DAILY READS

• As Sparks Fly, Democrats Close in On 216 for Health Care
• Stupak Abortion Language to be Added as “Tie Bar” to House Bill
• Bush, Obama, and the Intellectuals
• Health Bill Has Democrats Scrambling to Find More Votes
• Conan and Fox in Talks for Late Night Return
• Take Your Hands Off My Pork
• The Final Eleven
• Health Care: The Anti-Jobs Bill?
• Dodd’s Financial Rules Package Would Result in More Fed Muscle
• Credit Agency Warns U.S. and Others of Risk to Top Rating

MARKETS & POLICY

• Google Abandons the China Market
• Paul Krugman, Shadow Treasury Secretary, Misreads China
• Krugman’s War on China
• Following the Money on the Deficit
• Lesson From Moody’s: Rewrite the Social Contract
• Justice and the Prosecution of Lehman Execs
• Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
• Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
• Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
• Destroy the City to Save It

The WHIP

• Eleventh Hour Negotiations on Health Care
• Lest It Should Unman Me
• Obamacare’s End
• HCR Roundup: Slaughter Strategy Fallout
• How Obamacare Will Reshape the Workforce
• Endgame: Pelosi’s Health Care Gamble
• David Brooks Applies For a Job
• Obamacare’s Two Americas
• How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
• Cheney in Exile

HEGEMON

• Obama’s Israel Crisis
• Borderland: The Failure of the Virtual Fence
• Biden in Israel
• Love and Respect
• Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
• Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
• Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
• Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
• Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
• The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International

CHEQUER BOARD

• Bart Stupak Sells Out For A Lame Executive Order
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin Scores The Health Care Reform Bill
• Remember That Promise About Increased Government Transparency?
• Paul Ryan Is Too Smart For Democrats
• Guess Who Is Not A Popular President
• Health Care, Health Care, Health Care
• Charles Cooper Asks If There Still Is A Center
• Don’t Know Much About The Middle East
• Don’t Know Much About Education
• How At Least One Democrat Thinks Congress Works