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Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
Sen. Corker Threatens Reid: If You Bring DADT Repeal For A Vote, We'll Walk Away From START — This afternoon, as momentum began to build for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) threatened that if Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) brings up a vote to repeal the ban …
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Aides: GOP senators may let 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal go forward — Washington (CNN) — Four key GOP senators who have announced their support of a “don't ask, don't tell” repeal are prepared to join Democrats in voting to let the bill proceed, as long as Congress first deals with a measure …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Senator to Dems: If you try to pass DADT, Republicans won't pass START — UPDATE, 4:11 p.m.: In an interview with me just now, Senator Bob Corker doubled down on his contention that if Dems move on DADT, Republicans will be less likely to support START.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
DREAM Act whip count — Barb yesterday had phone numbers for Democratic senators currently on the fence on DREAM: … So where are we with Republicans? — Those with big Latino constituencies — None of these four have said they'll vote for it, but all have electoral aspirations …
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Firedoglake and Student Activism
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Republicans threaten to derail START — Key Senate Republicans are threatening to pull their support of the START nuclear arms treaty because they don't like the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is handling the Senate floor schedule. — On the second full day of debate on the treaty …
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Jason Millman / The Hill:
Food safety bill looks dead, though Democrats say they haven't given up
Food safety bill looks dead, though Democrats say they haven't given up
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
A Primer On The Fallout Of OmnibusFAIL
A Primer On The Fallout Of OmnibusFAIL
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell uncertain GOP can block New START, 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal
McConnell uncertain GOP can block New START, 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Republicans Taking Other Hostages, Threaten to Shoot START if DADT Repealed
Republicans Taking Other Hostages, Threaten to Shoot START if DADT Repealed
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Wonk Room, TPMDC and Hullabaloo
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The new comeback kid — If Barack Obama wins reelection in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010. — Obama had a bad November. Self-confessedly shellacked in the midterm election …
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The Politico:
Obama signs tax-cut bill in White House ceremony — President Barack Obama celebrated the spirit of compromise Friday as he signed a controversial $858 billion tax-cut and unemployment insurance extension into law - but warned that bipartisan comity could be fleeting.
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Judge Hints He May Rule Against Health Law — PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge asserted on Thursday that it would be “a giant leap” for the Supreme Court to accept the Obama administration's defense of a central provision of the new health care law, suggesting he may become the second judge to strike it down as unconstitutional.
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Jason Mazzone / New York Times:
Can Congress Force You to Be Healthy?
Can Congress Force You to Be Healthy?
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Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Revolution Next Time? — It has been 15 years since …
The Revolution Next Time? — It has been 15 years since …
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PolitiFact:
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’ — In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system.
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Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Breaking? Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed — To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers. — The University of Maryland study, called “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News
Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News
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New York Times:
Pakistani Role Is Suspected in Revealing U.S. Spy's Name — WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency's top clandestine officer in Islamabad was pulled from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced …
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Riaz Khan / Associated Press:
Pakistani officials: US missiles kill 54 in NW
Pakistani officials: US missiles kill 54 in NW
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
CNN and Tea Party Express to host 2012 debate — CNN said Friday that it is joining forces with the Tea Party Express — a political action committee that played a key role in the 2010 midterm elections — to co-host a Republican presidential debate. — The debate is scheduled for Labor …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN and Tea Party Express to host first-of-its-kind Tea Party …
CNN and Tea Party Express to host first-of-its-kind Tea Party …
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Ezra Klein:
Republicans embrace ObamaCare, call it Ryan-Rivlin — If you're looking for a description of the Ryan/Rivlin Medicare reforms that have gained so many admirers on the right, Matt Yglesias has a good write-up of the idea. But I'd add another way of explaining the proposal: The Ryan-Rivlin plan basically turns Medicare into Obamacare.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Bigger Is Easier — President Obama faces an enormously …
Bigger Is Easier — President Obama faces an enormously …
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Ezra Klein:
Obama brand remains surprisingly strong — Some interesting — and unexpected — results in The Washington Post's big post-election poll. First, Obama's position against the Republicans in Congress is much stronger than that of his predecessors. The following polls were all taken …
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Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
“The Obama Renaissance” — James Kwak argues that Obama …
“The Obama Renaissance” — James Kwak argues that Obama …
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KOCO Oklahoma City's Channel 5:
Feds Force Okla. Bank To Remove Crosses, Bible Verse — Federal Examiners Say Religious Decoration Inappropriate — PERKINS, Okla. — A small-town bank in Oklahoma said the Federal Reserve won't let it keep religious signs and symbols on display. — Federal Reserve examiners come every four years …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Mitt Romney and Olive Garden — As a fan of David Frum, and of Mitt Romney, and of Olive Garden analogies, I'm primed to endorse this defense of Romney's flip-flopping: … Ezra Klein points out some problems with this line of thought. But I think the real issue here has to do with character.
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David Frum / FrumForum:
How Would President Romney Govern?
How Would President Romney Govern?
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Fay Schlesinger / Daily Mail:
Snub for Obamas as Royal sources reveal they will not be invited to Prince William's wedding — President Obama and his wife Michelle will not be invited to Prince William's wedding next year. — Because Prince William is not yet heir to the throne, his wedding to Kate Middleton is not classed …
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Simon Vozick-Levinson / EW.com:
Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69 — Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, passed away today at age 69. A representative of New York City's Michael Werner Gallery, which showed his paintings, confirms the sad news to EW.
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Duluth News Tribune:
Our view: Pawlenty wishes he'd have run again; will he pursue the presidency? — Outgoing Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty didn't even hesitate. “Yes,” he answered when asked by the News Tribune editorial board this week whether, after the Republicans took control of the Minnesota Legislature …
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The Cook Political Report:
Reapportionment Preview: Mapping Out States “On the Bubble” — House Editor David Wasserman kicks off the Cook Political Report's in-depth coverage of Redistricting 2012, which you can also follow via Twitter handle @Redistrict as the remap gets underway. Over the next year …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Why Is This Tax Different From All Other Taxes? — I'm getting two arguments about the insurance mandate a lot. First, I'm hearing that it's like car insurance, which is silly. Car insurance is liability insurance requiring you to, effectively, post a bond in exchange for the privilege …
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David Weigel / Weigel:
How They Learned to Start Worrying and Stop Appropriating — The omnibus spending bill died in the Senate last night, and the death was a long time coming. It started to bleed in 2006, when a series of rule changes and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act were passed …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
New Post blogger is expert in everything — As The Washington Post's adventures in the blogosphere continue, conservative operative and religion blogger Jordan Sekulow has taken heat from the left for some of his views, in particular his posture toward Islam.
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The Hill:
House funds government for three days, forcing return next week — House lawmakers on Friday passed a 72-hour budget fix, forcing members to return next week to finalize a longer-term proposal. — House leaders had hoped the Senate could reach an agreement by week's end on a medium-length budget bill …