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The Hill:
Don't topple economy by rejecting tax deal, Obama tells the Dems — President Obama warned his fellow Democrats on Wednesday that they risk plunging the country into a double-dip recession if they reject his tax-cut deal with Republicans. — As the White House intensified pressure …
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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.
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Falling Off the Bandwagon — Dear Answerperson: My boyfriend is a liberal Democrat and ever since the president announced his tax deal with the Republicans, he has been impossible to live with. First he burned his “Audacity of Hope” sweater. Then he began messing up the cat's litter box …
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Ballot Box:
Rep. McMahon eyes '12 run, blasts liberals for acting like ‘petulant children’ — Rep. Mike McMahon (D) is waiting to see what redistricting does to New York's 13th district before launching a bid to reclaim the seat from Republican Michael Grimm. — McMahon's Staten Island seat …
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Washington Post:
Senate leaders set to begin debate on tax cuts
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The Hill:
Tax cut deal can't be changed, Biden tells House Democrats
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Will the tax deal hold together?
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New York Times:
Tax Deal Is Key to Avoid Recession, Obama Adviser Says
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Democratic Revolt
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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.”
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Fox News' Spin Game — As the debate over the health-care public option heated up, Fox News brass 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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Paul Krugman:
December 2011 — On the straight economics, the tax deal is worth doing. But the history of the past two years drives home, if anyone doubted it, that economic policy must be considered from a political economy point of view; that you have to think ahead to how current policies affect …
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Palin in Progress: What Does She Want? — For the longest time, Sarah Palin was leery of Facebook. Some of the comments left on her page during the 2008 vice-presidential campaign were so withering and unpleasant that it took months of coaxing by her staff and her daughters Bristol and Willow …
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Palin's Republican Problem
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Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Most Americans Say They're Worse Off Under Obama: Poll — More than 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off now than they were two years ago when President Barack Obama took office, and two-thirds believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, a Bloomberg National Poll shows.
Political Punch:
Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback'* — The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.
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Luke Harding / Guardian:
Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket Elizabeth Edwards' funeral — (CNN) - Members of the Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket Saturday's funeral for Elizabeth Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina. — The Kansas-based Church - monitored by anti-hate groups …
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Melissa Bell / BlogPost:
Elizabeth Edwards funeral to be protested by Westboro church
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ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin's Reading List: Political Star Insists She's Well-Informed — 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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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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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
GOP gets queasy over earmark ban — After agreeing to kill earmarks, some of the most conservative GOP lawmakers are already starting to ask themselves: What have we done? — Indeed, many Republicans are now worried that the bridges in their districts won't be fixed …
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Don Surber:
The night Chris Matthews told the truth — I was watching Hardball tonight and came up with this when Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said Republicans are for the “wealthy rich,” as opposed — I suppose — to the wealthy poor. — I hope you like it. The transcript follows:
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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?
Anna Mahjar-Barducci / Hudson New York:
Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S. — Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources[1], according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article …
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Financial Times:
US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off in two years — By Richard Milne in London and Michael Mackenzie in New York — US Treasuries suffered their biggest two-day sell-off since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following a torrid month that has seen borrowing costs for western governments soar.
ArkansasTimes:
Huck's mansion — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is building a $3 million house on Blue Mountain Beach just east of Destin, Fla. He bought the lot on the famous sugar sand beach last year for $800,000 and this year took out a building permit for a house expected to cost $2.2 million.
Ibishblog:
The end of the settlement freeze gimmick is not the end of the world, or the possibility of peace — For many months now I have been in predicting that the US would probably be able to secure a three or four-month settlement freeze extension, allowing for the resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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Jon Meacham / New York Times:
No Deficit of Courage — IS it, in fact, 1994-95 all over again? The atmospherics are certainly familiar. We have a Democratic president who appears to be tacking to the center to work with Republicans after being battered in the midterms. Jilted liberals, meanwhile …
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