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9:10 AM ET, December 17, 2010

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David Rogers / The Politico:
Democrats concede budget fight to Republicans  —  Senate Democrats abruptly abandoned an omnibus budget bill for the coming year, pushing major spending decisions into the next Congress and giving Republicans immense new leverage to confront President Barack Obama priorities.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
$1.1 trillion spending bill collapses as GOP senators yank support  —  Senate Democrats have given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition.  —  The bill's collapse will take with it more than 6,000 earmarks …
Discussion: Right Wing News and JOSHUAPUNDIT
Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
Reid Files Cloture On Don't Ask, Don't Tell And DREAM, Schedules Cloture Votes For Saturday  —  Moments ago, citing a shortage of votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unexpectedly pulled the omnibus bill off the floor and instead filed cloture on the stand-alone Don't Ask …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
DADT Moves In The Senate: Reid To File Cloture Tonight, Vote On Saturday  —  On the Senate floor just now, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the Senate will begin to vote as soon as Saturday on a bill to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  That puts it ahead of the START treaty, as proponents of repeal had requested.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Bid to Repeal 'Don't Ask' Law Draws Support in Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled and left for near dead last week, the effort to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military gained significant momentum on Thursday with three more Republican Senators agreeing to vote to end the “don't ask, don't tell” policy.
Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay and Oliver Willis
Manu Raju / The Politico:   Senators might make it home for holidays
The Hill:
Sen. Wyden to have surgery for prostate cancer, will miss votes
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
BREAKING: Reid Caves on Omnibus
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Reid pulls back from yearlong omnibus, aims for short-term funding resolution
Discussion: The Foundry, Right Turn and Poliglot
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog Gay:
Reid files for cloture on DADT tonight (wonky but important)
Discussion: Good As You and Pam's House Blend
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page spending bill
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 …
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Washington Post:
Congress passes extension of Bush-era tax cuts
Bloomberg:
Congress Passes $858 Billion Tax-Cut Extension, Sends to Obama for Signing
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
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 …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Don Surber and Firedoglake
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Tax cut plan clears House, goes to Barack Obama  —  A tax-cut compromise between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans - a harbinger of a new era of divided government in Washington - cleared the House around midnight Thursday, sending the $858 billion bill to the president's desk.
Discussion: FrumForum
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Barack Obama makes the sale
Discussion: Hot Air and Reuters
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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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Government Arguing That Health Insurance Premiums Are Really Taxes?  —  The arguments on the health care mandate in Florida went forward today, with the government trying to clarify how the mandate is a tax, (though not in a way that would mean Barack Obama lied about raising taxes on people …
Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Blake Edwards, Prolific Comedy Director, Dies at 88  —  Blake Edwards, a writer and director who became a Hollywood master of screwball farces and rude comedies like “Victor/Victoria” and the “Pink Panther” movies, died Wednesday night in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 88.  —  Enlarge This Image
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BBC:
Blake Edwards: Hollywood film director dies aged 88
Discussion: Off the Kuff and alicublog
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time  —  Lurching awkwardly between classy gestures and underwhelming torpor, “Larry King Live” breathed its last on CNN Thursday night, even if its star and founding father kept reminding viewers that though his program was ending …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Barbra Streisand glad Hillary not first female president …
Discussion: Commentary
Bloomberg:
Visa, MasterCard Plunge as Fed Issues Rules to Cut Debit Fees  —  Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. plunged more than 10 percent in New York trading after the Federal Reserve Board proposed rules that could slash debit-card interchange fees by 90 percent.  —  The new rules, posted today by the Fed …
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” …
Discussion: Politics Daily
Kimberly Schwandt / Fox News:
Hollywood's Growing Chorus of Obama Criticism  —  Hollywood's adoration for President Obama has never really been all that shocking, but what may be surprising is how famous singers and actors are increasingly saying they aren't so happy with the commander-in-chief.
John / Power Line:
100,000,000  —  Some time tonight, this site will receive its 100 millionth visit since October 2008.  It seems like an opportune moment for reflection.  —  We have told this story many times, but here it goes again: by 2002, Scott and I had been writing newspaper op-eds, magazine articles and research papers together for a decade.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
It Also Was Called The Soviet Union  —  I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries.  I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside …
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
NOW goes after Hooters for catering to kids  —  (12-16) 17:51 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The National Organization for Women filed complaints against local Hooters restaurants Thursday, but not for exploiting its scantily clad waitresses by subjecting them to leering and groping customers.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Olbermann Refuses To Correct Treatment Of Assange Rape Allegations On Twitter - Update  —  Update: Keith Olbermann has announced that he is suspending his Twitter account “until this frenzy is stopped.”  —  Update 2: This is serious.  He has even taken down his profile picture.
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Revolution Next Time?  —  It has been 15 years since the Rehnquist court began applying the constitutional brakes to assertions of federal power that had seemed unassailable since the New Deal.  Its first target was modest, a five-year-old federal statute called the Gun-Free School Zones Act …
Discussion: Hit & Run and The American Scene
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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Rep. Weiner compares Senate to the ‘1970s Politburo’
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Tea Party organization outlines strategy for healthcare repeal
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