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8:45 PM ET, October 29, 2009

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Ryan Ellis / Americans for Tax Reform RSS:
BREAKING: Comprehensive List of Taxes In House Democrat Health Bill  —  H.R. 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” has been introduced—all 1990 pages of it.  This gargantuan beast contains thirteen new tax hikes.  Here they all are, with description and page number (PDF version):
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
House health-care reform bill includes public option  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled a health-care reform bill Thursday that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and immigration remain unresolved.
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Pelosi Drops 1,990 Page Health Care Bill
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Hot Air and RedState
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
McConnell: The Public Option ‘May Cost You Your Life’
Discussion: TPM LiveWire
Stuart Rothenberg / Real Clear Politics:
The Outlook for the 2009 Elections  —  We are still a few days away from Election Day, but party strategists, operatives and local activists are already blaming their own nominees for their defeats.  —  The clearest evidence that the Virginia gubernatorial race is over …
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The Politico:
In shift, GOP leaders embrace Hoffman  —  The House Republican leadership is prepared to welcome Doug Hoffman into its ranks, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said Thursday, a sign that the GOP establishment is recalibrating its approach toward …
Discussion: TPMDC, Hot Air and Weekly Standard
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Christie: 'Man up and say I'm fat'
Discussion: The Awl and Wonkette
Wayne Slater / TRAIL BLAZERS:
Rick Perry endorses Conservative over Republican in NY race
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Iowa Republicans wince at Palin fee  —  A conservative Iowa group's effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group's plan to raise a six-figure sum …
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Holly Bailey / Newsweek Blogs:
Sarah Palin Charging $100K for Iowa Speech?  Not Exactly.  —  Palin in Iowa, November 2008.  Photo by Mark Hirsch / Getty Images  —  Politico's Jonathan Martin has a good story today about an Iowa conservative group's efforts to lure Sarah Palin to a fundraising dinner in Des Moines next month.
Discussion: Hot Air
David Plouffe / Time:
‘Audacity to Win’: Excerpt by Plouffe on Obama Campaign  —  In a new memoir, The Audacity to Win, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's 2008 race for the White House, provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the campaign.  Here's an excerpt:  —  Agony.  Ecstasy.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Nervous W.H. intervened in N.J. race; top Obama adviser now in charge
Discussion: TPMDC
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Began to Grow Again in the Third Quarter  —  Ending the longest contraction since World War II, the United States economy finally grew in the third quarter of this year, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.  —  The nation's gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate …
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Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV:
Gates, Crowley Spotted Together In Cambridge Bar  —  CAMBRIDGE (WBZ) ― Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley were spotted at a pub in Cambridge Wednesday night.  —  The owner of “River Gods” told WBZ the two sat in a booth together and talked for about an hour.
Discussion: Townhall.com, theGrio and TPM LiveWire
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Orly Taitz Smacked Down: Birther Lawsuit Dismissed  —  Central District of California Judge David O. Carter has dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al, Orly Taitz's most successful lawsuit — that is, the one that got the furthest through the legal system — demanding proof of the president's citizenship.
Democracy Corps:
Corzine Leads Christie by Five Points in New Jersey  —  With less than a week to go before Election Day in New Jersey, a new survey conducted for Stan Greenberg and James Carville's organization Democracy Corps shows Democratic Governor Jon Corzine slightly expanding his lead over Republican Chris Christie to 5 points.
Discussion: Daily Kos, MyDD, Blue Jersey and TPMDC
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Disgraceful: In 8 Years, George W. Bush Never Greeted Fallen Troops  —  This is what a president does. … NPR notes that, … Why? … Bush also preferred to go bed early, but apparently, could never get his ass out of bed early enough to honor the soldiers he so recklessly sent off to die.
People-Press.org:
Fox News Viewed as Most Ideological Network  —  Swine Flu Tops Weekly News Interest  —  The Fox News Channel is viewed by Americans in more ideological terms than other television news networks.  And while the public is evenly divided in its view of hosts of cable news programs having …
New York Times:
Iran Said to Reject Key Element of Nuclear Deal  —  WASHINGTON — Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept, in its current form, a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send the country's stockpile of uranium out of the country …
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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Iran claims victory in nuclear battle with the West
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Houston Chronicle:
Colleagues ‘devastated’ by lawyer O'Quinn's death in crash  —  Colleagues mourn; accident also leaves a passenger dead  —  Prominent Houston lawyer John O'Quinn was the man driving a sport utility vehicle that lost control on the rain-slicked surface of Allen Parkway and crashed into a large tree …
Discussion: Law Blog and TRAIL BLAZERS
ACLU:
President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act  —  ACLU Renews Call For Secretary Gates Not To Block Release Of Torture Photos  —  CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org  —  WASHINGTON - President Obama today signed into law …
Atrios / Eschaton:
A Question  —  Last night at a roundtable for our nations's elite, that is to say, “bloggers,” Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President, implied, though did not say outright, that one consequence of the real estate bubble was that manufacturing and other types of businesses were finding it difficult to obtain credit at favorable terms.
 
 
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Ethics to investigate Reps. Waters, Richardson; Graves criticizes OCE
Discussion: The Politico and TPMMuckraker
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
The Mob That Wasn't Greets Arrival Of Pelosi Bill
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Corker Amendment Shall Not Be Introduced
Discussion: The Cable
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Reid Blasts Republicans Over Surgeon General Vote Delay, Other Holds and Filibusters
Discussion: ACS Blog and Ezra Klein
Corrie MacLaggan / Postcards:
Perry on Palin vs. Cheney
WilliamPatrickCorgan / Everything From Here To There:
Health and A Well-Being
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Charlie Crist Gets Desperate. …
Discussion: Erick's blog and The Buzz
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched …
Discussion: RedState and Riehl World View
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Najim Abed Al-Jabouri / New York Times:
For Every Iraqi Party, an Army of Its Own
Discussion: The Daily Dish and ATTACKERMAN
Mark Trumbull / Christian Science Monitor:
Report: Cash for Clunkers was a lemon
Discussion: Hot Air, theblogprof and Gateway Pundit
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Shooting at North Hollywood synagogue investigated as hate crime …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Visits Returning War Dead
 

 
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