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6:40 PM ET, February 21, 2013

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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
If No Deal is Struck, Four-in-Ten Say Let the Sequester Happen  —  Deficit Reduction: Focus Mostly on Spending But Keep Taxes in Mix  —  OVERVIEW  —  After a series of fiscal crises over the past few years, the public is not expressing a particular sense of urgency over the pending March 1 sequester deadline.
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Coalesce Around Clever Plan To Make Looming Spending Cuts Much Less Draconian  —  The GOP's emerging legislative fix to the sequester is both counterintuitive and clever.  But it probably won't force Democrats to abandon their insistence that the coming automatic cuts be replaced in part by new revenue.
USA Today:
On issues, public is more aligned with Obama than GOP  —  SETTING A NATIONAL AGENDA: WHAT NEEDS TO GET DONE THIS YEAR?  —  In a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll, Americans were asked how urgent it was for President Obama and Congress to pass major legislation on some top issues this year.
Karl Rove:
A Better Republican Sequester Strategy
Discussion: The Plum Line
National Review:   So Be It  —  The 2011 deal to raise the debt ceiling included …
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
EXCLUSIVE: Cornyn asks president to withdraw Hagel [Updated]  —  This post has been updated.  —  Right Turn has learned that a third of Senate Republicans, led by Minority Whip John Cornyn (Tex.), have called on President Obama to withdraw Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
15 G.O.P. Senators Ask Obama to Withdraw Hagel Nomination
Discussion: WFPL
Jon Huntsman / The American Conservative:
Marriage Equality Is a Conservative Cause  —  The party of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan has now lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections.  The marketplace of ideas will render us irrelevant, and soon, if we are not honest about our time and place in history.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Blaspheming Saint Romney  —  Until around the time Todd Akin blew up his Senate race, the conventional wisdom in campaign world was that if Romney won, he'd carry the House and the Senate as well.  That supposition underlay the GOP's entire substantive agenda from tax reform to entitlement cuts to repealing key provisions of Obamacare.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Biden To NRA: It's Over, The Politics On Guns Have Changed
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems to campaign hard on guns and minimum wage in 2014
Discussion: Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Guardian
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Laura Bush Objects To Being Quoted Accurately Supporting Marriage Equality  —  This week, the Respect for Marriage Coalition launched a new $1 million print and television ad campaign highlighting bipartisan support for marriage equality.  Unfortunately, it seems Former First Lady Laura Bush …
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CNN:
Laura Bush: Take me out of pro-gay marriage ad
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Carter: Obama thanked my grandson for ‘47%’ tape  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama expressed gratitute last week to former President Jimmy Carter's grandson for his role in leaking secretly-recorded video of Mitt Romney's infamous “47%” comments, the former president told CNN's Piers Morgan.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Piers Morgan
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Jimmy Carter: No relationship with Obama
Discussion: CNN, National Review and Weasel Zippers
Christine LaCroix / KASW-TV:
McCain responds to ‘jerk’ comment at town hall meeting  —  PHOENIX — One day after a confrontation at a town hall meeting in Sun Lakes, Senator John McCain held another town hall in Phoenix.  —  On Tuesday, an audience member of the town hall meeting fired off a string of heated questions about border security.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and The Raw Story
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David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:   Crowd Cheers After McCain Tells Aurora Victim's Mother She Needs ‘Straight Talk’ (VIDEO)
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Key House Republican: Don't Even Think About A Path To Citizenship  —  Immigration reform's chances in the House are looking bleaker after one of the top Republicans tasked with shepherding a bill to passage ruled out a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Plum Line
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David Welna / NPR:
Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan
Steven Nelson / US News:
Joe Biden's Shotgun Advice Could Land Jill Biden in Jail  —  Felony aggravated menacing, reckless endangering charges could result from shooting gun in air  —  Vice President Joe Biden might want to have a talk with his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, before he makes another public statement about guns.
Steven Brill / TIME:
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us  —  1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills  —  When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Says Americans Need Guns To Protect The Nation From Sharia Law  —  Tea Party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told a conservative radio show on Thursday that the GOP must oppose gun regulations to protect the country from the threat of “Sharia Law.”
Discussion: alan.com, Mediaite and The Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Sensing weakness, Karl Rove's critics pounce  —  For the first time in a dozen years, Karl Rove's critics smell blood.  —  After his electoral wipeout in November — and motivated by years of resentment that's spilling over — Rove's credibility within his own party is at an all-time low.
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Michael Tackett / Bloomberg:
Republicans Seeking Better Returns Reject Kingmaker Rove
Discussion: Booman Tribune and TheBlaze.com
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
RNC's New Ad Takes Obama Wildly Out Of Context  —  The short clip makes it appear as if Obama is pledging his support for the sequester rather calling on Congress to come up with a broad approach to avoid it, using his veto as part of a threat to force a plan.
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Ed Markey Compares Campaign Finance Ruling To Decision Upholding Slavery  —  “The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed, we have to repeal Citizens United,” Massachusetts Democrat says days after meeting with black clergy.  —  Image by Josh Reynolds / AP  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ed Markey …
Howard Kurtz / CNN:
MSNBC, a bastion of Obama advocates?  —  Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's “Reliable Sources” and is Newsweek's Washington bureau chief.  He is also a contributor to the website Daily Download.  —  (CNN) — David Axelrod is a smart guy who knows a heck of a lot about politics and the press.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
When solitude is torture  —  “Zero Dark Thirty,” a nominee for Sunday's Oscar for Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture.  This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects.  Meanwhile, tens of thousands …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Oops: Top Republican Senator Inadvertently Embraces Roe v. Wade  —  CHARITON, Iowa — During a town hall on Wednesday, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee embraced the reasoning behind the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing a woman's choice to get an abortion …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Paul Colford / ap.org:
New entry in the AP Stylebook: husband, wife  —  The following entry was added today to the AP Stylebook Online and also will appear in the new print edition and Stylebook Mobile, published in the spring:  —  husband, wife Regardless of sexual orientation, husband or wife is acceptable …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Obama: Helping rich only thing that ‘binds’ GOP together  —  President Obama, speaking to a very friendly Al Sharpton as part of a round with black broadcasters Thursday, offered a harsh assessment of the GOP — arguing that their opposition to taxing the wealthy was the only thing keeping …
 
 
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Rush Limbaugh Is “Ashamed” Of His Country For The First Time In His Life
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Financial Reform's Triple “F” Rating
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
‘War on Women’ 2.0  —  'Ladies Man," read the lead-story headline …
John Hamre / Washington Post:
The wrong way to weed out spies
Lisa Graves / The Nation:
Pete Peterson's Long History of Deficit Scaremongering
Sandra Jones / WTVR-TV:
Whistleblower says he was fired for talking to CBS 6
Discussion: The Raw Story and Pressing Issues
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Drones have killed 4,700, U.S. senator says
Neal K. Katyal / New York Times:
Who Will Mind the Drones?
 Earlier Items: 
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Jackson Graft Case Further Indicts Black Caucus
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Allie Grasgreen / Inside Higher Ed:
New book explains why women outpace men in education
Discussion: Althouse and The College Fix
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Opponents Of Proposition 8 Tell Supreme Court To Allow Gay Couples To Marry
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and The Raw Story
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
COLUMBINE SURVIVOR PENS BOLD OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA REJECTING GUN CONTROL: ‘WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?’
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Rand Paul returns more money to Treasury
Discussion: Hot Air and The Hill
 

 
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