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9:15 PM ET, March 25, 2010

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David Frum / FrumForum:
AEI Says Goodbye  —  I have been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2003.  At lunch today, AEI President Arthur Brooks and I came to a termination of that relationship.  —  Below is the text of my letter of resignation. … Follow David Frum on twitter: @davidfrum
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Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind  —  As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
David Frum: AEI Says They Didn't Axe Me For Slamming GOP  —  I just got off the phone with writer David Frum, and he says the conservative American Enterprise Institute assured him today that he isn't being fired because of his recent blistering criticism of the GOP, as has been widely speculated this afternoon.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Roger Ailes
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Frum Forced Out at Conservative Institute
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Embracing the freakshow  —  As Barack Obama's campaign for president heated up, the Secret Service fielded a stream of threats of various seriousness.  His canvassers sometimes encountered hostile, even racist, remarks and scary situations.  The long, ugly spring of 2008 produced a smashed window …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama to repeal-minded Republicans: ‘Go for it’  —  President Barack Obama on Thursday flipped into campaign mode and dared Republicans to repeal the healthcare law.  —  With his signature agenda item signed into law, Obama switched from selling the bill to aggressively promoting …
Rasmussen Reports:
55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill  —  Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed.  Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
Fhardingj / CNN:   CNN Poll: Obama tied in hypothetical 2012 matchup
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   What's in the Affordable Care Act?
Fox News:
Cantor Says Campaign Office Was Shot At, Accuses Dems of Exploiting Threats  —  Republican Rep. Eric Cantor said Thursday that his Richmond campaign office has been shot at and that he's received “threatening e-mails” — but at the same time accused top Democrats of trying to exploit …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker now reports threat over healthcare stance  —  U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a threatening voicemail left in the office of Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), her chief of staff said Thursday.  —  Schmidt's office was left a voicemail late Wednesday night in what appears …
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Congressman Eric Cantor's Office Shot At
Discussion: RedState and Left Coast Rebel
Rachel Slajda / TPMDC:
Cantor: It's The Democrats Who Are Fanning The Flames of Violence (VIDEO)
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
“White Powder” Package Sent to Congressman Weiner's Office  —  Letter references “health care” vote  —  Law enforcement officials say a package with white powder was sent to Congressman Weiner's Queens office today.  —  A preliminary review shows the letter in part complained …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Undying Shame  —  I'm not sure John Boehner making a generic statement that violence, threats and vandalism aren't legitimate parts of the Health Care Reform debate really cuts it.  Especially when his own congressional campaign committee is actively downplaying the importance …
CNN:
Health care anger takes a nasty turn
Discussion: Althouse and The Politico
Washington Post:
Obama administration to order lenders to cut mortgage payments for jobless  —  The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it's tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments for many borrowers who are unemployed, senior officials said Thursday.
Sarah Ebner / Times of London:
Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner’  —  Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem  —  For a head of state to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare.  For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea partiers air doubts about Armey  —  It seemed a strange fit to begin with — a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.
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Ezra Klein:
11 predictions for the health-care reform bill  —  I'm a little confused by this post Megan McArdle has written saying that I refuse to make testable predictions regarding the eventual impact of health-care reform.  As I told her in the e-mail exchange that led to her post …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
The Washington Independent:
Gates Sharply Limits 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'  —  Changes Will Make It Difficult to Remove a Service Member Who Does Not Come Out as Gay  —  In a major victory for opponents of the military's ban on open homosexual service, Defense Secretary Robert Gates significantly revised how the Pentagon …
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Nathaniel Frank / The Huffington Post:   What the Changes to DADT Mean: The Good, The Bad and the Politically Dangerous
Ezra Klein:
Senate passes reconciliation fixes 56-43  —  Of the Democrats, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, and Mark Pryor voted against the package.  Now, because it's slightly changed from the version the House considered, it will held back there for final passage.  The House vote is expected to be fairly smooth …
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New York Times:
Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP senators warn Obama of using recess appointment for labor board  —  All Senate Republicans wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday, demanding he not use a recess appointment to fill spots on a labor board.  —  Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), joined …
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US Senator Orrin Hatch:
HATCH, MCCAIN SECURE SUPPORT OF 41 GOP SENATORS AGAINST RECESS …
NPR Blogs:
NPR Changes Abortion Language  —  Last week, I wrote a post about how NPR identifies people who support or oppose abortion.  It engendered a lively debate inside and outside NPR.  Today, some top editors got together to review the 2005 policy and decided to no longer use “pro-choice” or “pro-life.”
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
Social Security Payout to Exceed Revenue This Year  —  The bursting of the real estate bubble and the ensuing recession have hurt jobs, home prices and now Social Security.  —  This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold …
Peterhamby / CNN:
Condom sent to Democrat who voted for health care bill  —  Rep. Betty McCollum is a Democrat from Minnesota who voted for the health care bill.  —  Washington (CNN) - Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, was one of several members of Congress who reported receiving obscene and threatening letters …
Guardian:
George Bush's clean hands in Haiti  —  George Bush unfairly mocked after video appears to show him wiping hand on Bill Clinton after handshake in Haiti  —  Does this video really show George Bush cleaning his hand on Bill Clinton?  —  The above video has been doing the rounds of the interweb …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Telegraph
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
OfA fundraises off threats  —  The Democrats continue to take political advantage of reports of Republican vandalism and threats, with the head of the Obama campaign organization, Mitch Stewart, referring to the incident at Tom Perriello's brother's house in a fundraising appeal.  —  He writes:
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
2010: A Race Odyssey — Disproving a Negative for Cash Prizes or, How the Civil Rights Movement Jumped the Shark  —  As I have said over and over and over, the left has one trick that it will use again and again when its back is in the corner: shout ‘racist’ in a crowded country.
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Zeitgeist Shifts  —  The psychology of victory and defeat is a remarkable thing.  A week ago, the Democrats were perceived to have an enormous political problem.  Their agenda was stalled in Congress.  There was a mass groundswell of public anger they had to contend with.
Kos / Daily Kos:
AR-Sen: Halter gains on Lincoln, strongest vs GOP  —  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/22-24.  Likely voters.  MoE 4%, 5% for primary sample.  (11/30-12/2-2009 results)  —  Democratic Senate Primary  —  Blanche Lincoln (D) 44 (42)  —  Bill Halter (D) 31 (26)  —  Undecided 25 (32)
Discussion: Firedoglake and TPMDC
 
 
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's healthcare: Iowa then and now
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