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5:00 PM ET, June 20, 2012

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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Nancy Pelosi Slams Contempt Vote: 'I Could Have Arrested Karl Rove ... But We Didn't' … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Darrell Issa, Eric Holder, Karl Rove, Nancy Pelosi, Elections 2012, Video, Darrell Issa Contempt, Eric Holder Contempt, Fast And Furious, Holder Fast And Furious, Issa Fast And Furious, Politics News
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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 …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Att.  General Eric Holder held in contempt  —  Washington (CNN) — Voting on strictly partisan lines, a House committee recommended Wednesday that Attorney General Eric Holder be cited for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents relating to the botched Fast and Furious weapons sting operation.
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 …
John H. Cushman Jr / New York Times:
Obama Claims Executive Privilege in Gun Case  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday invoked executive privilege to withhold from a Congressional oversight committee some documents and communications among his advisers regarding the failed gun enforcement operation known as “Fast and Furious …
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.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
House panel votes to place Holder in contempt of Congress  —  A House panel voted Wednesday to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena, defying an assertion of executive privilege from President Obama.
Discussion: Hot Air, PJ Media and Fox News Insider
Fox News:
House panel approves Holder contempt resolution  —  DEVELOPING ...  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.  —  The measure now goes to the full House.  —  ORIGINAL STORY ...
Des Moines Register:
Iowa's Grassley responds to Obama's executive privilege move on ‘Fast and Furious’
Donovan Slack / Politico:
White House: No cover-up, GOP playing politics with Fast & Furious
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
New York Post:
Is this the end of Eric Holder's games?
Discussion: RedState and National Review
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews Slimes GOP as Racist for Going After Holder: An ‘Ethnic’ ‘Stop-and-Frisk’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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
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 …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
How Romney's Dance With Rubio Proves the Veepstakes Matters
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.
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Middle class could face higher taxes under Republican plan, analysis finds  —  The tax reform plan that House Republicans have advanced would sharply cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and could leave middle-class households facing much larger tax bills, according to a new analysis set to be released Wednesday.
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Soak The Middle Class
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.
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.
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
E-mails show U.Va. board wanted a big online push  —  By  —  E-mail messages were flying among leaders of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in the weeks leading up to the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the university.  The e-mail messages show …
Discussion: naked capitalism
Nick R. Martin / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker  —  Arizona Secretary Of State's Latest Theory: Obama Lied About Being Born In Kenya To Get Into College  —  The top election official in Arizona, fresh off his flirtation with birtherism, has moved on to a strange new conspiracy theory involving President Barack Obama.
Dave Levinthaland Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Influence: Maney to BGR  —  HAPPENING NOW ... VAN HOLLEN BLASTS MCCONNELL ON DISCLOSURE: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), sponsor of the DISCLOSE ACT, today blasted the remarks of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week that suggested the bill was a tool for liberals to silence their critics.
 
 
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nothing sweet about heckling Obama in the Rose Garden
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Andrew Sarris, Influential Film Critic, Dies at 83
Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Super-PAC plans to help McCaskill in tough Senate race
Reuters:
Military instructor suspended over Islam course
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Atlas Shrugs
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand / The Huffington Post:
Food Stamp Vote In Senate Blocks Bid To Restore $4.5 Billion In Aid
Discussion: Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Public Workers Face Continued Layoffs, Hurting the Recovery
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs and Politico
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney plans posh weekend donor retreat featuring Rove and V.P. hopefuls
Discussion: GOP 12, msnbc.com, ABCNEWS and Shakesville
Jenna Portnoy / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Chris Christie compares Democrats to vampires at town hall
Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
The Declaration of Independence
Don Kaplan / New York Post:
Inside gov's ‘cave’
Discussion: Politicker and New York Magazine
Salena Zito / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Rep. Mark Critz, other Dems, to skip convention in favor of campaigning in Pennsylvania
 

 
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