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Obama Should Move to the White House — Rather than plunge into the debate over whether Obama should “move to the center” or adopt tactics of high-intensity conflict with congressional Republicans let me suggest another tack. A day contains 24 hours. That's true for you, for me, for John Boehner, and for Barack Obama.
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Ezra Klein and Dennis the Peasant
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What comes next in a universe where the government works — On Feb. 5, 2011, the president signed the Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction Act of 2011 into law. The legislation lifted the employer-portion of the payroll tax for a year, approved more than $50 billion in infrastructure investments, and cut the deficit.
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Los Angeles Times, Zandar Versus The Stupid, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Donklephant
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Inside White House, calls for shake-up — Some of the calls for a White House shake-up are now coming from inside the building. — Frustrated current and former West Wing staffers, speaking on condition of anonymity, told POLITICO they hoped Tuesday night's humbling losses …
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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, Wake up America, American Power and Ballot Box
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
What Now? An Epic Election Meets the Future
What Now? An Epic Election Meets the Future
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Firedoglake, Raw Story, Mother Jones, The Hill, New York Times, The Page, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Liberal Values
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Obama and Boehner: Mutual scorn?
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ABCNEWS, CNN, Viking Pundit and No Left Turns
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Governing from the White House
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Last Night's Big Loser
Last Night's Big Loser
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normblog, Pajamas Media and Eunomia
First Read / msnbc.com:
Just 32% of Tea Party candidates win — A Don't Tred On Me flag flies above protesters at a rally in April in Macon, MO. — From NBC's Alexandra Moe — For all the talk of the Tea Party's strength - and there will certainly be a significant number of their candidates in Congress …
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TalkLeft, The Hill, The Political Carnival, PERRspectives, TPMDC, The Mahablog, CNN and New York Times
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The Daily Beast:
5 Best Moments from MSNBC's Apocalyptic Night — Matthews asked Bachmann if she was hypnotized. Olbermann feared the Tea Party would eat away at the Earth's core. O'Donnell prepared for the Rand Paul end times. WATCH VIDEO of the liberal network's most distraught moments on Election Night.
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and RealClearPolitics Video Log
James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Tea Party: now for the Presidency
Tea Party: now for the Presidency
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CBS News and Samizdata.net
Ray Sanchez / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says She Has ‘No Regrets’ — Pelosi Tells Diane Sawyer She Hasn't Thought About Her Future Yet — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has “no regrets” one day after a Republican landslide stripped her of the power that defined her historic tenure as the first female Speaker of the House.
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Politics Daily, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, The Politico, The Note and CNN
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GOP senators fight over failure — Long-simmering tensions within the Republican Party spilled into public view Wednesday as the pragmatic and conservative wings of the GOP blamed each other in blunt terms for the party's failure to capture the Senate. — With tea party-backed candidates …
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CNN and New York Times
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Reid is ‘begging’ for Republican input; criticizes GOP and the media
Reid is ‘begging’ for Republican input; criticizes GOP and the media
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The Politico and TPMMuckraker
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Reid: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal depends on GOP cooperation
Reid: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal depends on GOP cooperation
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TPMMuckraker
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Prank! GOP leaves a gift at Democratic HQ — In 1992, a life sized donkey was placed at the front door of the Republican National Committee offices. It was a fitting prank in a year when Democrats took the White House and retained majorities in the House and Senate. — Last night, Republicans got payback.
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Weasel Zippers, The American MAXIM, Gateway Pundit, iOwnTheWorld.com, Outside the Beltway and RedState
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Bennet wins in Senate race — Appointed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet will be elected to the U.S. Senate after pulling ahead of challenger Ken Buck this morning. — Long after most Coloradans — including the candidates and their supporters — had gone to bed, returns from Denver …
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Ross Douthat, Little Green Footballs, Tablet Magazine, The Washington Independent, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, National Review, Mediaite, Wonkette, Crooks and Liars, Politics Daily, Firedoglake, Eduwonk, Michelle Malkin, NPR Topics, Beltway Confidential, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Donklephant, Election Law and The Mahablog
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Results Are In And Many Agree: Fox News Offered More Balanced Election Coverage Than MSNBC — If you believe that the cable news landscape is symptomatic of our two-party political system, then you also probably, and predictably, saw a different tone in last nights election results.
