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11:30 AM ET, October 13, 2009

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Washington Post:
As Panel Votes Today, Democrats Look Ahead  —  The Senate Finance Committee will hold a landmark vote on health-care reform legislation Tuesday that is expected to underscore the deep partisan divisions that have emerged and hardened over five months of debate.
John / Power Line:
Dumb “Reform”  —  Today's big news story is the release of a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on the impact the Senate Finance Committee's health care “reform” bill will have on health insurance premiums.  PWC concluded that the cost of health insurance for the average family will rise by $4,000 by 2019, as compared with doing nothing:
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Insurers face blowback after report  —  In the health care reform debate, where playing nice has been the rule, a scathing insurance industry report looked to critics Monday like a grenade aimed at scuttling progress in Congress.  —  But it also looked to some like too little, too late.
The Politico:
Snowe ‘aye’ or ‘nay’ today will drive the fall - What she should do to preserve leverage; what it'll mean for reconciliation talk — Ignagni, Tauzin tie at 12 on GQ's ‘50 Most Powerful People in D.C.’  —  EXCLUSIVE — The men's mag GQ will be out today with “The 50 Most Powerful People in D.C. ...
Gov. Tim Pawlenty / Big Government:
The Baucus Prescription: Higher Taxes and Higher Premiums
Discussion: GOP 12
Catherine Dodge / Bloomberg:
Snowe Vote Shows Obama Whether Republicans Help on Health Care
Discussion: The Swamp and Bellingham Herald
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Overlooks Thousands of Support Troops  —  Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted  —  President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.  But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized …
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New York Times:
Views on Afghanistan Buildup Bring Clinton and Gates Together in an Alliance  —  WASHINGTON — The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert M. Gates delivered a one-two punch in favor of a more ambitious approach.
The Politico:
BRUCE JENNER: BARACK OBAMA UNDESERVING OF NOBEL AWARD  —  TMZ has a video of former Olympian and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” reality star Bruce Jenner weighing in on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win.  —  “He's done nothing,” Jenner said.  “He's done absolutely nothing.”
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Peace Prize Should Belong to the American Electorate
Discussion: Commentary
Letters to The Star-Ledger:
President Obama's Nobel Prize is meaningless; Students shine in Solar Decathlon
Discussion: Get Energy Smart!
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Obama's Peace Prize Won't Reset His Agenda
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
Leadership on Gay Rights  —  FULL EQUALITY for gays and lesbians is the civil rights issue of our time.  Men and women who want to preserve and protect the ideals of this nation are being booted from the military because of who they are.  Same-sex couples who seek the recognition …
Discussion: TalkLeft and AMERICAblog Gay
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Focus On Pelosi And Reid
Discussion: The Stranger …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Liz Cheney takes on ‘radical’ W.H.  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney's eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation's security.
John Nichols / The Nation:
Whiner-in-Chief  —  The Obama administration really needs to get over itself.  —  First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant.  —  Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
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MSteele / GOP.com:
Let me ask you  —  The Internet has been around a while, now.  But, I still find it an amazing platform for innovation, not just in technology, but in life.  Beyond admiring the way it powers so many inventions and businesses, it has become a personal thing for me.
David Leigh / Guardian:
Gag on reporting MP's Trafigura question lifted  —  The question from Paul Farrelly MP which was subject to a gagging order related to the Trafigura toxic waste scandal  —  How the Guardian reported the Trafigura dumping story  —  The existence of a previously secret injunction against the media …
Discussion: Crooked Timber
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Question of When Dishonesty Becomes Criminal  —  In February, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that federal prosecutors had developed an unseemly crush on a particularly vague law, one that had “been invoked to impose criminal penalties upon a staggeringly broad swath of behavior.”
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Second Thoughts in Battle for Virginia  —  WASHINGTON — When State Senator R. Creigh Deeds defeated Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic Party chairman and confidante of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia, the argument among many Democrats …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems undermine free speech in hate crimes ploy  —  What does a hate crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?  —  Nothing, except that the National Defense Authorization Act, which will win final passage in Congress and be sent to the president's desk this week …
Discussion: Power Line and QandO
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Don't Fail, or Reward Success  —  “Compensation continues to generate controversy and anger,” Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said last month.  “And, in many respects, much of it is understandable and appropriate.”  —  On Thursday, Mr. Blankfein and his colleagues …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
A Property Rights Foul
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The Cable Effect  —  I got to the office a bit before 9AM today …
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