memeorandum: THE HEFTY HOLIDAY BILL (Daily Mail)

1:25 PM ET, December 3, 2011

Top Items:

The return of Bad Newt Gingrich — Longtime Gingrich watchers see clear signs that ‘Good Newt’ is at war with ‘Bad Newt.’ — WEST DES MOINES - Bad Newt's coming back. — The all-too-familiar character from the 1990s has only peeked out in public a handful of times so far.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, Iowa Caucuses, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post and Florida Democracy 2012

Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:

Why Republicans like Newt Gingrich — Things sure do change fast around here. One week it's Rick Perry, the next it's Herman Cain. Now it's . . . Newt Gingrich? — The Republican voter is like a starving man at a free buffet. He gorges on this, then that …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Daily Kos, The Politico and Prairie Weather

Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:

- Architect of Obama's health care plan fears a ‘political’ decision by the Supreme Court, says Romney's lying — When Representative Peter King called me between votes on Thursday afternoon to talk about his party's current presidential front-runner, Newt Gingrich, he joked that the conversation …

Discussion: Salon.com, American Thinker, Daily Kos, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The New Republic, PolitickerNY, The Reaction and A plain blog about politics

Kevinliptak / CNN:

Paul campaign calls Trump debate ‘wildly inappropriate’ — (CNN) - At least two Republican presidential hopefuls are declining to participate in a debate moderated by real estate mogul Donald Trump. — Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will both skip the debate, citing concerns about the seriousness of the event.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box: One month before Iowa, GOP field wide open

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney looks to outlast and outwork Gingrich to GOP nomination

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, PolitickerNY and The New Republic

Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Here's The Huntsman Campaign's Awesome RSVP To The Trump Debate

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Does Romney Have a Moderate Problem?

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Huffington Post and The New Republic

CNN:
Huntsman and Gingrich agree to debate

Discussion: The Politico, The Political Carnival, The Hill and Towleroad News #gay

Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Romney Declines Lincoln-Douglas Debate Against Gingrich

Discussion: Business Insider, Hot Air, Don Surber, GOP 12, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …, American Power, Campaign 2012 and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Occupy Richmond Stands Up For Local Tea Party Group — The two sides are joining forces. — The Richmond Tea Party has been alleging that it is being singled out for unfair treatment from the city of Richmond, Virginia after officials have opened a tax audit of the group.

Discussion: Reuters

Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:

LAPD undercover cops infiltrated Occupy camp before raid, source says — The Los Angeles Police Department's effort to evict Occupy L.A. protesters from their camp at City Hall included using Occupy undercover officers in the weeks leading up to Wednesday's raid, a police source said.

Discussion: Guardian, Prairie Weather and MyFox Atlanta

Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Occupy Richmond to Tea Party: We're on Your Side Against City Hall

Discussion: MyFox Atlanta and Verum Serum

The Politico:

Decision day for Herman Cain — The party scheduled for the opening of Herman Cain's new campaign headquarters Saturday may end up a wake. — After nearly a week of reassessing his campaign, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO will be in Atlanta to tell his supporters whether the accumulation …

Discussion: The Other McCain, The Spectacle Blog and Washington Post

Herman Cain 2012:
ENCOURAGEMENT for HERMAN CAIN

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online, Political Mojo, Daily Kos, Gawker, The Impolitic, Mediaite and Campaign 2012

Fox News:
Cain Plans ‘Announcement’ on Saturday About Future

Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Los Angeles Times

CNN:
Cain to make campaign announcement Saturday

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, New York Magazine and The Politico

unionleader.com:
Assessing Cain: Charisma isn't enough

Discussion: Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS and The Hill

Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:

SEC targets Marlins' shady business — For two decades now, Major League Baseball has funded its rise from corporate slacker to gilded cash cow on the backs of taxpayers bullied into building new stadiums. It's a marvel the government took so long to sniff out the rot that emanates from these deals …

William Lajeunesse / Fox News:

Memo Shows Early ATF Concern on Fast and Furious Probe Despite Claims — While federal officials publicly denounced a lone whistleblower and told Congress the Obama administration had done everything it could to stop guns from going to Mexico, administration officials had signs that Fast …

Discussion: MyFox Atlanta, Big Government, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers

Charles Grassley / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. details how it got statements wrong

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:

British Austerity: The Past Weighs Like a Nightmare on the Brains of Cameron and Osborne Blogging — Note that Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in Britain could end this farce tomorrow, and give their country a chance. It would be the end of Nick Clegg's political career, of course—but his career is over already.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Charles Moore / Telegraph:

Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan — Former president of the European Commission Jacques Delors talks to Charles Moore about the fate of the euro. — It was Jacques Delors whose report produced the plan for what we now call the euro

Discussion: EU Referendum, Business Insider and Belmont Club

James Kirkup / Telegraph:
Euro doomed from start, says Jacques Delors

Discussion: Guardian

Arizona Daily Star:

Initiative would let illegal immigrants work in Calif. legally — SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others.

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com and Weasel Zippers

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Alabama red-faced as second foreign car boss held under immigration law — Judge drops charges against Japanese Honda executive Ichiro Yada trapped by Alabama's tough new anti-immigration laws — To arrest one foreign car-making executive under Alabama's new tough immigration laws …

Discussion: The Raw Story, The Birmingham, The Impolitic, Balloon Juice and ImmigrationProf Blog