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4:05 PM ET, May 24, 2010

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FITSNews:
Will Folks: Letting The Chips Fall  —  Since I founded FITSNews three-and-a-half years ago, I've made more than my fair share of powerful enemies in this state.  —  One reason for that?  I call it like I see it - whether you like it or not, agree with it or not, or even believe it or not.
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Nikki Haley in Opposition's Crosshairs: a Good Sign for Nikki and South Carolina!  —  Well, whaddya know?  South Carolina's conservative candidate, Nikki Haley, recently zipped to the front of the line in her state's race for governor; and lo and behold, now accusations of an affair surface.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Nikki Haley denies affair allegation
Discussion: American Power, Mediaite and The Eye
The State:
Haley denies affair with blogger
Discussion: The Swamp and Wonkette
Greg Hambrick / Charleston City Paper:
Claim: Haley had “inappropriate physical relationship”
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
A Deal on DADT?  —  The Advocate has learned that concurrent meetings took place Monday morning at the White House and on Capitol Hill that could help clear the way for “don't ask, don't tell” repeal to be attached to the Department of Defense authorization bill later this week.
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Don't ask, don't tell' compromise in the works
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Versus the Corporations  —  So here's how it is: They're as mad as hell, and they're not going to take this anymore.  Am I talking about the Tea Partiers?  No, I'm talking about the corporations.  —  Much reporting on opposition to the Obama administration portrays it as a sort of populist uprising.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus  —  Psychoanalyzing one of America's most dysfunctional relationships.  —  Thirty-eight hours after Scott Brown's smack-upside-the-head victory in the race for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Barack Obama took the podium in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House.
David Frum / CNN:
Just saying ‘no’ won't win it for GOP
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and FrumForum
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Despite Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead  —  WASHINGTON — In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig …
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New York Times:
BP Kept Using Toxic Chemical in Gulf After E.P.A. Deadline  —  The effort to stanch the vast Gulf of Mexico oil spill was mired by setbacks on Monday as state and federal officials feuded with BP over its failure to meet deadlines and its refusal to stop spraying a toxic dispersant in the Gulf.
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Eric Massa's Secret  —  Long before the Eric Massa scandal broke, the congressman carried the lonely burden of another secret that, if revealed, would turn his world upside down.  An extraordinary look inside the mind of a man in the crisis of his lifetime.
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Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Inside the Insane Saga of Congressman Eric Massa
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Principles of Rand Paul  —  No ideology survives the collision with real-world politics perfectly intact.  General principles have to bend to accommodate the complexities of history, and justice is sometimes better served by compromise than by zealous intellectual consistency.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Clinton to DoD?  —  As DiMascio, Rozen and I report this morning, some of Clinton's allies are talking her up as the next Secretary of Defense:  —  Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which has a sometimes-rocky relationship …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Joe. My. God.
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The Politico:
The Gates-Clinton axis  —  The White House likes to release images …
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll  —  Republican Rick Perry leads Democrat Bill White by nine percentage points — 44 percent to 35 percent — in the 2010 race for governor, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.  —  Those numbers are identical to the results of a …
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
The gathering revolt against government spending
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: North Dakota Senate  —  North Dakota Senate: Hoeven 72%, Potter 23%  —  Governor John Hoeven now has the support of nearly three-out-of-four North Dakota voters in his bid to be the state's next U.S. senator.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters …
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CNN:
From CNN Chief National Correspondent John King  —  Washington (CNN) - An internal Republican National Committee document obtained by CNN paints a damning picture of the committee's financial standing compared to the past five election cycles.  —  The document, pulled together during …
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The View from the Sidelines  —  Jeb Bush on the Republican future.  —  Bush has done a back-of-the-envelope calculation about what an economic growth strategy could produce.  Obama's policy won't generate more than 1.5 percent growth annually, he says.  But with “lower taxes …
Daniela Altimari / Capitol Watch:
Blumenthal: “I have made mistakes and I am sorry.”  —  After nearly a week of criticism following revelations that he misrepresented his military record and five days after a press conference in which he expressed regret for his misstatements, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Blumenthal apologized.
Washington Post:
One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction  —  If the trouble starts — and it remains an “if” — the trigger may well be obscure to the concerns of most Americans: a missed budget projection by the Spanish government, the failure of Greece to hit a deficit-reduction target, a drop in Ireland's economic output.
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Ward remarks close to Obama speech  —  Idaho Republican Vaughn Ward has already come under fire for mimicking other candidates' policy language on his website, but now the congressional candidate is facing accusations of plagiarizing from another source: President Barack Obama.
 
 
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