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Behind delayed summit: Republican distrust of President Obama — The roots of the partisan standoff that led to the postponement of the bipartisan White House summit scheduled for Thursday date back to January, when President Barack Obama crashed a GOP meeting in Baltimore to deliver a humiliating rebuke of House Republicans.
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Few U.S. Voters Look For Love In White House Meeting, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Down On Obama, Democrats And Republicans — Three out of four American voters think the White House meeting Thursday between congressional leaders and President Barack Obama is unlikely …
The Note:
Boehner Challenges Constitutionality of Health Reform Law
Boehner Challenges Constitutionality of Health Reform Law
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers, Taxpayers Against Earmarks, USA Today and Another Black Conservative
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
That's the Story? (#GalacticFail Edition)
That's the Story? (#GalacticFail Edition)
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkette, The Politico and Balloon Juice
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Sarah Palin's Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs — Sarah Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin used multiple homophobic slurs — including the word f**got — to attack a Facebook user who criticized her mom's new reality show .... TMZ has learned. — During the premiere of “Sarah Palin's Alaska” …
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The Palin Network — On the night of the midterm elections earlier this month, Sarah Palin stayed up until 3 in the morning. From her hotel bedroom in Manhattan, she and her husband, Todd, followed the returns while she wrote e-mails on her iPad — congratulating winners, consoling losers …
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CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
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Obama wants DREAM Act in lame duck — President Barack Obama told Democratic members of Congress Tuesday he wants the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session as a “down payment” on substantial immigration reform, according to members at the meeting. — And, he said, he'd call resistant senators to get them on board.
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Another Black Conservative, Washington Examiner, Weasel Zippers, protein wisdom, The Hill and HotAirPundit
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G.O.P. Opposition Dims Hope for Arms Treaty With Russia — President Obama's hopes of ratifying a new arms control treaty with Russia by the end of the year appeared to come undone on Tuesday as the chief Senate Republican negotiator moved to block a vote on the pact, one of the White House's …
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The Confluence, The Foundry and ATTACKERMAN
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE FALLOUT OF KYL'S BETRAYAL.... The optimism hadn't been …
THE FALLOUT OF KYL'S BETRAYAL.... The optimism hadn't been …
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NationalJournal.com and Suburban Guerrilla
Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Senate Leader Deals Blow to President on Arms Treaty
Senate Leader Deals Blow to President on Arms Treaty
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The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, Prairie Weather, Politics Daily and Eunomia
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KYL INTENT ON DESTROYING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.... This isn't just …
KYL INTENT ON DESTROYING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.... This isn't just …
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Guardian, Dennis the Peasant, Eunomia, CNN and democracyarsenal.org
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Murkowski's lead more than 10,000 votes — Today's review of write-in ballots ended with Sen. Lisa Murkowski enjoying an apparently insurmountable 10,420-vote lead over Joe Miller. — Murkowski also now has collected more votes that went unchallenged by Miller ballot observers than Miller's total vote count.
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Hotline On Call, The Other McCain, USA Today, Gawker, The Nation, Outside the Beltway and The Page
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Lisa Murkowski: Jim DeMint cost us Senate majority — 'So the real question is, what's his desire?' Lisa Murkowski (left) said about Jim DeMint. AP Photos — After ripping Sarah Palin, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski isn't mincing words about another one of her high-profile GOP critics: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.
