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2:45 PM ET, May 24, 2010

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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.
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
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
News Outlets Cut Costs on Covering Presidential Trips
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Gibbs on Sestak's Claim of a Job Offer
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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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Nikki Haley denies affair allegation
Discussion: FITSNews, Mediaite and The Eye
Logan Smith / WIS-TV:
Blogger, fmr. Sanford aide claims past affair with Nikki Haley
Greg Hambrick / Charleston City Paper:
Claim: Haley had “inappropriate physical relationship”
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The Haley story  —  A South Carolina political blogger …
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
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 …
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.
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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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Obama asks Congress for added power to slash spending measures  —  The White House called for a new presidential power Monday to slash spending that would be similar to a line-item veto.  —  The “expedited rescission authority” that President Barack Obama is sending to Congress this week …
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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.
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 …
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
The gathering revolt against government spending  —  his month three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election — a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Hit & Run
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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Report: Healthcare law tax credits encourage small businesses to stay small, not hire  —  A study by the National Center for Policy Analysis shows that tax credits in the new healthcare law could negatively impact small-business hiring decisions.  —  The new law provides a 50 percent tax credit …
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Guy Adams / The Independent:
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all  —  The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now  —  Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …
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.
The Politico:
Reid angles for tea party foe in Nev.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has knocked down his leading Republican challenger, paving the way for a potential fall fight with a tea party favorite who may be easier to beat.  —  Reid's unceasing attacks on his biggest-name challenger …
 
 
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