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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
W.H. to Reid: Cut deal with Lieberman — The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and eliminate the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
VIDEO: Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago — Here's some video of Joe Lieberman only three months ago appearing to endorse the Medicare buy-in idea — in seeming contradiction of his decision to bail on the Senate deal. — Lieberman discussed the Medicare buy …
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New York Times:
Senate Democrats Likely to Drop Medicare Expansion — WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders said Monday that they were prepared to drop a proposed expansion of Medicare and make other changes in sweeping health legislation as they tried to rally their caucus in hopes of passing the bill before Christmas.
The Huffington Post:
Rahm Emanuel Personally Pressed Reid To Cut Deal With Lieberman: Sources — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Rahm Emanuel visited Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his Capitol office on Sunday evening and personally urged him to cut a deal with recalcitrant Sen. Joe Lieberman, two Democratic sources familiar with the situation said.
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CNN:
Hadassah Lieberman under attack over industry ties — Washington (CNN) - Sen. Joe Lieberman - whose opposition to a public insurance option has drawn outrage from liberal groups for months - is used to finding himself in progressive crosshairs. — Now it's his wife's turn.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Understanding Joe Lieberman — I've been saying for a while that Joe Lieberman posed the greatest threat to health care reform. Unlike the rest of the party, he has no political interest in the passage of reform or a successful Obama presidency, and he seems to view the prospect of sticking …
Ezra Klein:
Venomous responsibility — My colleague Chuck Lane accuses me of a “venomous smear” against Joe Lieberman today, which is fair enough. He's hardly the first to see it that way. What is surprising is that Lane, well, agrees with my venomous smear. “I understand that [Lieberman] …
Michael F. Cannon / Cato @ Liberty:
Joe Lieberman, Mass Murderer? — So insinuates the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, who writes that, because Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) does not support the health care legislation forwarded by Senate Democrats, Lieberman “seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score.”
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Are Pro-Public Option Senators Mourning The Loss Of The Medicare Buy In? — Joe Lieberman is the man of the hour. But though he's threatening to filibuster the Democrats' health care bill, he did not speak at an impromptu caucus meeting on the legislation this evening.
The Note:
Lieberman Wants Senate Dems to ‘Scale Back’ Health Care Bill — ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: Lieberman wants to scale Reid's bill back to its “strong core.” — Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who has new demands about what Democrats should pull out of their evolving health reform bill …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Harkin: 'There's Enough Good In This Bill' Without Medicare Buy-In — Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) just walked walked into the Democrats all-important caucus meeting tonight sounding defeatest about the chance that a Medicare buy-in or public option trigger will survive Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) …
The Huffington Post:
81% Of Dems Want Lieberman Punished For Health Care Filibuster
81% Of Dems Want Lieberman Punished For Health Care Filibuster
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Report: White House orders Reid to make a deal with Lieberman …
Report: White House orders Reid to make a deal with Lieberman …
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Oh no, Joe — Greg Sargent found video of Joe Lieberman …
Oh no, Joe — Greg Sargent found video of Joe Lieberman …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Calling on James Denton, Ellen DeGeneres and Other Stars: No More …
Calling on James Denton, Ellen DeGeneres and Other Stars: No More …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Looming Murder/Suicide of the Democratic Majority
The Looming Murder/Suicide of the Democratic Majority
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Charles Lane / PostPartisan:
Ezra Klein's venomous slam of Joe Lieberman
Ezra Klein's venomous slam of Joe Lieberman
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Franken feuds with GOP's No. 4 — Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) sparred sharply on the Senate floor Monday evening, a departure from the usually dormant speeches in the august chamber. — Franken said he was struck by a speech in which he said Thune had refused …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Cook report: Number of “likely” Democratic House seats down to ... 218 — A bare majority. Actually, there are only 39 seats listed in the “lean Democratic” and “Democratic toss-up” columns, but as Taegan Goddard points out, if you toss in Bart Gordon's retirement today in a very winnable GOP district you're down to the magic number.
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Kleinheider / Post Politics:
This Is Huge: Rep. Bart Gordon Will Not Run For Re-Election
This Is Huge: Rep. Bart Gordon Will Not Run For Re-Election
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Anill / Think Progress:
New right-wing Christmas carol: ‘Illegals in my Yard.’ — This weekend, Human Events posted an offensive parody of the famous Christmas carol, “Feliz Navidad,” entitled “Illegal Aliens In My Yard.” Besides repeatedly referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegals,” …
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James Chartrand / Copyblogger:
Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants — You know me as James Chartrand of Men with Pens, a regular Copyblogger contributor for just shy of two years. — And yet, I'm a woman. — This is not a joke or an angle or an analogy — I'm literally a woman. — This is my story.
Dominic Lawson / Times of London:
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up — Hannah Devlin, Ben Webster, Philippe Naughton in Copenhagen — There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. — The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead …
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Pete Yost / The Huffington Post:
Bush E-mails Found: 22 Million Missing E-mails From George W. Bush White House Recovered — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal — Sunday was the second anniversary of the sale of The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. At that time, a chorus of journalism church ladies (I was among them) warned that one of the crown jewels of American journalism …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Disaster and Denial — When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they would change their views if events completely refuted their beliefs.
Gallup:
Race for 2010 Remains Close; Democrats Recover Slight Lead — Republican lead among independents narrows significantly — PRINCETON, NJ — Democrats have regained the slim edge they enjoyed earlier this year over Republicans in the latest update of Gallup's generic congressional ballot …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Speaker Pelosi named finalist for Time magazine ‘Person of the Year’ — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is among the seven finalists chosen for Time magazine's annual “Person of the Year,” according to media reports on Monday. — {mosads}Other finalists in the realm of politics include …
Adam Brickley / Weekly Standard:
Tea Party Down Under — It turns out that insurgent, populist Conservatives are scoring victories Down Under as well as in America — and Tea Partiers and Palinistas here in the States would do well to watch conservative Aussie leader Tony Abbott very closely.
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