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12:05 AM ET, March 19, 2010

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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 …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’  —  With this morning's release of the Congressional Budget Office's reconciliation package score, the House appears ready to vote on health care reform this Sunday.
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.
Coloradoan Online:
(2 of 2)  —  She also said state insurance exchanges included in the latest bill will help control costs.  She also said the new bill is better for small businesses because it allows them to pool together for lower rates, and exempts businesses with less than 50 employees from the mandate that employers provide coverage.
The Politico:
GOP plots Senate health roadblock
The Huffington Post:
Iowa Congressman And Glenn Beck Agree: Sunday Health Care Vote …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
CBO numbers  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) …
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.
Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
Exclusive: House Minority Leader John Boehner on the Health-Care Vote …
Discussion: The Other McCain and GayPatriot
World Tribune.com:
Obama blocks delivery of bunker-busters to Israel  —  WASHINGTON — The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel.  —  Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia.
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Jackson Diehl / PostPartisan:
Obama-Israel negotiating agreement: don't ask, don't tell on settlements
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog
Michelle Malkin:
The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch; Barone's analysis added  —  Photoshop credit: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media  —  You'll recall that House Republicans unveiled …
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Projections from the House's “deem to pass” roll call  —  The House voted this afternoon by a 222-203 margin to pass the “Slaughter solution” rule authorizing a single vote on the Senate health care bill which the House leadership wants to send to the president for signature plus …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hot Air
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Top Blue Dog: Slaughter solution is ‘poison’
Discussion: The Foundry and The Daily Caller
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Punish These Fools. — By: Jim Geraghty
Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Townhall.com and Hot Air
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
First Thoughts on the CBO Score  —  As fate would have it, on the day that the CBO report is released, I am in standby hell, and running low on laptop juice.  So my thoughts on the CBO score, and the revised reconciliation bill, are necessarily somewhat preliminary.  But here is what I've noticed so far:
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Igor / Wonk Room:
Comparing The CBO Scores For Different Health Care Bills
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
Ex-general links gay troops to Bosnian genocide  —  A retired Marine general told senators on Thursday that the Dutch Army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay soldiers in its armed forces.  —  John J. Sheehan …
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion  —  The CBO's most recent analysis is out, and it's not likely to convince wavering House Democrats to jump to the Obamacare side of the fence.  Even the Democrats are granting that the latest version of their proposed health care overhaul would cost $69 billion more than the previous version.
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Understanding the new health reconciliation bill
Discussion: New York Times and Hot Air
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Michele Bachmann Means No Disrespect When She Accuses Media Of “Treason”  —  BACHMANN (On Bill Bennett's radio show 3/18/10): Well, I'm amazed that they actually were willing to be shocked.  Because for most of the time they have been, and you know, I don't mean any disrespect, but they've been treason media.
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:   Bachmann: 'I don't mean any disrespect' when I accuse the media of ‘treason.’
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 …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Mashed Up  —  Michico Kakutani has a somewhat curious piece …
Discussion: Eschaton
James Richardson / RedState:
Coburn Promises to Hold Future Nominations of Ex-House Democrats  —  Senator Tom Coburn Thursday put his colleagues in the lower chamber on advance notice, vowing to torpedo any promises of patronage made by President Barack Obama to wavering House Democrats.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
“Libertarians,” Sprawl, and Land Use  —  Randal O'Toole has a baffling and bafflingly long post dedicated to trying to rebut my very simple view of the relationship between “sprawl” and land-use regulations.  So I'll just restate my argument in briefer form and ask O'Toole to say what, if anything, in it he disagrees with:
Discussion: Newsweek Blogs and Eschaton
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Randal O'Toole / Cato @ Liberty:
A Libertarian View of Urban Sprawl
Harry Kresky / The Huffington Post:
Words Matter: Voters to Get Fair Wording of California Open Primary Initiative  —  The battle over the wording of CA prop 14 — sometimes called the top two or open primary initiative — likely ended yesterday with a ruling by a California Court of Appeals upholding the lower court's refusal …
Kos / Daily Kos:
FL-Sen: Crist is broken  —  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/15-17.  Likely voters.  MoE 4% (5% for primary samples).  (11/16-18/2009 results)  —  GOP Senate Primary  —  Charlie Crist (R) 30 (47)  —  Marco Rubio (R) 58 (37)  —  Other polling has shown Rubio blowing past Crist, so that's not so much news.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 55% Oppose Health Care Reform  —  As Americans wait for Congress to act on health care, a Fox News poll released Thursday finds 55 percent oppose the reforms being considered, while 35 percent favor them.
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
The right way to mend immigration  —  Our immigration system is badly broken.  Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through.  We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave when they are supposed to.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conrad drops support for North Dakota provision to avoid controversy  —  Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) has asked House negotiators to scrap a provision in the reconciliation package that would have benefited his home state.  —  Conrad had won a carve-out for the Bank …
 
 
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Canceling the trip  —  The cancellation of President Obama's trip …
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GOP Doc Asks Pelosi: ‘Are you so arrogant ... ignorant ... incompetent?’
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Stupak: Health fight has been ‘living hell’