memeorandum: A Productive Day & Another Step Towards Putting Americans in Charge … (Dan Pfeiffer/White House.gov Blog Feed)

11:20 AM ET, February 26, 2010

Top Items:

Obama To GOP: It's Over — Obama listened politely for six hours, with occasional flashes of temper, but in the end, the message was clear: It's over. We're moving forward without Republicans. — Whether Obama and Dems will succeed in passing reform on their own is anything but assured, to put it mildly.

Discussion: protein wisdom, Roll Call, Jules Crittenden, The Reaction, QandO, Balkinization, Dennis the Peasant, Left Coast Rebel, The Other McCain and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Afflicting the Afflicted — If we're lucky, Thursday's summit will turn out to have been the last act in the great health reform debate, the prologue to passage of an imperfect but nonetheless history-making bill. If so, the debate will have ended as it began: with Democrats offering moderate plans …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Blue Virginia, Washington Post and Prairie Weather

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

David Gergen on the summit: Republicans had their best day in years — Via Hengler, a succinct statement of Jay Nordlinger's point and of what I suspect will be the media consensus tomorrow. Not the only kind words he had for the GOP either: … I don't think they seriously expected …

Discussion: theblogprof, CBS News, DaTechguy's Blog, The Politico, Economy Watch, Commentary, RedState, FrumForum, Republican.Senate.Gov, PostPartisan, The Other McCain, delawareonline, The Corner on National …, NO QUARTER and Instapundit

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Winners and losers from the health care summit — After spending our day watching the high-stakes or, at the very least, high-profile health care summit at Blair House, we came up with a list of our winners and losers from the proceedings. — Those who we think soared and bored are below.

Discussion: Another Black Conservative, Corrente, The Moderate Voice, The Confluence, Hullabaloo, No Sheeples Here, Washington Post, Left Coast Rebel, CentristNet, And So it Goes in Shreveport and The Swamp

Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:

At summit, Republicans prove they aren't putting America's health first — I'm not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday's Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican “leaders” really think about health care and health insurance.

Discussion: New York Times, The Washington Independent, The Moderate Voice and Ezra Klein

Joseph Curl / Washington Times:

At summit, Obama mostly hears Obama — President Obama pledged to “listen” at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice. — By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes …

Discussion: Townhall.com, Time, Swampland, Political Wrinkles, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit

Mike Allen / The Politico:

One last health-reform sprint: House, Senate race to an Easter deadline for ‘the big bill’ — Mitch ‘The Knife’ Daniels eyes '12 prez run — N.Y. tabs say Paterson must go — BREAKING — George W. Bush, whose book will be out Nov. 8, at this morning's closed-door Bush-Cheney alumni reunion breakfast …

Discussion: Swampland

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.... The stated goal of the White House summit …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Washington Post and TPMDC

John Dickerson / Slate:
Obama and Republicans seemed reasonable. That's bad news for Democrats.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Outside The Beltway, Taegan Goddard's …, Althouse and The Plum Line

Samantha Lyster / Times of London:
Try to stay awake: the President has a healthcare Bill to pass

Discussion: Sense of Events and Gateway Pundit

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Spinning the health care summit

Discussion: The Politico and The Fine Print

Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
The Main Event: Ryan v. Obama

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Power Line, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Swampland, The Daily Dish and The Lonely Conservative

Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Dueling polls and dubious stats

Discussion: The Page, CBS News and Washington Wire

Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
A Productive Day & Another Step Towards Putting Americans in Charge …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, TPMDC, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Politico, The New Republic and The Note

Washington Post:
At health-care summit, Obama tells Republicans he's eager to move ahead

The Politico:

Bunning holds floor: ‘Tough s—t’ — Senate Democrats spent Thursday night hammering away at Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for single-handedly holding up action in the upper chamber - but he blurted out a message to one of them on the Senate floor: “Tough s—t.”

