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10:15 PM ET, January 16, 2010

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dem Mail: Scott Brown Wants Hospitals To Turn Away All Rape Victims  —  This is absolutely brutal: Massachusetts Dems have dropped a mail piece accusing GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown of wanting hospitals to turn away “all” rape victims.  —  The mail piece — sent over by the Brown campaign …
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David / Blue Mass. Group:
BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock  —  Born out of wedlock?  Really??  —  Well, yes.  During (or maybe shortly after) the 2008 Republican convention, Brown was on a panel discussion (aired on the now-defunct CN8 cable news channel) about Sarah Palin.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Massachusetts Race Tests Staying Power of Democrats  —  BOSTON — There may be no better place to measure the shifting fortunes of President Obama and the Democratic Party than in the race being fought here this weekend for the Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy.
Robert Cruickshank / Firedoglake:
MA-Sen: We've Seen This Movie Before  —  When Mike Stark commented on “the implosion” looming for Democrats as evidenced by the Massachusetts Senate special election next week by suggesting he wouldn't phonebank for Martha Coakley, there were a number of replies taking issue with his assessment …
Jon Keller / Wall Street Journal:
The Backlash Is Coming!  The Backlash Is Coming!  —  People in Massachusetts think they're at the leading edge of politics.  That's not good news for Democrats.  —  Boston  —  With characteristic hubris, people in this state like to think they've been at the leading edge of American politics since the …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Quote For The Day  —  “I've been called a lot of things …
Discussion: Dennis the Peasant
Robert Costa / National Review:
Not Wicked Awesome — By: Robert Costa
Discussion: The Natural Truth
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Coakley dismisses Schilling: ‘Another Yankee fan’
Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
I've been called a LOT of things...
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Brown's pushback  —  America...only three (3) more days left to the start of the 2nd Revolution in America...the Voter Revolution of 2010!  And this additional attack is why the “real” American people are fed up with these Chicago mafia style politics!  They are dirty, sleazy and so Democratzi!
Democracy Now:
“Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy"-Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts  —  We speak with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Open Left
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues  —  In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to “cognitively inflitrate extremist groups” by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called “independent” analysts to tout the government line …
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Ohio Democrat Steve Driehaus Losing To Steve Chabot 39% to 56%  —  Steve Driehaus (image via aflcio2008 flickr)  —  FDL/SurveyUSA, 1/12-1/14, 600 likely voters, Margin of Sampling error ± 4.1% … A new SurveyUSA poll sponsored by Firedoglake shows incumbent Democrat Steve Driehaus …
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Campbell Brown Breaks Down Over Death Of Haitian Child  —  Sadly, this little girl's story is one of tens of thousands in Haiti right now, each one heartbreaking and grossly unfair: … If only more talking heads in this country could move past their own limited binary thought of politics …
New York Post:
Hood massacre report gutless and shameful  —  There are two basic problems with the grotesque non-report on the Islamist- terror massacre at Fort Hood (released by the Defense Department yesterday):  —  * It's not about what happened at Fort Hood.  —  * It avoids entirely the issue of
Mark Landler / New York Times:
In Show of Support, Clinton Goes to Haiti  —  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Bearing soap, bottled water and other much-needed supplies, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew into this ruined capital on Saturday and told the Haitian people that the United States “will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead.”
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Weekly Address: Getting Our Money Back from Wall Street  —  As the President continues to work on immediate job creation, he discusses his proposal for a new fee on the largest financial institutions to ensure that every cent of taxpayer assistance gets paid back.
Discussion: The Page and Washington Monthly
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Obama goes after Wall Street over bailout in his weekly address
Discussion: TigerHawk, The Swamp and The Politico
 
 
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Lily Coyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Letter of the day: Haiti suffers, and Robertson sees the hand of Satan
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Spitting Cobra  —  Artillery is called “The King of Battle.”
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Cadillac Plans  —  The agreement between the White House …
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