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11:15 AM ET, March 6, 2010

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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture  —  WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts …
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Obama calls ‘entrepreneurship summit’ with Muslims  —  The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama's outreach to Muslims.  —  The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
CBO: Huge deficits to average $1 trillion per year over the next decade
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution  —  Here's some abject nonsense from Judd Gregg as he tries to foster the misperception that the de facto supermajority created by routine filibustering is part of the Framer's vision of the constitution:
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Andrew Romano / Newsweek:
Majority Rules  —  Seven arguments Republicans should not be making …
Discussion: Liberal Values
Judd Gregg:
Senator Gregg's Senate Floor Remarks on the Democrats' Health …
Discussion: Think Progress
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Dem-turned-GOP cites healthcare debate as reason for switch in party's address  —  Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) on Saturday stressed he joined the ranks of the Republicans last December because the Democratic Party had “lost its way” in the healthcare debate.
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and The Swamp
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Inside Cable News:
Craig Crawford leaves MSNBC...  Longtime MSNBC analyst Craig Crawford has left the network...according to Craig Crawford...  And Crawford saves the real venom, and dirt, for the thread comments...  Crawford was a mainstay on MSNBC for a very long time and also one of the more level headed analysts they had.
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Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
A Point of Personal Privilege  —  For those who might be interested - and you have every reason not to be - I am no longer with MSNBC.  Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: “Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation …
Laura Berman / Detroit News:
Does DPS leader's writing send wrong message?  —  The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation's lowest-achieving big city district.  —  He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence.
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
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theblogprof:
Another symptom of the problem: Detroit school board President …
Los Angeles Times:
White House reconsiders holding terror trials in civilian court  —  Suspected Sept. 11 plotters may be tried before military tribunals after all, administration officials say.  Holding the trials in civilian court is deemed ‘politically untenable.’  —  Reporting from Washington …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Mirror, Mirror  —  Textbook economics is “a bizarre point of view”—according to the textbook's author!  —  (Best of the Tube This Weekend: We discuss the Supreme Court's latest gun-rights case on “The Journal Editorial Report.”  Fox News Channel, Saturday 2 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET, Sunday 6 a.m. ET.)
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Massa To Resign  —  Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) will resign Monday at 5pm, a source close to the embattled incumbent tells Hotline OnCall.  —  Massa has been pressured by House Dems to step aside amid an ethics controversy that caused him to announce earlier this week he would not run for a second term.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Karl Rove sets the record straight — sort of  —  As a White House reporter during the Bush presidency, I often worried that I wasn't getting the whole story.  Now, Karl Rove has finally given it to me.  —  His new book, “Courage and Consequence,” promises to “pull back the curtain …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New Palin scandal: Leno might have piped in some laughter for her jokes  —  Can you believe it?  Next thing you know, we'll be told that she doesn't even write her own lines.  Come to think of it, we were already told that.  And that was treated as a “scandal” too.
The Huffington Post:
Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers: Goldman Report  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Read More: Goldman Steve Lewis, Healht Insurance, Health Insurance Goldman, Insurance Prices, Lewis Insurance.  Rates Premiums, Price Competition, Pricing Competition, Business News
Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:
End Saturday mail: U.S. Postal Service can save billions, join the 21st century  —  The postmaster general of the United States floated the idea of eliminating the delivery of mail on Saturdays to help boost our nation's sagging postal bottom line.  —  In 1957.
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