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8:10 PM ET, September 17, 2010

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Fox News:
Palin Opens Up About Possible 2012 Run, Says She's Willing to ‘Give It a Shot’  —  Sarah Palin may be edging closer to a 2012 presidential run, telling Fox News “I would give it a shot” if the American people think she's “the one.”  —  The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Backlash Myth  —  Many of my liberal friends are convinced that the Republican Party has a death wish.  It is sprinting to the right-most fever swamps of American life.  It will end up alienating the moderate voters it needs to win elections.  —  There's only one problem with this theory.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
What The White House Wants To Say, But Can't  —  So here's the scenario.  The Democrats who craft political strategy for the party have tried to figure out how to somehow use the Tea Party moment to provide an advantage to their base.  When the Tea Partiers, collectively …
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and Hot Air
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gibbs: Palin might be ‘most formidable force’ in the Republican Party
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
The Monthly 2012  —  There may be a lesson in the results …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Outside the Beltway
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Advice for Palin: How to Win Over Iowa
Discussion: Bearing Drift
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Tea Party's already won
Discussion: Commentary and Wake up America
Hotline On Call:
Murkowski Will Run As Write-In  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) will run for re-election as a write-in candidate after losing her bid for renomination, according to sources briefed on Murkowski's decision.  —  Murkowski's decision will set up a 3-way battle between the incumbent …
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Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski supporters: come to “campaign kickoff” tonight  —  From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage -  —  Lisa Murkowski supporters are urging people to come out tonight for what's being called a “campaign kick off,” although her campaign manager isn't ready to say that she's decided to run.
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Murkowski to announce write-in bid  —  Defeated Sen. Lisa Murkowski plans to announce this evening that she will mount a write-in campaign to retain her Senate seat.  —  POLITICO has learned that the senator, en route from Washington, D.C. to Anchorage for her planned Friday evening announcement …
Discussion: Right Pundits
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
DeMint blasts Murkowski in speech to Values Voters Summit
Discussion: CNN and ABCNEWS
David Catanese / The Politico:
Ex-aides unload on Christine O'Donnell  —  By pulling off arguably the biggest upset of the primary election season Tuesday, Christine O'Donnell shocked the Republican establishment and political pundits who didn't think her campaign for the Delaware GOP Senate nomination had a chance.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Buckley rule  —  Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives.  Tea Partyer Christine O'Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle.  Stunning but pyrrhic.  The very people who have most alerted the country …
Ezra Klein:
The Obama administration's pipe dreams  —  The White House held a conference call today for Elizabeth Warren and various bloggers and writers.  Most of it was what you'd expect, but Warren did mention that Rep. Barney Frank once told her that getting a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a “pipe dream.”
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Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
End of Fine Print? Elizabeth Warren vs. Wall St.
Discussion: CNN
The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren To Lead Search For New Consumer Chief, Could ‘Pull A Dick Cheney’
Discussion: Firedoglake and Riehl World View
Ezra Klein:
Elizabeth Warren and the government's talent crisis
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Caucus
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Nouriel Roubini / Washington Post:
What America needs is a payroll tax cut  —  Nearly three years since the onset of the financial crisis, the continued weakness of the labor and real estate markets, U.S. consumers' unbalanced balance sheets and fading support from policy stimulus have transformed the risk of a double-dip recession …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Romney Unleashed … That's how Mitt Romney, potential presidential candidate, begins his speech to the Values Voter Summit here in Washington today.  The rest of the speech is much less temperate than anything I've heard Romney give this year.  Romney has the fundamentals for a presidential bid down pat …
Discussion: Salon and Firedoglake
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Arifa Akbar / The Independent:
Mao's Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’  —  Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Busted... Vile Protesters With “Nazi” Signs Filmed Entering Dem Rep's Office After Rally (Video) ...Update: OFA Protester ID'ed- Top Obama Campaign Worker ...Update: Kinzinger Demands Apology  —  What a complete shock...  Vile protesters with Nazi signs were caught on film returning …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Palin Endorses Continetti  —  THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained an advance copy of the new paperback edition of The Persecution of Sarah Palin by (THE WEEKLY STANDARD's) Matthew Continetti.  As you can see on the cover, the book carries with it the official endorsement of none other than Sarah Palin herself.
Discussion: Wonkette and Politics Daily
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Rout Is On.  —  Campaigns hate it when I suggest they have their races won, so let's include all the traditional caveats.  In a New York minute, everything can change; every candidate is one gaffe away from self-destruction, October surprises may abound, the only poll that matters …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Brian / Right Wing Watch:
If you thought Christine O'Donnell was bad...  Meet the GOP's extreme nominee for Delaware's open seat in the House, Glen Urquhart.  Since Mike Castle vacated the seat in order to (unsuccessfully) run for Senate, the Republicans nominated Urquhart in a tight primary election.
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Bachmann: Obama is infantile  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) compared the president to a child in a toy store Friday.  —  Speaking to the Value Voters Summit in Washington, Bachmann asserted that Obama — a former constitutional law lecturer — thinks the key rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence are negatives.
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Dinesh D'Souza Digs Himself in Deeper  —  Some more criticism of Forbes's disastrous Obama cover story  —  Dinesh D'Souza has responded to my, uh, criticism of his smear piece that, shamefully, made the cover of Forbes with its claims that Obama is directed by a “Kenyan, anticolonial” …
Political Correction RSS:
Huckabee Supports Denying Coverage For Those With Preexisting Conditions  —  1 hour and 42 minutes ago — Chris Harris  —  Today marks the start of the religious right's Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC.  After a rousing multi-verse rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took the stage.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Unions Find Members Slow to Rally Behind Democrats  —  The Democrats will depend on labor unions — the shock troops of their political campaigns — to offset two new developments this election cycle: Tea Party enthusiasm and corporations' ability to spend unlimited amounts thanks to a Supreme Court ruling.
 
 
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No meeting for O'Donnell and NRSC
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‘Gaydar Warrior Angels’ Protest Pope's Visit to Twickenham, UK
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Southern Political Report:
Deal and Barnes tied
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The Note:
Ad Watch: Pelosi's VP Pick Slams Her, Obama in New Ad
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Can The Tea Party Reach Out To Social Libertarians?
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 Earlier Items: 
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Erick Erickson Smacks Down CNN's Bash for Calling Voter Anger Racist
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
WJLA-TV fires veteran anchor Doug McKelway, cites insubordination, misconduct
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
When Dems take the low road
Discussion: TPMDC and Immigration Chronicles
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Comedians Stewart and Colbert plan Oct. 30 rally on the Mall
Discussion: Firedoglake and JammieWearingFool
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Where Have All the Deficit Hawks Gone?
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