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Hillary Clinton For Secretary Of State — That's the buzz. Marc reports that Clinton and Obama met yesterday in Chicago. For my part, I think making her secretary of state is an inspired idea. — Obama has to offer something to Clinton. She's his main threat now and rightly regards part of his victory her doing.
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The Washington Note, Salon, The Confabulum, TPM Election Central, Guardian and Spin Cycle
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Obama Met With Clinton — Three independent sources say that President-elect Barack Obama met yesterday with Sen. Hillary Clinton in Chicago. — The meeting took place at Obama's transition offices in the mid-afternoon. — It did not appear on the schedule that's distributed to Clinton staff and handlers.
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HRC for Secretary of State: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
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Associated Press
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Freak Show: Behind the Clinton for Secretary of State Rumors
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Hillary Clinton could be Sec. of State
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New York Times, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, Ben Smith's Blogs, Weekly Standard, City Room, Washington Monthly, Fox News, NY Daily News, NO QUARTER, Reuters, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Time, The Gun Toting Liberal, Democracy in America, CNN, Political Radar, Political Browser, The Caucus, Guardian, QandO, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, The Reaction, Connecting.the.Dots, Spin Cycle, TigerHawk, Marc Ambinder, The Raw Story, The Politico, Salon and Cogitamus
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AUDIO: Leahy Says Lieberman Should Lose His Chairmanship — AUDIO: Leahy Says Lieberman Should Lose His Chairmanship» — Since the election, Senate Democrats have been reluctant to punish Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for the ad hominem attacks he levied at Barack Obama while supporting Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in the election.
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A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney? — Gene Burns is one of the nation's most popular talk radio hosts. For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture. But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood …
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Campaign Bogeyman William Ayers Talks to ‘GMA’ — 'Good Morning America's' Chris Cuomo Grills '60s Radical Bill Ayers — William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose violent history became a focal point in the 2008 presidential election, said today that the Republicans unfairly “demonized” …
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More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case — Next month in Atlanta, a federal court will hear the high-profile appeal of former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman, whose conviction on corruption charges in 2006 became one of the most publicly debated cases to emerge from eight years …
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The Raw Story, The Political Carnival, Hullabaloo, Washington Monthly, TPMMuckraker, At-Largely and Prairie Weather
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Error In Justice: Siegelman Prosecutors Received Notes From Jurors …
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TPMMuckraker
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Obama gets the Clinton band back together — Here's how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama's aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington, D.C.—and Clintonites are everywhere.
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Guardian, Taylor Marsh, www.redstate.com, TPM Election Central, PoliGazette, Spin Cycle and Reuters
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Vote tally trend favors Begich for Senate — SENATE RACE: With Stevens strongholds still uncounted, leader isn't celebrating yet. — scockerham@adn.com — More than half the absentee and questioned ballots still to be counted in Alaska's U.S. Senate race come from areas of the state …
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TPM Election Central
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Vladimir Putin ‘wanted to hang Georgian President Saakashvili by the balls’ — Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged “by the balls” — a threat made last summer by Vladimir Putin, according to an account that emerged yesterday from the Élysée Palace.
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Bailout to Nowhere — Not so long ago, corporate giants with names like PanAm, ITT and Montgomery Ward roamed the earth. They faded and were replaced by new companies with names like Microsoft, Southwest Airlines and Target. The U.S. became famous for this pattern of decay and new growth.
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Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Commentary, The Politico and The Heretik
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“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons …
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Free the GOP — The Party Won't Win Back the Middle as Long As It's Hostage to Social Fundamentalists — Four years ago, in the week after the 2004 presidential election, we were working furiously to put the finishing touches on the book we co-authored, “It's My Party Too …
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Hot Air, Townhall.com, Liberal Values, DownWithTyranny!, The Confabulum, Prometheus 6 and Riehl World View
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The YouTube Presidency — The White House has gone YouTube. — Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video — a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site …
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McCain Campaign Retrospective — I wrote a piece for the new issue on the McCain campaign, focusing especially on the endgame and the fight over Palin. I know a lot of people are already sick of this stuff, but I wanted to talk to people in the campaign to satisfy my curiosity as much as anything else.
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Depression Economics Returns — The economic news, in case you haven't noticed, keeps getting worse. Bad as it is, however, I don't expect another Great Depression. In fact, we probably won't see the unemployment rate match its post-Depression peak of 10.7 percent, reached in 1982 (although I wish I was sure about that).
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Obama Ties Automaker Rescue to Regulation — Top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are helping to draft an auto industry rescue plan that would bring new government oversight, including the possibility of an auto czar who could ensure the money was being used wisely.