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2:10 PM ET, December 17, 2009

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Andy Stern / SEIU:
Letter from President Andy Stern to SEIU members: Where do we go from here?  —  A little over a year ago, you stood up and showed a nation that Yes, We Can.  You knocked on doors, picked up phones, wrote your friends and family and neighbors and helped ring in a resounding victory.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod: Left ‘insane’ to sink bill  —  Trying to stave off a sudden fusillade from the left, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Thursday that Howard Dean's criticisms of health-care reform are “predicated on a bunch of erroneous conclusions” and that for progressives to torpedo the legislation …
Igor / Think Progress:
Sen. Sanders: 'As of this point, I'm not voting for the bill.'  —  Moments ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he is prepared to vote against the Senate health care bill in light of the recent decision to strip the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision from the legislation.
Howard Dean / Washington Post:
Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform  —  If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill.  Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Vote by Christmas in peril
Discussion: Townhall.com
Keith Olbermann / msnbc.com:
Ruined Senate bill unsupportable
David Sirota / The Huffington Post:
Howard Dean, Movement Leader
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Olbermann joins call to kill bill
Discussion: City Desk
The Huffington Post:
SEIU Urges Changes In Senate Health Care Bill, Calls Out Obama
Discussion: The New Republic and RedState
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Howard Dean, health care reform spoiler?
Discussion: Video Cafe's feed
Keith Olbermann / Daily Kos:
Special Comment: Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform
Lee Fang / American Prospect:
Dean Vs. Dean on Health Insurance Regulations.
TMZ.com:
Sarah Palin's McCain Cover Up  —  For the first time ever, Sarah Palin used her head to make a searing political comment — a frontal attack on Sen. John McCain.  —  The failed Vice Presidential nominee took time off from shilling her book to vacation with her son Trig …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin supports McCain ‘100 percent’  —  Declaring that she “was honored and proud to run with him,” former Alaska governor Sarah Palin pushed back hard Wednesday against a report that she had disrespected Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by blacking out his name on a sun visor she wore on vacation.
TMZ.com:
Todd Palin Goes Rogue with Message Tee
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Wall Street Journal:
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones  —  $26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected  —  WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need …
Matthew Dowd / Washington Post:
Success on health reform holds risks for Democrats  —  President Obama needs an exit strategy.  I am not referring to Afghanistan or Iraq (though there are quite a few similarities between the situation Obama is in on health-care reform and the political difficulties President George W. Bush faced on Iraq).
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
In Senate Health Showdown, Round Goes to G.O.P.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:   Democrats can't blame Bush for their troubles
Peter Wallsten / Wall Street Journal:
Democrat Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll  —  For First Time, Voters Split Over Who They Want in Control After 2010 Elections, and Obama's Approval Rating Falls Below 50%  —  President Obama makes a statement on health care after meeting with Senators on Tuesday.
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The Hill:
Nelson a ‘no’ on health reform bill pending further changes  —  Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) won't advance healthcare reform efforts unless further changes are made, the senator said Thursday afternoon.  —  Nelson said that modifications to the bill, including provisions …
Discussion: Riehl World View
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming  —  Climategate just got much, much bigger.  And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world's leaders are gathering …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
20 Questions, 20 Responses  —  I'm happy that this debate seems to be evolving into something a little more civilized on all sides.  This is my response to Markos Moulitsas (DK) at Daily Kos and Jon Walker (JW) at FireDogLake who were kind enough to respond to the 20 questions I posed earlier.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Remarks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  —  Copenhagen, Denmark  —  SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all for coming this morning.  I arrived in Copenhagen several hours ago.  I've just had a briefing on the state of the negotiations.
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Rasmussen Reports:
50% Now Say Global Warming Caused by Long-Term Planetary Trends, Political Class Strongly Disagrees  —  Public skepticism about the officially promoted cause of global warming has reached an all-time high among Americans.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% …
Discussion: YID With LID and Commentary
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Election 2010: Missouri Senate
Tom Coburn / Wall Street Journal:
The Health Bill Is Scary  —  Government guidelines would likely have forbidden the test I used to discover Sheila's cancer.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  I recently suggested that seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the Medicare cuts in the health-care bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Palin's Favorable Up Slightly; Obama's Holds Steady  —  Obama (56%) more popular than Palin (44%)  —  PRINCETON, NJ — After the release of her much-publicized autobiography and the ensuing book tour, Sarah Palin is still viewed more unfavorably than favorably by Americans …
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Swamp
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Freeze!  Green police!  —  The folks at Greenpeace think it's a crime what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has done to the country's climate change policy.  —  So on Thursday, they deemed themselves the climate police and sent four squad cars to declare the chamber's H Street headquarters a “global warming crime scene.”
Discussion: Politics Daily
Washington Times:
Walpin-gate may snag Mrs. Obama  —  Skullduggery alleged in White House dismissal of inspector general  —  No inspector general can unearth corruption without access to his office, computer or staff.  An “administrative leave” putting an IG in that position has the same effect, for all intents and purposes, as an immediate firing.
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Read The Documents That Prove John Edwards Is Father Of Love Child  —  New documents prove beyond all doubt that John Edwards is the father of his mistress's love child — a development that puts an exclamation mark to the ex presidential candidate's cheating and lying while his wife battled cancer.
 
 
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