Today’s must-reads:
- No one likes Max Baucus’s health care bill (NYT)
- Chairman of Joint Chiefs says more troops likely needed in Afghanistan (NYT)
- “No one quite knows when, or how, the system will crumble. But make no mistake: it will, eventually, crumble.” (Ezra Klein)
- “You see here the cost of a really irresponsible elite in the United States of America.” (The Economist)
- My profile of @DarrellIssa from the Sept/Oct issue, “Enter Stage Right.” (MoJo)
- Young people will pay for a lot of health care reform (WaPo)
- Jon Chait on Ayn Rand and “Wealthcare” (The New Republic)
- Washington’s worst: McConnell and 14 other corrupt lawmakers (MoJo)
- WWE CEO Linda McMahon to slam Dodd (MoJo)
- The government has an app store (Bits Blog/NYT)
- Obama calls Kanye a ‘jackass’—the audio (TMZ)
- Jews: Not “Values Voters”? (MoJo)
- Death of Usama bin Ladotune (Spencer Ackerman)
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