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10:55 PM ET, February 9, 2010

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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Palin's debut as a motivational speaker: Houston attendees rate her a ‘Fail’  —  After her Tea Party Convention speech this weekend, Sarah Palin flew to Houston to continue campaigning for herself.  The news focused on her appearance at a Rick Perry rally …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill All His Initiatives  —  Update: White House press sec Robert Gibbs just got in touch to confirm that there was an exchange and to clarify a key point.  His comments are below.  —  At the private White House meeting today between Obama …
Discussion: Washington Post and Firedoglake
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Getting Sarah Palin's Paradigm  —  “If the primaries were this year, I suspect she'd be nominated,” a senior adviser to one of Sarah Palin's potential rivals confides.  It's easy to see why: no one who's thinking of running beats the enthusiasm she generates among Republican activists.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Robert Gibbs Goes Dane Cook: Steals Jokes from Sarah Palin to Make Fun of Her  —  Focused like a laser.  —  In a White House briefing where the president showed up (because Howard Kurtz wrote a column) to talk about his bipartisan health-care summit and getting beyond politics to solve problems …
Punkin / Media Matters for America:
Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends not to notice  —  If you don't think there's a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let's play a game of what-if.  —  What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Huffington Post
Alan Schroeder / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin's Tea Party Speech: Beneath Her Wrath A Troubling Contradiction Lurks  —  Sarah Palin's address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville vividly demonstrates why this woman is unlikely to ever become president of the United States: she's too pissed off.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Sarah Palin's soundbite strategy
Discussion: GOP 12
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Gibbs Plays a Palin Hand
Discussion: Daily Kos
Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
Something Much Darker  —  Andrew Sullivan has a serious problem.  —  I.  —  “Trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity to readers of The New Republic is not easy.”  On June 2, 1944, W.H. Auden penned that sentence in a letter to Ursula Niebuhr.  On January 26, 2010 …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Latest From Leon  —  It's been fourteen years since …
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Wieseltier vs Sullivan
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Cantor On The Summit: We'll Be There!  —  It's on!  Eric Cantor, on Fox News just now, made it official: Count Republicans in.  —  Cantor had written a letter with John Boehner yesterday to the White House, apparently laying down some preconditions for attending the White House's health care summit.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Shelby not done blocking nominations
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Daily Kos
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama vows healthcare meeting won't become ‘political theater’
Discussion: The Politico and Hit & Run
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare  —  Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform.  —  The emerging consensus among critics in both chambers is that Emanuel's lack …
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L. Douglas Wilder / The Politico:
Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers  —  During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president.  I did so early, when many Democratic leaders — including many prominent African-American politicians — believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
New York Times:
In Albany, a Rumor of a Rumor Catches Fire  —  Albany — long a place of scandal, the rumor of scandal and the echoing talk about the rumor of scandal — has had a week a bit unlike any other.  Newspapers, blogs, reputable outfits and fringe gossip sites have worked themselves into a frenzy …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Defiant Paterson reports on Times interview: ‘No such questions’
Discussion: Gothamist
Fhardingj / CNN:
New York governor vows to stay in office
Discussion: The Politico
John Brennan / USA Today:
Opposing view: ‘We need no lectures’  —  Administration disrupts terrorists' plots, takes fight to them abroad.  —  Politics should never get in the way of national security.  But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.
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Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers:
Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky  —  Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most want the two sides to keep working to pass comprehensive health-care reform.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Lawmakers Expel N.Y. State Senator Over Assault  —  ALBANY — The New York State Senate on Tuesday night expelled a senator convicted of assaulting his companion, the first time a member of the Legislature was forced from office in nearly a century.  —  Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat from Queens …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Obama Obesity Proposals: The Good, The Bad, The Missing  —  With a flourish of his pen, President Obama signed an executive order this morning creating yet another national anti-obesity strategy.  He was flanked by gaggle of usual suspects — and his wife, Michelle Obama, for whom combating childhood obesity is a cause.
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Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Michelle unveils 'Let's Move' initiative
Discussion: CNN
Jeff Sheng / The Bilerico Project:
Exclusive Pics: Lt. Dan Choi back in service?  —  This past weekend at the NGLTF Creating Change conference, there was a notable absence that many have already tweeted and remarked about.  Lt. Dan Choi was supposed to lead a Knights Out sponsored workshop on Friday morning about ending …
Tony Barber / Financial Times:
Berlin looks to build Greek ‘firewall’  —  Financial markets surged on Tuesday on hopes of a European rescue plan for Greece, as officials in Berlin admitted it was looking at how to construct a “firewall” to prevent the debt crisis spiralling out of control.
Discussion: Paul Krugman and European Tribune
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Javier C. Hernandez / New York Times:
Stocks Rally on Hopes of Greek Bailout
Discussion: Gawker and Matthew Yglesias
Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:
Unemployment taxes slam businesses  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers are getting hit with a massive tax hike at a time when they can least afford it.  —  Companies in at least 35 states will have to fork over more in unemployment insurance taxes this year, according to the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.
Reuters:
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Justin Elliott / TPM LiveWire:
Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently Misunderstanding Buchanan Column (VIDEO)  —  Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday suggested that a war with Iran would be good policy and a boon for President Obama's 2012 reelection hopes.
 
 
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