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6:40 PM ET, June 16, 2011

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The Politico:
Defiant Anthony Weiner resigns from Congress  —  NEW YORK — In the same room where he launched his first campaign for City Council two decades ago, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) announced his resignation from Congress on Thursday.  —  “Today I'm announcing my resignation from Congress …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House in the wake of revelations of his lewd online exchanges with women, said a person told of Mr. Weiner's plans.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Weiner's exit  —  Anthony Weiner's pained resignation, staged at a senior center in the Brooklyn neighborhood called Gravesend, may have finally burned out the incredible media storm around him.  —  There was more press here than I've seen in 10 years of covering New York political events …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Weiner Gives Up the Ghost  —  So, Anthony Weiner is set to resign from Congress.  Since I said I hoped he wouldn't do so, I feel obliged to comment on his decision.  —  What stands out to me about all this aren't Weiner's juvenile and mortifying ‘offenses,’ but the bizarre and almost inexplicable …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
ALL Major Cable Nets Cut Away When Pelosi Talks Jobs Over Weiner (VIDEO)
Wolf Blitzer / The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:   BLITZER'S BLOG: I wouldn't rule out second chance for Weiner
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Anthony Weiner, Tainting Our Political Class
The Atlantic Online:
Anthony Weiner Resigns: ‘Distraction’ Makes It Impossible to Stay
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
The Note:
Jon Huntsman Cancels Appearance At Republican Leadership Conference Due To Illness  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone (@michaelpfalcone) reports:  —  Although he was slated to speak at a major gathering of Republicans taking place in New Orleans this weekend — just days before the official rollout …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Romney, Bachmann, Cain Lead The Pack Among GOP Primary Voters  —  Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to lead the race for the Republican nomination, but Michele Bachmann has surged into second place following her Monday night entry into the campaign.
Molly Ball / The Politico:
The GOP's unfavorite son primary  —  Mitt Romney had a ready answer Tuesday when asked about his Massachusetts health care law.  —  “I am not running for governor of Massachusetts,” he said.  “I am running for president of the United States.”  —  It's a good thing — if he were running in his home state again, he'd probably lose.
Rasmussen Reports:
45% of GOP Primary Voters Say It's Bad for Party If Palin Enters Presidential Race
Discussion: Hot Air, GOP 12 and FrumForum
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads as GOP prioritizes electability
Discussion: Salon, GOP 12 and Hot Air
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Romney: 'I'm Also Unemployed'  —  TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work.  When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney says he's ‘also unemployed’
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
James Risen / New York Times:
Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic  —  WASHINGTON — A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Ret'd. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to “Get” Cole
The Hill:
Senate kills off ethanol tax credits in possible break with tax pledge  —  The Senate voted 73-27 Thursday to kill a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry, handing a political win to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that call the incentive needless and expensive.
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Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Senate Dumps Ethanol Subsidies
Wall Street Journal:
Ethanol Suffers Rare Loss in Senate
Discussion: Hit & Run
The Note:
Glitter Bandits Strike Pawlenty  —  ABC News' Matt Jaffe (@jaffematt) and Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) report:  —  Another glittered bandit struck out at a GOP presidential candidate.  —  A few weeks ago it was Newt Gingrich who was doused in glitter by a liberal activist.  On Thursday, it was Tim Pawlenty.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Pawlenty Finally Throws the Punch — On Twitter
Alexander Burns / The Politico:   Tim Pawlenty gets glittered
Andy Kroll / MoJo Articles:
Tim Pawlenty's New Hampshire Ally: Obama is a “Jungle Alien”
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dems hit Pawlenty for paid speech on healthcare
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Union leader calls New Jersey gov ‘Adolf Christie,’ compares pension battle to ‘World War III’ [VIDEO]  —  At a Thursday rally in New Jersey protesting Republican Gov. Chris Christie's pension deal that would cut pensions and benefits to public workers, a union leader charged Christie with acting like a Nazi.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Associated Press:
Union leader compares NJ gov to Hitler at rally  —  Thousands participate in a rally to protest a Senate Budget Committee hearing on employee benefits at the State House Annex in Trenton, N.J.,Thursday, June 16, 2011.  Labor leaders rallying for collective bargaining rights in New Jersey went …
Discussion: RedState and Weasel Zippers
Brian Bolduc / National Review:
Union Leader Dubs Governor ‘Adolph Christie’
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Sister Toldjah
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner says House could move to cut off funding for Libya  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday said the Obama administration failed to answer all his questions about the U.S. mission in Libya and raised the possibility that the House would move to cut off funding for the operation.
Discussion: The Note, The Hill and Weasel Zippers
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The White House:
Letter from the President on the War Powers Resolution
Discussion: Washington Wire
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Our Lefty Military  —  As we search for paths out of America's economic crisis, many suggest business as a paradigm for cutting costs.  According to my back-of-the-envelope math, top C.E.O.'s earn as much as $1 a second around the clock, partly by cutting medical benefits for employees.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McKinsey official wrote previous study finding opposite of McKinsey study  —  Yet another interesting turn in the case of the mystery health care study.  —  As you know, the consulting firm McKinsey and Company recently released a study that — unlike other studies — found that larger numbers …
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Health Policy Program:
Questioning the McKinsey Study - Someone should ask Bowen Garrett
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Norah O'Donnell moves to CBS  —  Norah O'Donnell, one of NBC's best-known Washington bureau reporters, is moving to CBS News to be chief White House correspondent, CBS announced.  —  It's a stunning shakeup for both the front row of the White House briefing room and for Washington's intensely competitive network news bureaus.
Discussion: Mediaite and FishbowlDC
NBC New York:
Possible Al-Qaida Hit List Targets Specific Americans  —  An al-Qaida-linked website has posted a potential hit-list of sorts.  It has the names and photos of several U.S. officials and business leaders.  The site prompted the FBI to send out a new terror bulletin.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Runnin' Scared
 
 
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