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3:50 PM ET, March 16, 2010

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Washington Post:
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it  —  After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
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Wall Street Journal:
Slaughter House Rules  —  How Democrats may ‘deem’ ObamaCare into law, without voting.  —  We're not sure American schools teach civics any more, but once upon a time they taught that under the U.S. Constitution a bill had to pass both the House and Senate to become law.
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi, Slaughter went to court against GOP's self-executing rule in 2005  —  You've been hearing a lot this week about the Slaughter Solution, the rule devised by House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter of New York whereby the House would pass an Obamacare reconcilliation bill via a rule that …
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Hoyer defends tactic to ‘deem’ approval of Senate health bill  —  Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday defended a tactic that would allow the House to “deem” the Senate healthcare bill passed without actually voting on the bill.  —  Hoyer (D-Md.) said at his weekly news conference …
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP to try to stop ‘Slaughter solution’
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Key Dem: Using ‘deem and pass’ health plan is ‘wrong’
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Hill
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
What Obama is Actually Trying to Do in Israel  —  There is much speculation that this kerfluffle over 1600 theoretical apartments on the wrong side of the green line in Jerusalem will lead to a rupture in American-Israeli relations, but analysts who suggest this are missing the point of President Obama's maneuverings.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin: Hit ‘reset’ — with Israel  —  Former Governor Sarah Palin, increasingly willing to criticize Obama on foreign policy grounds, is joining the chorus of Republican critics of his confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contrasting his policy of engaging enemies with the tough talk to an ally.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Dems rebuke Obama administration for Israel criticism
Discussion: Commentary
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Democrats begin to criticize Obama on Israel
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Biden Effect  —  NEW YORK — I'm tempted to see Vice …
Discussion: Haaretz and Democracy in America
Ezra Klein:
Everything David Brooks says about reconciliation is wrong  —  Jon Chait did a very funny job taking apart David Brooks's column on reconciliation.  I want to do a serious job on it.  The factual statements Brooks uses in his argument are wrong.  Not arguable, or questionable, or suspicious.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Spirit of Sympathy  —  Human beings, the philosophers tell us, are social animals.  We emerge into the world ready to connect with mom and dad.  We go through life jibbering and jabbering with each other, grouping and regrouping.  When you get a crowd of people in a room …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
David Brooks At His David Brooksiest  —  Today David Brooks has written the platonic ideal of a David Brooks column.  It is in some sense the template for nearly every David Brooks column, but it captured the major elements so perfectly that it almost feels as if every previous David Brooks column has been an homage to this one.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   Silly Process Objections
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THIS IS CNN?.... If I didn't get independent confirmation of this, I honestly would have assumed the announcement was some elaborate practical joke.  Alas, it's true. … This is easily the worst decision CNN has ever made.  That the network probably reviewed Erickson's work before hiring him …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Here's My News: Erick Erickson Joins CNN's Roster of Political Contributors  —  A week after Christy decided to be a stay at home mom back in December, I got a call from CNN and was asked to meet some people in Atlanta.  —  Since that time, as you all know, I've been on more than a few times.
CNN:   Erickson joins the Best Political Team
Peggy Ackermann / New Jersey Online:
Court rules Tea Party can proceed with effort to recall Sen. Robert Menendez … A state appellate panel today ruled New Jersey's secretary of state must accept a petition a citizens group filed to recall U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.  —  The court stayed its decision to allow Menendez (D-N.J.) to appeal its ruling.
TheSunNews.com:
SC gov hopeful Haley backed by ex-Mass. governor  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is endorsing state Rep. Nikki Haley for governor.  —  The former Massachusetts governor hailed the Lexington Republican in a statement Tuesday for her character and leadership.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Holding up the health care bill, Rep. Gohmert shouts, ‘I brought an abortion to show you today.’  —  As House Democrats prepare to vote on health care reform in the next few days, tea party activists protested outside the Capitol this morning, shouting cries of “kill the bill.”
Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
Barack Obama threatens to withdraw support from wavering Democrats  —  Barack Obama has said he will not campaign for any Democratic congressmen who fails to support health care reform.  —  The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill.
The Huffington Post:
Jim Bunning's Back: Blocking Nominees Over Canadian Smoking Law  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Jim Bunning, far from being cowed by the national exposure of his recent effort to hold up unemployment benefits for millions of laid-off workers, is back at it in the Senate.
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Petraeus offers first public support for change to don't ask law  —  Gen. David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, said Tuesday the time has come to consider changing the controversial law banning openly gay people serving in the U.S. military.  —  It was the general's most direct answer to date on the issue.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
New Health Care Whip Count: 190 Yes, 206 No (205-209 with Leaners)  —  The leadership says they have the votes, but projecting an aura of confidence has been a key to their pressure strategy.  Bart Stupak says Democrats are 16 votes short, but pessimism has been, well, part of his strategy.
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush  —  One day after being sworn into office, President Barack Obama instructed federal agencies to ensure government transparency by complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act law.
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare and the ‘Buzzsaw’ of Opposition  —  The president could have chosen a bipartisan approach.  —  A little over a year ago, when President Obama first took up health-care reform, Republicans reached out to him in the hopes of working together on solutions that would lower health-care costs for families and small businesses.
 
 
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Mark Preston / CNN:
Obama campaign guru eyes House seat
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Advice To Dems: Sell The Bill
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
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