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5:05 PM ET, December 2, 2010

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner Blasts Dems' ‘Chickencrap’ Tax Cut Vote Gambit (VIDEO)  —  This afternoon, House Democrats will hold an up or down vote on vote on President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts to income below $250,000, and they've figured out a way to prevent the Republicans from pulling procedural tricks …
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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.
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.
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 …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Tax deal getting close, Democrats worried Obama may cave  —  Washington (CNN) - Multiple congressional Democratic sources tell CNN that a compromise to extend all Bush-era tax cuts temporarily is getting close, and that there is increasing concern among Democratic lawmakers that the White House …
Kathleen Hunter / Roll Call:
House Passes Democratic Tax Bill
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Boehner: Dem tax bill ‘chicken crap’
Discussion: The Hill, Wonkette and Daily Kos
Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:   John Boehner Calls Vote on Middle-Class-Only Tax Cut ‘Chicken Crap’
Ezra Klein:
‘Chicken crap’ by the numbers
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Over 30 Democrats defect as test vote on tax cuts passes
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Post
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
NASA Finds New Life (Updated)  —  NASA has discovered a new life form—called GFAJ-1—that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth.  It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes.  This changes everything.
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Gizmodo / Wired Science:
NASA Finds New Life Form  —  By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo  —  Hours before its special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living on planet Earth.  This changes everything.
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Subsisting on Arsenic, a Microbe May Redefine Life  —  Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere …
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks  —  Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.
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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 …
Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
The DADT Hearings In Six Minutes: GOP Talking Points Debunked  —  This morning, during a hearing about the impact of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The military leadership's challenge to GOP Senators  —  It's important that we be 100 percent clear on what happened at this morning's Senate hearings on Don't Ask Don't Tell.  Military leaders essentially pleaded with GOP Senators to support repealing DADT, arguing that the failure …
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
McCain Questions Pentagon on Repeal of Gay Ban
Wall Street Journal:
Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program  —  Hedge funds and investors whose bearish trades on housing helped them profit amid the credit crisis were among those that benefited from a U.S. government emergency rescue program to kick-start lending, according to Federal Reserve data released Wednesday.
Discussion: Yglesias and Seeing the Forest
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Prosecution of WikiLeaks Founder, but Legal Scholars Warn of Steep Hurdles  —  WASHINGTON — Calls to prosecute the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, mounted this week as his organization began releasing documents from a cache of 250,000 State Department cables …
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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 …
Sam Roberts / City Room:
A Month After Elections, 200,000 Votes Found  —  The city's Board of Elections routinely reminds New Yorkers that the election night vote count is unofficial and preliminary.  —  Still, the difference in the results from Nov. 2 and in the returns formally certified by the board on Wednesday seems striking …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Graham: Feingold ‘may run against Obama in 2012’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he thinks outgoing Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) could challenge President Obama in the 2012 primaries.  —  Graham said Feingold, a reliably liberal senator who lost his bid for reelection this fall …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kevin O'Rourke / Eurointelligence:
LETTER FROM DUBLIN  —  It is one thing to know that someone you love is terminally ill; their death still comes as a shock.  —  I certainly don't want to compare the arrival of the EU-IMF team in Dublin last week to a bereavement.  But I was surprised at how upsetting I found it, given that it came as no surprise.
Washington Post:
Presenting plan to cut deficit, commission members offer surprising compromises  —  Members of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission expressed a surprising willingness Wednesday to compromise on issues that have long divided Republicans and Democrats, including raising taxes and cutting Social Security.
Amiram Cohen / Haaretz:
Disaster in the North: 40 dead as fire rages across Carmel Mountains  —  Firefighters: We lost complete control of the fire; mass evacuation from northern towns begins; bus evacuating some 50 prison guards gets caught in the flames, killing 40.  —  40 people died on Thursday as a huge brushfire …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
JUAN WILLIAMS ON UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE  —  If we want people to work and keep up their work ethic, why are we keeping them on unemployment insurance to not work?  —  That seems to be Juan Williams take on the current situation.  In this clip from Fox News today Juan Williams explains …
Discussion: TPMDC
Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
DeMint Sets Sights On Four Dems  —  South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) is turning his attention to 2012 and using the vote this week on an earmark moratorium to pick his Democratic targets.  —  DeMint sent an email to the supporters of his Senate Conservatives Fund early Wednesday highlighting four Democrats …
Reuters:
Sarah Palin has earned the right to run for president  —  To the dismay of all but hard-core political junkies, the endless campaign is a reality of modern politics.  With some midterm races still unresolved, voters' attention is already turned to 2012.  And no potential presidential candidate …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Brown in good position  —  As Scott Brown's first year in the Senate comes to a close he remains an extremely formidable political presence and leads five hypothetical 2012 reelection opponents by margins ranging anywhere from 7 to 19 points.  —  Vicki Kennedy (48-41) and Deval Patrick …
Discussion: Yglesias and Taegan Goddard's …
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty PAC spends $300K in a month  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's political action committee shelled out more than $300,000 over the last month, as the presidential hopeful trekked across the country stumping for Republican candidates.  —  Pawlenty's Freedom First PAC raised …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama gets stitches removed from basketball injury
Discussion: The Politico
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Persistence of Long-Term Unemployment Tests U.S.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Bush cabinet raises for ‘vindicated’ Gonzalez
Discussion: Law Blog and Gawker
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
Muslim imam who lectures on non-violence in Germany is arrested …
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Judge sets expedited schedule for Senate vote-count lawsuit
Discussion: CNN, Ballot Box and TPMDC
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Gingrich calls for shake-up at the RNC
Discussion: The Politico, GOP 12 and TPMDC
 Earlier Items: 
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Romney calls Palin ‘powerful force’ within GOP; ‘attractive, too’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ezra Klein:
Andy Stern takes on America's second deficit
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Fox is quickly becoming the second-chance employer for fiery figures
Glen Bolger / Public Opinion Strategies:
GOP Will Retain House Control in 2012 — Guaranteed.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
truth-out.org:
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin …