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2:25 PM ET, June 20, 2012

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Fox News:
Obama grants Holder request on ‘Furious’ documents as contempt vote looms  —  DEVELOPING ...  President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off …
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Obama invokes executive privilege in showdown over Holder documents  —  Washington (CNN) — An extraordinary House committee hearing began considering a contempt measure against Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday even though President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Eric Holder, Barack Obama , Barack Obama , Video, Executive Privilege, Executive Privilege Obama, Executive Privilege President Obama, Eric Holder Contempt, Eric Holder Fast And Furious …
Washington Post:
Fast and Furious scandal: Obama invokes executive privilege; House panel moves forward with Holder contempt vote  —  President Obama asserted executive privilege over documents related to the “Fast and Furious” operation Wednesday as a House panel moved to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr …
Politico:
President Obama uses executive privilege on Fast and Furious  —  The Obama administration is asserting executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents to Congress related to the Fast and Furious scandal, a major escalation in a clash between the White House and Hill Republicans just hours …
Discussion: Univision News Tumblr
Byron Tau / Politico:
Boehner: Privilege claim implies White House cover-up  —  On the heels of President Obama's decision to shield Department of Justice documents under the doctrine of executive privilege, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner wondered if White House officials were being involved in a cover-up.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
White House asserts executive privilege claim to further DOJ's Fast and Furious cover-up
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews Slimes GOP as Racist for Going After Holder: An ‘Ethnic’ ‘Stop-and-Frisk’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Post:
Is this the end of Eric Holder's games?
Discussion: National Review and RedState
John H. Cushman Jr / New York Times:
Obama Claims Executive Privilege in Gun Case
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama asserts executive privilege ahead of Holder contempt vote
Michelle Malkin:
Transparency: Eric Holder runs for White House cover; obtains executive privilege over Fast …
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Obama Leads In Poll As Voters View Romney As Out Of Touch  —  Barack Obama has opened a significant lead over Mitt Romney in a Bloomberg National Poll that reflects the presumed Republican nominee's weaknesses more than the president's strengths.  —  Obama leads Romney 53 percent …
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David J. Lynch / Bloomberg:
Americans Say They'Re Better Off Since Obama Took Office  —  A plurality of Americans now say they are better off than they were when President Barack Obama was inaugurated, providing a surprising lift to Obama's re- election campaign despite troublesome economic news.
CNN:
New poll: Obama has double digit advantage  —  Washington (CNN) - A new national survey indicates President Barack Obama has opened up a double digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the race for the White House, an advantage for Obama that no other major poll released this month has found.
Maggie Habermanand Alexander Burns / Politico:
The 2012 campaign is the smallest ever  —  For years, operatives, reporters and potential nominees envisioned the 2012 presidential campaign as a titanic clash of media-swarmed combatants with big ideas about the future.  In the Republican primaries, this was almost a mantra: this is the most important campaign in a generation.
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Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
Tim Pawlenty's stock soars in Romney-world  —  Tim Pawlenty has jumped to the top of the vice presidential shortlist of several Mitt Romney advisers after emerging as the most effective — and well-liked — surrogate for the GOP nominee-to-be, according to several Republicans familiar with campaign deliberations.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Why Rubio probably won't be the pick  —  Why Rubio probably won't be Romney's VP pick... And why T-Paw seems to be rising... Obama campaign releases two new TV ads hitting Romney's record as Massachusetts governor... Romney's boxed in on immigration... Romney raises money in Michigan …
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Is Terrible For Traffic  —  We admit it, and so do other bloggers and editors: Nobody seems to want to read stories about Mitt Romney.  For the candidate, a blessing or a curse?  —  In the war of partisan trash talk that frequently consumes online political media …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Clues Emerge on Romney's VP Pick
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Wire
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the economy has been expanding moderately this year.  However, growth in employment has slowed in recent months, and the unemployment rate remains elevated.  Business fixed investment has continued to advance.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Soak The Middle Class  —  Senate Dems give The Washington Post the jump on a new analysis that puts one of the worst kept secrets in Washington into helpful numerical context: Republicans want the broad middle class to pay more taxes than they currently do, and the upper class to pay significantly less.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Middle class could face higher taxes under Republican plan, analysis finds
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Study: House Republican Budget Would Raise Taxes On The Middle Class, Cut Them For Millionaires
Discussion: American Prospect
Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
The Declaration of Independence  —  The More or Less Unanimous Declaration of the Board of Visitors  —  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a Board to dissolve the administrative bands which have connected a President with a University, and to assume for themselves …
Discussion: gist.github.com
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Bryan McKenzie / www2.dailyprogress.com:   Before asking University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan …
Jordan Michael Smith / Salon:
New NSA docs contradict 9/11 claims  —  “I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released,” an expert tells Salon  —  Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the National Security Archive.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand / The Huffington Post:
Food Stamp Vote In Senate Blocks Bid To Restore $4.5 Billion In Aid … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Video, 2012 Farm Bill, Farm Bill, Farm Bill 2012, Kirsten Gillibrand, Debbie Stabenow, Debbie Stabenow Food Stamps, Farm Bill Food Stamps, Food Stamp Cuts, Food Stamps, Kirsten Gillibrand Farm Bill, Politics News
Discussion: Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
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Wall Street Journal:
Food Stamp Fiasco
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Elizabeth Warren loses it, lashes out at “right wing extremist” (me)  —  As you know, Elizabeth Warren has been caught in a series of at best misleading and at worst false responses since The Boston Herald first broke the story in late April that Harvard Law promoted her as Native American in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Discussion: American Glob and Weasel Zippers
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GOProud, Inc.:
GOProud Endorses former Governor Mitt Romney for President  —  Organization of Gay Conservatives and their Straight Allies Will Commit Significant Resources to Electing Mitt Romney  —  (Washington, D.C.) - Last night, the Board of Directors of GOProud - a national organization of gay …
 
 
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Sen. Rand Paul / National Review:
Opposing Unconstitutional Wars
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New York Times:
Public Workers Face Continued Layoffs, Hurting the Recovery
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs and Politico
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney plans posh weekend donor retreat featuring Rove and V.P. hopefuls
Discussion: ABCNEWS and GOP 12
Jenna Portnoy / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Chris Christie compares Democrats to vampires at town hall
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Don Kaplan / New York Post:
Inside gov's ‘cave’
Discussion: Politicker and New York Magazine
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
As Issue Divides School, Congressman Takes a Side
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IA & MI  —  We kick off our “Big Ten” series with polls in Iowa and Michigan.
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Salena Zito / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Rep. Mark Critz, other Dems, to skip convention in favor of campaigning in Pennsylvania
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National Review's New Contributor: White Nationalist David Yerushalmi
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