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T he Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants PETER MARTINEZ, KRISTEN RED-HORSE, CARRIE HALPERIN and CLAUDIA MORALES ...
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ABC News' Kristina Wong reports: A more than $1.4 trillion federal deficit is making the war in Afghanistan and health care reform competing priorities for American taxpayer dollars. The president is expected to order an additional 30,000 service members to go to Afghanistan, at an estimated ...
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Afghanistan
Health care
Democratic National Committee
The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and ...
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The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and ...
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ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is planning to headline an event which is being promoted as the “First National TEA Party Convention,” according to Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton. The "TEA party convention", which is taking place in Nashville, Tenn., from Feb. ...
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ABC News' David Chalian Reports: Republican efforts to enforce a purity test for GOP candidates on 10 various policy positions in order to get the formal endorsement and direct financial backing of the Republican National Committee are not being universally embraced by the party faithful. ...
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ABC News’ David Chalian Reports: Powerful Democratic committee chairmen in the House and the Senate have started calling for a war tax surcharge to help pay for the anticipated troops surge in Afghanistan President Obama is set to announce on Tuesday.
Despite those efforts, the ...
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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: The President may
announce he's sending tens of thousands more troops to...
Afghanistan, but in doing so, he'll emphasize how he'll eventually bring them home. "The president does not see this as an open ended ...
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Gibbs: Obama to Emphasize Exit Strategy
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: There are no Thanksgiving sales around here. And not every cost carries a CBO score. There's the cost of health care reform, and of a troop escalation in Afghanistan, all amid mounting deficits that are actually starting to matter. Plus there's the political cost ...
White House
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Tom Price
The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and ...
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ABC News’ ">'>Rick Klein reports: It’s easily the hottest ticket of Washington’s holiday season -- the first formal State Dinner in the Obama White House, being held tonight in honor of the prime minister of India.
Only 320 lucky guests get to be inside. So on today’s “Top Line,” ...
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Barack Obama
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ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe and Rick Klein report:
Amid the growing outcry about inaccuracies in the Obama...
administration’s claims of stimulus job growth, top Republican lawmakers today wrote to Vice President Joe Biden asking the administration to stop ...
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GOPers to Biden: Stop Using Stimulus Jobs Numbers
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: One exit strategy
down, one to go. An off-ramp, finally, for the...
decision-making process on Afghanistan: Monday night's two-hour minute meeting of President Obama's war council (meeting No. 9 -- and this one, ...
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Exit Ramps: Democrats Grow Restless on Afghanistan Strategy
The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and ...
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ABC News' David Chalian Reports: Just as the
Republican Party is expressing optimism about its chances in...
2010 following two significant gubernatorial victories in 2009, RNC Chairman Michael Steele has lost his top message man. ABC News has ...
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RNC's Communications Chief Resigns
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: How real does "real America" get? Among the many thousands of faces that Sarah Palin encountered on her book tour was one in Noblesville, Ind., that looked a whole lot like her own. So much so that that the photo made into the official Facebook photo gallery ...
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Tina Fey
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: We bring you plenty of pundits on “Top Line” -- plus, in at least one instance, fake pundits -- but this was a first for us: Certified pundit wannabes.
Kevin Huffman and Zeba Khan are the two finalists in The Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” ...
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has been a recurring political headache for President Obama.
Just in the last few weeks, the attorney general’s decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammad to trail in New York has drawn the president fire on his right , while ...
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Need more evidence that Republicans aren't putting social issues front-and-center in 2010? The frontrunner in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Massachusetts today announced that he's chosen a veteran state lawmaker who is openly gay to serve as his ...
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Gee, 60 votes sure was fun -- what do you say we do it all over again? First you get to go home and think about it. Time isn’t an ally for Democrats on health care -- if only because it gives everyone more time to draw lines in the sand. The experience to date ...
