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• Lawmakers demand Mubarak transfer power in Egypt (Reuters)
• The Mormon primary: Romney vs. Huntsman (Politico)
• The Fast Fix: Tea Party takedown? (The Newsroom)
• Rumsfeld, Still Defiant (The Daily Beast)
• Obama sharpens jobs element of energy pitch (AP)
• House Republicans move to slash domestic programs (AP)
• Value added tax: Senate weighs a tax reform Reagan once shunned (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Florida Republicans urged not to hold early 2012 primary (The Ticket)
• Wyden: Explain sports site take-down (Politico)
• Bono Mack to support anti-EPA effort (Politico)
• GOP divided over Obama response to Egypt (AP)
• Lawmakers warn administration of cuts in Iraq aid (AP)
• Palestinian PM: Palestinian issues sparking unrest (AP)
• Obama discusses faith at National Prayer Breakfast (AP)
• GOP Reverts to Original Rape Definition--But Is the Fight Over? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Shep Smith on Mubarak pleas to Amanpour: ‘Remember Baghdad Bob?’ (Daily Caller)
• Senate Dems reject GOP budget proposal, warn against government shutdown (Daily Caller)
• LAST TICKET: A nice phone call could have saved Joe Miller; Bloomberg lost his cool on a groundhog (The Ticket)
• How to Build a Progressive Tea Party (The Nation)

Lawmakers demand Mubarak transfer power in Egypt (Reuters) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:42 PM PST Reuters - Lawmakers called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday to transfer power to an inclusive caretaker government in a draft resolution that demonstrates broad, unified American concern about Egypt.

The Mormon primary: Romney vs. Huntsman (Politico) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:41 AM PST Politico - Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. are both Mormons, both wealthy scions of old Utah families, both ex-governors with chiseled features and terrific hair.

The Fast Fix: Tea Party takedown? (The Newsroom) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:54 AM PST The Newsroom - Why is the Tea Party going after Republican Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana? Get The Fix in your e-mail inbox! Click here to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click here for the Afternoon Fix newsletter. Follow The Fix on …

Rumsfeld, Still Defiant (The Daily Beast) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 05:11 PM PST The Daily Beast - Bush's Defense secretary chides Colin Powell, says he would have gone into Iraq even if he'd known Saddam had no WMDs—and discusses his son's drug problem. Howard Kurtz speed-reads Rummy's new memoir. Plus, lighter anecdotes from Rumsfeld's memoir, including his unromantic proposal and his take on Hurricane Katrina.

Obama sharpens jobs element of energy pitch (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:02 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama, turning briefly to his eclipsed domestic agenda, sharpened his sales pitch for clean energy technology Thursday by promising that the payoff would a be wave of jobs — the kind good enough to support families and long-term American prosperity.

House Republicans move to slash domestic programs (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:04 PM PST AP - Republicans now controlling the House promised Thursday to slash domestic agencies' budgets by almost 20 percent for the coming year, the first salvo in what's sure to be a bruising battle over their drive to cut spending to where it was before President Barack Obama took office.

Value added tax: Senate weighs a tax reform Reagan once shunned (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:01 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Here's one thing on which Republicans and Democrats generally agree: Reforming the US tax code is needed and could give a major boost to America's fiscal and economic health.

Florida Republicans urged not to hold early 2012 primary (The Ticket) Posted: 02 Feb 2011 01:39 PM PST The Ticket - In an effort to stymie primary "front-loading" in 2012, national Republicans today begged Florida not to hold an early 2012 presidential primary. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus traveled to Tampa today to meet with the host committee for their 2012 convention and took time to dissuade Florida Republicans from keeping a January primary. "As [...]

Wyden: Explain sports site take-down (Politico) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:22 PM PST Politico - He asks for more details about the crackdown.

Bono Mack to support anti-EPA effort (Politico) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:15 PM PST Politico - The California Republican voted for cap-and-trade legislation in the summer of 2009.

GOP divided over Obama response to Egypt (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:08 PM PST AP - As chaos roils Egypt, Republican lawmakers and the GOP's potential presidential candidates are divided over President Barack Obama's response though united in concern that an Islamic regime could rise to power in a nation that is an important U.S. ally in the precarious Middle East.

Lawmakers warn administration of cuts in Iraq aid (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:13 PM PST AP - The Obama administration needs to make a compelling case for investing billions more taxpayer dollars in Iraq as the nearly 8-year-old conflict recedes from the public's mind and the remaining 50,000 U.S. troops leave by year's end, top Senate Republicans and Democrats warned military and diplomatic officials on Thursday.

Palestinian PM: Palestinian issues sparking unrest (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:52 AM PST AP - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday that the failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has helped fuel unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Mideast.

Obama discusses faith at National Prayer Breakfast (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 02:17 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday that his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House, and he urged lawmakers to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington following the shooting of a congresswoman.

GOP Reverts to Original Rape Definition--But Is the Fight Over? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 02:33 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - We Must Keep Fighting Tiger Beatdown blogger Sady Doyle was an outspoken opponent of the "forcible rape" exception to the abortion bill and applauds all who helped get over 1,000 signatures on a petition against it. But, she reminds readers, the fight is not over. "As I'm sure you also know, everything else about this bill is TERRIBLE. And we can't stop here. ... We need to keep mobilized, because this is a big one, and we can't afford to lose."'A Cowardly Compromise' Wonkette's Jack Stuef offers a sarcastic take on the Republican lawmakers' decision fairly representative of the comic reactions to the issue:House Republicans have given up their noble battle to change what counts as rape in their latest proposed bill to ban federal funding for abortions (except, as it has always been, in cases such as rape). It’s a cowardly compromise that upsets a proud nation of people who all hope one day they too will be roofied and copulated with and be told it’s not legally rape. But you know how women’s groups are. They see the words “forcible rape” in a piece of legislation and want to ruin the fun of our most creative rapists, those who dare to dream of having a “Sputnik moment” with a woman in the nightclub bathroom.

Shep Smith on Mubarak pleas to Amanpour: ‘Remember Baghdad Bob?’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:22 PM PST Daily Caller - According to Fox News host Shepard Smith, the public relations strategy of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the wake of the turmoil in Egypt is similar to that of another public relations strategy in recent memory.

Senate Dems reject GOP budget proposal, warn against government shutdown (Daily Caller) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:43 PM PST Daily Caller - Setting the stage for another showdown over government spending, top Senate Democrats rejected the House Republicans' new budget proposal Thursday, but said they were ruling out a government shutdown.

LAST TICKET: A nice phone call could have saved Joe Miller; Bloomberg lost his cool on a groundhog (The Ticket) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 02:27 PM PST The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • Lisa Murkowski might not have run a write-in campaign in Alaska had Joe Miller not been such a jerk to her on the phone. (Hotline on Call) • Sarah Palin says she's skipping CPAC because February is her [...]

How to Build a Progressive Tea Party (The Nation) Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:41 AM PST The Nation - The Nation -- Imagine a parallel universe where the Great Crash of 2008 was followed by a Tea Party of a very different kind.

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