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1:05 AM ET, March 18, 2010

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Fox News:
President Barack Obama Talks to Bret Baier About Health Care Reform Bill  —  This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 17, 2010.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  BRET BAIER, “SPECIAL REPORT” HOST: Welcome to Washington.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Bret Baier Keeps Pres. Obama On Track In Combative Fox News Exclusive Interview  —  The first part of the much-anticipated Fox News exclusive interview between Bret Baier and Pres. Barack Obama took place at the top of Special Report, and although it couldn't be viewed as contentious …
Fox News:
Obama Tells Fox News ‘Procedural’ Spat Over Health Bill Vote Doesn't Worry Him  —  President Obama is not worried about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.
Bill Lambrecht / Political Fix:
Costello resisting White House pleas on health-care
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rahm, vindicated?  —  Greg Sargent notes a new poll today indicating that liberal voters are totally unified behind passing the health care plan.  A mere three percent oppose it.  That's a public sentiment that makes it a whole lot easier for even Dennis Kucinich to come along.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Rahm wanted to strip down Senate bill, everyone else wanted a reconciliation fix
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Health Care support on the rise
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Poll: Liberals Entirely United Behind Passing Health Bill
Discussion: The Confluence
John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Israel and the Crisis With Obama  —  Benjamin Netanyahu made the mistake of believing the president is serious about stopping a nuclear Iran.  —  Benjamin Netanyahu's first term as Israeli prime minister collapsed in 1999 in part because he had an unhappy relationship with President Bill Clinton.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Losing face in Israel
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Oberstar will back final bill  —  Minnesota Rep. James Oberstar, an ardent backer of the House abortion restrictions, will vote for the final package after a further review of the Senate's language, giving top Democrats a critical endorsement as they lean on their rank-and-file to back the Senate bill.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Key Anti-Abortion Dem: Passing Senate Bill Would Be “Pro Life”
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Kaptur: Catholic Hospitals May Support Health Care Bill's Abortion …
David Dayen / news.firedoglake.com:
The Kucinich Switch And The Whip Count  —  Dennis Kucinich's reversal and decision to support the health care bill changes the dynamic around the vote, but the ultimate question of whether or not the bill will pass was always going to be decided by the right flank of the caucus.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The GOP health care count: 209 no, 204 yes, 18 undecided  —  There are two ways to count votes for the Democrats' national health care plan.  The first is to tally the lawmakers who are definitely yes or leaning yes.  The second is to count the ones who are definitely no and leaning no.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
New Health Care Whip Count: Still 191 Yes, 206 No (205-209 with Leaners)
Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda crippled as leaders stay in hiding, CIA chief says  —  Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other top leaders deeper into hiding, leaving the organization rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated operations …
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Wall Street Journal:
Top al Qaeda Operative Is Killed in U.S. Drone Attack  —  WASHINGTON—A drone strike last week in Pakistan apparently killed a top al Qaeda trainer who helped supervise December's suicide bombing at a Central Intelligence Agency post in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
Discussion: The Long War Journal
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. commander says bringing bin Laden to justice remains goal
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:
Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16  —  Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.
Julie Millican / Media Matters for America:
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: New England Journal of Medicine says it didn't publish or produce health care “survey”  —  Right-wing media have seized on a dubious, three-month old email “survey” that purports to show that physicians are concerned about health care reform and that 46 percent …
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Mar / Find Physician Jobs at the NEJM CareerCenter:
The Medicus Firm Physician Survey: Health Reforms Potential Impact on Physician Supply and Quality of Medical Care  —  Key Findings from The Medicus Firm Survey  —  Physician Support of Health Reform in General  —  62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Guilty of Practicing Good Government  —  It's Wednesday morning.  House leaders have indicated they want to vote on both the Senate health care bill and amendments to it by Saturday night.  But, as you may have noticed, they still haven't said precisely what the wording of those amendments will be.
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Reuters:
Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage  —  (Reuters) - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV.  The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him …
The Hill:
No CBO score Wednesday night; Saturday healthcare vote unlikely  —  House Democratic leaders on Wednesday night said the long-awaited Congressional Budget Office score of the reconciliation bill will not come out until Thursday, forcing an acknowledgement that a Saturday healthcare vote is likely off the table.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Catholic nuns urge passage of Obama's health bill  —  WASHINGTON — Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama's health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion.  —  Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 …
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CNN:   Nuns break with bishops over health care bill
The Huffington Post:
Feinstein Insurance Reform Kicked Out Of Health Care Bill  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  The Senate parliamentarian told Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday afternoon that her proposal to create a National Insurance Rate Authority runs afoul of reconciliation rules, Feinstein told HuffPost after the conversation.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Rep. Mike Pence: What Dems Are Doing Is Unconstitutional; I Did It Too  —  Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the number 3 Republican in terms of leadership in the House, told The Daily Caller he thinks the self-executing rule is unconstitutional, and then admits he used it himself three times (via Steve Benen)
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Historians blast proposed Texas social studies curriculum  —  Historians criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum Tuesday, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Excise tax questions re-emerging  —  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is headed into a meeting with President Obama this afternoon after the White House and Congressional leaders have begun to discuss a higher-than-expected excise tax on some health care plans, in order to maintain their claim …
Pajamas Media:
New Poll Finds Americans Really, Really Do Not Want ObamaCare (PJM Exclusive)  —  A national poll, conducted by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance with PJM, shows massive opposition to the bill during its final week.  (Click here for poll results.)
Paula Newton / CNN:
Purported al-Awlaki message calls for jihad against U.S.  —  London, England (CNN) — American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for jihad against America, claiming “America is evil” in a new audio message obtained exclusively by CNN.  —  “With the American invasion of Iraq …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Dodd 2.0: Maybe we need to reboot  —  OMG!  I'm turning into Mitch McConnell! :  Wading through the 1,336-page “chairman's mark” of the Senate's financial regulatory reform bill, my initial reaction was the same as the Senate Republican leader's response to any Democratic initiative: Put this sucker aside and start over.
 
 
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