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2:45 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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, TPMDC and Hotline On Call
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Huckabee ahead nationally  —  For the first time in PPP's national polling for the 2012 Republican nomination there's a clear leader: Mike Huckabee.  Huckabee's at 24% to 14% for Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, 11% for Newt Gingrich, 8% for Tim Pawlenty, 7% for Ron Paul, 4% for Mitch Daniels, and 1% for John Thune.
Discussion: GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …
Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Arizona GOP to Vote on Earlier Presidential Primary
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and TPMDC
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
New Hampshire GOP faces Tea Party takeover
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Presidential buzz surrounds Bachmann
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Patterico's Pontifications:
No, Charles Johnson, Glenn Beck Did Not Tell His Viewers to Shoot Anyone in the Head  —  On Twitter, Charles Johnson excitedly says:  —  He links to a post, evidently written by an LGF user, which provides no context for the clip, but simply embeds it.  Here is a screenshot of the entire post:
ccrjustice.org:
CCR Appeals to Fox News President for Help in Silencing Glenn Beck Misinformation Campaign Against Progressive Professor  —  Repeated Branding of 78-Year-Old Professor Frances Fox Piven as “Enemy of the Constitution” Incites Death Threats  —  Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights …
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  —  President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  I have served for the past two years on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and I look forward to leading the next phase of this effort …
Bloomberg:
Obama Taps GE's Immelt to Head Economic Advisor Panel
Discussion: Wonk Room, Shakesville and The Page
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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Ezra Klein:
Column: The Republican war on the CBO
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.
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 …
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Budget Committee:
Chairman Paul Ryan to Deliver Republican Address to the Nation on January 25
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
David Weigel / Weigel:
Paul Ryan is Your 2011 State of the Union Responder
Discussion: Wonk Room and The Page
Lbentzterp / CNN:
President Obama is taking your questions  —  Washington (CNN) - If you have lingering questions after hearing President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, you may get the chance to ask them.  —  The president will participate in a live streamed YouTube interview on Thursday January 27th …
Discussion: The Page
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
‘Mr. President, Say This on Tuesday Night’
Political Correction RSS:
Rep. Broun: Mixed Seating At SOTU Is “A Trap” To “Silence Republicans” When “Barack Obama Spews Out All His Venom”  —  1 hour and 16 minutes ago — Matt Finkelstein  —  The tragic shootings in Tucson prompted calls for civility from politicians on both sides of the aisle, including Sen. Mark Udall's …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite
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.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
At Houston hospital, Giffords faces arduous rehabilitation  —  HOUSTON - She will get a bed in the most private wing of the hospital, and U.S. Capitol Police will provide added security.  But when Rep. Gabrielle Giffords arrives at TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital here Friday afternoon …
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CNN:
Giffords heads to Houston hospital
Discussion: The Hill and This Just In
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.
Jason Brudereck / Reading Eagle:
Woman who fell into fountain faces theft charges, has criminal record  —  The Reading woman who became an Internet sensation by falling into a fountain while sending a text on her cell phone was in Berks County Court on Thursday for a status hearing on theft-by-deception and related charges.
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
Kerry Eleveld / Washington Post:
Next up for Obama: Marriage equality for gay Americans  —  Less than a month after President Obama repealed “don't ask, don't tell,” his Justice Department filed its latest brief defending the so-called Defense of Marriage Act - the law that makes gay Americans second-class citizens …
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Are We In Bill Clinton's Third Term?  —  Jacob Lew was tapped by Barack Obama last July to lead the Office of Management & Budget.  Most recently, William Daley accepted a request to serve as BHO's chief of staff.  —  Both Lew and Daley also had prominent positions within the Clinton administration …
Discussion: CNN
msnbc.com:
Mass bird die-off: Feds poisoned them  —  South Dakota birds were eating from cattle feed lots, leaving waste on equipment  —  Below:  —  NBC News and msnbc.com  —  YANKTON, S.D. — When birds started falling dead in Yankton on Monday, there was understandable alarm.
Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Outspoken Tucson sheriff faces recall bid  —  Tea party group wants Dupnik out  —  Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has never lost an election, but that was before his remarks assigning blame for the deadly Tucson, Ariz., shooting to political “vitriol” and calling Arizona “a mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”
Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:
Nick Summers Out at New York Observer, Returning to Newsweek For Tina Brown  —  ​Just one big, local item on this slushy Friday for the reincarnated Press Clips column: New York Observer media reporter Nick Summers, on the job less than three months after the departure of John Koblin …
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Eight Somali pirates killed as South Korea rescues freighter crew  —  Navy commandos storm ship hijacked in Arabian Sea, and officials say all 21 crewmembers safe after operation  —  South Korean navy commandos today rescued the crew of a freighter hijacked in the Arabian Sea last week …
Discussion: AOL News and The Jawa Report
Mike Riggs / The Daily Caller:
Lost in the madhouse: Three stories of involuntary confinement  —  Erik* was not familiar with the expression “Baker Act'd” the night a college psychologist came to his dorm room, woke him up, and took him to a nearby hospital.  In fact, Erik didn't realize anything was wrong until police handcuffed him …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Just as things were looking up, Obama's annual job approval average puts him near the postwar bottom  —  As if the poll showing improved approval of Congress under partial Republican leadership wasn't discouraging enough, now comes a new survey showing President Obama's second-year job approval near …
 
 
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Few Voters See Upside to Health Care Law
Telegraph:
Brother of Harry Potter star jailed for attacking her
Discussion: Cubachi and Jihad Watch
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Myth of the Hero Gunslinger
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Ron Reagan Tells Joy Behar “Dick Cheney Is An Unindicted War Criminal”
Richard Dunham / Texas on the Potomac:
Promise kept: All Texas Republicans vote to repeal health reform; Democrats cry foul
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:
Calling on Fred Hiatt and Donald Graham: Jennifer Rubin & Israel-Bashing?
Jeff Schogol / Stars & Stripes:
McChrystal denies claims of secret military crusade against Islam
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Giuliani ‘absolutely’ open to 2012 presidential run
Carla Marinucci / SFGate:
Is Republican billionaire Meg Whitman planning a political comeback?
Discussion: The Fix and Wonkette
Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
FBI Questioned Gulet Mohamed Without Counsel at DC Airport (With Video)
Discussion: Emptywheel and The Agonist
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
China Goes to Nixon
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Most Valuable Democrat
 

 
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