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Media Decoder, New York Magazine, Hot Air, JammieWearingFool, Wake up America and Tuned In, more at Mediagazer »
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Democrats find common ground: It's the White House's fault — The bodies aren't even cold yet in the House, but the Democratic Party has already opened up a bitter debate over who's to blame. — The party's bloodied moderates Wednesday released two years of pent-up anger at a party leadership …
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Blog For Arizona, RedState, Gawker and The Moderate Voice
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September confirms that the pace of recovery in output and employment continues to be slow. Household spending is increasing gradually, but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth …
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George Bush really does not ‘appreciate’ Kanye West's Katrina criticism: ‘The worst moment of my presidency’ — President George W. Bush says that when he heard Kanye West say, “George Bush doesn't care about black people,” “it was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency.”
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Gawker, NPR Topics, Rolling Stone, Colorlines, Lawyers, Guns & Money, ComPost, Speakeasy and Shakesville
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The Hill:
GOP likely to urge Obama officials not to shred documents — Republicans are likely to urge the Obama administration not to shred documents as they transition to the House majority. — Before the election, GOP officials on Capitol Hill privately discussed the issue but refrained from publicly tackling it …
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TPMMuckraker, Weasel Zippers, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Gawker and New York Times
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Darrell Issa: I'll investigate George W. Bush too
Darrell Issa: I'll investigate George W. Bush too
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Weasel Zippers
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Barack Obama sex doll for sale in China — Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodelled him as a blow-up sex doll. — A doll wearing a dark blue suit and red tie …
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Don Surber, AMERICAN DIGEST, Breitbart.tv, Weasel Zippers, Moonbattery, The Jawa Report, Left Coast Rebel and JammieWearingFool
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Write-in vote lead has Murkowski smiling — ELECTION COULD MAKE HISTORY: Final counts may be weeks away; parnell, young post strong results. — scockerham@adn.com — Election returns Tuesday night showed Lisa Murkowski with a chance to become only the second candidate to run …
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Associated Press, The Fix, skippy the bush kangaroo, CNN, TPMDC, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Wonkette, Salon, Hot Air, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, National Review, NPR Topics and Liberal Values
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Steve Singiser / Daily Kos:
Rasmussen Being Rasmussen: The Evidence Is In — Now that the confetti has been swept up, and tears (of joy or anguish) have largely been dabbed dry, time for a little dispassionate analysis. As the resident poll guy here, I have been fairly steadfast in my criticism of Rasmussen Reports, as have several of my colleagues.
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Salon and The Monkey Cage
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A Lost Generation — Obama deserved to lose—but the country doesn't deserve the consequences. — Asked on Monday to assess the significance of the coming Democratic defeat, Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tried to portray this election as fairly typical.
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Pajamas Media, Ross Douthat and Pacific Views
Paul Krugman:
Nobody Cares About Process — Urk. I just gave up on the presidential press conference. When Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats in part because “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn't change how things got done,” I checked out. — Nobody cares about this stuff — they care about results.
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Dennis the Peasant and Hullabaloo
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Iowa voters oust justices who made same-sex marriage legal — (CNN) — Voters in Iowa chose to remove three high court justices who helped make Iowa the first Midwestern state to permit same-sex marriage. — The vote marks the first time a member of the Iowa Supreme Court has been rejected …
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Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Monthly, POWIP, theblogprof, Shakesville, Right Wing Watch and Des Moines Register
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Todd Zywicki / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Three Iowa Justices Defeated For Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Three Iowa Justices Defeated For Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
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Outside the Beltway, Des Moines Register, TPMMuckraker, Hot Air, The Foundry, The Maddow Blog and PointOfLaw Forum
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dem wants House to ‘disavow’ Clinton impeachment — On the day after Republicans reclaimed control of Congress, a Democratic lawmaker said he will introduce a measure that would “disavow” the impeachment of former President Clinton. — Rep. Chaka Fattah (Pa.) said that the resolution …
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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Barney Frank: I'm a victim of the media! — Didn't Barney Frank win his race? In this train wreck of a victory speech, Frank spent more time attacking the media and his opponent, Sean Bielat, than most losing candidates do in conceding their races. Its closest analogue, in my recollection …
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Mediaite, Instapundit and Pajamas Media
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The Changing Electorate — One reason it's difficult to read midterm elections as reflecting shifts in the “national mood” is that the actual set of voting people is quite different. According to exit polls, for example, the relative proportion of youth voters and senior voters shifted quite dramatically:
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Dennis the Peasant, Indecision Forever and The New Republic
Mark Schmitt / American Prospect:
The “F-You” Election — Progressives lost this election — but conservatism and the Republican Party are hardly stronger for their success. — Six years ago, pollster and political scientist Stan Greenberg published a book, The Two Americas, in which he broke down the American electorate of the middle Bush era into new categories.
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American Power, Washington Monthly, Ezra Klein and The New Republic