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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tense moments at Common Purpose meet  —  Tensions between the White House and its liberal allies came to a head last night at the weekly Common Purpose meeting, where progressive leaders and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling had a tense exchange about the debt deal, two Democratic sources said.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats' frustration with media begins to show in FAA fight with House  —  After an acrimonious, months-long debate over raising the national debt limit, a battle many Democrats think the Republicans won, Senate Democratic leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated over how the media reports …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
LaHood blames his former GOP colleagues for FAA impasse
Discussion: Washington Post, TPMDC, CNN and Firedoglake
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty pulls ads ahead of Ames Straw Poll  —  Tim Pawlenty will be pulling his radio and television ads off the air in the 72 hours before next Saturday's straw poll in Ames.  —  The former Minnesota governor's presidential campaign says it's not short on cash, but simply planning …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Santorum To Give Out Free Jelly At Ames
William Petroski / Iowa Caucuses:   Santorum makes sweet offer to Ames Straw Poll attendees
The Politico:
GOP ponders Perry: Savior or flop?  —  To a sizable slice of the Republican base, Rick Perry looks like the conservative, charismatic presidential candidate they have been waiting for in the 2012 campaign.  —  To many GOP elites, however, the Texan looks more like a general election flop in the making.
Discussion: Hot Air, The New Republic and Salon
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
UNION MEMBERS OUTRAGED After White House Hires Non-Union Crew For Obama's Birthday Bash  —  Somebody's Having a Birthday Party and You're Not Invited  —  That is, if you belong to a union.  —  In case you live under a rock and haven't heard, Barack Obama turns 50 today.  And, the place to be tonight is the Aragon.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Eric Cantor: Obama ‘in over his head’  —  President Barack Obama is “in over his head” when it comes to tackling the country's economic troubles, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Wednesday.  —  The president has not run a business or created jobs and has proven himself ill-suited …
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Yahoo! News:
US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury  —  US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday.  —  Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed …
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House  —  (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama's upcoming bus tour through the Midwest states typically viewed as swing states during presidential election years will be paid for by the taxpayers, the White House says.
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Daily Mail:
Another politician forced to resign after sending naked pictures to woman he had online relationship with  —  A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
New Jersey Politician Quits Over Nude Photos
Rasmussen Reports:
69% Say It's Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research  —  The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made.  While a majority of Americans nationwide continue …
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Al Gore: We need an American ‘Arab spring’  —  Ever since CNBC's Rick Santelli inspired the Tea Party movement's creation in early 2009, the left has been looking for a similar spark on their own side.  The earliest liberal alternative, the so-called Coffee Party, was a flop.
Steven Hoffer / The Huffington Post:
Minnesota School Faces Lawsuit Over Racist ‘Wigger Day’ … A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called “Wigger Day,” during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that “from their perspective, mimicked black culture,” according to a federal class action lawsuit filed against the district on Friday.
Elizabeth MacDonald / FoxBusiness.com:
Media Matters Puts Tax-Exempt Status in Jeopardy  —  David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for America, told a news website earlier this year that his nonprofit is now moving to “sabotage” FOX News because it says the network is now the “de facto head of the GOP,” among other things.
Discussion: Big Journalism
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
MSNBC Host, Guest Consider Whether Tea Partiers Are Addicts, ‘Delusional’  —  MSNBC host Martin Bashir interviewed Stanton Peele, a psychologist and an “expert on addiction,” this afternoon.  Bashir urged Peele to psychologically evaluate supporters of the Tea Party.
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May  —  It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth.
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Air Force Suspends Christian-Themed Ethics Training Program Over Bible Passages  —  The Air Force has suspended a course that was taught by chaplains for more than 20 years because the material included Bible passages.  —  The course, called “Christian Just War Theory” …
Dmitri Alperovitch / Blog Central:
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT  —  For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated …
Bloomberg:
Airlines to Reap $1.3 Billion Fare ‘Windfall’ Amid FAA Limbo  —  U.S. airlines led by United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL) may pocket $1.3 billion in higher fares tied to the Federal Aviation Administration's partial shutdown as Congress deadlocks on the agency's funding.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and AMERICAblog News
A.Killough / CNN:
Top Pawlenty adviser leaves campaign  —  Tampa, Florida (CNN) - A top policy adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's has left the Republican's presidential campaign.  —  Al Hubbard, a former director of the National Economic Council under George W. Bush, had been the chairman of Pawlenty's …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year  —  This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level.  In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Obama: Still the Alinskyite  —  Here's my take on the puzzle of Obama's leadership style.  Obama is still every inch the Alinskyite organizer.  He talks about uniting, even as he deliberately polarizes.  He moves incrementally toward radical left goals, but never owns up to his ideology.
Free exchange:
Flying blind  —  ON DECEMBER 16th, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama met in Chicago with key members of his economic team to discuss their response to the deteriorating economic situation.  Just two weeks earlier, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that 533,000 jobs had been lost in November …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Americans Oppose Than Favor Debt Ceiling Agreement  —  Americans are twice as likely to think it will make economy worse rather than better  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are more likely to oppose (46%) than favor (39%) the agreement President Obama and Congress reached to raise the federal debt ceiling.
Sky News:
‘Mission Accomplished’: Breivik Call To Cops  —  Anders Behring Breivik said “mission accomplished” during a call to police after he massacred 69 people on Utoya island, it has been reported.  —  According to the Verdens Gang (VG) daily, the 32-year-old right-wing extremist said: “Breivik.
 
 
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