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5:05 PM ET, March 18, 2010

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Michelle Malkin:
The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch  —  Photoshop credit: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media  —  You'll recall that House Republicans unveiled a resolution two days ago …
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The Politico:
GOP plots Senate health roadblock  —  Democrats might like to think that health care reform is all but a done deal if it clears the House, but the Senate is where Republicans have been plotting for months to sentence it to a painful procedural death.  —  Republican aides have been mining …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
CBO numbers  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) just released the first set of Congressional Budget Office numbers to reporters this morning.  —  The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: CBO releases the actual report; Update: Almost all $940 billion incurred in just six years; Update: Preliminary  —  It's much as advertised.  Thanks to its spending provisions mainly starting in 2014, the reconciliation bill combined with the Senate version has a total cost of $940 billion …
Ezra Klein:
CBO: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95%  —  Washington has spent the past week or so waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to release its preliminary estimate of the Senate bill with the reconciliation fixes.
Ezra Klein:
Democrats get the bill, and the score, they needed  —  The question people generally ask about the final health-care reform vote is, “Won't it be politically difficult for many House Democrats to vote yes?”  But with the release of the CBO report (pdf), I'd flip that question a bit …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's pitch: Fate of presidency on the line  —  President Barack Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Rating Lowest Yet, Congress' Declines  —  Slightly more disapprove than approve of Obama  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval is the worst of his presidency to date, with 46% of Americans approving and 48% disapproving of the job he is doing as president …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dems defeat GOP effort to force separate vote on Senate health bill  —  Democrats shot down a Republican effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill on Thursday afternoon.  —  In a 222-203 vote, Democrats beat back a GOP resolution offered by Democrat-turned-Republican …
The Hill:
CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer says vote will come on Sunday
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: Health Care Reform's Finished Draft
Discussion: Firedoglake
Igor / Wonk Room:
Comparing The CBO Scores For Different Health Care Bills
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama disapproval exceeds approval
Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Health care overhaul to get fresh look from Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Hill
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Punish These Fools. — By: Jim Geraghty
Discussion: Townhall.com
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Preliminary CBO Numbers Are In (BUMPED & UPDATED, 11:30 a.m.)
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Jay Fitzgerald / Boston Herald:
Stephen Lynch calls health care vote plan ‘disingenuous’
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review Online
Erin McPike / Hotline On Call:
Rules Panel Dem To Vote Against Bill  —  A key House Dem has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee, on which he sits.  —  Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), a sophomore Dem who had a tougher …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Lynch mobbed  —  Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is a firm “no” on health care reform — in large measure because he opposes the idea of any kind of excise tax on Cadillac plans, even one that's delayed for years and years.  —  That's put Lynch a former ironworkers union official in Boston …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
New Health Care Whip Count: 192 Yes, 208 No (205-210 with Leaners)  —  We're getting to an end game here, and so the counts will come fast and furious at this point.  I think that it's good to look at the count right when the CBO numbers have been released as a good baseline for the future.
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: START THE CLOCK  —  The CBO score is in... Do the numbers influence House Dems who voted against last year's House bill and also against the Stupak amendment?... NBC/WSJ poll finds that a third of the country knows “a lot” about the filibuster procedure... Jobs bill sent to Obama's desk …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Page
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Health Care Pollyanna Update
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Daily Dish
The Hill:
Stupak: Health fight has been ‘living hell’  —  Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama's healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).  —  The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” …
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Advocate:
Choi Arrested at White House Gates  —  In an act of civil disobedience, Lt. Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo have been arrested at the White House gates on Thursday while protesting the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy.  —  Following a Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal …
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The Politico:
NRSC subpoenaed in Ensign probe  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury looking into the aftermath of Sen. John Ensign's extramarital affair with a former staffer, adding a new political problem for GOP leaders in their response …
Discussion: CNN, MyDD and TPMMuckraker
Nitya Venkataraman / ABCNEWS:
Christiane Amanpour Named ‘This Week’ Anchor  —  Christiane Amanpour Starts as ‘This Week’ Anchor in August  —  Christiane Amanpour has been named the new anchor of “This Week,” ABC News President David Westin announced today.  —  “I am delighted to announce that Christiane Amanpour …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:   ABC hires Amanpour for ‘This Week’
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Has Rahm's assumption about progressives been vindicated?  —  President Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga  —  Politico's Ben Smith yesterday suggested that one important aspect of Rahm Emanuel's health care strategy …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Yes, Rahm is Totally Vindicated
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Planned Switch to G.O.P. Stirs New York Governor Race  —  ALBANY — A governor's race that seemed all but settled is about to be upended again, by a popular Democrat from Long Island who is set to announce that he is switching parties.  The move is certain to excite Republican leaders pessimistic about their party's hopes this fall.
The Note:
GOP Doc Asks Pelosi: ‘Are you so arrogant ... ignorant ... incompetent?’  —  ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Democrats might have themselves a health reform bill, but Republicans have doctors - way more doctors in Congress, anyway, than Democrats.  And they're steamed.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Canceling the trip  —  The cancellation of President Obama's trip to Asia marks the full reversal of the strategy his presidency began with: Flooding the zone with policy, keeping the President out of the weeds.  —  The decision to cancel his trip may look like a sign of urgency but it's also …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Dish
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Texts Without Context  —  In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself.”  He says he's “bored by out-and-out fabrication …
 
 
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
BREAKING — Reconciliation bill posted
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Robb Mandelbaum / You're the Boss:
The Chamber Polls for Opposition on Health Care
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Philly.com:
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