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5:20 PM ET, March 17, 2010

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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
House Majority Leader: 'We're Going to Have a Clean Up or Down Vote'  —  Steny Hoyer, Eric Cantor Spar Over Health Care Vote Count, Parliamentary Tactics  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer today hinted that Democrats may use a controversial parliamentary procedure to pass the health care bill …
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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.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Health Care support on the rise  —  Barack Obama's approval rating really seems to have entered into a holding pattern.  Every national survey we've done in the last four months has shown his approval fluctuating between 46 and 49%, and his disapproval fluctuating between 46 and 49%.
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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David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Stupak Ally in House Approves Senate Abortion Restrictions
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Kaptur: Catholic Hospitals May Support Health Care Bill's Abortion …
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 …
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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 …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes  —  In a big get for House Dems, Dennis Kucinich just made it official: He's voting for the Senate bill, making him the first member to go on record fliping his vote from No to Yes.  —  “In the past week it's become clear that the vote on the final bill will be very close …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Dennis Kucinich Will Return Money to Donors
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama returns to ‘the scene of the crime’ — Health shortcut may face Supreme Court challenge — Hildebrand may run for House if health vote is close — Holder: Osama won't be taken alive  —  DRIVING ST. PATRICK'S DAY: President Obama sits down at the White House this afternoon with Bret Baier …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Why's Obama going on Fox?
Bill Lambrecht / Political Fix:
Costello resisting White House pleas on health-care
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Premiums would rise under Obama plan  —  WASHINGTON — Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.  —  Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say.
Haaretz:
Netanyahu's brother-in-law: Obama is an anti-Semite  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi on Wednesday called U.S. President Barack Obama an anti-Semite in an interview with Army Radio.  —  “It's not that Obama doesn't like Bibi,” he referring to Netanyahu using his nickname.
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John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Israel and the Crisis With Obama
Discussion: Israel Matzav and protein wisdom
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:   Where is the outrage?  —  Not long after President Barack Obama gave …
Think Progress:
Health care reform protesters mock man carrying sign saying he has Parkinson's disease.  —  Activists staged “competing rallies” outside of Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy's (D-OH) district office yesterday, in a noisy, often confrontational attempt to influence the undecided congresswoman's vote.
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Ezra Klein:
Was Medicare popular when it passed?  —  For some time, I've been trying to find good polling from the passage of Medicare.  According to Greg Sargent, though, the Democrats beat me to it: … I wonder how many of the legislators who took the tough vote to move Medicare forward regret doing that today.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Polling Medicare  —  Ezra Klein writes:
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Allies everywhere feeling snubbed by President Obama  —  The contretemps between President Obama and Israel needs to be seen in a broader global context.  The president who ran against “unilateralism” in the 2008 campaign has worse relations overall with American allies than George W. Bush did in his second term.
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
CBO crumbles under health workload  —  The Democrats' push to get healthcare reform passed through Congress is putting incredible strain on staff in the Congressional Budget Office - a stressor that may have contributed to the recent incorrect scoring of a draft House provision.
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New York Times:
McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship  —  WASHINGTON — Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure …
Murray Waas / forexyard.com:
SPECIAL REPORT-Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage  —  USA-HEALTHCARE/INSURANCE-HIV (RPT, SPECIAL REPORT)  —  * HIV positive at 17, college freshman lost insurance  —  * Fortis used algorithms to target HIV patients  —  * Fortis, now Assurant, ordered to pay $10 million
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 …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Jobs Bill Passes in Senate With 11 Votes From Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate approved and sent to President Obama on Wednesday what Congressional Democrats hope will be the first in a series of bills spurring employment by providing tax breaks and other hiring incentives to businesses.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bibi's Tense Time-Out  —  So, Barack Obama can lose his temper without a teleprompter.  And we have the supremely aggravating Bibi Netanyahu to thank for that.  —  On St. Patrick's Day, of all days, we wouldn't want to think that our president did not know how to pick his donnybrooks.
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.
Marjorie Margolies / Washington Post:
Democrats: Vote your conscience on health care  —  I feel your pain.  Eighteen years ago, I was elected on the coattails of a popular young Democratic president who promised a post-partisan Washington.  A year later, with partisan gridlock capturing the Capitol, there was a razor-thin vote …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
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 …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Hot Air and Swampland
Tom Coghlan / Times of London:
Combat dogs take to the skies for secret missions in Afghanistan  —  Two members of the Austrian special forces join Nato's Operation Cold Response, one of Europe's biggest military exercises, in Narvik, Norway.  —  Dropping from 10,000ft, they glide in order to land unnoticed.
Rasmussen Reports:
49% Say Israel Should Stop Building Settlements As Part of Peace Deal  —  Israel's insistence on building new settlements in disputed Palestinian territory has heightened tensions with the United States.  Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters think Israel should be required to stop …
Discussion: Commentary and Eunomia
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House and Senate GOP plan joint closed-door meeting Thurs.  —  Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick's (D-Ariz.) support for healthcare reform legislation brings the final count to 207, Chris Bowers reports on Open Left.  Also, President Barack Obama's decision to appear on Fox News only adds …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Foxman Calls Petraeus A Jew-Baiter  —  The man with the fax machine has declared that Petraeus' recent comments on Israel “[smack] of blaming the Jews for everything.”  Yglesias yawns.  Meanwhile, back on planet earth, Josh Marshall highlights the unavoidable truths Petraeus said in his prepared remarks to Congress this week:
 
 
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