Discussion: Reuters, The Moderate Voice, TPMDC, RedState and Wonk Room

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Top Dem chairman signals House will act first on healthcare — The House could act first to pass a healthcare bill within the next month, a top House chairman signaled Thursday. — Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and a close ally …

Discussion: TPMDC

The Caucus:

Bunning Blocks Jobless Aid in Senate — Updated The Senate clash over the unemployment benefits ended just before midnight Thursday with Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, refusing to lift his objection, meaning the jobless aid - for however short a time - will run out Sunday night unless a deal is reached Friday.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Think Progress, Washington Monthly, AOL News Collection and The Politico

Olivia / Citizentube:
YouTube Interviews: Pelosi, Boehner, Reid answer your health care questions

Discussion: CNN and NewTeeVee

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders: Senate has the votes to pass public option via reconciliation

Discussion: The Politico, Shakesville, The Reaction, The Raw Story, Weasel Zippers and Open Left

Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:

Gov. David Paterson pulls plug on election bid, but will not resign: insider — Embattled Gov. Paterson has pulled the plug on his election bid, a source close to the governor said Friday. — Paterson will announce the decision later Friday. — Paterson has been under fire for having contacted …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Fix, Michelle Malkin, Top of the Ticket, Clusterstock, The Washington Independent, TPM LiveWire, Advocate, New York Magazine, Gawker, The Lonely Conservative, Indecision Forever and City Room

Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:

Paterson Gets Some Sobering Advice on His Political Future — ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson said Thursday night that as he weighed his political future, he was seeking counsel from elected officials across the state. But the first few hours of that listening effort offered some sobering advice.

Discussion: NY Daily News, Vanity Fair, Gothamist, The Confluence, New York Observer, The Lonely Conservative, AMERICAblog News and Real Clear Politics

New York Times:
Paterson Weighs Race as Top Aide Quits in Protest

Discussion: The Note, NY Daily News, City Room, msnbc.com, AOL News Collection, RHRealityCheck.org, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Clusterstock

Wall Street Journal:

Rangel Blamed for Ethics Offense — WASHINGTON—The House ethics committee has found Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, violated House rules by failing to properly disclose financial details of trips to the Caribbean, senior congressional officials said Thursday.

Discussion: National Review Online, OpenSecrets.org, RedState and USA Today

The Politico:
Committee scolds defiant Rangel

Discussion: The Swamp, The Note, Left Coast Rebel, Associated Press, Hot Air, Another Black Conservative, The Hill, Washington Post, MyDD, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Michelle Malkin and JammieWearingFool

CNN:
Rangel says he'll be formally admonished

Discussion: TPMMuckraker and THEROOT.COM

New York Times:
Panel Admonishes Rangel for Taking Trips as Gifts

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Gothamist, Politics Daily, Commentary, New York Magazine, Gateway Pundit and The Page

Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:

Defeated congresswoman's car still in House parking lot — more than 3 years later — even though she's a registered lobbyist — Former Rep. Melissa Hart may have hit the road and gone back home to Pittsburgh in 2006 when she lost her bid for re-election, but it appears that a car …

Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog, Ben Smith's Blog, Taegan Goddard's … and Left Coast Rebel

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:

Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists — The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government's security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense.

Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing

Nate / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Pentagon Discloses Hundreds of Reports of Possibly Illegal Intelligence Activities

Discussion: Raw Story and Newshoggers.com

Eric Dash / New York Times:

On Wall Street, a Romance With Curling — Wall Street trading is often described as a blood sport. But inside the great investment houses, the sport of the moment is, of all things, curling — that oddball of the Olympics that is sort of like shuffleboard on ice.

Discussion: Michael Calderone's Blog, Vanity Fair, Clusterstock and Gawker

Peter Baker / The Caucus:

Obama Gives Cheney a Call — President Obama called former Vice President Dick Cheney at home to wish him a speedy recovery from his latest heart attack, a rare truce in the fiery, arms-length debate the two have been having about national security over the last year.

Discussion: The Politico and Politics Daily

Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Bush, Cheney meet for first time since 2009 inauguration

Discussion: Washington Wire

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Plan to Seek Use of U.S. Contracts as a Wage Lever — The Obama administration is planning to use the government's enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed on the plan.

Discussion: Grim's Hall, EconLog, Economist's View and Dennis the Peasant

Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:

Obama names labor leader to fiscal commission — President Obama announced today his appointees to a recently created bipartisan fiscal commission, including prominent labor leader and Democratic activist Andy Stern. — Stern, chairman of the Service Employees International Union …

Discussion: The Jawa Report