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7:40 AM ET, February 4, 2010

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tough talk comes after Obama exits  —  Senate Democrats held back from asking President Barack Obama about healthcare reform during a carefully scripted question-and-answer session in front of television cameras.  —  With the cameras rolling, a group of senators selected in advance …
Discussion: The Swamp
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Lincoln presses Obama on party ‘extremes’ at Q and A  —  Centrist Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) on Wednesday asked arguably the most contentious question during a discussion between Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama, hitting at conservatives and liberals.
Baltimore Sun:
Vulnerable Dems seek distance from Obama
Discussion: Don Surber
The Hill:
Scott Brown wil be sworn in as Massachusetts senator Thursday  —  Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R), the successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), will be sworn in to office Thursday afternoon, giving Republicans 41 seats in the upper chamber.  —  “Once we get his certificate …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHY THE SWEARING-IN DATE MATTERS.... When Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R) won his special election in Massachusetts on Jan. 19, it started a routine certification process.  Brown personally suggested to the Senate that he could be sworn in on Thursday, Feb. 11, and the leadership agreed.
Discussion: The Hill
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Brown Surprise: Seat Me Now!  —  Now that his election as Senator from Massachusetts has been certified, Scott Brown wants to get to work — and much more quickly than his colleagues in the Senate had prepared for.  Brown's campaign counsel asked Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to sign …
Larry O'Connor / Big Journalism:
James O'Keefe vs. Max Blumenthal: How the Left Distorts, Invents and Lies  —  It started with a blog post at something called One People's Project, in which someone named Daryle Jenkins claimed: … The photograph that One People's Project shows as its proof (above) is cropped and just shows O'Keefe from the shoulders up.
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Comedian Jon Stewart takes the hot seat with Bill O'Reilly  —  In a vigorous, policy-laden debate, ‘The Daily Show’ host blasts Fox's ‘panic attack’ coverage of Obama and the economy.  O'Reilly says ‘the narrative of a couple of guys’ doesn't represent the whole network.
Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, The Swamp and The Wire
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Palin, Emanuel.  Pot, Kettle  —  Did she really just call for Rahm Emanuel to be fired because he allegedly used the term “f**king retarded” to refer to fellow Democrats in a private meeting?  Last summer?  Did she really?  —  I don't like the term myself.  I think it is offensive.
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Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Official Carly Fiorina Video Wins Current Hour Of Internet  —  OH MY GOD “Carlyfornia” Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has struck again on the Internet and the results are monstrous.  It's best at the beginning and end, especially the end, picking up steam at exactly 2:26.
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Ben Webster / Times of London:
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error  —  The head of the UN's climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.
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Walter Russell Mead / Walter Russell Mead's Blog:   UK Greenpeace Chief Calls on Pachauri to Resign: Al Gore Still Silent
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Grifters' Tale  —  Judson Phillips is a Tennessee lawyer, specializing in personal injury lawsuits, drunk-driving cases and men who get into trouble beating their wives.  It was his idea to incorporate Tea Party Nation as a money-making venture and charge $349 to hear Sarah Palin talk …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
‘We Might As Well Be Able To Vote For Disney’: Tea Partiers Slam …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Currency Dispute Likely to Further Fray U.S.-China Ties  —  WASHINGTON — To the growing list of grievances between the United States and China, add one more: the Obama administration is reviving American pressure on China to stop artificially depressing its currency, a policy that fuels its persistent trade gap with the United States.
Discussion: BBC
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
China Shows Little Patience for U.S. Currency Pressure
Discussion: Beat the Press and The Page
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House Privately Signaling Support For House Passing Senate Bill With Fix, Aides Say  —  White House aides have privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports the House passing the Senate health reform bill with a reconciliation fix, something that could give a bit …
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Edwards hit wife during heated fight: report  —  Disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards reportedly beat his cancer-stricken wife during a horrific marriage-ending fight.  —  “John lost his temper big time,” a close friend of Elizabeth's revealed to the National Enquirer.
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Russian police kill al Qaeda's co-founder in the Caucasus  —  A wanted Egyptian al Qaeda operative who helped establish the terror group in the Caucasus has been killed by Russian security forces during a clash in Dagestan.  —  Russia's Federal Security Service killed Mokhmad Mohamad Shabban …
Discussion: itar-tass.com and Weasel Zippers
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RIA Novosti:   Russian police kill al-Qaeda's ‘sword of Islam’
Christopher Beam / Slate:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Hold Your Breath … - Lithwick: Why Are Republicans So Afraid of Civilian Trials for Terrorists?  - Bogus Trend of the Month: Christian Fight Clubs- No More Trips to the Moon.  What's NASA Going To Do With All Its Sweet Lunar Toys?  - Military Aid to Colombia.
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Powell Favors Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Corey Pein / Santa Fe Reporter:
BORN POOR?  —  SANTA FE ECONOMIST SAMUEL BOWLES SAYS YOU BETTER GET USED TO IT  —  Consider these two numbers.  Don't worry, there won't be a quiz.  —  The first number is 3,500.  —  The second is 32.  —  The first is how many jobs Santa Fe County lost in 2009, according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.
Christopher Weber / Politics Daily:
CIA Accused of Cover Up in Deaths of U.S. Civilians in Peru  —  The CIA was accused Wednesday of lying to Congress and covering up its role in the downing of a plane carrying Christian missionaries nine years ago over Peru, killing an American mother and her infant daughter, ABC News reported.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
New York Post:
Muslim chaplain ‘smuggled’ box cutters into jail  —  A Muslim chaplain for the city Department of Correction was arrested this morning for allegedly trying to smuggle in three box-cutters to a lower Manhattan jail.  —  The imam, Imam Zul-Qarnain Shahid, has worked as a DOC jail chaplain for three years …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
GOP cash provides 2012 clues  —  The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination quietly began last year — maybe not for the candidates, but for their political groups.  —  Sarah Palin's committee paid more than $50,000 for policy advice in the second half of 2009 …
Discussion: GOP 12
Felicia Fonseca / Associated Press:
Motivational speaker charged in sweat lodge deaths  —  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happened after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona last year.
Discussion: Arizona Republic and TalkLeft
Agence France Presse:
US debt to hit proposed ceiling by end-February: Treasury  —  WASHINGTON — The US debt is on track to hit a congressionally proposed debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars by the end of February, the Treasury said Wednesday, a day ahead of a key vote to raise it to that level.
Newsdesk / Clout St:
New questions in 2005 arrest of Democratic lieutenant governor nominee  —  UPDATED at 8:24 p.m. with additional Quinn comment; originally posted by David Heinzmann and Ray Long at 7:55 p.m.  —  The newly minted Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor said Wednesday he doesn't think a …
 
 
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