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5:30 PM ET, December 17, 2010

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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 …
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.
Jason Millman / The Hill:
Food safety bill looks dead, though Democrats say they haven't given up  —  Democrats say they haven't given up on legislation that would overhaul the nation's food safety system, but a Republican Senate aide said the bill is dead after the omnibus spending bill it was tacked on to was defeated Thursday night.
Discussion: CNN and National Review
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
A Primer On The Fallout Of OmnibusFAIL
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Reid Gives Up on Omnibus Spending Bill
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Swampland
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
GOP Gets Chance to Cut Spending in February After Omnibus Collapses
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Hill and TPMDC
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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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Congress Sends $801 Billion Tax Cut Bill to Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Congress at midnight Thursday approved an $801 billion package of tax cuts and $57 billion for extended unemployment insurance.  The vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans …
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.
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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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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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Royal snub for the Obamas: No wedding invite from Prince William and Kate Middleton
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Sky Dancing
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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Des Moines Register:
Iowa GOP chair: Fox News debate timed to boost straw poll participation
David Frum / FrumForum:
How Would President Romney Govern?  —  “Sincerity is everything - once you can fake that, you've got it made.”  —  There's Mitt Romney's problem in 1 sentence.  He cannot fake sincerity.  His insincerity is blatant, inescapable, clumsy and off-putting.  Ross Douthat phrased the indictment …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Mitt Romney and Olive Garden
Discussion: The New Republic
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,” …
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Sarah Palin on 2012 Plans, Double Standards for Women  —  Palin Says Thinking About Presidential Run Is a ‘Prayerful Consideration’  —  Sarah Palin is surveying the lay of the land to consider whether to make a presidential run in 2012, she told “Good Morning America” …
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ABCNEWS:
ABC News Poll: Palin for President? No Way
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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The Huffington Post:
Tea Party Era Begins With Refusal To Debate ‘Omnibus’ Spending Bill
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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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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wall Street Whitewash  —  When the financial crisis struck, many people — myself included — considered it a teachable moment.  Above all, we expected the crisis to remind everyone why banks need to be effectively regulated.  —  How naïve we were.  We should have realized …
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Matt Browner-Hamlin / SEIU:
Big Banks Bonus Bonanza
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 …
Larry Flynt / The Huffington Post:
Why I Am Donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks' Defense Fund  —  What's Your Reaction:  —  Let's get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist.  You can argue that he is not practicing journalism the way you think it should be practiced — releasing classified U.S. State Department documents — but he's a journalist nonetheless.
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CNN:
Assange condemns investigations
Discussion: This Just In and Shakesville
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 …
Discussion: The Fix and Derek Wallbank
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Top RNC fundraiser quits  —  The Finance Chairman of Michael Steele's Republican National Committee resigned today, a Republican source said.  —  Peter Terpeluk, a major George W. Bush fundraiser who served as Ambassador to Luxembourg, had struggled to raise large-dollar contributions from big donors skeptical of Steele.
Peggy O'Hare / Houston Chronicle:
HPD knows names of 2 slain robbers  —  In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East End Thursday afternoon, a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly — too tightly.  She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings.  Then Castillo's husband was ordered …
Karen K. Narasaki / Congress Blog:
DREAM Act is an acute issue for Asian Americans  —  David Cho has a dream — and it's to become a citizen of the country in which he has grown up, graduated high school and now attends college.  However, instead of entertaining employment offers upon his graduation this spring …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems are earmark junkies but GOP goes straight  —  Press coverage of the budget frenzy on Capitol Hill has suggested that pork-barrel earmark spending is still a bipartisan problem, that after months of self-righteous rhetoric about fiscal discipline, Republicans and Democrats remain equal-opportunity earmarkers.
 
 
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Fhardingj / CNN:
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Nathan Cox / Washington Post:
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
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Andrew Brown / Guardian:
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Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
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Sarah Palin / National Review:
Senate Republicans: Vote No on New START
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Banana Republic Watch: New York City More Unequal Than Chile
Ezra Klein:
An incoherent Congress  —  The tax deal passed last night, and without changes.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jack Healy / New York Times:
In Seconds Before Blast, the Making of a Hero
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Sam Graham-Felsen / Washington Post:
Why is Obama leaving the grass roots on the sidelines?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Columbia U. vs. the little guy
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Limits of the Taxing Power
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time
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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

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Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
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