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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Tale Of Two Headlines

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 26 2009, 9:50 AM ET Comment

The New York Times: To Pay for Health Care, Obama Looks to Taxes on Affluent

The Washington Post: Obama Proposes $634 Billion Fund For Health Care

You would think that, by scheduling the release of the health care portion of the budget outline for the day before the official release, the administration either wanted to try to bury the tax hike story by allowing Obama to reset it, or it wanted to signal to allies that he was serious about health care reform.  My guess is that the administration doesn't care about the tax arguments and is more interested in setting the stage for health care reform.



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