memeorandum: Mitch McConnell: ‘We Have a Voter Mandate Not to Raise Taxes’ (Stephen Moore/Wall Street Journal)

4:15 PM ET, November 10, 2012

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

More on the Timing of Petraeus's Resignation — Ronald Kessler of Newsmax has more details on the Petraeus affair. They are rather sordid, and raise more questions about the timing of his resignation: … Perhaps this one? … “Thousands of emails” over “several months”?

Discussion: Business Insider

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Woman Linked to Petraeus Is a West Point Graduate and Lifelong High Achiever — WASHINGTON — Paula Broadwell, whose affair with the nation's C.I.A. director led to his resignation on Friday, was the valedictorian of her high school class and homecoming queen, a fitness champion at West Point …

Ronald Kessler / NewsMax.com:

FBI Investigation Led to Petraeus Resignation — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — The resignation of David H. Petraeus …

Discussion: Fox News, The Greenroom, Vox Popoli, Connecting.the.Dots, Business Insider and The Gateway Pundit

Taylor Berman / Gawker:

Did Paula Broadwell's Cuckolded Husband Write a Letter to Chuck Klosterman in the The New York Times? — In the July 13th edition of Klosterman's The Ethicist advice column for the New York Times, an anonymous reader wrote in seeking advice about an affair his wife was having with a …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, National Review and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »

Wall Street Journal:

CIA Chief Resigns Over Affair — Petraeus Relationship With Biographer Surfaced After FBI Probe of His Email … CIA Director David Petraeus, seen testifying on Capitol Hill in January 2012. — WASHINGTON—Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus resigned after a probe …

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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Petraeus Resigns Over Affair With Biographer

Washington Post:
David Petraeus resigns as CIA director

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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

Rove under fire — Karl Rove is scrambling to protect his status in the GOP. AP Photo — Close — The face of the historic $1-billion plan to unseat President Barack Obama and turn the Senate Republican, Rove now finds himself the leading scapegoat for its failure.

Discussion: RedState, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Daily Kos

Ben Howe / RedState:

Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job — If you spend your time watching politics and haven't been hiding in a deep depression since Tuesday, you've probably been hearing a lot about “ORCA.” According to the Washington Post, ORCA “was designed as a first-of-its-kind tool …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Lonely Conservative, ABCNEWS, Paul Krugman, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Agonist, Conservatives4Palin, The Other McCain, Election 2012, White House Dossier and The Daily Beast

Politico:
Mitt Romney's ORCA program couldn't stay afloat

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Liberal Values

Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:

Mitch McConnell: ‘We Have a Voter Mandate Not to Raise Taxes’ — The Senate minority leader on Obama's victory, the fiscal cliff and the folly of ‘Thelma and Louise economics.’ — In the wake of President Barack Obama's electoral victory, gleeful Democrats believe that the impending …

ABCNEWS:

Obama Says Wealthy Should Pay More in Taxes — President Barack Obama says he won't accept a plan to avert the so-called fiscal cliff that doesn't ask the wealthy to pay more in taxes. — In Saturday's radio and Internet address, Obama says the election showed support for his “balanced” …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Speaker.gov and Weasel Zippers

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

War opens inside Republican Party over immigration — A war has opened within the GOP over whether to embrace immigration reform in the wake of President Obama's thumping of Mitt Romney among Hispanic voters. — Conservative hero Sean Hannity said Thursday he had evolved on immigration reform …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Prairie Weather and The Atlantic Online

Julia Preston / New York Times:
Republicans Reconsider Positions on Immigration

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, ImmigrationProf Blog and Booman Tribune

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

Florida vote count: Obama wins state — Four days after Election Day, a final count of votes in Florida shows President Obama defeated Mitt Romney, bringing the president's total count in the Electoral College to 332. — Romney won 206 Electoral College votes. — The Associated Press called Florida for Obama on Saturday.

Discussion: CNN

Mark Steyn / National Review:

The Edge of the Abyss — Amid the ruin and rubble of the grey morning after, it may seem in poor taste to do anything so vulgar as plug the new and stunningly topical paperback edition of my book, After America — or, as Dennis Miller retitled it on the radio the other day, Wednesday.

Discussion: American Power