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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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The Politico:
The dirtiest word in politics: Has Barack Obama been caught triangulating?
The dirtiest word in politics: Has Barack Obama been caught triangulating?
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The Hill, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, Salon, Washington Wire and Politics Daily
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama's Very Good Week — Over the past week we've seen …
Obama's Very Good Week — Over the past week we've seen …
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Pajamas Media, Open Left, Booman Tribune and Sister Toldjah
Jonathan Bernstein / The New Republic:
Triangulation: Another Way To Say “Let's Make a Deal”
Triangulation: Another Way To Say “Let's Make a Deal”
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American Prospect and South Capitol Street
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton, back in the White House briefing room
Bill Clinton, back in the White House briefing room
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Weighs a Broad Tax Overhaul
Obama Weighs a Broad Tax Overhaul
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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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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Breaking away
First Thoughts: Breaking away
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The Reid Report, The Daily Beast and Prairie Weather
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Bernie Sanders filibuster stalls Senate — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a lonely but passionate five-hour filibuster on the Senate floor Friday afternoon to protest a tax deal that liberals hate yet seems headed toward passage in the Senate. — An outspoken opponent …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
‘Filibernie’: Sanders blasts tax deal for five hours and counting — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is railing against President Obama's tax-cut package in a lengthy floor speech. — Sanders, one of the Senate's leading liberals, is protesting Obama's deal with Republicans …
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The Note, The Confluence and Sky Dancing
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Sanders' Long Senate Floor Speech Brings Attention to Details of Tax Cut Deal — Se. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (photo: origamidon) — Bernie Sanders has been speaking for almost four hours on the Senate floor, in what some are describing as a filibuster. — It's not a filibuster.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sanders Launches Actual Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise
Sanders Launches Actual Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... I'm trying to decide which congressional observation …
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... I'm trying to decide which congressional observation …
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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” …
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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The media's authoritarianism and WikiLeaks
The media's authoritarianism and WikiLeaks
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National Review:
Levi's Story — A study on “When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America” was published Monday by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Levi Johnston and the marriage decline — National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez has a long interview today on a new report headed, “The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America.” — The author, W. Bradford Wilcox, found a growing gap between the marriages of the affluent and well-educated …
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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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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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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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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Wonk Room, Prop 8 Trial Tracker and Joe. My. God.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Pelosi To Senate: Send Me A Stand-alone DADT Repeal And I'll Pass It
Pelosi To Senate: Send Me A Stand-alone DADT Repeal And I'll Pass It
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PostPartisan, The White House, Towleroad News #gay, Blog For Arizona, Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
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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Harold Pollack / The Reality-Based Community:
Wow I am disgusted by Peter Orszag's move to Citigroup
Wow I am disgusted by Peter Orszag's move to Citigroup
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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 …
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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Dennis the Peasant and South Capitol Street
St. Petersburg Times:
Gov.-elect Rick Scott hints at school vouchers for all at St. Petersburg rally — ST. PETERSBURG — Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott on Thursday blew the door wide open to the idea of a voucherlike program for all students, saying he's working with lawmakers to allow state education dollars …
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Ron Matus / St. Petersburg Times:
Public school advocates fear Scott's voucher-like proposal
Public school advocates fear Scott's voucher-like proposal
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Washington Monthly and Jay Bookman
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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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Strategic Mistake of a Decade. — Now that the Senate has killed DADT repeal, I wonder if anyone remembers this? … Democrats and moderate Republicans responded with a “Gang of 12” that would preserve the judicial filibuster while allowing some of Bush's nominees to go through.
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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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theblogprof, The Note, Capital Gains and Games blogs, AMERICAblog News and Paul Krugman
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
DADT Repeal: Heads They Win; Tails We Lose — If it fails in the Senate - despite solid public support, endorsement from the Joint Chiefs, backing from the Defense Secretary, a big majority in the House and a 57 - 40 vote in the Senate - what does this say about gays having a fair chance in the legislative process?
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