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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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EconomistMom.com:
Can We Do the Non-Crazy Thing with the Bush Tax Cuts? — I am no longer going to “let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” I am no longer going to try to talk people into seeing that the “right” thing to do with the Bush tax cuts would be to let them all expire.
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Yglesias, The Caucus, Roll Call and Grasping Reality …
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
Parties dare each other as tax debate heats up
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The Note, New York Times, Guardian, RedState and The Politico
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Hopes for cooperation dashed
Hopes for cooperation dashed
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FT Alphaville, Ezra Klein, PostPartisan, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and ABCNEWS
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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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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Thomas M. Hoenig / New York Times:
Too Big to Succeed — THE world has experienced a severe financial crisis and economic recession. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve took actions that saved businesses and jobs and may very well have saved the economy itself from ruin. Still, the public seems ungrateful, expressing anger at these institutions that saved the day.
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Washington Post:
Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms
Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms
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Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
Banks in Talks to End Bond Probe
Banks in Talks to End Bond Probe
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Tea Partiers resist GOP healthcare repeal tactic — Tea Party lawmakers are balking at the House Republican leadership's plan to simultaneously repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare law. — The resistance from conservative lawmakers is a clear indication of the challenge Republican leaders face …
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks
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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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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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The Moderate Voice, The Daily Dish, Hullabaloo and Boing Boing
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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Ezra Klein:
Andy Stern takes on America's second deficit — “Do we really need another deficit-reduction plan?” I ask Andy Stern. I like this stuff, but even I'm getting exhausted by the endless parade of plans, each just slightly different than the last, and none with an obviously supportive constituency in Congress.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Fox is quickly becoming the second-chance employer for fiery figures — Don't panic. Fox is hiring. — The leading cable news network and its business news offshoot, Fox Business Network, have made a habit of signing up reporters and media personalities who've found themselves on the wrong side in employee-employer spats.
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, The Firewall, Reuters and Gothamist
Glen Bolger / Public Opinion Strategies:
GOP Will Retain House Control in 2012 — Guaranteed. — Control of the House of Representatives after the 2012 elections will still belong to the Republicans. IF Barack Obama stages a political comeback (which is certianly within the realm of possibility), Democrats will start the presidential coattails drumbeat.
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Washington Post:
The Republican case for ratifying New START — Republican presidents have long led the crucial fight to protect the United States against nuclear dangers. That is why Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush negotiated the SALT I, START I and START II agreements.
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Congress Blog, Daily Kos, New York Times and Federal Eye
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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Diplomats Noted Canadian Mistrust — 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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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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Heidi Evans / NY Daily News:
On World AIDS Day, Larry Kramer, who first warned of epidemic, rips ‘Do-nothing’ Obama — On World AIDS Day, the man who first sounded the alarm about the AIDS epidemic and shamed the government into action for a decade, had some choice words for President Obama.
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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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A strange way to honor the founding fathers — Republicans gained control of the House last month on a promise to “restore the Constitution.” So it is no small irony that one of their first orders of business is an attempt to rewrite the Constitution. — On Tuesday, Rep. Rob Bishop …
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Instapundit, Wonk Room, Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
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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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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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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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
One Senator's modest proposal: Force Senators to actually filibuster — The problem for those who want to do away with the filibuster and restore some functionality to the Senate is that some argue it requires a two thirds vote to make it happen — a virtual impossibility given today's Senate math.
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