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7:30 PM ET, Feb 9, 2010

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CBS News: Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin (Video) — Posted by Brian Montopoli Following President Obama's surprise appearance at the White House press briefing …

Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel: Getting Sarah Palin's Paradigm — “If the primaries were this year, I suspect she'd be nominated,” a senior adviser to one of Sarah Palin's potential rivals confides.

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill All His Initiatives — Update: White House press sec Robert Gibbs just got in touch to confirm …

Michael D. Shear / Washington Post: Top House Republicans throw cold water on health-care summit — Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate …

Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard: Robert Gibbs Goes Dane Cook: Steals Jokes from Sarah Palin to Make Fun of Her — Focused like a laser. — In a White House briefing where the president showed up …

Alan Schroeder / The Huffington Post: Sarah Palin's Tea Party Speech: Beneath Her Wrath A Troubling Contradiction Lurks — Sarah Palin's address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville vividly demonstrates …

ABCNEWS: Michelle Obama Responds to Palin Pokes — First Lady: 'Change... Certainly Doesn't Happen in a Year' — Michelle Obama defended her husband …

Associated Press: White House mocks Sarah Palin from podium — WASHINGTON (AP) - Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice …

Chris Cillizza / The Fix: Sarah Palin's soundbite strategy — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has mastered the art of the political soundbite and has used it to devastating …

David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars: EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Palin's debut as a motivational speaker: Houston attendees rate her a ‘Fail’ — After her Tea Party Convention speech this weekend …

Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic: Something Much Darker — Andrew Sullivan has a serious problem. — I. — “Trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity to readers of The New Republic is not easy.”

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias: Wieseltier vs Sullivan — My understanding is that Leon Wieseltier and Andrew Sullivan have some kind of personal beef dating back to when Sullivan was editor of the New Republic.

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Latest From Leon — It's been fourteen years since I left TNR and Leon Wieseltier is still obsessed with his long-standing and at this point tedious personal vendetta against me.

John Brennan / USA Today: Opposing view: ‘We need no lectures’ — Administration disrupts terrorists' plots, takes fight to them abroad. — Politics should never get in the way of national security.

Wall Street Journal: Bush Was Right, Says Obama — 'We're not handling any of these cases any different from the Bush administration.' — This weekend, Americans were treated to something new …

Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Sen. Bond calls for Brennan's resignation — Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) called on Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan's resignation on Tuesday.

Alexander Bolton / The Hill: Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare — Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable …

L. Douglas Wilder / The Politico: Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers — During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president.

Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog News: The Hill: 'Cracks are beginning to show in Emanuel's once-impregnable political armor' — According to The Hill, Democrats on Capitol Hill are focusing their ire on Rahm:

Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers: Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky — Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll …

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel: Obama's Bipartisan Dream for Jobs Bill Will Fail — President Obama wants to work with Republicans to craft a jobs bill that rewards employers for adding workers to their payrolls.

New York Times: On Health Bill, G.O.P.'s Road Is a New Map — WASHINGTON — When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month …

Jonathan Chait / The New Republic: The Obama Method And the Health Care Summit — I still find it strange how little understood President Obama's political method is.

Manu Raju / The Politico: Shelby not done blocking nominations — Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) may have dropped his holds on President Barack Obama's nominees, but he's more than willing …

The Caucus: Obama Urges Setting Aside ‘Petty Politics’ — President Obama declared today that “a sense of purpose that transcends petty politics” must be forged by Democrats …

Jeffrey Young / The Hill: Draft version of Senate Dems' jobs bill leaks — A draft version of the Senate jobs bill began circulating around Washington, offering a glimpse of the package …

Jay Heflin / The Hill: Reid to offer jobs bill — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will introduce a jobs bill on Tuesday that he said would have Republican support.

Javier C. Hernandez / New York Times: Stocks Rally on Hopes of Greek Bailout — Wall Street tried to emerge from a spell of uncertainty on Tuesday as investors grew more hopeful that Greece would be saved …

Tony Barber / Financial Times: Berlin looks to build Greek ‘firewall’ — Financial markets surged on Tuesday on hopes of a European rescue plan for Greece, as officials in Berlin admitted …

Jeff Sheng / The Bilerico Project: Exclusive Pics: Lt. Dan Choi back in service? — This past weekend at the NGLTF Creating Change conference, there was a notable absence that many have already tweeted and remarked about.

Justin Elliott / TPM LiveWire: Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently Misunderstanding Buchanan Column (VIDEO) — Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran …

Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com: Unemployment taxes slam businesses — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers are getting hit with a massive tax hike at a time when they can least afford it.

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Michael Steele Suggests Criticism Of His Tenure Motivated By Racism — It's been awhile since Michael Steele has landed himself in the news, but this might stir things up again …

The Smoking Gun: Felony Snowball Tossing Charges Lodged — Cops: Virginia college students pelted city plow, unmarked police car — Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled …

Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel: Palin Puts Together A ... Campaign? — Sarah Palin is putting together a campaign team, and Washington is taking notice. Mark Leibovich of the New York Times described her bare-bones political operation.

Eric Zimmermann / The Hill: Brown opposes Obama in first big vote — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) cast his first major vote today, helping Republicans maintain a filibuster against President Obama's nominee …

15 minutes ago Ezra Klein: Commented: Don't let the achievable be the enemy of the perfect — Commenter Burndtdan wasn't impressed with my post this morning arguing that you can't confused fantasy plans with realistic legislation.

Veronique de Rugy / The Corner on National …: ‘The Limits of Blaming Bush’ — By: Veronique de Rugy — President Obama never tires of blaming President Bush for the deficit our nation faces. Tobe sure, the Bush-era deficits were bad.

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