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10:30 AM ET, December 8, 2010

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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Obama, Tax Deal Is a Back-Door Stimulus Plan  —  A year ago, President Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of assuming that an economic recovery was under way.  This week's deal to extend the Bush tax cuts shows that the White House's top priority is avoiding the same mistake again …
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Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
DeMint To Oppose “the Deal”  —  Senator JimDeMint just announced on my program that he will oppose the deal as well as a vote for cloture on the deal.  He is reluctant to criticize GOP Senate leadership, but believes the deal at a minimum has to be paid for, and that we need “a permanent economy” …
Ezra Klein:
How the White House cut its deal and lost its base  —  If you look at the numbers alone, the tax cut deal looks to have robbed Republicans blind.  The GOP got around $95 billion in tax cuts for wealthy Americans and $30 billion in estate tax cuts.  Democrats got $120 billion in payroll-tax cuts …
The Politico:
Harry Reid tries to add online poker to tax bill  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to use the tax cut package President Barack Obama brokered with Republicans to legalize online poker, POLITICO has learned — a move that could further complicate the deal Obama announced Monday.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Centrist Dem senator supports repealing 'Don't ask, don't tell'  —  A key centrist Democratic senator said Wednesday that he now favors repealing the military's ban on openly gay service members.  —  Sen. Mark Pyor (Ark.) explained that he was convinced by the results of the Pentagon's 10-month study …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
The Hill:
Democrats to draw line at estate tax after Obama's deal with Republicans
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Tax Package Will Aid Nearly All, Especially Highest Earners
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Firedoglake
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Support Two Major Elements of Tax Compromise
Discussion: The Page and The Daily Caller
The Huffington Post:
Mary Landrieu: ‘Obama-McConnell’ Plan Is ‘Almost Morally Corrupt’
The Huffington Post:
House Democrats Rip Obama's Tax Cut Deal
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Obama Dresses Down ‘Sanctimonious’ And ‘Purist’ Progressives (VIDEO)
Discussion: TBogg
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell calls extending jobless benefits a ‘tragedy’  —  Christine O'Donnell on Tuesday compared the “tragedy” of extending unemployment benefits to Pearl Harbor and the death of Elizabeth Edwards.  —  “Today marks a lot of tragedy,” O'Donnell, the Tea Party-backed GOP Senate candidate from Delaware …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
A Political Life Filled With Cruel Reversals  —  Elizabeth Edwards, who as the wife of former Senator John Edwards gave America an intimate look at a candidate's marriage by sharing his quest for the 2008 presidential nomination as she struggled with incurable cancer and, secretly …
TwinCities.com:
Emmer to concede election to Dayton  —  Announcement today expected to end tight contest with Dayton  —  It's over.  —  Republican Tom Emmer will concede the 2010 Minnesota governor's race this morning to Democrat Mark Dayton, a Republican source with direct knowledge confirmed to the Pioneer Press.
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Emmer to concede governor's race  —  Emmer will make a “major announcement” about the recount at 10:30 a.m., at his Delano home.  A GOP source with knowledge of Emmer's plans said he would concede the election.  —  Republican Tom Emmer is expected to concede the Minnesota governor's race …
Discussion: TPMDC and The Caucus
Tom Hauser / KSTP-TV:
Emmer to Concede, Dayton Poised to Become Gov. Elect
Discussion: Hot Air and TPMDC
Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Dayton poised to win the recount
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama Goes Medieval on the Left  —  Damn.  I skipped Obama's press conference today, but I guess that was a big mistake.  If my Twitter feed is anything to go by, progressive heads were exploding all over the intertubes.  Here is Philip Klein's summary:
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Julian Assange's Great Luck  —  Why his arrest and jailing in the United Kingdom is good news for him.  —  A U.K. magistrates' court denied Julian Assange bail and jailed him this morning over charges filed in Sweden that he had violated sex laws in that country last summer.
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Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
President Obama's Sister Souljah week  —  President Obama's liberal critics are furious, vocal and useful to a White House trying to solve the riddle of reelection.  —  White House officials who last year viewed the “professional left” as an annoying bunch of ungrateful idealists living …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Daily Mail:
How many people does it take to put up a Christmas tree for the Obamas?
Discussion: theblogprof and Mediaite
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Murmurs of Primary Challenge to Obama  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's compromise with Republicans on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, which his self-described progressive critics see as a profound betrayal, is bound to intensify a debate that has been bubbling up on liberal blogs …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At CNN, Talk Show Tensions  —  In one sweeping move, the 8 p.m. political talk show “Parker Spitzer” could have turned around CNN's flailing prime-time ratings, publicly rehabilitated the fallen New York governor Eliot Spitzer, and turned his co-host Kathleen Parker into a television star.
Newsday:
1st C.D.: Altschuler concedes (Update)  —  Here is the Altschuler campaign's just-released statement:  —  Randy Altschuler, Republican/Conservative candidate, this morning conceded the hard-fought race for New York's 1st Congressional District seat.  With approximately 977 absentee ballots left …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and msnbc.com
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
New McCain, New DREAM.  —  John McCain has co-sponsored several previous versions of the DREAM Act, including the far more liberal 2003 version that didn't have an age cap.  The much narrower legislation under consideration this year, which would offer a path to citizenship for immigrants …
Pejman Yousefzadeh / A Chequer-Board of Nights …:
In Which Thomas Friedman Insults the Chinese By Pretending That He Can Think Like Them  —  Let's go to the tape: … Where to begin?  —  First off, fight over “how and where an airport security officer can touch” Americans is one that goes to the very core of privacy concerns that have been part …
Discussion: Hot Air
Bloomberg:
Obama's Deal to Extend High-Earner Tax Cuts Unpopular in Poll  —  Americans don't approve of keeping the breaks for upper-income taxpayers that are part of the deal President Barack Obama brokered with congressional Republicans, a Bloomberg National Poll shows.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Reuters:
Deserving of the DREAM  —  In the spring, when college admission letters arrive, America's local newspapers are filled with articles about students who have persevered against the odds, excelled at school and in their communities and made it into leading colleges and universities.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
 
 
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Kori Schulman / White House.gov Blog Feed:
President Obama on the Middle Class Tax Cuts and Unemployment …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
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Seminal Moment  —  Let's be honest with each other here …
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