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New York Times:
Lieberman Gets Ex-Party to Shift on Health Plan — WASHINGTON — Just the thought of Joseph I. Lieberman makes some Democrats want to spit nails these days. But Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is not the least troubled by his status as Capitol Hill's master infuriator …
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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 Hill:
Sen. Reid bows to centrists, will drop Medicare buy-in provision to pass bill — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is prepared to give in to demands from centrists in order to pass the healthcare legislation before Christmas, senators say. — Reid indicated at a closed-door …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Rahm To Reid: Give Lieberman What He Wants — Obama administration officials were not pleased when word leaked out earlier today that the White House was leaning on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to cut a deal with Joe Lieberman on a public option alternative—and they gave their counterparts …
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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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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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Democrats push health care, even if it kills them — To some observers, the Democrats' race to pass national health care seems irrational — even suicidal. Don't party leaders understand how much the public opposes the bills currently on the table? Don't they know that voters are likely …
The Huffington Post:Rahm Emanuel Personally Pressed Reid To Cut Deal With Lieberman: Sources
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Ezra Klein:The death of the public option
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The Politico:Obama: ‘Last chance’ for health reform
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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 …
Big Hollywood:
Hollywood Producer Urges Celebs to Target Joe Lieberman's Wife — What's the Difference Between the Mafia and a Hollywood Leftist? ...the Mafia doesn't go after your family. — It shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that Jane Hamsher, the founder and publisher of the website targeting Joe Lieberman's wife …
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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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Quinnipiac University:
Paterson Approval Up, But Dems Back Cuomo Almost 3-1, Quinnipiac University New York State Poll Finds; Thompson Tops Gillibrand In Dem Senate Primary — New York Gov. David Paterson continues his climb out of the basement, as voters disapprove 49 - 40 percent of the job he is doing …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House Detainees — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has selected a prison in northwestern Illinois to house terrorism suspects now being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in a major step toward shutting down that military detention facility.
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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 …
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
DOE sends a “litigation hold notice” regarding CRU to employees - asking to “preserve documents” — It appears bigger things are brewing related to CRU's Climategate. — WUWT commenter J.C. writes in comments: — I work at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Putting Obama on Hold, in a Hint of Who's Boss — President Obama didn't exactly look thrilled as he stared at the Polycom speakerphone in front of him. “Well, I appreciate you guys calling in,” he began the meeting at the White House with Wall Street's top brass on Monday.
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.
Washington Post:
House Democrats lose fourth member to retirement — Caucus privately expresses concern about implications — House Democrats got a jolt Monday when a fourth lawmaker in a matter of weeks announced his retirement, leaving party officials and strategists fearful that they represent …
Bloomberg:
Regulators Resist Volcker Wandering Warning of Too-Big-to-Fail — Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Paul A. Volcker visited nine cities in five countries in the past eight weeks to warn that bankers and regulators “have not come anywhere close to responding with necessary vigor” to the worst economic crisis in 70 years.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A Courage of Failure — ObamaCare backer: Defying public, wrecking health care would be “a significant political achievement.” — Printer — Friendly — There's trouble in paradise, or rather there would be if the U.S. Senate's Democratic Caucus were paradise.
Susan Stabley / bizjournals:
Report: John Edwards bought Charlotte home for former mistress Rielle Hunter — Rumors have been circulating for several days through Charlotte's Eastover neighborhood that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards bought a home here for his admitted former mistress, Rielle Hunter.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Anne Applebaum on devaluing humanity and hope in Copenhagen — There is no nihilism like the nihilism of a 9-year-old. “Why should I bother,” one of them recently demanded of me, when he was presented with the usual arguments in favor of doing homework: “By the time I'm grown up …
Room for Debate:
Banks: Real Reform and Pitchforks — President Obama told a group of bank executives on Monday that they needed to loosen lending and take other action to help the American economy. In a taped interview on Sunday night on “60 Minutes,” he called bankers “fat cats” who “still don't get” why the public is so mad at them.
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