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1:30 AM ET, July 2, 2010

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Robert Draper / New York Times:
This Year's Maverick  —  Lindsey Graham was sitting in a sedan early one morning and contentedly discussing the various fellow South Carolina conservatives who dislike him — Tea Partiers, Constitutionalists, immigration hardliners — when Van Cato, his upstate regional director …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
The Night Beat: Putting Lipstick on a Bad Jobs Number  —  Good evening.  —  JOBS: The White House is girding itself for the release of June employment figures, which will show a relative paucity of private sector jobs created.  In a way, the impact of this number has been blunted …
Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
Barack Obama is among best presidents ever - George W. Bush not so much, say scholars in Siena poll  —  George W. Bush was no FDR, but Barack Obama could be.  —  That's the verdict of 238 of the nation's leading presidential scholars, who - for a fifth time - rated Franklin Delano Roosevelt …
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Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Profs rank Obama 15th best president  —  A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th best president of the United States, just below Bill Clinton but ahead of Ronald Reagan.  —  The Siena College poll, which surveyed 238 presidential scholars at U.S. colleges and universities …
Discussion: The Confluence
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
First look at Daily Kos's lawsuit: Charges Research 2000 with “fraudulently manufacturing phony results”  —  I've obtained a copy of the lawsuit that Daily Kos just filed against Research 2000, and this going to get nastier than you thought.  —  The suit contains striking new details …
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Patrick Ruffini / The Next Right:
Another R2K Smoking Gun: Bargain Basement Pricing  —  In my previous post on Kos and Research 2000 I noted how weird it was that Kos could afford to commission dozens of campaign polls given that by (his own admission) he runs a low seven-figure operation and the polls are likely far …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Gaffetastic.  Obama Blows Line From Statue of Liberty in Immigration Address — It's Even Wrong on the White House Website!  —  Your huddled masses yearning to be free..." … Umm... It's “yearning to breathe free”, Barack.  —  Barack Obama blew a line from Emma Lazarus' poem …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama tries to put Republicans on immigration hot seat
Fox News:
Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill June 24.  (AP Photo)  —  Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Cantwell a ‘yes’ on Wall St. reform  —  Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington announced Thursday that she'll support a sweeping Wall Street reform bill, bringing Democrats one vote closer to securing Senate passage.  —  Cantwell, who voted against similar legislation on the Senate floor …
Discussion: The Note
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LoriC / RADAR:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson's Racist Rant Caught On Tape - Tells Oksana She Would Get ‘Raped By N***ers’  —  In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
House Democrats pass ‘budget enforcement resolution’ by 215-210  —  House Democrats passed a budget document Thursday that sets discretionary spending at levels below those proposed by President Barack Obama but doesn't address how Congress should cut deficits.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Fiscal ‘Road to Hell’
Discussion: HotAirPundit
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Objectivity of spill probe panel is questioned  —  WASHINGTON — On the same day the White House commission investigating the Gulf oil spill announced its first meetings — July 12-13 in New Orleans — a Senate committee cast what amounted to a no-confidence vote on the commission's objectivity.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Pat Archbold / The Daily Register:
Praying For Christopher Hitchens  —  I know he doesn't want me to and I know he thinks it is useless but, Christopher Hitchens, I am praying for you.  —  Christopher Hitchens can be smart, acerbic, funny, mean, insightful, and thick.  He defends Western Civilization while, via his outspoken atheism …
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People-Press.org:
Voting Intentions Even, Turnout Indicators Favor GOP  —  Older Americans Eager to Vote... Republican, That Is  —  With four months to go before Election Day, voting intentions for the House remain closely divided, and neither party has gained or lost much ground over the course of 2010.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: Pelosi Sneaked Approval of Vote on Debt Commission Recommendations into Rule Regarding War Funding, Vote Happening Tonight  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin)  —  FDL has learned that in a last minute move, Nancy Pelosi sneaked language into the rule that the House is voting on tonight regarding war funding.
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Google to Add Pay to Cover a Tax for Same-Sex Benefits  —  Working for a company as rich as Google comes with an incredible number of fringe benefits: the free food, the free laundry, the doctor on duty at company headquarters and the impressive five months of maternity leave with full pay and benefits, to mention a few.
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Jessica Greene / NBC Bay Area:
Google to Pay Tax for Gay Employee Benefits
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Health law risks turning away sick  —  The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured.  —  Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Short-term insurance buyers in Massachusetts  —  Kay Lazar reports on the increase in part-year insurance buyers described in a new Massachusetts Division of Insurance report in today's Boston Globe. … Part of the problem is that individuals can jump in and out of coverage anytime during the year.
The Politico:
Gov. Chris Christie calls for Republican Party rebranding  —  At the heart of Christie's appeal, both within the state and outside its border, is an unfiltered, straightforward approach that is startlingly different from many of his gubernatorial colleagues.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Tony Podesta, Superlobbyist  —  WASHINGTON — On the eve of a critical Congressional vote last week on a sweeping measure to regulate Wall Street, the prominent lobbyist Tony Podesta met with one of the lawmakers to go over some final language and discuss the effect it could have on his many corporate clients.
Chris Kirkham / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Media, boaters could face criminal penalties by entering oil cleanup ‘safety zone’  —  The Coast Guard has put new restrictions in place across the Gulf Coast that prevent the public - including news photographers and reporters covering the BP oil spill - from coming within 65 feet …
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Boehner doesn't refute the notion that he's drinking at bars every night.  —  During a press conference earlier today, House Republican leader John Boehner was asked about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough's accusation that “every Republican I talk to says John Boehner, by 5 or 6 o'clock at night, you can see him at bars.”
Discussion: The Swamp, The Note and Balloon Juice
Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends  —  Partisan Trends: 35.4% Democrat 33.0% Republican  —  During the month of June, the number of Republicans across the nation inched up by a full percentage point while the number of Democrats increased fractionally.  It is normal for the number unaffiliated with each party …
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
In Which I Describe, But Do Not Knock, The Hustle.  —  Yesterday I went on The Ed Show, which is being guest hosted this week by The Nation's Chris Hayes (who is doing a really incredible job) opposite the terribly smart Reihan Salam of National Review, discussing financial reform and Social Security.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Marc Thiessen / The Enterprise Blog:
Soccer Is a Socialist Sport  —  In the Washington Post this morning, sports columnist Sally Jenkins complains about the lack of popular outrage over America's elimination in the World Cup: “Why is it that Americans expect to win in every sport we compete in except for soccer?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Guardian
Michael Tomasky / Guardian:
The America John Boehner grew up in  —  In his comments that have attracted wide attention because he said financial reform regulation was like taking a nuclear weapon to an ant, Republican House minority leader John Boehner also noted that today's Democrats “are snuffing out the America that I grew up in.”
 
 
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
PELOSI: UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS FASTEST WAY TO CREATE JOBS
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Presses Congress to Adopt an Immigration Overhaul
Discussion: Truthdig
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
LeMieux to Obama: You're getting failure all over our shores …
Discussion: Wizbang and RedState
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Gun control group endorses Kagan
Discussion: CNN, The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
5 Potential Obstacles for Financial Reform in the Senate
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Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory
Discussion: Right Wing News
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Senate denies C-SPAN coverage
Ezra Klein:
Don't just sit there. Do nothing.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Breitbart, Sullivan in JournoList spat