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The Daily Beast - The Morning Scoop - April 8, 2011
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CHEAT SHEET
MUST READS FROM ALL OVER
SHOWDOWN
1. Reagan Budget Guru: Shut the Gov't Down!
The former budget director for President Reagan, David Stockman, says
America must deal with its mountain of debt, and faces an epoch of
falling incomes and a stalled economy. "Bring it on," he tells The Daily
Beast's Lloyd Grove about the government shutdown. Stockman describes
the impending showdown as a "wakeup call" - the political equivalent of
getting whacked in the head by a two-by-four containing a rusty nail.
"And then," Stockman says, "they're going to be calling their own bluff.
Because at that point the problem will remain 98 percent as large as it
was the morning before."
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STALEMATE
2. Another Budget Meeting Fails
A second late-night White House pow-wow failed to reach a deal, inching
the government closer to a shutdown on Friday. Senate Majority leader
Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner issued a rare joint statement
- but did not speak to reporters - saying they would continue to work to
reach a deal before the Friday midnight deadline. President Obama
addressed the press after the meeting ended, saying he was not "prepared
to express wild optimism" that a shutdown could be avoided. Obama
canceled a scheduled trip to Indiana to speak about energy, and aides
said the president would not go on a scheduled family vacation in
Williamsburg, Virginia. The deep discord in the talks suggests there's
more at play than just the $33 billion spending-cut figure: the
Reid-Boehner statement suggested they have been unable to compromise on
Republican demands like abortion-funding bans and funding for the EPA.
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LIBYA
3. NATO Won't Apologize for Attacking Rebels
NATO acknowledged that it may have accidentally killed rebels for the
second time in less than a week, but said it wouldn't apologize for it.
"The situation in the area is still very fluid, with tanks and other
vehicles moving in different directions, making it very difficult to
distinguish who may be operating them," said NATO Rear Adm. Russell
Harding, going on to say that they didn't know the rebels were operating
tanks. "It is not for us, trying to protect civilians of whatever
persuasion, to improve communications with those rebel forces," he
added. Meanwhile, the first-ever United Nations ship containing
humanitarian supplies arrived at the besieged city of Misrata. The ship,
chartered by the World Food Program, contains food and medical supplies
for the tens of thousands of civilians trapped by Gaddafi's forces in
the rebel-held city.
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AGAIN
4. Japan Aftershock Killed Four
The largest aftershock to hit Japan since the March 11 earthquake killed
at least four people and injured 100 others on Thursday. It also caused
a small amount of radioactive water to slosh out of spent fuel pools at
the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, but higher levels of radioactivity were
not detected outside the building. The Onagawa plant also lost power,
but the emergency generators kicked in and power has since been
restored. Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power continues to release
radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean to make room for more
contaminated water that has flooded the basement of the No. 2 reactor
building. Once the water has been emptied from the facility, the utility
will check to see whether the leak has been plugged before pumping in
water from the basement, a key step in restoring cooling systems at the
troubled reactor.
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WISCONSIN
5. Lost Ballots Put Republican Justice Ahead
The clerk in a heavily Republican county reversed the election for a
Wisconsin Supreme Court justice when she announced that she'd failed to
hit "save" on her computer when reporting votes, and so had 14,315 extra
ballots yet to be counted. Those votes went heavily in favor of
Republican Justice David Prosser, putting him ahead of union-backed
challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,582 votes after trailing her by only
204. Prosser hailed the new votes, but Kloppenburg supporters cried
foul, pointing out that the clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, had worked in the
Assembly Republican caucus when Prosser served as the Assembly speaker.
The fate of Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union bill may hinge on the results
of Wisconsin's Supreme Court race, as the bill makes its way to a court
currently skewing conservative by a single justice.
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IVORY COAST
Ouattara Wants Sanctions Lifted
As Gbagbo holds on in Abidjan.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/cht6
ARMED
Arizona House Okays Guns on Campus
School gun law passes.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/cht7
TURN AROUND
General: DADT Should End This Summer
One-time repeal opponent compares situation to the Alamo.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/cht8
HOMELAND SECURITY
Terror Alerts Coming to Facebook, Twitter
No more color-coded system.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/cht9
SHUTDOWN
Bravo Axes 'Real Housewives of D.C.'
First installment of the series to be canceled.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/cht10
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BLOGS & STORIES
FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
How Michele Bachmann Can Win
by Mark McKinnon
The Minnesota firebrand could parlay her Tea Party support, fundraising
skills, and message discipline into a serious run for the White House.
She has the fire in the belly, Mark McKinnon writes.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/fea1
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The Education of Cathie Black
by Jacob Bernstein
From insensitive remarks to communications issues, the former publishing
CEO was a bad fit for New York schools chancellor. Jacob Bernstein on
Mayor Bloomberg's stunning decision.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/fea2
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Kim Cattrall Strips Down
by Gina Piccalo
Forget Samantha Jones. As a broken-down porn star in 'Meet Monica
Velour,' the 'Sex and the City' icon inhabits a world far from Fifth
Avenue. Gina Piccalo on the star's gutsy turn from Manolos to meth.
http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBNnwS5B7SwhTB8aKqVNsjV9oYa/fea3
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