …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Latest Internal Whip Count: Nearly Three-Fourths Of House Dems …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Religion Largely Absent in Argument About Cross  —  WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court argument on Wednesday about the fate of a cross in a remote part of the Mojave National Preserve in southeastern California largely avoided the most interesting question in the case: whether the First Amendment's ban …
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Steve Farley / PennLive.com:
Gun-toting soccer mom is shot dead … Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter's soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
It'll Be Hard for GOP to Party Like It's '94  —  A big question hangs over American politics: Could next year be 1994 all over again?  —  That was the year a bitter debate over health care led to a disastrous congressional election for Democrats, in which they lost 54 House and 10 Senate seats …
Discussion: Gallup
Peter Eichenbaum / Bloomberg:
Wells Fargo Will Raise Credit-Card Rates Ahead of Law  —  Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) — Wells Fargo & Co. plans to raise interest rates on a majority of credit-card customers by 3 percentage points before federal rules limiting such increases take effect, a company executive said.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
Ayers Dreams of Obama — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  I am not sure what to make of the story that Ayers has now admitted to writing Obama's autobiography.  If it pans out, that is to my mind a very big story.  Stay tuned.  But I do think I should revise my earlier pooh-poohing of Jack Cashill's effort to prove the Ayers-Obama connection.
Jean Kaufman / Weekly Standard:
Reagan and Obama  —  Is America a city on a hill or a country in decline?  —  Ronald Reagan believed in America.  —  One way he expressed this faith was through the image of “a shining city on a hill,” a phrase Reagan uttered in one form or another in many of his speeches …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Keith Olbermann / msnbc.com:
Health care reform: Saving American lives  —  Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform  —  SPECIAL COMMENT  —  Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Michael R. Bloomberg / The Huffington Post:
Gun Show Undercover  —  Ever wonder how criminals are able to get guns so easily?  It's depressingly simple.  On any given weekend, at dozens of gun shows held in states across the country — criminals can buy guns from “private sellers” who are not required to perform background checks.
Patterico's Pontifications:
Tom Shales: I'm Shocked to Be Told I Minimized Polanski's Crime!!  Here, Let Me Do It Again!  —  From a Washington Post chat with Tom Shales today (thanks to several readers): … I'm sure it was you, Tom Shales.  Evidently you need the citation, so here it is, from a column of yours dated June 9, 2008:
 
 
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Breitbart shapes conservative agenda
CNN:
NOW blasts Letterman over affairs with staff
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
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Washington Wire:
Did the First Dog Leave a Number Two on Air Force One?
Discussion: The Faster Times