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7:00 AM ET, February 3, 2011

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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Senate rejects healthcare repeal  —  The Senate on Wednesday voted down a repeal of President Obama's healthcare law in a 47-51 party-line vote.  —  The vote came two weeks to the day the Republican House voted 245-189 to repeal the law, and just days after a federal judge ruled Obama's …
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The Onion:
Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth  —  House Republicans say the bill, which was passed to stop the giant asteroid from hitting Earth, is ‘big government at its worst.’  —  WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda …
Discussion: Indecision Forever
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Senate Votes Down Health Care Repeal Measure
Discussion: Hot Air, Don Surber and FrumForum
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Senate votes to repeal healthcare law's ‘1099’ tax reporting language
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senator seeks expedited Supreme Court review of health care law
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and HillBuzz.org
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
McCain has rare 1-on-1 with Obama  —  With a “rapidly deteriorating” situation in Egypt, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had a rare one-on-one meeting at the White House with 2008 campaign rival Barack Obama to discuss policy in the Middle East and several other domestic issues.
Discussion: CNN, Weasel Zippers and Politics Daily
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George Soros / Washington Post:
Why Obama has to get Egypt right  —  Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.  In the case of the Middle East, the tears could be avoided if President Obama stands firmly by the values that got him elected.  Although American power and influence in the world have declined …
Michael Martinez / CNN:
As protestors clash, Egyptian military's idleness raises questions
Discussion: Big Peace, Eunomia and The Daily Dish
Robert Springborg / Foreign Policy:
Game over: The chance for democracy in Egypt is lost
Discussion: Guardian and Eunomia
Wall Street Journal:
Egypt and the Realists  —  So much for stability in lieu of freedom in the Middle East.
Discussion: Big Peace and RubinReports
Al Jazeera Blogs:
Live blog Feb 3 - Egypt protests  —  on February 2nd, 2011.  —  From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3
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Christiane Amanpour / ABCNEWS:
Egypt Protests Turn Violent  —  Pro- and Anti-Mubarak Crowds Collide in the Worst Clashes Since Friday  —  We just got back to the hotel after trying to film on the bridge into Tahrir Square.  —  An angry mob surrounded us and chased us into the car shouting that they hate America.
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu / Arutz Sheva:
ElBaradei's Ultimatum to Mubarak: 48 Hours to Leave the Country  —  Follow Israel news on and .  —  Egyptian uprising idol Mohammed ElBaradei has ordered Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave the country by Friday - or he will be a “dead man walking” and not just a lame-duck president.
Carla Marinucci / SFGate:
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin reports from Cairo's Tahrir Square …
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama to unveil energy agenda amid mounting GOP challenges  —  President Obama will outline his latest broad energy policy goal Thursday amid uncertainty in Congress about energy legislation and mounting challenges by Republicans to the administration's climate change agenda.
Discussion: The Politico
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama Signs START Treaty, Doesn't Allow Reporters in the Room
Discussion: Mediaite and Pajamas Media
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House reporters complain Obama is shutting them out
New York Times:
In Book, Rumsfeld Recalls Bush's Early Iraq Focus  —  WASHINGTON — Just 15 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush invited his defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to meet with him alone in the Oval Office.  According to Mr. Rumsfeld's new memoir …
Discussion: The Politico
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The Politico:
Donald Rumsfeld writes of Iraq war origins
Discussion: The Page
Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Arab World Faces Its Uncertain Future  —  CAIRO — The future of the Arab world, perched between revolt and the contempt of a crumbling order, was fought in the streets of downtown Cairo on Wednesday.  —  Tens of thousands of protesters who have reimagined the very notion of citizenship …
Discussion: Time and Marbury
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Time For Obama To Cut Mubarak Loose  —  One thing I think is overwhelmingly clear from the events today in Egypt: the American alliance with Hosni Mubarak is over.  The alliance was justifiable on strategic grounds.  Mubarak was a dictator, but he retained just enough of a mask of legitimacy …
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Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
The View From Tahrir  —  Today President Mubarak seems …
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Fox Takes 50 Minute Break From Regular Programming To Run News Corp Infomercial  —  As Americans and the world are gripped by the ongoing crisis in Egypt, news organizations have devoted wall-to-wall coverage to the protests — that is, except for Fox News, which interrupted its news programing …
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Murdoch On Rumors Of Hiring Olbermann: 'We Don't Believe In Firing People Twice'
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs and TVNewser
Michael Turk / CRAFT:
How Super Is Our Debt?  —  One problem political organizations often face is a wealth of complex information and the challenge of presenting that information in an easily digestible format.  Our goal, as a firm, is to help clients identify new and compelling ways to make a point.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Democrats reach for the shiny object  —  Look At the Shiny Object  —  Yesterday Debbie Wasserman-Shultz came out swinging against the latest GOP assault on women, calling the new requirement that only those who are the victims of “forcible” rape be entitled to government funded abortion, “violence against women” and she's right.
J. Bradford DeLong / Grasping Reality …:
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?  (MIchael Fletcher of the Washington Post Edition)  —  Fresno, CA—along with much of the rest of the great Central Valley—has long had a structural unemployment problem.  Back at the start of the 1990s when the unemployment rate in the country …
Discussion: Washington Post
Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles  —  The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
SEIU fights healthcare repeal after obtaining waivers from law  —  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is lobbying hard against the amendment offered by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to repeal the healthcare reform law.  —  SEIU has sent e-mails …
Reuters:
John Thune faces tough choice on 2012  —  South Dakota Sen. John Thune just landed two plum posts in the Senate — seats on the influential Finance and Budget committees — that crystallize the decision he now faces: Stay in the Senate to climb the leadership ladder, or jump into the 2012 presidential contest.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Page
 
 
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Egypt Is A Very Large Proportion of the Arab World
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