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Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) reinvented/cribbed/copied Sen. Olympia Snowe’s trigger proposal while hoping no one notices this effort to kill the public option. Could Carper’s former chief of staff and current WellPoint lobbyist be helping?

• Don’t do it, Mr. President.
• Eeeek! Keep the Super Villains out!
• Odd.
• Hasta la vista, baby.
• Quit makin’ stuff up, why don’tcha.
• This is what the ‘Cuda thinks of Obama.
• Nate looks into his crystal ball.

David Broder undoubtedly approves.

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone.

What’s on your mind?

Bill Kristol’s cabana boy, Matthew Continetti, is all over the place this week strewing rose petals before the mukluks of the Alaska almost-writer lady.

What is up, Fox? Is the glow off the neo-con Queen Esther?

Perverse as it sounds, corporate America apparently wants the swine flu to spread.

As usual, there’s a lot of good stuff being written on the state blogs. Here’s a sampling of what’s out there right now. 1. Brian Leubitz on Calitics has an excellent article on the Republican’s “big idea” of selling insurance across state lines. The problem? “It will encourage states to be more permissive to insurance [...]

Harry Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley confirms that Democratic Senators will get a first look at the health care bill tomorrow at 5pm ET. After that, the merged bill will be presented to the public, I would assume on Thursday morning.