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2:40 AM ET, December 14, 2009

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Lieberman Tells Reid To His Face, He'll Vote Against Current Health Care Bill — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) informed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a face-to-face meeting on Sunday that he will vote against a health care bill that includes …

Discussion: Open Left, Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo, TPMCafe and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Robert Pear / New York Times:

Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill — WASHINGTON — In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form. — The bill's supporters had said earlier …

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, MyDD, YID With LID, Pajamas Media and RedState

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Lieberman At It Again — It's starting to seem like it may just be better for Dems to try to make a deal with Olympia Snowe, kick Joe Lieberman out of the party and be done with it. The leadership in the senate thought that Lieberman was on board with the latest compromise.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Ezra Klein:

Joe Lieberman: Let's not make a deal! — The Huffington Post and Roll Call are both reporting that Joe Lieberman notified Harry Reid that he will filibuster health-care reform if the final bill includes an expansion of Medicare. Previously, Lieberman had been cool to the idea …

Discussion: CBS News, The New Republic and Suburban Guerrilla

Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Lieberman, Nelson: Public-option compromise still not good enough

Discussion: The Politico, The Incidental Economist and Emptywheel

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

Discussion: The Politico

Michael M. Weinstein / New York Times:

Paul A. Samuelson, Economist, Dies at 94 — Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. — His death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …

Discussion: The Curious Capitalist, Calculated Risk, Megan McArdle, Capital Gains and Games blogs and American Power

Paul Krugman: Paul Samuelson, R.I.P.

Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:

Recession Is Over, Job Growth Coming, White House Advisers Say — Yet Romer Says While Wall Street Recession is Over, Main Street Recession is Not — President Obama's top economic adviser Lawrence Summers today for the first time predicted that job growth would begin as early as this spring.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and George's Bottom Line

Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Summers Predicts Job Growth by Spring

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Summers: ‘No more important issue’ than job growth

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Coop's Corner and The Politico

Mark Silva / The Swamp: Larry Summers: Job growth by Spring

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Palin's Turning Point — Sarah Palin's appearance on the Conan O'Brien late night show generated huge positive buzz. Even (some of) the Palin haters were hard-pressed to come up with a negative about it. — This marks something of a turning point for Palin.

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin.com and Scared Monkeys

BBC:

Berlusconi is bloodied by attack — Mr Berlusconi was whisked away with blood on his face following the incident — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, New York Times, American Power, Truthdig and The Reaction

David Rose / Daily Mail:

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Climate change emails row deepens as Russians admit they DID come from their Siberian server — The claim was both simple and terrifying: that temperatures on planet Earth are now ‘likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years’.

Discussion: QandO, American Power, JammieWearingFool, Whiskey Fire, The Strata-Sphere and iowahawk

Telegraph:

Taliban can be admired for their faith and loyalty, says bishop — The Taliban can be admired for their conviction to their faith and their sense of loyalty to one another, the new bishop for the Armed Forces has claimed. — The Rt Rev Stephen Venner called for a more sympathetic approach …

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Andrew Bolt

Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama — Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor.

Discussion: Emptywheel, Gateway Pundit and TPMDC

Joseph Rago / Wall Street Journal:

Health Care's ‘Radical Improver’ — How medicine's digital revolution can empower doctors and patients, with or without ObamaCare. — Printer — Friendly — Watertown, Mass. — 'It's a little bit like talking to a young prince," says Jonathan Bush, chairman and CEO of Athenahealth …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, John Stossel and Maggie's Farm

Bradley Olson / Houston Chronicle:

Houston makes its choice; Parker makes history — Nation watches as city becomes the largest in U.S. to choose an openly gay leader — Annise Danette Parker was elected mayor of Houston on Saturday, winning her seventh consecutive city election and becoming both the first contender …

Discussion: Hotline On Call and CultureMap