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8:55 PM ET, February 14, 2011

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers  —  The logic behind president Obama's budget has one extremely sensible feature: it distinguishes between spending that simply adds to consumption, and spending that really does mean investment.  His analogy over the weekend …
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Paul Krugman:
The Great Abdication  —  Andrew Leonard is right: the Obama budget isn't going to happen, so in a sense it's irrelevant.  But it still has symbolic meaning.  What is Obama saying here?  —  The important thing, I think, is that he has effectively given up on the idea that the government …
James Pethokoukis:
Obama budget reveals Obama's core  —  Here's what President Barack Obama's new budget tells me: He hasn't shifted to the center, he's shifted into 2012 campaign mode, one that let's him be who is really is.  —  The budget is a political document that bets voters really don't care much about deficits.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
Alan Silverleib / CNN:
Obama's budget: A play for the center?
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE.... Almost immediately after President Obama's budget proposal was released, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a statement condemning it.  As the right-wing senator put it, the White House's budget “would push us over the edge into generational debt.”
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama to offer $3.7 trillion budget blueprint; deficit to hit $1.6 trillion this year  —  President Obama will roll out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education, transportation and research …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE WRONG PRIORITY AT THE WRONG TIME.... The White House issued its budget proposal this morning, and as expected, Republicans don't like it.  But as various GOP offices release statements responding to the budget plan, there's a common theme of the complaints.
Discussion: The Hill
The Note:
McConnell on Obama's Budget: “This President Clearly Does Not Get It”
Discussion: The Politico
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Deficit Expected to Spike
Ezra Klein:
The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army  —  American politics is one long argument about what government should or shouldn't be doing, and how it should or shouldn't be doing it.  It's rare that we step back, take in the larger picture and ask what it is doing.
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Ezra Klein:
The Defense Department won the future, or at least the budget
Discussion: Mother Jones
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Eat the Future  —  On Friday, House Republicans unveiled …
Scott Lilly / Center for American Progress:
No, He Wouldn't—Would He?  —  House Speaker's State May Get $450 Million Extra  —  Leaders of the new majority in the House of Representatives promised to cut spending and eliminate earmarks.  But House budget legislation filed Friday night contains a provision that looks very much like an earmark …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Secretary Clinton: House Republican budget cuts will endanger national security
Discussion: TPMDC and The Page
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Rep. King: GOP should ‘stare down’ Obama over government shutdown
Discussion: Swampland and TPMDC
WMUR:
Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll  —  Survey Shows Most Likely Voters Still Undecided  —  DURHAM, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early frontrunner in the New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new poll.  —  The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Romney …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney has big lead in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN) - Former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early favorite in the New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new poll.  —  The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Romney with 40 percent of the vote …
Discussion: The Politico and HotAirPundit
Kevin McCullough / Fox News:
Disrespectful Libertarians Hijack CPAC Poll — And Its Mission  —  The top three winners of this weekend's CPAC straw poll will not win the 2012 presidential nomination.  And if any of the top three do break through to prove that prediction wrong, none of them will go on to win the White House in 2012.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Ron Paul Divide
Discussion: Eunomia
Chicago News and Weather:
Carol Moseley Braun Under Fire for Comments About Emanuel, Hitler Character in ‘The Producers’  —  Chicago - Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun had some explaining to do this weekend after another apparent gaffe regarding one of her opponents.  —  During a rally with Princeton …
Discussion: NBC Chicago, Don Surber and FrumForum
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rahm Emanuel hits opponent on Tea Party endorsement as Chicago mayor race heats up
Discussion: The Politico
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
Protests Gather Steam in Tehran  —  Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran Monday, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters who recently toppled their own regimes.
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Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
Ryan: W.H. budget is ‘bankruptcy’  —  House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dismissed President Obama's budget as failing to meet the “critical test of leadership.”  But he said that Republican members of his panel “want to get serious” and that he expects to bring a …
Discussion: The Note and FrumForum
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
House set to pass Patriot Act extension on second try
Discussion: CNN, The Foundry and Hit & Run
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
What Does Bias Look Like?  —  So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry.  And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things.
Newsweek:
Wanted: A Grand Strategy for America  —  NEWSWEEK's new columnist on Obama's Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes.  —  Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images  —  President Barack Obama in front of the Sphinx during a tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza following his landmark speech to the Muslim World on June 4, 2009.
JammieWearingFool:
San Diego Port Director Claims WMD Found in U.S.  —  This report was on San Diego television a few days ago but this is the first I've seen of it ... in a British newspaper.  Strange how this hasn't become major news. … I suspect Hallor will soon find himself looking for another line of work.
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David Gardner / Daily Mail:
‘A weapon of mass destruction was found in the U.S.’: Shock confession …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Wait, Who's Cutting Pell Grants?  And Why?  —  Reports that President Obama's budget request would cut Pell Grant funding first began to circulate over the weekend.  —  If you happened to see those stories, you may have reacted the way I did: What?  Wasn't the whole point of the Obama budget to spend more money on education?
New York Times:
Word and Lyric, Giffords Labors to Speak Again  —  PHOENIX — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an eloquent speaker before she was shot in the head last month, is relearning the skill — progressing from mouthing words and lip syncing songs to talking briefly by telephone to her brother-in-law in space.
Kim Smith / Arizona Daily Star:
Forde convicted in killing of Arivaca man, daughter  —  A Pima County jury convicted Shawna Forde today of two counts of first-degree murder in the May 30, 2009 deaths of Arivaca residents Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia.  —  The jury also convicted Forde of attempted …
Michael Barbaro / City Room:
Morley Safer Ruffles Feathers at Century Club  —  At the height of a messy internal dispute a few weeks ago, members of the exclusive Century Association in Manhattan traded unusually tart and testy e-mail messages.  —  But the words of a single member stood out for their harsh tone …
Discussion: Gawker, TVNewser and Poynter
 
 
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Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
New Civil Rights Commission Suspends Printing Of New Black Panther Report
Jeffrey Winters / The Huffington Post:
Egypt's Mobilization of the Last Minute
Discussion: The Washington Note
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OUT OF SYNC  —  Here's the key thing to keep in mind …
Tom Krisher / Associated Press:
AP Source: GM hourly workers get $4,000 bonuses
Michael Medved / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Isn't Trying to ‘Weaken America’
Discussion: Mediaite and The Page
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Robert Samuelson / Real Clear Politics:
The Enemies of Good Government  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President …
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Charlotte Allen / Los Angeles Times:
Stick a fork in it, we're done
Discussion: Hot Air, Opinion L.A. and Instapundit
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Boehner and the Birthers.  —  Sigh: … I guess there are a couple …
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