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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Hijacked Commission — Count me among those who always believed that President Obama made a big mistake when he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform — a supposedly bipartisan panel charged with coming up with solutions to the nation's long-run fiscal problems.
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Ed Henry / CNN:
Obama says he's not caving on tax cuts — Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — President Barack Obama declared Friday that his “number one priority” is preserving tax cuts for the middle class, and sharply denied that comments by his senior adviser David Axelrod suggest that his administration …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Deficit Reduction Plan Draws Scorn From Left and Right — WASHINGTON — By putting deep spending cuts and substantial tax increases on the table, President Obama's bipartisan debt-reduction commission has exposed fissures in both parties, underscoring the volatile nature and long odds …
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Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Hill
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Liberals plan to push Obama not to compromise with GOP — On the heels of the Democratic Party's huge losses in last week's midterm elections, liberal activists have begun planning to push President Obama on a series of issues, demanding that he not cede any ground to Republicans.
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Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
Saul Anuzis / That's Saul Folks!:
Why I'm Running for RNC Chairman — FROM: Saul Anuzis, MI-NCM — RE: Announcement for RNC Chairman — DATE: November 12, 2010 — Congratulations on your success, nationwide and state-by-state.
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CNN, The Note, The Hill, TPMDC, Taegan Goddard's …, The Tolbert Report, AmSpecBlog and Roll Call
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Anuzis announces — Saul Anuzis, who had worked with Michael Steele after Steele's victory last time round, launches with this critique: — [T]o be a force, the RNC must change and that requires new leadership at the top. I am offering you an alternative, a choice …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Michael Steele draws first challenger in RNC Chair race — Former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis announced this morning that he will run to be chairman of the Republican National Committee, becoming the first — though almost certainly not the last — candidate in the race against Michael Steele.
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The Note and Erick's blog
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
First Major Challenger To Steele Announces Bid
First Major Challenger To Steele Announces Bid
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Daily Kos and TPMDC
Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed! — Some weddings take longer to plan than others. The union of The Daily Beast and Newsweek magazine finally took place with a coffee-mug toast between all parties Tuesday evening, in a conference room atop Beast headquarters, the IAC building on Manhattan's West 18th Street.
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Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Observer Exclusive: Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge — Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer. — It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under …
Seam Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski confident as write-in tally grows — WRITE-INS: Miller camp steps up challenges, threatens new lawsuit. — scockerham@adn.com — The Division of Elections has reviewed write-in ballots for almost half the precincts in Alaska and is counting nearly 98 percent of them for Lisa Murkowski.
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Ballot Box, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and USA Today
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
How strong is Joe Miller's argument against the Leeza Markovsky vote?
How strong is Joe Miller's argument against the Leeza Markovsky vote?
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Election Law and The Volokh Conspiracy
Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller challenged in wrong court, state says
Miller challenged in wrong court, state says
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The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Should this ballot count? — Floyd Brown, the man responsible for the …
Should this ballot count? — Floyd Brown, the man responsible for the …
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TPMDC, Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, FiveThirtyEight, The Maddow Blog and Weigel
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog Gay:
Cindy McCain does video opposing DADT, accuses ‘our government’ of sending signal that bullying is okay - her hubbie is the lead defender of DADT — John McCain is leading the filibuster against the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” “repeal” legislation in the Senate (it's not an actual repeal, but we'll leave that for another time).
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The Moderate Voice, Ben Smith's Blog, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and The Washington Note
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The Huffington Post:
Cindy McCain Speaks Out Against DADT While John McCain Defends It (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally …
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Washington Monthly, The Maddow Blog and SpeakEasy
Charles Blahous / Economics Policies …:
Fairly Understanding the Simpson-Bowles Social Security Proposal — Co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles of President Obama's Fiscal Responsibility Commission surprised the political world Wednesday when they publicly released their own (as opposed to a full commission) …
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The Atlantic Online, National Review, Hit & Run and Ezra Klein
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Liberals and the Debt Commission
Liberals and the Debt Commission
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The Reaction, Doug Ross, PostPartisan, Mother Jones and Open Left
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
On Fixing Social Security, and the Budget
On Fixing Social Security, and the Budget
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Ezra Klein, The Daily Dish and Instapundit
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Worst Things About Simpson-Bowles
Worst Things About Simpson-Bowles
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TalkLeft and James Pethokoukis
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Sources: Pelosi Says Obama Must Be ‘Perfect’ to Win Again — Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic leaders Wednesday afternoon that President Barack Obama has to be “perfect” to win a second term, several senior Democratic aides told Roll Call. — Pelosi told leaders on a conference call …
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Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Gateway Pundit, Zandar Versus The Stupid and HotAirPundit
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama lauds Pelosi as an ‘outstanding partner’
Obama lauds Pelosi as an ‘outstanding partner’
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Savannah Morning News, The Politico, Hotline On Call and Prairie Weather
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Bobby Jindal hammers Barack Obama in new book — NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal uses a new book to portray President Obama as disconnected from the Gulf oil spill, charging that he was more focused on the political aftermath than the actual impact of the crisis.
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MyFox Philadelphia, HotAirPundit, The Page and GOP 12
Jean-François Lisée / Worldmeets.us:
If U.S. Won't Prosecute Bush, at Least 145 Other Countries Should — “Former President George W. Bush not only admits - he boasts - of having authorized the practice of known as waterboarding. A total of 145 other countries are signatories to the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
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The Moderate Voice
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin book tour 2.0: Focus on middle America including, hmm, Iowa and South Carolina — Sarah Palin, her next book tour, according to publisher HarperCollins. is a 16-stop campaign starting later this month and spilling into December and designed to take advantage of early holiday gift-buying and …
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New York Magazine and The Page
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
I Owe Bruce Bartlett an Apology — Back when Bush 43 was President, I was a huge fan of Bruce Bartlett. I especially loved his book Impostor. But when Bartlett broke with the Republicans back in 2008, it seemed to me that he had gone “from being inside the tent pissing out to being outside the tent pissing in.”
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The Other McCain, Instapundit, The Reality-Based Community, Riehl World View and FrumForum
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Traveling in Asia, Obama's Glow Dims — SEOUL, South Korea — Foreign leaders couldn't seem to get enough of President Obama when he arrived on the world stage two years ago. They brought copies of his memoir to global conferences seeking his autograph. They angled for handshakes and …
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Washington Wire, Swampland and Washington Post
David Brooks / New York Times:
National Greatness Agenda — Elections come and go, but the United States is still careening toward bankruptcy. By 2020, the U.S. will be spending $1 trillion a year just to pay the interest on the national debt. Sometime between now and then the catastrophe will come. — It will come with amazing swiftness.
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
Will Stealth Spending Decide the 2012 GOP Presidential Primaries? — After a GOP wave election that put the “tsu” in tsunami, Republicans have reason to feel smug as they look toward 2012. High on the GOP's gloating list is the way that wealthy conservatives and right-wing business groups exploited …
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The Moderate Voice and The Politico