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How Ugly Will It Get? Democrats hope the Republican battle for 2012 begins now (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
Christie tries to shift focus from education blunder (The Upshot)
The Upshot - Nothing like a $100 million gift to make some bad PR go away. That's no doubt the moral that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has taken away from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's nine-figure charitable gift to the troubled public schools of Newark, just a few weeks after his own administration muffed a potential $400 million [...]
Arbatov, Soviet foreign policy guru, dies (AP)
AP - Georgy Arbatov, a foreign policy adviser to Soviet presidents who served as the country's top America-watcher during the Cold War, died Friday. He was 87.
The Pelosi Effect: Republicans are running against the unpopular House Speaker in the midterms (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By SUSAN DAVIS, National Journal Congress adjourned a week earlier than scheduled and lawmakers headed home, relieved to get out of Washington. But for dozens of embattled House Democrats, the premature exit may not be enough to safely distance themselves …
GOP candidates get an edge with out-of-state cash (AP)
AP - The private rooms at Carmine's, a large Italian restaurant downtown, have been hopping with political donors at lunch this week. It's a month to Election Day, and House and Senate candidates are searching far from home for last-minute campaign cash.
PATTY MURRAY: THE STUPIDEST PERSON IN AMERICA (Ann Coulter)
Ann Coulter - No liberal has standing to call any Republican stupid as long as Patty Murray remains in the U.S. Senate.
The Fast Fix: Mayor Rahm? (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Rahm Emanuel is resigning as White House chief of staff today to run for mayor of Chicago. The move is sure to provoke lots of tough questions about the his own political future and that of the president he is …
AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP)
AP - White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them.
Can the Tea Party govern? (Y! News Special Report)
Y! News Special Report - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal The lion's share of attention paid to the Tea Party movement has gone to its Senate candidates, a slew of outsiders who have touted their opposition to excessive government, shaking up the Republican Party and …
Emotional free-speech case to mark Supreme Court opening week (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - The Supreme Court's 2010-2011 term gets under way next week, and the justices are wasting no time in tackling a case that has the potential to redraw the boundaries of free speech under the First Amendment.
Fast Fix: How to Campaign as the anti-Politician (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - With voters in a sour mood about politics, candidates across the country are trying to figure out how to convince their constituents that they aren't like most politicians. Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Senate in Wisconsin, seems to have …
And they're out! Congress flees DC to campaign (AP)
AP - Battle-weary members of Congress are coming soon to neighborhoods near you to press for re-election, more eager to campaign before angry constituents than compromise in Washington on tax cuts, child nutrition or a federal budget.
High court looks at military funeral protests (AP)
AP - One thing Al Snyder wants to make clear: His boy fought and died for freedom in Iraq, but not for the right of some "wackos" to spew hate at soldiers' funerals under the protection of the Constitution.
Public, private plans rebuild states (Politico)
Politico - Opinion: Infrastructure investment has a direct payback in creating quality jobs.
Congress cools on Colbert (Politico)
Politico - Political advisers are suggesting politicians avoid the Comedy Central star like the plague.
Reid and Angle dodge each other and voters (AP)
AP - Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican rival Sharron Angle, both known for their verbal gaffes, are avoiding potentially unfriendly voters as much as each other.
Why Pakistan Has the Obama Administration Sweating (Time.com)
Time.com - If things are going badly in Afghanistan, they're a lot worse in Pakistan. And Washington has few good options
A boom time for selling Tea Party merchandise (Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - Freedom might cost a buck-o-five, but you need a little more to look P-I-M-P at a Tea Party rally.
Lies of the Tea Party (Joe Conason)
Joe Conason - For Americans still suffering from persistent unemployment, falling incomes and rising inequality, politicians of either party probably generate little enthusiasm. Yet although political ennui is understandable, the disaffection and demoralization of Democrats has created a dangerous political vacuum that is being filled with misleading data, urban legends and outright lies.
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