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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Swindle of the year — Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obama's Hostage Deal — I've spent the past couple of days trying to make my peace with the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal. President Obama did, after all, extract more concessions than most of us expected. — Yet I remain deeply uneasy — not because I'm one of those “purists” …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Weighs a Broad Tax Overhaul — WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering whether to push early next year for an overhaul of the income tax code to lower rates and raise revenues in what would be his first major effort to begin addressing the long-term growth of the national debt.
Fox News:
Senate Tax Cut Package Filled With Sweeteners, Obama Predicts Passage — The sweeping tax cut bill introduced Thursday night by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is chock-full of sweeteners which could serve as a legislative pacifier for Democrats outraged over the concessions President Obama has handed to Republicans.
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protein wisdom, Outside the Beltway and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Wire:
The Number: $858 Billion — The Obama-McConnell tax compromise …
The Number: $858 Billion — The Obama-McConnell tax compromise …
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The Other McCain and Dennis the Peasant
Cubachi:
Senator Jim DeMint on why he opposes the tax compromise
Senator Jim DeMint on why he opposes the tax compromise
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Liberty Pundits Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
How the White House will sell angry House Dems on tax cut deal
How the White House will sell angry House Dems on tax cut deal
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TPMDC, The Reid Report and Ben Smith's Blog
John Maggs / The Politico:
Obama mulls tax reform as 2011 priority
Obama mulls tax reform as 2011 priority
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Commentary, Hot Air and Fox Nation
Scott Horsley / NPR:
Obama ‘Confident’ Congress Will Pass Tax Deal
Obama ‘Confident’ Congress Will Pass Tax Deal
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Guardian, Online NewsHour, Parker Spitzer, CNN and Washington Wire
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Chuck Schumer vs. President Obama — It wasn't on the White House's official schedule, but on Nov. 22 Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) quietly slipped into the Oval Office on a self-appointed mission to steel Barack Obama for the tax cut fight. — Schumer, the newly anointed message guru …
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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, The New Republic, Ben Smith's Blog, RedState and The Foundry
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
‘Filibernie’: Sanders blasts tax deal for four hours and counting
‘Filibernie’: Sanders blasts tax deal for four hours and counting
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The Note, Sky Dancing and TPMDC
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Obama honors Nobel winner with statement about himself — There was an extraordinary scene at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Friday morning. The prize went to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was barred by the Chinese government from attending the ceremony.
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The Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin, South Capitol Street, Shot in the Dark, Commentary and JammieWearingFool
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ABCNEWS:
Assange Lawyers Prepare for U.S. Spying Indictment — Attorney Says American Indictment Related to Espionage Act Imminent for Wikileaks Founder — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables …
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TalkLeft, Guardian, The Enterprise Blog, TechCrunch, Foreign Policy, News: News blog, Clusterstock, The Nation, Raw Story, Mediaite, Boing Boing and The Agonist, more at Techmeme »
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Ian Johnston / msnbc.com:
Assange's hiding place: U.K. club for journalists
Assange's hiding place: U.K. club for journalists
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Moonbattery, The Gateway Pundit and JammieWearingFool
New York Times:
The Senate Stands for Injustice — On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the military of the United States. They chose to filibuster a vital defense bill …
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Washington Post:
Senate delivers potentially fatal blow to 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal efforts
Senate delivers potentially fatal blow to 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal efforts
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New York Times, Federal Eye, Law Blog, AMERICAblog Gay, Wall Street Journal, PostPartisan and The Plum Line
Kyle Trygstad / Roll Call:
Cornyn: Alaskans Deserve Full Representation
Cornyn: Alaskans Deserve Full Representation
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ThinkProgress and TPMDC
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Dems show signs of abandoning Obama elsewhere after frustration with tax deal — Incensed over President Obama's tax compromise, House Democratic leaders are showing signs of abandoning the administration and going their own way on critical issues such as national security.
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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Anna Palmer / Roll Call:
Profanity, Anger Spill Over in House Democratic Caucus Meeting
Profanity, Anger Spill Over in House Democratic Caucus Meeting
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's tax-cut deal upsets many major donors
Obama's tax-cut deal upsets many major donors
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Taylor Marsh, ThinkProgress, Clusterstock and National Review
Cubachi:
Richard Wolffe mocks Palin and C.S. Lewis as just “a children's author” — I don't know if I should expect any better from ignoramuses from MSNBC, but this is supposedly a “respectable news organization” with shallow and arrogant individuals who only live to ridicule and belittle without thinking.
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The Other McCain, Liberty Pundits Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Bloomberg:
Americans in Poll Want Deficit Cut With Entitlements Secured — Americans want Congress to bring down a federal budget deficit that many believe is “dangerously out of control,” only under two conditions: minimize the pain and make the rich pay. — The public wants Congress to keep …
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The Note, Capital Gains and Games blogs and Paul Krugman
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Democrats Beat Republicans in Poll With Opposition to Government Shutdown
Democrats Beat Republicans in Poll With Opposition to Government Shutdown
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Taegan Goddard's …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MAKING THE RANK-AND-FILE LOOK REASONABLE BY COMPARISON.... Jay Bookman notes a couple of interesting poll results this week, measuring Republican voters' attitudes on some key issues. — Gallup, for example, found that almost half of the country's GOP voters support repealing the existing “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy.
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Dennis the Peasant
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time — Peter Orszag really has it in for the social security program. We already know that he's selling the ridiculous idea that if the Democrats agree to cut social security they will be rewarded for doing it.
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Eschaton
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Santorum: A 2012 long shot tests the water — GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - It was pushing 10 p.m., and Rick Santorum was sitting at the corner table in a near-empty Dunkin' Donuts. The garishly lit scene might have been lifted straight from the movie “Primary Colors.”
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Eunomia, Ballot Box, USA Today, GOP 12 and The Page
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Richard Vedder / Innovations:
The Great College Degree Scam — With the help of a small army of researchers and associates (most importantly, Chris Matgouranis, Jonathan Robe, and Chris Denhart) and starting with help from Douglas Himes of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Center for College Affordability and Productivity …
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Hit & Run, Maggie's Farm, Instapundit and EconLog
WRTV-TV:
Daniels Backs Off Moratorium On Social Issue Legislation — Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage Expected To Be Raised Next Year — INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mitch Daniels has backed down on his request for a moratorium on social issues in the upcoming legislative session.
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Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and National Review
Jim Newton / New Yorker:
IKE'S SPEECH — Afew months ago, Grant Moos was closing his boathouse, near Hackensack, Minnesota, as he does every summer, tying up loose ends, sweeping up debris. This year, though, his sister Kathy insisted that it was finally time to do something about six cardboard boxes that for decades …
The Politico:
The dirtiest word in politics: Has Barack Obama been caught triangulating? — The naughty word is “triangulation,” and it does indeed sound like something that in some conservative locales might still be against the law, even if rarely prosecuted when practiced by consenting adults.
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Politics Daily
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Introducing “The Cannabis Closet” — Longtime Dishheads will remember that rather extraordinary reader email thread that had to do with secret middle-class, mainstream marijuana use - for medical and non-medical reasons. The thread “The Cannabis Closet” began with one reader email in March 2009 …
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South Capitol Street
Sen. Joseph Lieberman / GovTrack.us:
A bill to provide for the repeal of the Department of Defense policy concerning homosexuality in... Overview … The text of this legislation is not yet available on GovTrack. It may not have been made available by the Government Printing Office yet. — Introduced — Referred to Committee
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TPMDC, Wonk Room, Prop 8 Trial Tracker and Joe. My. God.