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12:30 AM ET, January 27, 2010

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David Hammer / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
ACORN ‘gotcha’ man arrested in attempt to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones … Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe …
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Michelle Malkin:
Ugh: ACORN-buster busted at Sen. Landrieu's office in alleged bugging plot; affidavit link added; Update: “Veritas”?  —  Scroll for updates...  The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that James O'Keefe, half of the ACORN-busting duo that conducted undercover stings across the country last summer …
Think Progress:
Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp, Says The Story Probably Needs ‘A Lot Of Context’  —  Fox News has been one of the biggest supporters of James O'Keefe, who is infamous for dressing up as a pimp and videotaping ACORN staffers offering to help the supposed pimp and his prostitutes secure funding for a brothel.
Discussion: Gawker and Wonkette
Publius / Big Government:
James O'Keefe Arrested in New Orleans  —  Statement from Andrew Breitbart: … From the Associated Press:  —  A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused …
Tom Schaller / FiveThirtyEight:
This President Ought to Know Better  —  My post yesterday flowered into a full-blown column for the Baltimore Sun today, in which I concede that America is a center-right nation—but not, however, in the way you might think.  An excerpt first, and then some further observations to follow:
Discussion: Kausfiles
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
4 Arrested in Phone Tampering at Landrieu Office  —  Federal officials arrested four men on Monday and charged them with posing as telephone technicians to tamper with the telephone system in the New Orleans offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana.
Fox News:   Filmmaker Who Targeted ACORN Arrested in Alleged Senate Phone Scheme
New York Times:
Democrats Put Stop on Health Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama's top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying that they no longer felt pressure to move quickly …
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Rachel Slajda / TPMDC:
Lincoln, Bayh Won't Support Passing Health Care Fixes Via Reconciliation  —  Two Democratic senators, Evan Bayh of Indiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have declared that they won't support a plan to have the House pass the Senate health care bill whole, then pass fixes to the bill through the reconciliation process.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Clyburn: House Dems Will Pass Senate Bill If Fix Is Guaranteed …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Can They Get It Done?  With Health Care Reform On The Line, The Senate Waffles
Discussion: The Hill
David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Lincoln and Bayh Vow to Oppose Budget Reconciliation
Discussion: Ezra Klein and AmSpecBlog
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Lincoln Will Oppose Reconciliation
Discussion: Emptywheel and Hot Air
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Dodd's solution? “Re-invite” GOP to table
Discussion: Liberal Values
Stephen Koff / Plain Dealer:
'I'm Ellie Light,' California man says: Obama letter writer talks … WASHINGTON — Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.
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Jared Bernstein / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Budget Freeze-eology 101: Hatchets vs. Scalpels  —  So I'm on my way to do a TV interview last night on a set of middle-class initiatives we announced yesterday, when I learn that what they really want to talk about is our proposed freeze on non-security discretionary spending.
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Paul Krugman:
Obama Liquidates Himself
The Hill:
Lawmakers give cold shoulder to Obama call for budget freeze
Discussion: Doug Ross
Washington Wire:
Book Report: ‘The Politician’ By Andrew Young  —  If Washington Wire readers are interested in reading Andrew Young's forthcoming tell-all on his decade behind the scenes with John Edwards, the story heats up on page 154 when Young begins to recount how the 2008 presidential hopeful …
Discussion: D.C. Now
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   Inside the Edwards Trainwreck
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Fox leads for trust  —  Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.  —  Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll: Fox most trusted name in news
Discussion: TVbytheNumbers and Wake up America
Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
Teleprompter Shot of the Day — By: Rich Lowry  —  Here's Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force.  And people made fun of Reagan because of his notecards!
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Wizbang
John Koblin / New York Observer:
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site  —  In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall.  The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall …
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Public fed up with Washington  —  70% say government isn't working well; Obama approval back at 50%  —  WASHINGTON - As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, he will be speaking to an American public that's fed up with Congress …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
BREAKING: Mike Pence Will Not Run for Senate  —  Sources are confirming for me this morning that Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) will not run for the United States Senate.  —  In fact, later today the Congressman will send out a letter to supporters outlining his reasons.  In it he will write:
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
CNN hopes King ends evening slide  —  When CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton made his annual appearance before Washington bureau staffers this month, he got an earful over the network's decision to shave an hour off “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer in favor of rising star Rick Sanchez and “Rick's List,” his new two-hour show.
Discussion: Mediaite and NewsBusters.org
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Book: John Paul II used belt to whip himself  —  Buzz up!  —  VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and slept on the floor as acts of penitence and to bring him closer to Christian perfection, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case.
The Huffington Post:
Double Standard For Bernanke: Only 50 Votes Needed In Senate  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  When it comes to progressive priorities in the Senate, there's one standard: 60 votes are needed.  But for Ben Bernanke, there's a second standard: 50 will be just fine, thank you.
Robert Reich / Salon:
Is the president panicking?  —  His spending freeze invokes memories of Clinton's shift right in '94.  It's worse because it could doom the recovery  —  President Obama today offered a set of proposals for helping America's troubled middle class.  All are sensible and worthwhile.
Traci Shurley / Dallas Morning News:
Name confusion gets kid's author banned from Texas curriculum  —  Traci Shurley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram  —  What do the authors of the children's book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and a 2008 book called Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation have in common?
 
 
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