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9:40 AM ET, October 21, 2009

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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Medicare for everyone  —  Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.”  —  House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option.
Discussion: The Politico, Obsidian Wings and MyDD
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Lori Montgomery / Capitol Briefing:
House Democrats' desired health bill would cost $871 billion  —  House leaders have cut the cost of their health-care overhaul to around $871 billion over the next decade, Democratic sources said Tuesday night, and were working to line up votes for the package with the aim of bringing it before the full House early next month.
Discussion: Hot Air, msnbc.com and Prairie Weather
David Espo / Associated Press:
Analysis: Courting doctors in health care battle
Discussion: The Foundry
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room  —  Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren't present.  —  Towns' action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican …
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John / Power Line:   Dems Flee Countrywide Vote
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The real reason the White House is attacking Fox News: Containment  —  This seems so obviously correct that I feel embarrassed for not having figured it out sooner. … Allen and Gerstein: … Both Politico and Mediaite note that the expected righteous indignation at being lectured …
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The Politico:
Obama strategy: Marginalize critics  —  This is the first of a two-part look at the marginalization of the GOP.  Tomorrow: GOP officials fear that the party's image is being defined increasingly by boisterous conservative commentators.  —  President Obama is working systematically …
Philip Boroff / Bloomberg:
Carnegie Hall Stagehand Moving Props Makes $530,044  —  Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — After you practice for years and get to Carnegie Hall, it's almost better to move music stands than actually play the piano.  —  Depending on wattage, a star pianist can receive $20,000 a night at the 118-year-old hall …
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Volcker's Voice Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy  —  Listen to a top economist in the Obama administration describe Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who endorsed Mr. Obama early in his election campaign and who stood by his side during the financial crisis.
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Thought Experiments on Birth and Death
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NY-23: Can Doug Hoffman Win?  —  President Barack Obama heads to New York City later today to raise campaign cash for businessman Bill Owens, the party's nominee in the Nov. 3 special election in New York's 23rd district, but the emerging storyline in the race is whether Conservative party …
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's New York Fiasco
Discussion: Erick's blog
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Former rivals Plouffe, Schmidt team up  —  (CNN) - Nearly a year after Election Day 2008, the campaign managers for John McCain and Barack Obama, who spent last year at war, have joined forces.  —  McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign …
WorldNetDaily:
Traditional Americans are losing their nation  —  In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” tea party activists and town-hall dissenters.  —  Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.”  And who might they be?  —  Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers …
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The Politico:
Clinton helps Deeds — sort of  —  It's doubtful that any of the few hundred people who turned up for Democrat Creigh Deeds at a Northern Virginia campaign office needed a reminder that their candidate is trailing badly in his race for governor.  —  They got one anyway …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess  —  President Barack Obama urged Republicans to help clean up the mess the Bush administration left behind in comments at a Tuesday night fundraiser.  —  Obama, speaking to donors to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
Discussion: Truthdig
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser
Discussion: Think Progress and The Politico
Steven Rattner / Fortune:
The auto bailout: How we did it  —  The man who led the effort gives an inside look at the bankruptcies that shook America. … Reporting for my first day of work on the auto task force, I lingered outside a guard shack on Pennsylvania Avenue.  My clearance into the fortress-like Treasury building …
Discussion: Clusterstock and marbury
Steve Huntley / Chicago Sun Times:
Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals  —  Have you heard the news?  President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration.  —  You say that's hardly news?  But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House.  Top Obama adviser David Axelrod …
Washington Post:
U.S. deeply split on troop increase for Afghan war  —  Majority says nation lacks clear strategy  —  As President Obama and his war cabinet deliberate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, Americans are evenly and deeply divided over whether he should send 40,000 more troops there …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner on National …:
Voting Present Is Not an Option — By: Victor Davis Hanson  —  While our Narcissus-in-Chief is frozen gazing at his perfect image in his private pool, choices have to be made in Afghanistan.  Consider the following:  —  (a) We have a Democratically controlled Congress that by and large has supported …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Bill Donohue / Washington Post:
America's secular saboteurs  —  There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the classroom; sexual libertines seek to upend the cultural order by attacking religion …
Examiner:
CDC shocker: Swine Flu killing young people at surprising rate … The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed what public health officials have been saying for some time.  The Swine Flu, pandemic H1N1, is unusually deadly for young people in the United States.
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Grassley Warns HHS Web Site May Be ‘Propaganda’  —  Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Wall Street Journal:
Kerry Emerges as a Broker for Obama  —  WASHINGTON — When Sen. John Kerry left Kabul on Sunday night after an intense series of weekend meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other U.S. officials, he knew Mr. Karzai was still wavering over accepting an audit of election fraud …
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Senior broadcasters on cocaine ‘praised for creative genius’  —  Broadcasting executives addicted to cocaine are routinely praised by bosses for their “creative genius”, a former BBC producer told MPs.  —  Sarah Graham, who worked on children's programmes for the corporation and took cocaine for nine years …
Sandra Block / USA Today:
Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month  —  You floss regularly, yield to oncoming traffic and use your credit cards judiciously, dutifully paying off your balance every month.  —  You may believe that your exemplary behavior shields you from unexpected credit card fees.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
NY Daily News:
Judge revokes Bernard Kerik bail, sends ex-NYPD top cop to jail for trying to taint jury pool  —  A judge tossed former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik in jail for trying to taint the jury pool via the Internet Tuesday - days before the top cop's corruption trial starts.
 
 
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