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11:30 AM ET, December 11, 2008

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site  —  President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
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New York Times:
Scandal Is an Early Test for Obama Team  —  WASHINGTON — When Representative Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, began exploring whether she might fill Barack Obama's seat in the United States Senate, she called Rahm Emanuel.  They served in the House together and, more important …
Washington Post:
Rezko Is Talking With Prosecutors, Blagojevich Complaint Confirms  —  A footnote to the 76-page criminal complaint and affidavit charging Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) with soliciting bribes confirms what has long been rumored — that a former longtime friend and fundraiser …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Was Mute on Illinois Corruption  —  The president-elect could use his bully pulpit to drive a clean-up.  —  This week Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on charges that he conspired to sell Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, among other misdeeds.
Discussion: Commentary
Rasmussen Reports:
84% of Illinois Voters Say Blagojevich Should Resign  —  Eighty-four percent (84%) of Illinois voters say indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich should resign, according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state Wednesday night.  Just nine percent (9%) disagree.
Club for Growth:
How Much Does a Senate Seat Cost?
Discussion: Marginal Revolution and Economix
The Politico:
7 Blago questions for Obama
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Daschle also to oversee new health reform office  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will pull double duty in the Obama administration, where he will serve not only as the Health and Human Services secretary …
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Washington Post:
Nobel Physicist Chosen To Be Energy Secretary  —  Browner, Two Others to Get Climate Posts  —  President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next energy secretary, and he has picked veteran regulators …
Mike Allen / The Politico:   40 days to Inauguration …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How the GOP Should Prepare for a Comeback  —  Organization and ideas are what matters.  —  What a difference a month makes.  Since November's election, the GOP is three wins, no losses.  —  The first win came in Georgia, where Sen. Saxby Chambliss crushed his Democratic opponent by 15 points in a run-off election on Dec. 2.
Discussion: Commentary and Wonkette
Robert Block / The Write Stuff:
NASA has become a transition problem for Obama  —  CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information and has told its leader that she is “not qualified” to judge his rocket program, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.
Marc Morano / U.S. Senate Committee …:
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims  —  Study: Half of warming due to Sun!  -Sea Levels Fail to Rise?  - Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’  —  POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland …
Rex W. Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Rod Blagojevich shows foulmouthed side  —  Etiquette experts say such language still unprofessional  —  If the wiretapped dialogue in the criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich reveals anything, it's that the governor can deftly hold his own in the pantheon of political profanity.
Discussion: TIME.com and ArchPundit
Julie Scelfo / New York Times:
Trickledown Downsizing  —  IN September, Cathy DeVore, a real estate agent in Larchmont, N.Y., whose business has been at a standstill lately, began taking gradual steps to lay off her longtime nanny and housekeeper.  Aware that the woman supports a son, a mother, and a niece in Dominica …
Rex Nutting / MarketWatch:
Jobless claims jump to 573,000, a 26-year high  —  Continuing claims spike by 338,000 to 4.43 million  —  WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. labor market weakened further last week, with the number of first-time filings for state unemployment benefits jumping by 58,000 to a 26-year high of 573,000 …
Christopher Cox / Wall Street Journal:
We Need a Bailout Exit Strategy  —  Let's not forget that free markets made America strong.  —  When the Securities and Exchange Commission was created in 1934, its purpose was to serve as an independent regulator of the unbridled profit-seeking activity of self-interested individuals and firms in the securities markets.
Discussion: The Heretik and The Big Picture
Wall Street Journal:
Europe OK's ‘Torture’  —  Writing in Policy Review, John Rosenthal tells a tale of police abuse from 21st-century Germany: … Gäfgen broke and told police where he had buried Jakob's body.  That was October 2002: … Also in October 2002, interrogators at Guantanamo Bay asked …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Jules Crittenden
Don Boudreaux / Wall Street Journal:
Bankruptcy Doesn't Equal Death  —  The auto industry could use the process to get competitive.  —  The spectacle of corporate magnates from Detroit pleading to be on Uncle Sam's dole is a sordid one.  So why aren't more Americans appalled?  One reason is widespread misunderstanding …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Spy CEO for Obama  —  What should President-elect Barack Obama do about the intelligence community?  He has appointed the other top members of his national security team, but intrigue still surrounds his choices for director of national intelligence and director of the CIA.
Wall Street Journal:
Newsweek to Cut Back Staff, Slim Magazine in Makeover  —  Newsweek magazine is planning staff cuts as part of a major makeover that is likely to result in a slimmer publication with fewer subscribers and more photos and opinion inside its pages, according to people close to the magazine.
Hans A. von Spakovsky / Weekly Standard:
Auditing Obama  —  Will the FEC examine the president-elect's campaign finances?  —  Sometime early next year, the six commissioners who run the Federal Election Commission will face an interesting dilemma—whether to approve a “for cause” audit of the presidential campaign of a sitting president, Barack Obama.
Center for Fiscal Accountability:
Featured Website: Fiscal.wa.gov  —  This week's featured website is Washington State's new spending transparency site which launched on December 3, 2008.  Fiscal.wa.gov is the result of Senate Bill 6818, sponsored by Sen. Eric Oemig (D-Kirkland) and passed unanimously during the 2008 legislative session.
Discussion: The Hill
Houston Chronicle:
Surprise flurries warm Houston hearts  —  Fluffy flakes bring delight to some, consternation to others — and tie a 64-year-old record  —  Falling snowflakes glimmered in streetlights, so wide that they billowed to the ground like parachutes, and so tantalizing that even awestruck adults reached …
Discussion: Moonbattery
 
 
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Howard Husock / New York Times:
Housing Goals We Can't Afford
Paul Krugman:
The economic consequences of Herr Steinbrueck
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and The Agonist
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Green Jobs’ Myth
Discussion: The Foundry and Tim Blair
John Fritze / USA Today:
North Dakota tops analysis of corruption
Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
AIG's Speculative CDS Bets
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Categories / Washington Post:
House Decidedly Passes Autos Bailout BIll
Discussion: Donklephant
Matthew Parris / Times of London:
Slipping gently into that good night
Barrett Sheridan / Newsweek:
Who Is To Blame?  —  Some point to Alan Greenspan.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Hullabaloo
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Joe the traitor now flushing good friend John McCain
The Sun:
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