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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
DeMint will force readings of START Treaty and omnibus bill — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will force readings of both a nuclear arms treaty and $1.1 trillion spending bill that could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress. — DeMint will invoke a senatorial privilege to ask …
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Rachel Slajda / TPMDC:
Reid Responds To Kyl: 'I Don't Need To Hear Sanctimonious Lectures' About Meaning Of X-Mas — After Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) accused Majority Leader Harry Reid of grinchery for suggesting that the Senate work the week after Christmas, Reid blamed Kyl's party for the delay that may push votes past the holiday.
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Crooks and Liars and The Atlantic Online
Wall Street Journal:
Harry Reid's Holiday Jam — What the Senate wants to pass while you're not paying attention. — In the famous formulation often attributed to George Washington, the U.S. Senate is the saucer designed to cool the drink before it becomes law. In Majority Leader Harry Reid's rush to beat …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
DeMint calls votes before Christmas ‘sacrilegious’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats' push to force through an arms control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas “sacrilegious,” and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP leaders take heat over earmarks
Senate GOP leaders take heat over earmarks
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ABCNEWS and The Gateway Pundit
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Christmas Session — Jon Kyl, rather preposterously …
The Christmas Session — Jon Kyl, rather preposterously …
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The Caucus, TPMDC, Indecision Forever, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly and democracyarsenal.org
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
START Passage Looks Dead for 2010
START Passage Looks Dead for 2010
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Weigel, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Eunomia and National Review
Humberto Sanchez / NationalJournal.com:
Senate Omnibus Bill Laden With Earmarks
Senate Omnibus Bill Laden With Earmarks
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The New Republic, A plain blog about politics and Florida Independent
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Jim DeMint's office: Reading full START treaty is a delaying “tool”
Jim DeMint's office: Reading full START treaty is a delaying “tool”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Firedoglake, The Politico, Raw Story and TPMDC
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
McCain cools to ratifying New START this year
McCain cools to ratifying New START this year
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Washington Post, The Foundry and TPMDC
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science — In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the “veracity of climate change data” and ordering the network's journalists to “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed …
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Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage — Today, Media Matters posted an alarming email sent by Bill Sammon, the Washington, DC, managing editor at Fox News. Sammon sent the email to Fox News producers on December 8, 2009 - just as the Climate Conference in Copenhagen was beginning …
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and Raw Story
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
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Reuters:
Financial Crisis Panel In Turmoil As Republicans Defect; Plan To Blame Government For Crisis — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … The four Republicans appointed to the commission investigating the root causes of the financial crisis plan to bypass the bipartisan panel and release their own report Wednesday …
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Mike / Rortybomb:
Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin vote to remove phrases …
Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin vote to remove phrases …
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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, Grasping Reality …, The Politico, Economist's View and Paul Krugman
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
G.O.P. Panelists Dissent on Cause of Crisis
G.O.P. Panelists Dissent on Cause of Crisis
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American Prospect, The Big Picture, naked capitalism, DealBook and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History — Thirteen percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job.
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Washington Post:
Post-ABC Poll: Public not yet sold on GOP — Republicans made major gains in the November elections, but they have yet to win the hearts and minds of the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — The midterm elections - where Republicans gained 63 seats …
Federal Eye:
Most back repealing 'don't ask, don't tell,' poll says — Nearly eight in 10 Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — The results signal continued widespread public support for ending the military's 17-year ban …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Poll finds voters not impressed with Republicans' House takeover …
Poll finds voters not impressed with Republicans' House takeover …
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Hit & Run, Fox News, Pat Dollard and Wake up America
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention — (updated below) — Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained …
Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
FL SCHOOL BOARD SHOOTER POSTED SUICIDE NOTE RAILING AGAINST THE RICH, LINKING TO MEDIA MATTERS — Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
This is What a School-Board-Meeting-Shooter's Facebook Page Looks Like
This is What a School-Board-Meeting-Shooter's Facebook Page Looks Like
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AOL News, The Other McCain, theblogprof, Hot Air and AmSpecBlog
Melissa Bell / BlogPost:
School board shooting: Ginger Littleton talks about the gunman (Video)
School board shooting: Ginger Littleton talks about the gunman (Video)
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Lev Grossman / Time:
Mark Zuckerberg — On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Attention GOP Porkers: Hatch Had His Earmark Requests Stripped From Spending Bill — Republican Senators whose earmark requests pepper the much-maligned omnibus spending bill are having a really hard time explaining how they went from requesting earmarks earlier this year to decrying the legislation... because of all the earmarks.
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Jamie Dupree / Jamie Dupree Washington Insider:
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
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TPMDC, Washington Monthly, Weigel and Open Congress
Carrie Budoff Brown / Reuters:
Tax-cut plan clears Senate easily — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to advance President Barack Obama's tax package to the House, where the $858 billion bill is expected to receive a final vote Thursday. — The Senate vote was 81-19, with 13 Democrats, five Republicans and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) voting no.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Passes Compromise Tax Plan by Wide Margin
Senate Passes Compromise Tax Plan by Wide Margin
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, The Empire, protein wisdom and Wake up America
Bloomberg:
Goldman Execs to Get $111 Million in 2007, 2009 Bonuses — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein and his top deputies will collect about $111.3 million in stock next month in a delayed payoff from last year and their record-setting 2007 bonuses.
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MinnPost:
With Steele in, Norm Coleman says he will not run for RNC chairman — Norm Coleman: “I've said if Steele was running, I wouldn't run against him.” — WASHINGTON — Norm Coleman will not run for chairman of the Republican National Committee, the former Republican senator confirmed to MinnPost today …
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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Coleman Won't Run but Not Endorsing Steele, Either
Stacyx / secretaryclinton.wordpress.com:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's QDDR Town Hall — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's QDDR Town ..., posted with vodpod — The transcript: — UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Good morning, everyone. Before beginning this Secretary of State town hall meeting on the QDDR …
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The Huffington Post
Associated Press:
Iraq: Al Qaeda Planning Holiday Attacks in West — Iraqi Authorities Say Two Captured Insurgents Admit to Planned Suicide Attacks in U.S., Europe during Christmas Season — (AP) Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks …
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David Cay Johnston / Nieman Reports:
It's Scary Out There in Reporting Land — ‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’ — To understand how badly we're doing the most basic work of journalism in covering the law enforcement beat, try sitting in a barbershop. When I was getting my last haircut …
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