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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
First Lady's anti-obesity campaign could be causing more pedestrian deaths  —  Pedestrian deaths increased sharply during the first half of 2010, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA).  The reason may be First Lady Michelle Obama and her “Let's Move” campaign.
Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
TBogg:   Michelle Obama Wants To Death Race 2000 Kill Your Fat Ass
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A number of the House GOP's leading conservative members on Thursday will announce legislation that would cut $2.5 trillion over 10 years, which will be by far the most ambitious and far-reaching proposal by the new majority to cut federal government spending.
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Paul Bedard / US News:
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
Discussion: Hit & Run
The Politico:
Republicans lay out $2.5 trillion in cuts
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Republicans set down marker on spending: $2.5 trillion in cuts
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Washington Examiner:
Can't reduce federal spending?  Here's a plan to cut $2.5 trillion by 2021
Discussion: Cubachi, The Foundry and Big Government
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking stronger  —  PPP's monthly look ahead to next year's Presidential race finds Barack Obama in his best position against the major Republican contenders since 2009.  —  The GOP hopefuls who would make it most competitive against Obama continue to be Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, each of whom he leads by 5 points.
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The Fix:
A three-way pileup atop 2012 GOP presidential race  —  Former Govs. Mike Huckabee (Ark.), Sarah Palin (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Mass.) make up the top tier of the 2012 Republican presidential field, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Huckabee's book tour lavishes attention on Iowa, South Carolina
Discussion: ABCNEWS, GOP 12 and Ben Smith's Blog
Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal  —  While the health care repeal that the House passed Wednesday has little chance of passage in the Senate, Republicans will probably succeed in eventually forcing a vote on the measure — albeit with at least a 60-vote threshold.
Discussion: NationalJournal.com and Salon
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How Should Dems Manage the Healthcare Repeal Circus?  —  It's a slow day, so let's do some political strategizing.  Here's what the LA Times has to say about yesterday's vote in the House to repeal healthcare reform: … Here's my take: Democrats are nuts to take this attitude.
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Senate Democrats and Health Care Repeal
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Wall Street Journal:
The Repeal Vote  —  An historic repudiation of an entitlement that is only 10 months old.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Right Turn
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama to Close Political Office and Start 2012 Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will close the office of political affairs at the White House, aides said, restructuring his organization to prepare for his re-election campaign, which is to start building a fund-raising and grassroots operation based in Chicago by late March.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Biden: Obama has best record since FDR
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Ballot Box
The Note:
SPOTTED: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Waiting for Jury Duty  —  ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: If you thought Supreme Court justices are exempt from jury duty in their local courts, think again.  —  Justice Elena Kagan was spotted among a crowd of prospective jurors huddled in a waiting lounge this morning at D.C. Superior Court.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases  —  WASHINGTON — When the conservative financier Charles Koch sent out invitations for a political retreat in Palm Springs later this month, he highlighted past appearances at the gathering of “notable leaders” …
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rick Santorum plays race card on President Obama  —  In eye-brow raising comments, possible presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is questioning how President Barack Obama - as an African-American - can support abortion rights.  —  Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania …
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David Brody / The Brody File:
Rick Santorum Responds to Brody File on Comment About President Obama's Race and Abortion  —  EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: RICK SANTORUM HAS JUST SENT THE BRODY FILE A STATEMENT ON THE STORY BELOW: … Abortion is a toxic subject.  Race is a toxic subject.  And soon to be GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum …
Ezra Klein:
If Obama wants to be bold, he should be bold  —  Peter Baker has a lot of juicy tidbits about the frequent infighting and petty spats that split the White House economic team over the past two years, but the individual who comes off worst in the article is not Larry Summers or Christina Romer or Peter Orszag or Rahm Emanuel.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Palinoia, the Destroyer  —  What's behind the left's deranged hatred.  —  Why does their hatred of her burn so hot?  —  Ask them, and they'll most likely tell you: Because she's a moron.  But that is obviously false.  To be sure, her skills at extemporaneous speaking leave much to be desired.
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Putting Out Presidential Feelers in Iowa  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tasked her aides with quietly gauging her level of support for a potential presidential campaign by making inquiries to a select pool of likely allies and grassroots activists in Iowa, RealClearPolitics has learned.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Goodbye to a Guy Named Joe  —  On Wednesday, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced that he won't be a candidate for re-election in 2012.  Normally people look particularly appealing when they're promising to go away.  This time, not so much.  —  “I can't help but also think about …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AN UNSHAKABLE PERSECUTION COMPLEX.... I missed the speech yesterday in which a House Republican compared health care reform to tyranny of King George III, so I was glad to see Greg Sargent track it down.  —  Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), a freshman, railed against the individual mandate provision …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Delusions of world-historical grandeur
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and TPMDC
Jose Lambiet / Page2Live.com:
Parents of Giffords' doc supported Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell with Palm Beach cash  —  The name of Michael Lemole, the University of Arizona neurosurgeon who's been treating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' brain injuries since the Jan. 8 shooting, may sound familiar to Palm Beachers.
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P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Palm Beach Post Columnist Slams Parents of Rep. Giffords Doctor …
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
FBI Rounding Up 100 Mobsters in Biggest Mafia Bust in New York History  —  Charges range from gambling to racketeering to murder  —  The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history.  More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection …
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Reuters:
Fixing Social Security is progressive  —  Last week, 200 progressive organizations launched a public campaign directed toward President Barack Obama that argues against any fix to Social Security that would touch future benefits.  This is not only bad for Social Security; it's not particularly progressive.
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Murphy / The Beast:
The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010  —  Charges: The A.Q. Khan of the culinary world, her secret recipes are demonstrably more dangerous to America than a nuclear armed North Korea.  When not delighting delusional hicks on “Huckabee,” she's cooking up coronary-clogging treats like the …
Discussion: Liberty Street, Althouse and Pharyngula
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Petraeus Team: Taliban Made Us Wipe Village Out [Updated]  —  Expect more Afghan villages to be destroyed by American rockets and bombs — if, that is, the Taliban “saturate” them with homemade explosives and kick out the villagers.  But the U.S.-led coalition isn't going to destroy populated areas …
 
 
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The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Karl Rove begins to handicap the next presidential and Senatorial cycle
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Walmart joins FLOTUS health push
Discussion: FrumForum
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huckabee on cruise to Alaska in June
Discussion: Weigel, GOP 12, Daily Kos and Swampland
Myglesias / Yglesias:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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Marisa Schultz / Detroit News:
Dingell, 84, to seek re-election
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Hoyer loves his new view
Discussion: The Politico
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Rep. Upton begins investigation of health-care bureaucracy
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Harkin to raise cash at Lady Gaga show
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Guardian:
Officer married activist he spied on
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Hubris heading for a fall