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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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Jonathan Bernstein / The New Republic:
Triangulation: Another Way To Say “Let's Make a Deal” — Mori Dinauer: … Perfect. — I've seen a variety of attempts at defining triangulation over the last few days; Dinauer's is my favorite by far. What is triangulation, really? I'll tell you, and you'll enjoy it …
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” …
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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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Stumps for President Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal
Bill Clinton Stumps for President Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal
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The Politico and The Note
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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The Sundries Shack, Liberty Pundits Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
Washington Post:
Bill Clinton, back in the White House briefing room
Bill Clinton, back in the White House briefing room
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Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, BlogPost, Federal Eye, Gawker and HotAirPundit
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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Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, TPMDC, Iowa Independent, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Reid Report
Mori Dinauer / American Prospect:
Lightning Round: Isn't “Triangulation” …
Lightning Round: Isn't “Triangulation” …
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South Capitol Street
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 Daily Caller, The Confluence and Sky Dancing
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Bernie Sanders filibuster stalls Senate — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a lonely but passionate seven-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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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sanders Launches Actual Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise — About three hours ago, just as he took the Senate floor, Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) staff, tweeted: “You can call what i am doing today whatever you want, you it [sic] call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech...”
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Sanders' Long Senate Floor Speech Brings Attention to Details of Tax Cut Deal
Sanders' Long Senate Floor Speech Brings Attention to Details of Tax Cut Deal
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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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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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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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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 …
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 Daily Caller, The Other McCain, Dennis the Peasant, Liberty Pundits Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
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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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
Harold Pollack / The Reality-Based Community:
Wow I am disgusted by Peter Orszag's move to Citigroup — This morning's New York Times includes a nice column by Peter Orszag about disability. It begins with the words “I will begin a new job for Citigroup in January, so this is my last article.” Page 6 of the business section provides …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time
Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time
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New York Times and Eschaton
John / Power Line:
Man In the Middle? — I think President Obama will benefit politically from the tax compromise, both because the economy will improve—somewhat, anyway—and because some voters will perceive him as more of a centrist. But I agree with Peggy Noonan that Obama didn't help himself with those who actually watched his press conference:
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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
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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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 …
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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... I'm trying to decide which congressional observation is the dumbest thing I've read today. It's a tough call. — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), for example, are arguing that the tax policy agreement reached by the White House …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
House and Senate budget chiefs: Prepare for cuts — Americans should prepare themselves for spending cuts by Congress next year, the chairmen of the House and Senate's budget committees said Friday. — Both Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama's Very Good Week — Over the past week we've seen the big differences between cluster liberals and network liberals. Cluster liberals (like cluster conservatives) view politics as a battle between implacable opponents. As a result, they believe victory is achieved through maximum unity.
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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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