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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Threaten Tax Dispute Blockade — WASHINGTON — Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a “new dialogue,” renewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tax Cuts Likely to Be Extended Temporarily — Republicans and Democrats Wednesday sat down to negotiate a compromise on extending Bush-era income tax cuts—an effort that could be the first step toward a deal this month that many strategists in both parties believe will temporarily extend current tax rates for all income levels.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Parties dare each other as tax debate heats up — House Democrats will forge ahead with a highly partisan tax vote Thursday — just two days after President Obama called for a bipartisan deal on the issue. — The vote comes as administration officials and congressional representatives …
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Guardian, The Politico and RedState
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners — WASHINGTON — As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much harder for homeowners to stop foreclosures and escape predatory home loans with onerous terms.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Diplomats Noted Canadian Mistrust Toward U.S. — WASHINGTON — In early 2008, American diplomats stationed in Ottawa turned on their television sets and were aghast: there was an “onslaught” of Canadian shows depicting “nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada …
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Luke Harding / Guardian:
Cables condemn Russia as ‘mafia state’
Cables condemn Russia as ‘mafia state’
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Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
GOP to upend spending process — House Republicans seem intent on blowing up the staid appropriations process when they take power in January — potentially upending the old bulls in both parties who have spent decades building their power over the federal budget.
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Pirate's Cove
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Republicans block child nutrition bill
Republicans block child nutrition bill
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Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks — Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com's cloud servers. But today, it was down again and mid-afternoon we found out the reason …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Pentagon: We could have shut down Wikileaks but chose not to
Pentagon: We could have shut down Wikileaks but chose not to
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The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, Reuters and Gothamist
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure
WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure
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Washington Post, Spiegel Online, Salon, The Firewall, Democracy in America, Mediaite, Boing Boing and RedState, more at Techmeme »
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner to create women's restroom adjacent to House floor — Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) intends to commandeer a swanky office space adjacent to the House floor and build a women's restroom for female lawmakers. — For years, men have had the luxury of using facilities located adjacent …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
It took a guy to do this? House Speaker-elect John Boehner orders a change to benefit just 71 members — For some reason it took a male Speaker of the House to accomplish this: — The nearly six dozen female members of the incoming House of Representatives will have a new restroom …
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Hot Air
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe — A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan. — Post Comment — In its first months in office …
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
The Madrid Cables — In Spain, the WikiLeaks disclosures …
The Madrid Cables — In Spain, the WikiLeaks disclosures …
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Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish and Boing Boing
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Dickishness Of The GOP — What we've observed these past two years is a political party that knows nothing but scorched earth tactics, cannot begin to see any merits in the other party's arguments, refuses to compromise one inch on anything, and has sought from the very beginning to do nothing but destroy the Obama presidency.
truth-out.org:
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” — The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act …
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Firedoglake
Ed Rollins / CNN:
Palin, I knew Reagan. You're no Reagan. — Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm.
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
County Recorder in Massachusetts Goes After MERS — This is one of those mind-blowing days, one I don't feel like I have much of a grip on. But with all the despair with the federal government, the power structure that protects the banks at all costs, etc., it's worth looking at some potential good news for a change.
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Zandar Versus The Stupid
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John Carney / CNBC:
The MERS Wars Heat Up in Massachusetts
Elisha Bala-Gbogbo / Bloomberg:
Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case — Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
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Raw Story
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
House GOP leadership cancels Pelosi's committee on global warming — Why not? It was a vehicle for passing cap-and-trade, and the cap-and-trade bill is now so dead that it's literally being used for target practice by centrist Democrats. If Boehner announced the formation of a new committee …
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Jim Snyder / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Climate Panel Dies in Republican Sweep of House
Pelosi Climate Panel Dies in Republican Sweep of House
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Cuba travel ban won't be lifted this year — Legislation eliminating a longstanding travel ban to Cuba is dead in this Congress, several senior Democrats said this week. — Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), a strong backer of lifting the ban, called it “absurd” that Congress would maintain restrictions …
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Ace / minx.cc:
Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin Is Anti-Intellectual and Anti-Education For Using The Term “Blue Bloods” PS: By The Way, I Had To Google The Meaning of “Blue Bloods” Because I Had Never Read This Extremely Common Term Before — Blue bloods = the aristocracy, my poor sweet dumb babboo.
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Weasel Zippers
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Meghan McCain / The Daily Beast:
Who You Calling a Blue Blood, Sarah?
Who You Calling a Blue Blood, Sarah?
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Outside the Beltway, The Other McCain, The Note and Pundit & Pundette
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Civil Unions Advance in Illinois — CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday approved legislation allowing civil unions in this state, and the governor has indicated he will sign it, making Illinois one of only a handful of states to grant to same-sex couples a broad array of legal rights …
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FrumForum
Steve Randy Waldman / interfluidity:
Hangover theory and morality plays — My recent fit over the technocratic style in American economics was the excrescence of a long-standing complaint. The very first time I made that complaint was in a piece arguing that Paul Krugman's dismissal of Austrian-ish “hangover theory” was overhasty.
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains Documents from Obama Administration Detailing Actor Andy Griffith's “Misleading” Medicare Advertisements — Obama Administration Spent $3,184,000 in Taxpayer Dollars on Advertising Program Deemed “Misleading” by Non-Partisan FactCheck.org
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