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Asked why she wanted to run for president, Rep. Michele Bachmann told Republican activists "because we need a person who is going to stand up to Obamacare," The Washington Post reported.

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News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.

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Congressman Peter King held Congressional hearings on radicalization in the American muslim community. As Michelle Boorstein and David Fahrenthold reported on the proceedings:

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On five occasions the past three weeks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has tried to nail down his departure from the Pentagon by telling members of Congress in budget hearings and in speeches to cadets at West Point and the Air Force Academy that this would be his final appearance before them ...

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the son and grandson of Chinese immigrants, to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, a senior administration official said Monday. A formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704163.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Jibber your jabber

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Netroots For The Troops will be making another appearance in Minneapolis. Here's you you can help this worthy endeavor.
Poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, perhaps best known for his spoken-word poem The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, has passed away.
A hilarious Twitter account for you: RickSantorumPR. If you don't know why it's funny, take Jon Stewart's advice and google Santorum. No, I won't link it.
Because cutting out Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason from a photo wasn't weird enough, a Hasidic enclave is giving Di Tzeitung a run for its money:
NEW SQUARE ? Relatives of a man who was severely burned in an arson attack were shouted down by a resident of this Hasidic enclave Wednesday for going against the will of the community's grand rebbe.
A lawyer for Aron Rottenberg, the 43-year-old plumber who suffered burns on half his body Sunday, held a news conference in front of the Rottenberg home to call for state and federal investigations into the arson attack.

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Early in the news conference, a six-year New Square resident, Shulem Sofer, began screaming that Sussman was lying. He yelled out that Rottenberg broke the community's rules and that it was justifiable to try to burn down Rottenberg's home, but not to injure the man.

Oh, well that makes it all okay then! Move along, nothing to see here...
In case you missed it, Texas Govenor Rick Perry is thinking about running for President. Of what country, though? That's the real question.
In case you missed it a few days ago, Chrysler repaid the $5.9 billion it owed the United States Treasury in both principal and interest on the bailout it received in the midst of the financial crisis. The automaker now appears to be back on firm footing, and a whole bunch of jobs and an icon of American industry were saved in the process. Which is exactly why President Obama is going to an as-of-yet-undetermined Chrysler plant to remind people exactly who it was that saved the auto industry, and who it was that called it socialism, crowed "Government Motors," and seemed perfectly willing to let good jobs die.

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In recent days, critics in this section have pounded Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) for holding hearings to examine radicalization in the American Muslim community. They've accused him of "providing fuel for bigots" and "stoking irrational fears." Really? It is hardly irrational for the chairman House ...

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Bachmann told ABC News in March that her decision will be "based on whether or not I think I need to run."

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The president of Kazakhstan and his former son-in-law have enlisted government officials, lobbyists and others in the United States in what has been called a ?blood feud.?

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President Obama thanks British PM David Cameron for thoughts and prayers.

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Assistant Democratic leader, Rep. James Clyburn said in an interview with Bloomberg's Al Hunt that benefit cuts to Medicare are not on the table in the bipartisan congressional negotiations led by Vice President Biden. Greg Sargent writes about it:

"We are not going to reduce benefits at all," Clyburn said, when pressed on what he was willing to agree to on Medicare. He insisted that the Medicare reforms in the Affordable Care Act should be looked at as a template for moving forward.
"I would ask everybody to take a hard look at what we did last year," Clyburn said. "Over a 10-year period, what we did could be sufficient going forward."

It's hard to know what to make of this. It's unclear whether Clyburn is merely reciting the hard-line position of House Dems, or whether he's articulating the position that Democrats, the White House and Senate Dems included, have unified behind. But if it's the latter, that would square with Nancy Pelosi's recent claim that the talks are moving in a positive direction for those who oppose any benefits cuts.

At the beginning of May, Clyburn said that "entitlement reform should be on the table in the talks," though he was opposed to turning Medicare into a voucher system. Hopefully this more recent interview does reflect the position of Democrats today.

Clyburn also said in the Bloomberg interview that "any agreement with Republicans 'absolutely' must include provisions to raise more revenue, even if it also cuts corporate tax rates."

We cannot get an agreement without revenues? being raised, and absent that ?I don?t think we can get to what our goals are,? Clyburn said....

Republicans, of course, are insisting that debt ceiling won't be raised without serious cuts to Medicare. Boehner has also insisted that they will not consider tax increases.

In this standoff, Democrats have all the public opinion on their side. They need to do more of what Clyburn did in this interview, hold the line on benefit cuts and on raising taxes.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/f6flybvHmYE/-Clyburn:-Biden-negotiators-are-not-going-to-reduce-Medicare-benefitsatall

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the son and grandson of Chinese immigrants, to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, a senior administration official said Monday. A formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704163.html?wprss=rss_politics

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MADISON, Wis. -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have voted to fine the chamber's AWOL Democrats $100 for each day they miss of the legislative session.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030903629.html?wprss=rss_politics

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