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1:50 PM ET, March 9, 2010

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Stanley Fish / Opinionator:
Do You Miss Him Yet?  —  I know you're not supposed to, but I just love to say I told you so.  —  What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia.
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
WOW, THAT'S SOME THOROUGHGOING RESEARCH YOU'VE DONE THERE, STANLEY  —  You know, maybe the right-wingers have a point about the academy.  Here, blogging for The New York Times, is Stanley Fish, one of America's best-known academics — and take a gander at the careful research he's done …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Crist down big  —  Support for Charlie Crist from conservative voters has pretty much evaporated, and that's allowed Marco Rubio to build a 32 point lead in the Republican primary for Senate.  —  Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Maybe it was a back wax?
Discussion: CNN and AMERICAblog News
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
FL-Sen: Crist Accuses Rubio Of Getting Back Waxes
Discussion: Townhall.com and Commentary
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.  —  Hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has been one of health care reform's most vociferous opponents, warning that “[h]uman beings will die earlier than normal” under the “freedom killing” and “life threatening” plan, and calling for it to be “aborted.”
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Nicholas Graham / The Huffington Post:   Limbaugh: I'll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes (VIDEO)
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
The Health Care Whip Count  —  Dems are aiming to pass health care legislation, once and for all, by Easter recess.  But for all their optimistic talk, one thing remains clear: They don't have the votes just yet.  Then again, they don't have a bill yet, either.
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John Flesher / Associated Press:
Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved  —  TAWAS CITY, Mich. — Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.
Bob Lonsberry:
ERIC MASSA DUPES THE CONSERVATIVES  —  Eric Massa is a snake.  —  But he is a brilliant snake.  —  And in one of the most audacious p.r. moves ever, he has conned Limbaugh, Drudge and Beck - and untold millions of Americans.  From a little radio studio beside a swamp …
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The Note:
Massa Drama: Democratic Congressman Muddles Rahm's Message  —  Since everything on health care apparently hasn't been said yet — or, at least, hasn't been said yet by Eric Massa...  The drama gets a voice.  And it's salty.  —  Massa, the soon-to-be-former Democratic congressman from upstate New York …
The Hill:
Undecided committee chairmen add to pressure on healthcare reform vote  —  A handful of House committee chairmen are either undecided about or plan to reject the healthcare reform bill that is expected to be voted on as early as next week.  —  The prospect of several panel chairmen voting …
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Source of Obama's Trouble  —  The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Glenn Beck, think before you preach  —  UPDATE: Wow.  FOX News claimed copyright and had the video removed.  That's a first.  They never do that.  —  UPDATE: Right Scoop grabbed the video:  —  Something very disturbing happened today on FOX.  Glenn Beck, who has, for the most part …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PRIMARY COLORS.... It's always fascinating to see what politicians are willing to do before they face a primary challenger and after. … It was just a couple of weeks ago when Lincoln said she'd oppose using reconciliation to pass a House-approved budget fix.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:   UPDATED In shift, Lincoln appears to soften opposition
Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Introducing Mediagazer  —  Mediagazer presents the day's must-read media news on a single page.  —  The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry.  What do news organizations need to do to survive?  Will books become extinct?
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Health Care Whip Count Stands at 194-191  —  37 Democratic “No” votes to flip and counting (photo: mag3737 via Flickr)  —  Some movement since I last updated:  —  Dan Maffei and Bill Owens, two central New York Congressmen who voted yes last time, are undecided.  —  Larry Kissell is a confirmed no.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Emotion of Reform  —  We all have our emotional hot and cold spots.  If you asked me about the New York Mets, you'd see a glow in my eyes.  If you asked me about banking reform, words might come out of my mouth, but you'd notice me nodding off midsentence.
Fox News:
Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B  —  Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion “over the next decade,” a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Dems Hold Slight Advantage in 2010 Election Preferences  —  Republicans are significantly more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Democrats lead Republicans by a slight 47% to 44% margin when registered voters are asked which party's congressional candidate …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Joy Behar's Unfortunate Slip Of The Tongue: Calls Karl Rove “Bad C*ck”  —  Joy Behar had on her regular guests Ann Coulter and Hilary Rosen to discuss, among other things, Karl Rove's controversial new book Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.
Discussion: Breitbart.tv
Washington Post:
Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary?  —  Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created …
Rasmussen Reports:
57% Predict Health Care Plan Will Hurt The Economy  —  Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters say the health care reform plan now working its way through Congress will hurt the U.S. economy.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% think the plan will help the economy.
Jim Meyers / NewsMax.com:
Romney: Obama's Healthcare Plan ‘Makes No Sense at All’  —  Former Massachusetts governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tells Newsmax that America needs to change course or face the “unthinkable consequences” of its decline.  —  He also asserts that President Obama's policies …
Discussion: Think Progress, CNN and USA Today
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun  —  PUERTOLLANO, Spain — Two years ago, this gritty mining city hosted a brief 21st-century gold rush.  Long famous for coal, Puertollano discovered another energy source it had overlooked: the relentless, scorching sun.
Nancy Scola / American Prospect:
Consider the Possibility that Congress Isn't Very Smart.  —  Matt Bai has a piece in this weekend's New York Times Magazine riffing off of Larry Lessig's important work in correcting both the perception and practice of Congress being horrifyingly warped by the money that flows into campaign coffers.
BBC:
Israel backs East Jerusalem build  —  Israel has announced the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit.  —  The move has angered Palestinians, whose leaders have only recently agreed to resume contacts with Israel - at Mr Biden's urging.
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
Poll shows Obama, Dems losing ground  —  A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
Robert Montgomery / ESPN:
Culled out  —  Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy  —  The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
 
 
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City Room:
Producer to Plead Guilty in Letterman Extortion Case
Discussion: Mediaite, Law Review and Gawker
Bryan Curtis / The Daily Beast:
Bush's Ghostwriter  —  Blogs and Stories  —  The inside story …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
WSJ Blogs - WSJ:
NY-23: Hoffman Runs Again
Discussion: Politics Daily
Daniel de Vise / Washington Post:
Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls
Discussion: ACS Blog and Outside The Beltway
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Waterboarding for dummies  —  Internal CIA documents reveal …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Value of Anonymity  —  It's true that being briefed by anonymous …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Eschaton and Felix Salmon
Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily:
66% Of Independents Say Obama Is To Their Left
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Graham-Felsen / The Huffington Post:
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ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Michael Jackson's Secretive Life
Discussion: L.A. NOW and National Review
Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
Kollege Kockup: Something Is Not Right In Higher Ed
Philly.com:
Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Hit & Run
David M. Cutler / Wall Street Journal:
Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
Discussion: Paul Krugman and The New Republic