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1:55 PM ET, October 20, 2009

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: A premature celebration for the GOP  —  Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama's political fortunes in the first nine months of the year but a new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggests the GOP still faces serious perception problems in the eyes of the American public.
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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.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
DeMint denounces op-ed with Jewish stereotype  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is denouncing remarks by two Republican officials in his state that were published in a controversial weekend op-ed which included a Jewish stereotype.  —  The piece, written …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
GOP officials apologize for Jewish stereotype
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE OPTICS PROBLEM
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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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Reporter Does His Job  —  My colleague John McCormack called me last night, as I was watching the Phillies-Dodgers game, from his car in a parking lot in Lowville, N.Y. He had attended a Scozzafava campaign event, tried to ask the candidate a few questions — and the Scozzafava campaign had called the police.
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Scozzafava's response to the Weekly Standard  —  Here's the Scozzafava campaign's response as to why they called the cops on a Weekly Standard reporter last night:  —  “Agree or not with Dede Scozzafava's positions, she should still be afforded a basic level of respect.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid offers doctors a deal  —  The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They'll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors' support of healthcare reform.  —  At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups …
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Does Obama Believe in Human Rights?
Discussion: Commentary and Maggie's Farm
Political Punch:
Today's Qs for O's WH - 10/20/2009  —  From this morning's gaggle in White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' office:  —  Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one -  —  Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based …
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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 …
Lenny Ben-David / Pajamas Media:
Showdown on J Street  —  Pointed questions for director Jeremy Ben-Ami before the new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby's first big conference.  —  J Street's director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, published an open letter to Israel's Ambassador Michael Oren in the Jerusalem Post this week insisting …
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
Michael Oren and J Street
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. decision can't wait for Afghan legitimacy: Gates  —  ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.
Discussion: The Hill and Antiwar.com
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Ben Conery / Washington Times:
Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party  —  U.S. blocks N.C. city's nonpartisan vote  —  Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate …
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 …
Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Ex-Miss Cali owes us boob job payback: lawsuit  —  LOS ANGELES - Deposed beauty queen Carrie Prejean still owes $5,200 for breast implants floated by pageant organizers in January, a new lawsuit claims.  —  Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean stiffed pageant organizer K2 Productions even though …
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.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Good Grief... ANOTHER Mao-Praising Obama Czar Caught on Tape (Video)  —  How many commies have invaded the White House?  —  ...We may never know.  —  But here's the latest Obama Czar praising mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung in a speech:  —  Naked Emporer News  —  Ron Bloom is the Manufacturing Czar.
Advocate:
Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer  —  Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron say that the inefficiencies of the Ryan White CARE Act suggest that a government-run program is not the key to quality health care.  —  COMMENTARY: Right now, there are hundreds of patients …
Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
At rescued banks, perks keep rolling  —  Bosses benefit after bailout Fringe compensation rose 4 percent last year  —  NEW YORK — Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of them …
Discussion: Politics Daily and Felix Salmon
CNN:
CNN Poll: Half the country disagrees with Obama on issues  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack on the important issues, according to a new national poll.  But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
Discussion: Politics Daily
 
 
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
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Discussion: The Daily Dish
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Sanford impeachment resolution likely next week
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Cut the Payroll Tax
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Biden says he first said no to being VP
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Clinton debt under $1M
Wall Street Journal:
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