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6:00 PM ET, January 21, 2011

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Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Romney keeps away from Tea Party  —  Possible presidential contender isn't courting activists  —  Tea Party activists in New Hampshire say the former Massachusetts governor has been largely inaccessible to them.  (Mary Schwalm/Associated Press)  —  WASHINGTON — New Hampshire Tea Party …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Presidential buzz surrounds Bachmann
Discussion: The Politico and Firedoglake
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Huckabee ahead nationally
Discussion: GOP 12
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
New Hampshire GOP faces Tea Party takeover
Patterico's Pontifications:
Brad Friedman, Partner of Convicted Bomber, Is Very Concerned About Glenn Beck's Rhetoric  —  As I explained last night, Glenn Beck never told his supporters to shoot anyone in the head: … Now comes Brad Friedman doing his typical “am I lying or am I stupid?” game:
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ccrjustice.org:
CCR Appeals to Fox News President for Help in Silencing Glenn …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A rival SOTU response  —  The Tea Party Express emails supporters that Rep. Michelle Bachmann — passed over for a leadership spot, much less the response to the State of the Union — will deliver her own response:  —  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has confirmed with us that she will broadcast …
Discussion: Weigel and FrumForum
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Amy Krener / paracom.paramountcommunication.com:
Date sent  —  There are two very exciting developments I wanted to share with you today, friends!  —  1st - Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has confirmed with us that she will broadcast her response to Barack Obama's State Of The Union address this Tuesday.
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
White House reboots on economic advice  —  Signaling a shift to a new phase of the administration's response to the nation's economic woes, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Friday establishing a new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that will be lead by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt.
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Jeffrey R. Immelt / Washington Post:
A blueprint for keeping America competitive
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Giuliani vs. Palin in 2012?  —  (CNN) - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he's more likely to run for president if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin runs.  —  In an interview on CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight,” Giuliani, who dropped out of the 2008 Republican presidential primary …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rudy and Palin  —  Piers Morgan just tweeted a preview …
Discussion: Swampland and Daily Kos
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
I'm declaring February a Palin-free month.  Join me!  —  Though it is embarrassing to admit this in public, I can no longer hide the truth.  I have a Sarah Palin problem.  —  I have written about her in 42 columns since Sen. John McCain picked her as his presidential running mate in 2008.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Everything starts with repeal  —  Suppose someone - say, the president of United States - proposed the following: We are drowning in debt.  More than $14 trillion right now.  I've got a great idea for deficit reduction.  It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sen. Murkowski questions approach to health repeal  —  Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday cast doubt on the manner in which Republicans have attempted to repeal the healthcare law.  —  Murkowski (Alaska) said that she would vote to repeal the law if a vote was held in the Senate …
Discussion: The Note, Weasel Zippers and Wonk Room
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE NICER TO MURKOWSKI. …
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Their Debt Burdens  —  Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Jeff Schogol / Stars & Stripes:
McChrystal denies claims of secret military crusade against Islam  —  WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he is not part of a religious order waging war on Islam despite recent assertions by acclaimed journalist Seymour Hersh.  —  Speaking in Qatar earlier this week …
Discussion: Raw Story and Jihad Watch
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Hersh rebuked on ‘crusaders’
Jgalloway / Political Insider:
Newt Gingrich tells Georgia Republicans he'll be a candidate in '12  —  In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several prominent Republicans in his former home state, telling them that he intends to make a run for president in 2012 using Georgia as his base …
Discussion: Ballot Box, GOP 12, TPMDC and FrumForum
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
DeMint joins CPAC boycott  —  South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will skip this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, making him the most prominent conservative figure yet to express objections to what critics see as a pro-gay, libertarian tilt to the 38-year old event.
Discussion: Weigel, TPMDC and FrumForum
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
165 House Republicans endorse defunding USAID  —  As the budget battle inside the Republican Party heats up, a large group of conservative House Republicans called Thursday for a drastic defunding of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a host of other programs.
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Abu Muqawama / cnas.org:
What Some Conservatives Don't Yet Get
CNN:
Giffords moved to Houston hospital  —  Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Friday left the Tucson, Arizona hospital where she has been treated since a January 9 gunshot wound, traveling under police escort down streets lined with well-wishers.
Discussion: Hot Air, This Just In, The Hill and Truthdig
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Telegraph:
Brother of Harry Potter star jailed for attacking her  —  The brother of a Harry Potter star has been jailed for six months for a “prolonged and nasty” attack in which she was beaten and branded a “slag” for dating a non-Muslim.  —  Afshan Azad, 21, who played Padma Patil …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Cubachi
Jim Tankersley / NationalJournal.com:
The Phantom 15 Million  —  Taming unemployment starts with solving the mystery of the jobs that were supposed to have been created in the past 10 years but weren't.  —  Anxious: Job seekers in Denver.  —  America's jobs crisis began a decade ago.  Long before the housing bubble burst …
New York Times:
Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements  —  As President Obama and Congress brace to battle over how to reduce chronic annual budget deficits, Americans overwhelmingly say that in general they prefer cutting government spending to paying higher taxes, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Richard Dunham / Texas on the Potomac:
Promise kept: All Texas Republicans vote to repeal health reform; Democrats cry foul  —  In the end, it was a political exercise — predictable and orderly.  —  Every Texas Republican — indeed every House Republican — did what they promised to do in the campaign: They voted to repeal …
Tim Pawlenty / Washington Post:
Don't raise the debt limit - reform entitlement spending  —  Five years ago, a freshman senator made a case against allowing the federal government to go deeper into debt.  —  “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” he said.
Discussion: The Hill and The Page
 
 
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Argus Leader:
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Michael M. Gleeson / The Hill:
Roberts, Alito face tough choice on whether to attend State of the Union
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Gender and the Service Economy
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The Giffords seat  —  Gabrielle Giffords' 2010 challenger finds himself …
Discussion: Salon, Wonkette and Hotline On Call
Aljazeera:
Bin Laden threatens France
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Runnin' Scared
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
One year later: Citizens United
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
New York Post:
Chinese Tiger ate US Dove for lunch
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CNBC:
California Declares Fiscal Emergency
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Mike Riggs / The Daily Caller:
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Paul Ryan is Your 2011 State of the Union Responder
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Outspoken Tucson sheriff faces recall bid
 

 
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