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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi's office was told of concerns about Eric Massa  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was notified in October by then-Rep. Eric Massa's top aide of concerns about the New York Democrat's behavior, two congressional sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday night.
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Immigration provision has Hispanic Caucus threatening ‘no’ health vote  —  A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill's immigration provisions.  —  The scheduled meeting comes …
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats looking at ‘Slaughter Solution’ …
Dave Schnittger / GOP Leader Blog:
Democrats Prepare “Slaughter Solution” …
The Politico:
CBC: Obama not listening  —  Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they'll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his.  —  The 43-member caucus is fighting through one of the most difficult periods …
Discussion: The Caucus and DISSENTING JUSTICE
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Strickland will join Obama during Ohio visit
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Hot Air
New York Times:
More Messages Link Senator to Job Effort  —  WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.
Chris Joyner / USA Today:
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date request  —  JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.  —  “Due to the distractions to the educational process caused …
Roll Call:
GOP Ups Ante on Earmarks  —  A day after House Democrats announced a ban on earmarks for private companies, their Republican counterparts hope to dramatically up the ante with a unilateral prohibition on all targeted spending projects.  —  If approved, the Republican policy would restrict GOP lawmakers …
Discussion: Boston Globe and Wizbang
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Dems Put Republicans on Defensive with For-Profit Earmarks Ban  —  Looking to regain the high ground on ethics reform, House Democrats banned budget earmarks for private companies and dared their Republican counterparts to do the same.  —  Earmarks make up less than 1% of the total budget …
Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Hillary Rodham Clinton widens her circle at the State Department  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton ran a presidential campaign notoriously insular and unhappy, managing a group of egos and backstabbers whose dysfunction may have cost her the White House.  Understandably, people wondered what kind …
CNN:
Romney to debut at #1 on New York Times bestseller list  —  Washington (CNN) - Add “best-selling author” to Mitt Romney's long and diverse resume.  —  The former Massachusetts governor's new book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness,” is set to debut in the top spot …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gillibrand aide: Senor's Iraq role at issue  —  With former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor considering a challenge to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, her camp says they'll make a central issue of the only role for which Senor has had a major public profile: The spokesman for the early …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Dan Senor Encouraged to Join New York Senate Race
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Senate Banking Chairman Dodd to go it alone on financial overhaul  —  Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday will unveil financial overhaul legislation without a firm bipartisan deal.  —  Dodd announced Thursday he would schedule a committee markup the week …
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
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Arun Kristian Das / MyFox New York:
Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’  —  MYFOXNY.COM - Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.  —  “No owner or operator of a restaurant …
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
What I Learned at the Tea Parties  —  Both the media and many high profile politicos still seem to be flailing around trying to find some way to label, quantify and pigeonhole the myriad tea party groups which are springing up all around the country.  Even Karl Rove, during a stop to promote his new book …
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop  —  Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years …
Mike Levine / Liveshots:
Holder Failed To Alert Senate To Old Brief  —  During his confirmation more than a year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder failed to notify lawmakers he had contributed to a legal brief dealing with the use of federal courts in fighting terrorism, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday.
Mimi Hall / USA Today:
Obama's liberal base ‘disengaged’  —  WASHINGTON — Is President Obama losing his base?  —  Liberal and progressive organizations that helped propel him to the White House are turning on him now, little more than a year after he took office.  Their collective discontent …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition  —  There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up.  Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
House liberal leader says Obama's stumping not changing many healthcare votes  —  President Barack Obama's stumping for healthcare isn't changing many — if any — votes in the House, a top liberal lawmaker said Wednesday night.  —  Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman …
Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Obama family health care fracas  —  A doctor savages his cousin Barack's reform plan  —  “Primum nil nocere.”  First, do no harm.  This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care.  Sadly, those politicians who would rewrite our health care laws do not live in the same universe …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum …
Anita Burke / Mail Tribune:
Police act swiftly after gun purchases  —  ODOT worker who'd been put on leave is mentally evaluated after buying handguns, AK-47  —  Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement across Southern Oregon to step in.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Ed Henry / CNN:
Ex-Obama adviser: Dems may get ‘slaughtered’  —  Washington (CNN) — Steve Hildebrand was one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, but he has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill.  —  “I think that there is a real shot we …
Discussion: The Hill
Jan Crawford / CBS News:
White House Vs. Supreme Court: It's Getting Ridiculous  —  For the life of me, I just don't get why the White House continues to try to pick a fight with the Supreme Court.  I've suggested before that perhaps it's a sign President Obama intends to tap an outsider when John Paul Stevens retires …
Richard Owen / Times of London:
Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican  —  Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.  —  Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist …
 
 
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
NYC judge: Govt must stop blocking money to ACORN
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