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Iron Mill News Service, Anchorage Daily News, Newshoggers.com, The Gateway Pundit and GOP 12
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Sen. Murkowski on verge of win in Alaska
Sen. Murkowski on verge of win in Alaska
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Associated Press and The Politico
Washington Post:
Payroll tax holiday and other measures to reduce the debt — This morning, a bipartisan task force that we co-chair unveils a bold, comprehensive plan to dramatically reduce America's deficits and debt and strengthen our economy, enabling the nation to reclaim its future.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth
One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth
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Michael Bloomberg & Joe Scarborough: The Independent Odd Couple — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — There's no campaign yet, and there may never be, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and MSNBC's morning talk-show host Joe Scarborough have begun trying to figure out whether …
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Guardian, Mediaite, Gawker, GOP 12 and The Moderate Voice
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
SARAH PALIN TO ROBERT DRAPER: 'I'M ENGAGED IN THE INTERNAL DELIBERATIONS' ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL RACE— GOP insisted White House postpone summit - Dan Bartlett promoted — Boehner, Dean, Susan Rice b'days — GAME CHANGE — ROBERT DRAPER goes deep in PalinWorld for the cover story of the forthcoming …
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: 4 in 5 Support Full-Body Airport Scanners — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Americans have differing views on two potentially inconvenient and invasive practices that airports could implement …
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Raw Story, The Consumerist, CBS News and The TSA Blog
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Mark Hemingway / Beltway Confidential:
Since the TSA molested my family, why doesn't Obama volunteer …
Since the TSA molested my family, why doesn't Obama volunteer …
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Right Wing News
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
If you won't submit to screening, you won't fly, TSA says
If you won't submit to screening, you won't fly, TSA says
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ChattahBox News Blog, Cato @ Liberty, Federal Eye and HotAirPundit
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The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh — The image above appears on Rush Limbaugh's Web site. Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles? It's always egregious enough to be calculatingly offensive, but never quite an open and shut case, because most of all the talk radio host revels …
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The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, Wonkette, JustOneMinute, Mother Jones, The Reaction, Mediaite, Little Green Footballs, Colorlines and Weasel Zippers
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Rare Honor for a Living Service Member — WASHINGTON — In an emotional ceremony, President Obama on Tuesday awarded the Medal of Honor to an Army staff sergeant who placed himself in the line of fire in Afghanistan to try to save his squad mates and to protect and comfort a dying American soldier.
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The Politico, JustOneMinute and Patterico's Pontifications
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
The gallant story of Salvatore Giunta, America's newest Medal of Honor recipient
The gallant story of Salvatore Giunta, America's newest Medal of Honor recipient
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American Spectator
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Insurers Gave U.S. Chamber $86 Million Used to Oppose Obama's Health Law — Health insurers last year gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law, according to tax records and people familiar with the donation.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Caucus and Joe. My. God.
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Pretty Good for Government Work — My mother told me to send thank-you notes promptly. I've been remiss. — Let me remind you why I'm writing. Just over two years ago, in September 2008, our country faced an economic meltdown. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the pillars that supported …
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Daily Kos and ChattahBox News Blog
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Roger Ailes Lets Rip — In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, the Fox News chief says Obama thinks differently from most Americans, defends Murdoch's GOP donations, and admits Beck sometimes goes too far. — In the media world, as in politics, having a high-profile target can be a very good thing.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Dan Rozek / Chicago Sun Times:
Bean concedes; Walsh wins seat by 291 votes — By a margin of 291 votes out of more than 200,000 cast, GOP challenger Joe Walsh emerged Tuesday as the winner over U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean in their nail-biting 8th District congressional race. — Bean, a three-term Democrat …
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Ballot Box
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U.S. Sets 50 Bank Probes — FDIC Steps Up Investigations at Failed Lenders; ‘These Numbers Will Increase’ — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is conducting about 50 criminal investigations of former executives, directors and employees at U.S. banks that have failed since the start of the financial crisis.
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The BLT and New York Magazine
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The Tina Brown Turnaround — Tina Brown was in a state. It was Tuesday morning, Nov. 9, and the Daily Beast editor was in Barry Diller's office at IAC headquarters on the West Side. Talks with Sidney Harman about merging the site with his recently acquired Newsweek were back on—big time …
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Felix Salmon and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Sources: Sen. Baucus may introduce compromise package on Bush tax cuts — Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is considering introducing a tax package by the end of the week that would include a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts, sources told The Hill on Tuesday.
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ThinkProgress, Reuters and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Nathan Guttman / The Jewish Daily Forward:
AIPAC Gets Down and Dirty in Pushback Against Rosen Defamation Suit — WASHINGTON — The espionage case against two senior officials of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington was dropped last year. But it has not been forgotten, and is now threatening to draw the lobby into new depths of mudslinging.
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Salon, TPMCafe and War in Context
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One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans — At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.
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CBS News, ABCNEWS, Cubachi, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, TalkLeft, Left Coast Rebel, Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, Runnin' Scared, Associated Press, Blog of Rights, Threat Level, The Snitch, Left in the West, Liberty Pundits Blog, iOwnTheWorld.com, Don Surber, Israel Matzav, The Gateway Pundit, msnbc.com, The Consumerist, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, Boing Boing and Mock, Paper, Scissors, more at Techmeme »
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How Palin Conservatives Are Cheating The DWTS Voting System — It's been alleged that the Tea Party's “Operation Bristol” is keeping the teen mom in the competition. However, the real conspiracy is that her conservative supporters have figured out a way to exploit ABC.com's email-voting feature, allowing infinite votes.
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The Confluence, TalkLeft, Mediaite, National Review, Wonkette, Tubular and Conservatives4Palin.com