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4:15 PM ET, February 12, 2010

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The Politico:
Reid's about-face stuns Dems, W.H.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday over concerns it could be used to batter Democratic incumbents, according to Senate sources.
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Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation:
The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal  —  More than a million spectators gathered before the Capitol on a frosty January afternoon to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, who promised in his campaign to change Washington's mercenary culture of lobbyists, special interest influence and backroom deals.
Rep. Tom Price / Congress Blog:
Now Obama discovers GOP healthcare proposals?
Discussion: Prescriptions
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Man Charged With Stockpiling Weapons Was Tea Partier, Palin Fan  —  The Massachusetts man charged this week with stockpiling weapons after saying he feared an imminent “Armageddon” appears to have been active in the Tea Party movement, and saw Sarah Palin, who he said is on a …
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
‘Warning: Tea Party In Danger’: Leader Slams Palin As 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'  —  A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement “is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” and slamming Sarah Palin as representing “a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party.”
Richard Brookhiser / Wall Street Journal:
Tea Parties and the American Political Tradition
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Riehl World View
Ezra Klein:
A deal on nominations that even a Republican could love  —  The administration scored a big victory last night, or at least it thinks it did.  After President Obama finally threatened to make recess appointments if Senate Republicans didn't let some of its nominees through the confirmation process …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Open Congress and TPMDC
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Richard Trumka / The Huffington Post:   No Deal  —  Senate Republican obstructionists are working overtime …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
27 Nominees Confirmed  —  Barack Obama apparently went …
The Politico:
Why the MSM loves Palin  —  Fox News has been making a serious charge about mainstream political reporters: They hate Sarah Palin.  —  This is not just wrong, it's absurd.  The reality is exactly the opposite: We love Palin.  —  And if Palin does not exactly love us …
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Politico : We're part of the Palin problem ...
Discussion: American Power
Washington Post:
Obama will help select location of Khalid Sheik Mohammed terrorism trial  —  President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition …
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Associated Press:
Administration may abandon civilian 9/11 trial
Discussion: Townhall.com
Mark Arsenault / rimonthly.com:
His Father's Son  —  As the youngest child of Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy has become the heir apparent to a political dynasty.  But six months after his father's death, he reveals what that watershed moment taught him and why he won't run for Congress again this November.  —  Patrick Kennedy talked for hours
Discussion: Swampland and NPR Blogs
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The Politico:
Patrick Kennedy to retire
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Democrats exiting the sinking ship? Part 21: Rep. Patrick Kennedy
Discussion: Power Line and The Hill
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Tim Pawlenty offers a stinging critique of GOP  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty criticized his party in an interview with Esquire magazine.  Photo by Jay Premack/Bloomberg News  —  In the upcoming issue of Esquire magazine, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) offers a harsh rebuke …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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Mark Warren / Esquire:
Tim Pawlenty: The Esquire Interview
Discussion: CNN
Ezra Klein:
Iron Man was right  —  Spencer Ackerman's adjudication of the dispute between Captain America and Iron Man is some of the most relevant punditry you'll read today.  And, incidentally, I agree with Spencer entirely: Iron Man was unequivocally right in the argument over superhero registration.
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Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
Captain America Has a Civil-Libertarian Bent But Iron Man Was Right
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
John Cook / Gawker:
Harold Ford's Tennessee Tax Dodge  —  When it comes to his shadow run for Senate, Harold Ford is a New Yorker through and through.  When it comes to paying taxes, though, he's still a Tennessean — he's never filed a New York return.  —  Ford claims to have moved to New York three years ago …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Ford's NBC contract suspended
Discussion: Gawker
Washington Wire:
Corker: Willing to Be Sole GOP Vote on Financial Overhaul  —  GOP Sen. Bob Corker said he “absolutely” would be willing to buck his party to pass a bill cracking down on financial market abuses and creating new rules to prevent firms from becoming “too big to fail.”
Discussion: The Page
Washington Post:
75% back letting gays serve openly  —  Three-quarters of Americans say that they support openly gay people serving in the U.S. military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a finding that could lend momentum to the Obama administration's effort to dismantle the policy known as “don't ask, don't tell.”
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans and Medicare  —  “Don't cut Medicare.  The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion.  This is wrong.”  So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a recent op-ed article written with John Goodman, the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
David Brooks / New York Times:
What's Next, Mr. President?  —  By 2008, Americans were disgusted with their government.  They were sick of partisan gridlock and general incompetence.  Along came Barack Obama offering to usher in a new era.  It was time, he said, to put away childish things.  —  There were actually two elements to the Obama campaign.
Michael B. Mukasey / Washington Post:
Where the U.S. went wrong on the Christmas Day bomber  —  It seems to me unlikely that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will be known to future generations of lawyers for generating any groundbreaking legal principle or issue.  But when it comes to illuminating our public discourse about the …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dick Durbin Throws Weight Behind Effort To Reform Filibuster  —  Okay, this could be significant: Senator Dick Durbin is now throwing his weight behind a new effort to reform the filibuster, a move that could give it a boost, given Durbin's clout as a senior member of the Dem leadership.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Shocking True Tales of Media Bias  —  I don't begrudge anyone their living, so if people get attractive job offers to go work at Pete Peterson's new Fiscal Times more power to them.  But as we move into a world where more-and-more journalism will be financed on a non-profit basis …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: O'Donnell meltdown on Morning Joe  —  Anyone who recalls Lawrence O'Donnell's meltdown with John O'Neill over the latter's opposition to John Kerry in 2004 won't be surprised at O'Donnell's inability to behave himself with Marc Thiessen on today's Morning Joe.
Jason Embry / Austin American-Statesman:
Is Medina a birther?  —  After ducking questions yesterday about whether the Bush administration aided in the Sept. 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, then saying she has never believed the government was involved, Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina gave a series of interviews late in the day.
 
 
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