memeorandum: Tax-cut plan moving ahead in Senate (Carrie Budoff Brown/The Politico)

7:55 PM ET, December 9, 2010

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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:

Republicans Block U.S. Health Aid for 9/11 Workers — WASHINGTON — Republican senators blocked Democratic legislation on Thursday that sought to provide medical care to rescue workers and others who became ill as a result of breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke at the site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.

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Lbentzterp / CNN:

House Democrats defy Obama on tax cut bill — (CNN) - Defying President Obama, House Democrats voted Thursday not to bring up the tax package that he negotiated with Republicans in its current form. — “This message today is very simple: That in the form that it was negotiated, it is not acceptable to the House Democratic caucus.

Anna Palmer / Roll Call:

Profanity, Anger Spill Over in House Democratic Caucus Meeting — The frustration with President Barack Obama over his tax cut compromise was palpable and even profane at Thursday's House Democratic Caucus meeting. — One unidentified lawmaker went so far as to mutter “f— the president” …

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The Hill:

Pelosi pledges to win changes as House Dems reject tax deal — The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday rejected the tax deal negotiated between the White House and Senate Republicans. — The non-binding vote of the caucus held during a closed-door meeting puts tremendous pressure …

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The Politico:

House Dems reject tax deal — The House Democratic Caucus voted to oppose President Barack Obama's tax plan, throwing into flux weeks of negotiations on an issue that has turned many congressional Democrats against the White House. — Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio offered a resolution …

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The Hill:
Centrist, conservative Dems up in arms over liberals' tax deal backlash

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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats ‘Say No’ in Symbolic Tax Vote

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Publius / Big Government:
Dems Gone Wild: ‘F*%k the President’

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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Holder: Drop ban on U.S. trials for Guantanamo prisoners

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CNN:
Liberal group uses Obama's words against him

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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Tax-cut plan moving ahead in Senate

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Why Harry Reid decided to move foward with DADT vote — Earlier this afternoon, just before Harry Reid went onto the Senate floor and gave a speech calling for a vote on repeal of don't ask don't tell — which has now failed — he turned to a Senate aide and shrugged his shoulders.

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Carrie Dann / msnbc.com:

Key vote on 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' repeal fails — *** UPDATE *** 4:45 PM ET: In a press conference after the vote, Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins announced that they will introduce a stand-alone bill to repeal “Don't Ask Don't Tell” and that Senate Majority Leader Reid has promised to support it.

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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:

Senate fails on repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' included in defense authorization bill — The Senate on Thursday dealt a severe blow to the repeal of the “Don't ask, don't tell” law, dimming the chances for the Clinton-era ban to be scrapped this year. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …

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Lymari Morales / Gallup:
In U.S., 67% Support Repealing “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”

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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
DADT Repeal Denied Cloture After Row over Time Agreement

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lieberman plans standalone repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Crash and burn: DADT repeal fails, 57-40

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Associated Press:
Ex-senator reverses opposition to gays in military

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Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
Defense Bill Falls 57-40, But Lieberman And Collins Pledge …

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Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:

LEAKED EMAIL: Fox boss caught slanting news reporting — At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase “public option.”

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Fox News' Spin Game — As the debate over the health-care public option heated up, a Fox News executive told staffers to change the way they talked about it. Howard Kurtz on the memo that echoed a GOP talking point. — As the health-care debate was heating up in the summer of 2009 …

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Jack Shafer / Slate:
If using the phrase government option is spinning the news …

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Muddying up Fox — Media Matters for America today sharpened …

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Ezra Klein:

Why liberals don't like the tax cut deal — in graphs — CAP's Michael Linden produced a nice chart showing why the tax deal is tough for liberals to swallow: — The red and blue on the chart are a bit confusing, so read it closely: On the left, you're seeing the amount of money Obama …

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Paul Krugman:
December 2011 — On the straight economics, the tax deal is worth doing.

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Tea Party Patriots Reject Tax Cut Deal, Call For It To Be Destroyed

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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Hugh Hewitt Kill ‘the Deal’

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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:

Barbara Walters Slams ‘Uninformed’ Sarah Palin: Many Find the Idea of You as President ‘Scary’ — Barbara Walters dismissed Sarah Palin as “uninformed” on Thursday, telling the former Republican governor, “...Many people find the thought of you as president a little scary.”

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ABCNEWS:

‘Anything and Everything’: Palin's Reading List — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the only person to make the Most Fascinating list three consecutive years in a row. Palin tells Walters that she is seriously considering a run for the White House and believes she can beat President Obama in 2012.

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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Palin in Progress: What Does She Want?

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Shushannah Walshe / The Daily Beast:

Sarah Palin Goes Abroad — The Daily Beast has learned exclusively that Sarah Palin is planning her first real foreign trip—a move that could burnish her foreign policy credentials in advance of a 2012 presidential run. — The Daily Beast has learned that Sarah Palin will be traveling overseas in the new year.

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CNN:

TRENDING: Palin goes to Haiti — (CNN) - It turns out that Sarah Palin's next overseas trip won't be to England or Israel, as was widely reported Thursday. — CNN has learned that the former Alaska governor will be traveling to Haiti this weekend with Franklin Graham and his relief organization Samaritan's Purse.

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Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:

Gravel considering Obama primary challenge, calls for new 9/11 investigation — Former Alaska Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview that he is mulling a primary challenge to President Barack Obama in 2012.

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Wall Street Journal:

The Obama Stimulus Impact? Zero — Liberals are still arguing that the federal spending stimulus wasn't large enough. How many multiples of nothing—its result according to new evidence—would they like? — For the past two years, economists writing on these pages and elsewhere …

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Ezra Klein:

The tax deal in one graph — From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: — Or maybe you prefer bar graphs?

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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

Alabama Store Owner's Sign Reminds That BBQ Restaurants Are “Safest” Because Of Lack Of Muslims — And here's our offensive sign of the day. An Alabama store owner known for putting jokes up on the billboard outside of his electronics store has found that the response gets chillier when you decide to use racist jokes.

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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:

President's Club Meets Friday: Obama, Clinton at the White House — Former President Bill Clinton is to meet on Friday with President Obama at the White House for a postelection conversation about moving the agenda forward in a new political environment, according to a senior Democrat told of the meeting.

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Daily Mail:

Terrifying moment Charles and Camilla were surrounded by a baying mob and their car attacked in tuition fees riot — Anarchists protesting against the rise in student tuition fees attacked Prince Charles and Camilla's car outside the London Palladium tonight.

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