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Myglesias / Yglesias:
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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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Defeat Barack Obama in 2012
Mitch McConnell: Defeat Barack Obama in 2012
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ThinkProgress and SpeakEasy
Ezra Klein:
What comes next in a universe where the government works
What comes next in a universe where the government works
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Los Angeles Times, Donklephant, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Zandar Versus The Stupid
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, Liberal Values and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Inside White House, calls for shake-up
Inside White House, calls for shake-up
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Firedoglake, Left Coast Rebel, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, American Power, Wake up America and Ballot Box
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Obama and Boehner: Mutual scorn?
Obama and Boehner: Mutual scorn?
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ABCNEWS, CNN and Viking Pundit
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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The Sundries Shack, PERRspectives, The Hill, The Political Carnival, TPMDC, TalkLeft, Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Mahablog and New York Times
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James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Tea Party: now for the Presidency — Rubio: hot wife, cute kid. But does he have the ideological cojones? — Before we get too jubilant about the humiliating, crushing, thousands-of-floating-dead-Persians- at-Salamis-style defeat inflicted by the Tea Party movement on Democrats …
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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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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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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
The Mountain Labored, and Gave Birth to a Mouse
The Mountain Labored, and Gave Birth to a Mouse
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Paul Krugman, Crooked Timber and Economist's View
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
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, JammieWearingFool, Hot Air, Wake up America and Tuned In, more at Mediagazer »
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
On Fox News, Election 2010 is cause for cheer
On Fox News, Election 2010 is cause for cheer
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News Hounds and Mediaite
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The sad tale of the Democrats who hated the unemployed — Last summer, we met the Democrats who hated the unemployed — the 16 House votes from the majority party against an emergency extension of unemployment benefits. They were: — John Adler, D-N.J. — Brian Baird, D-Wash.
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Chicago Sun Times and The Moderate Voice
The Politico:
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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New York Magazine and CNN
Ben Smith / The Politico:
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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RedState, Blog For Arizona, The Moderate Voice and Gawker
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
What Liberals Never Learn — After winning in Kentucky last night, Rand Paul was talking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who dutifully repeated a Democrat talking point: “What if they just raised taxes on the richest, those making more than 250,000 dollars a year?” In answering the question …
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The Moderate Voice
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Explains His Support For Plutocracy: 'There Are No Poor …
Rand Paul Explains His Support For Plutocracy: 'There Are No Poor …
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and Left Coast Rebel
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
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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The American MAXIM, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway and RedState
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Reid is ‘begging’ for Republican input; criticizes GOP and the media — Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insisted Wednesday he's committed to building consensus with Senate Republicans, telling reporters he is “begging for Republican input.”
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The Politico
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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
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
Denver Post:
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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Telegraph:
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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AMERICAN DIGEST, Don Surber, Breitbart.tv, Weasel Zippers, Moonbattery, The Jawa Report, Left Coast Rebel and JammieWearingFool
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 and Gawker
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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
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
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Ouster of Iowa Judges Sends Signal to Bench — DES MOINES — An unprecedented vote to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who were part of the unanimous decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the state was celebrated by conservatives as a popular rebuke of judicial overreach …
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The Political Carnival and Election Law
Ken Tucker / EW.com:
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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New York Times:
Outside Groups on the Right Flexed Muscles in House Races — On the way to winning back the majority in the House on Tuesday, Republican challenger after Republican challenger overcame significant fund-raising gaps to beat their opponents, bolstered by a deluge of spending by independent groups.
New York Post:
No time to celebrate — Tweet — The most remarkable thing about last night's over whelming GOP victory in the midterm elections is the utter lack of triumphalism. — “This is not a time for celebration,” said John Boehner, the main who'll become speaker of the House, last night.
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The Page, Althouse, No Left Turns and Beltway Confidential
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