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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama blasts GOP leader's ‘ant’ comment as ‘out of touch’ — President Barack Obama has attacked House GOP Leader John Boehner for comparing the financial crisis to an ant. — Obama struck out at Boehner (R-Ohio) during a town hall meeting in Racine, Wis., for saying the Wall Street reform bill …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Politics As Total War — When Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000 for a private email list-serv archive, essentially all bets are off. Every blogger or writer who has ever offered an opinion is now on warning: your opponents will not just argue against you, they will do all they can to ransack …
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Sen. Russ Feingold / The Huffington Post:
Standing Up to the Unholy Alliance Between Washington and Wall Street — Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress for decades, so they must be glad to see how things are shaping up on financial regulatory reform. Congress is about to vote on a final bill that fails …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Eric Cantor and John Boehner Don't Really Want to Repeal Obamacare — Well, it is official. — Eric Cantor and John Boehner — particularly Eric Cantor — have decided they don't need or want conservatives and, more troubling, do not have any intention of trying to win at the polls by forcing Democrat hands on Obamacare.
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Scarborough defends Boehner comments — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said House Minority Leader John Boehner “is not a hard worker” and cuts out of the Capitol early for bar-hopping evenings in Washington. — On his “Morning Joe” show Wednesday morning, the former Florida Republican congressman …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner and Cantor back efforts to repeal entirety of healthcare reform — The top two House Republicans signed onto two petitions to force votes to repeal Democrats' healthcare reform law in its entirety. — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor …
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Slick Elena? Kagan evades questions on abortion memo — Before the Senate Judiciary Committee a short time ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan appeared reluctant to admit that she wrote a 1996 Clinton White House memo aimed at altering a key medical group's opinion of whether partial birth abortion is medically necessary.
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines:
Kagan Attempted to Influence Second Medical Group on Partial-Birth Abortions
Kagan Attempted to Influence Second Medical Group on Partial-Birth Abortions
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Stabilizing the Debt By Doing Nothing — Here's a shocking chart from the Congressional Budget Office's latest long term budget outlook showing that unless Congress acts decisively, our debt situation will be totally fine: — See that line where the debt:GDP ratio is stable?
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Long-Term Budget Outlook
Long-Term Budget Outlook
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Obama: Our first female president — If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president. — Phew. That was fun. Now, if you'll just keep those hatchets holstered and hear me out. — No, I'm not calling Obama a girlie president.
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Right Wing News, Taylor Marsh, Prairie Weather, Mediaite, Indecision Forever and Shakesville
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Why Couldn't He Just be A Wimp? — Kathleen Parker tries …
Why Couldn't He Just be A Wimp? — Kathleen Parker tries …
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NEW EVIDENCE REVEALED: GORE SEX SCANDAL VICTIM TELLS ALL!!! — AL GORE SEX SCANDAL ACCUSER reveals shocking NEW EVIDENCE — ONLY to the NATIONAL ENQUIRER in a bombshell world exclusive interview! — “AL GORE is a pervert and sexual predator,” declares MOLLY HAGERTY, 54 …
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JustOneMinute, Mediaite, Big Journalism, CBS4, Don Surber, Say Anything, Left Coast Rebel, The TrogloPundit, Cold Fury, TalkLeft, JammieWearingFool and Riehl World View
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Sharron Angle retreats a bit, but mostly stands ground — Republican candidate for Senate gives first interview to mainstream medium — U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle breaks her silence toward the mainstream media Tuesday by talking to Jon Ralston on “Face to Face.” — 2 a.m.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Keep Congress in session until benefits extended
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Keep Congress in session until benefits extended
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Angle defends positions in interview, laughs off notion she's hiding in ‘bunker’
Angle defends positions in interview, laughs off notion she's hiding in ‘bunker’
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The Politico
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In U.S. Bailout of A.I.G., Forgiveness for Big Banks — At the end of the American International Group's annual meeting last month, a shareholder approached the microphone with a question for Robert Benmosche, the insurer's chief executive. — “I'd like to know, what does A.I.G. plan to do with Goldman Sachs?” he asked.
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Why Obamanomics Has Failed — Uncertainty about future taxes and regulations is enemy No. 1 of economic growth. — The administration's stimulus program has failed. Growth is slow and unemployment remains high. The president, his friends and advisers talk endlessly about the circumstances …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party — My political friendships and sympathies are increasingly determined not by ideology but by methodology. One of the most significant divisions in American public life is not between the Democrats and the Republicans; it is between the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right Wing News vs. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, & Excitable Andy! — « Daily Kos & Research 2000: A Marriage Made In Bias Heaven | Where's the aftermath report?: Housing Scandal Falling by Wayside While others See Continuous Daylight »
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The Bush administration's fiscal record — One of the other takeaways from the Congressional Budget Office's long-term budget outlook is that the Bush administration really wasn't fiscally responsible, while the Obama administration pretty much has been. — The major domestic initiatives …
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The New Republic
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Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses Holder of Dropping New Black Panther Case for Racial Reasons — Attorney General Eric Holder speaks, Friday, June 11, 2010, at the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta. (AP) — A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job …
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Vacation Interruptus — Sorry, but I can't let this pass. Glenn Greenwald has been conducting one of his patented vile, intellectually dishonest jihads against the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg and he has now truly gone berserk. I should say that Jeff is a friend of mine, one with whom I sometimes disagree …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gay soldiers subpoena Obama — The gay soldiers arrested outside the White House protesting “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” will annouce today that they're demanding that President Obama testify in their trial on minor civil disobedience charges. — Their novel argument: Obama himself called …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Scott attacks rival for ties to ‘pro-homosexual rights Giuliani’ — Former hospital executive Rick Scott, a deep-pocketed and increasingly serious candidate for governor of Florida, attacked his Republican primary rival today for having backed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2008.
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Dan Savage / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
Doctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism — That's not fair, as Hanna Rosin at Slate will shortly point out. Pediatric endocrinologist Maria New—of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University—isn't just trying to prevent lesbianism …
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Makeover for Wonder Woman at 69 — Wednesday is a good day for Wonder Woman. This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new — and less revealing — costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly series. — The costume ties into an alternative history …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Oil spill visits get partisan — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP's gigantic oil spill first hand. — House Democrats said no. — Scalise's trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons …