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9:10 AM ET, October 20, 2009

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Washington Post:
Most support public option for health insurance, poll finds  —  Americans still divided on overall packages  —  A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.
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Wall Street Journal:
Public Option Gets New Life in Senate  —  WASHINGTON — The idea of creating a government-run health-insurance plan, once on life support in the Senate, is making a recovery among Democrats writing health-care legislation.  —  So far, no one is talking about a nationwide Medicare-like plan …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Support for Legalizing Marijuana Reaches New High  —  Majority in the West favors taxing marijuana sales to boost state revenues  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi Aims to Squeeze Skeptics on Public Option With Cheaper Bill Than Senate
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Karen Ignagni / Washington Post:
Defending the insurance industry's report on health reform's cost impact
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A premature celebration for the GOP
TheTandD.com:
DeMint watches out for all of us  —  Recently your newspaper published a letter from state Rep. Bakari Sellers attacking U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and his opposition to congressional earmarks.  —  There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars …
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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:
GOPers: DeMint Like A Jew “Watching Our Nation's Pennies”  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen stepped up to rebut criticism of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in a newspaper editorial Sunday.  But their defense of the senator might be overshadowed …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Scozzafava Calls the Cops  —  Lowville, N.Y.  —  Tonight, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for the November 3 special election in the 23rd congressional district, spoke to about 100 Republicans at the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge 1605.
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Lindsay Beyerstein / Working In These Times:   GOP House Candidate Would Co-Sponsor EFCA With Card Check
US Department of Justice:
Maryland Scientist Charged with Attempted Espionage  —  A Maryland scientist who once worked in varying capacities for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been arrested for attempted espionage, David Kris …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:   U.S. Scientist Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Pass Secrets to Israel
Terry Frieden / CNN:
Scientist charged with improperly passing on classified information
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
John / Power Line:
Iran Double-Crosses Obama  —  This morning, I noted that Iran's government is telling the Iranian people that the Obama administration has consented to Iranian enrichment of uranium, thereby dismaying our European allies.  I linked to, but did not discuss in detail, a Time article that appeared today.
Discussion: Telegraph and Fars News Agency
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Financial Giants Donating Little to Obama Party  —  WASHINGTON — The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and traders.  But their willingness to deliver “thank you” gifts to President Obama …
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Finance Committee bill has been filed  —  Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today.  S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages.  It's still not up yet on the Finance Committee website or Thomas.gov. We'll post a link as soon as we get one.
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The Note:
Finance Bill's Final Language: 1,502 Pages
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Losing: Helen Thomas, NYT, and The Nation Object to White House Fight With Fox News  —  Well, it's not the first time the Grande Liberal Dame of the press corps has had words for the Obama White House, but today Helen Thomas is voicing more unlikely sentiments by telling the White House attack dogs to heel in the Fox News fight.
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Ruth Marcus / PostPartisan:
Obama's dumb war with Fox News
Discussion: Wizbang and Commentary
Jamie Fly / Weekly Standard:
Sen. Kerry's Colossal Error of Judgment  —  Over the weekend, Sen. John Kerry provided some covering fire for President Obama's dithering about his strategy for Afghanistan, telling CBS News that:  —  “I don't see how President Obama can make a decision about the committing of our additional forces …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Christie May Have Gotten Improper Aid  —  When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's office, he said he was merely helping a friend in need.  He also said the aide, Michele Brown …
The Politico:
CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax  —  In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate.  —  Only it didn't.  —  An e-mail press release announcing the change is a hoax, say Chamber officials.
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New York Times:
Afghan Leader Said to Accept Runoff After Election Audit  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a first-round victory in the nation's disputed presidential election …
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Guardian:
Karzai bows to calls for Afghan runoff
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
David Rohde / New York Times:
‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’  —  A NERVOUS-LOOKING Pakistani soldier pointed a rocket-propelled grenade at our pickup truck in late January.  The Taliban guard beside me loaded his rifle and ordered me to put a scarf over  —  my face.
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog and MyDD
Robert Bernstein / New York Times:
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast  —  AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics.  Human Rights Watch had as its original mission …
Discussion: Jeffrey Goldberg and Israel Matzav
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Gates Blindsided by Rahm  —  Yesterday, in light of Rahm Emanuel's comments on delaying the decision on troops for Afghanistan, I asked: “Are Sunday talk show declarations by Emanuel and political advisor David Axelrod an appropriate way to announce the considered judgment of the president …
 
 
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Discussion: EconLog
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Blanche Lincoln Taken to the Woodshed by Public Option Supporters
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael V. Hayden / CNN:
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Discussion: Emptywheel
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Discussion: Think Progress and First Draft
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