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12:15 PM 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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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.
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 …
Karen Ignagni / Washington Post:
Defending the insurance industry's report on health reform's cost impact
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: Maggie's Farm and Commentary
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.
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 …
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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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 …
Ruth Marcus / PostPartisan:
Obama's dumb war with Fox News  —  There's only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don't even have to buy ink.  The Obama administration's war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels.
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The Politico:
W.H.: Media shouldn't follow Fox  —  A White House attempt to delegitimize Fox News - which in past times would have drawn howls of censorship from the press corps - has instead been greeted by a collective shrug.  —  That's true even though the motivations of the White House are clear …
Associated Press:
Gates: Legitimate Afghan gov't could take months  —  ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY JET (AP) — The Obama administration needs to decide on a war strategy for Afghanistan without waiting for a government there to be widely accepted as legitimate, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.
Discussion: USA Today and Brave New Films blog
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Afghan runoff ‘important step’
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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 …
Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Maryland scientist arrested for attempted espionage for Israel  —  The FBI has arrested a former senior NASA space scientist who worked in the George H.W. Bush White House space office for attempted espionage for Israel, the Justice Department announced today.
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Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Maryland scientist Nozette is accused of spying for Israel
Discussion: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Scientist Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Pass Secrets to Israel
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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.
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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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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Employers Hold Off on Hiring  —  Companies across the economy are holding off on hiring even as the profit outlook improves, amid economic uncertainty and their own success at raising productivity in rough waters.  —  Hiring always lags behind in economic recoveries, but the outlook this time is worse, many economists say.
 
 
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