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Hard questions await Obama at news conference — This is not what the White House wanted for President Barack Obama's first news conference of his second term. — He won't be able to dwell much on his stronger-than-expected victory or even press his agenda for the next four years.
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Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi — Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday said the White House used David Petraeus's affair to get the CIA director to give testimony about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
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Fox News:
Petraeus agrees to testify on Libya before congressional committees — Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify about the Libya terror attack before the House and Senate intelligence committees, Fox News has learned. — Petraeus had originally been scheduled to testify …
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The Hill, The Jawa Report, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com, Business Insider and Jammie Wearing Fools
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Jill Kelley claims ‘honorary’ diplomatic status — Jill Kelley, the woman at the center of scandals swirling around Gens. David Petraeus and John Allen, tried to invoke what she claimed was honorary diplomatic status in a 911 call complaining about trespassers on her lawn.
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Josh Rogin / Associated Press:
Jill Kelley is an ‘honorary consul’ of South Korea — Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite connected to ISAF Commander John Allen and former CIA Director David Petraeus, is an “honorary consul” of South Korea, a diplomatic official with direct knowledge of the arrangement told The Cable.
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Jill Kelley requested “diplomatic protection” in 911 call
Jill Kelley requested “diplomatic protection” in 911 call
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Washington Post, American Spectator, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Business Insider, Mediaite and National Review
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity
Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity
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Paul D. Shinkman / US News:
Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park
Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Who's doing who in the Obama team's sex scandals: A handy guide
Who's doing who in the Obama team's sex scandals: A handy guide
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Chicago Boyz
Jon Swaine / Telegraph:
David Petraeus affair: The Florida twins at the centre of America's miltary scandal
David Petraeus affair: The Florida twins at the centre of America's miltary scandal
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Max Read / Gawker:
A Flowchart of the Petraeus Affair's Love Pentagon, from the Shirtless FBI Agent to Chuck Klosterman
A Flowchart of the Petraeus Affair's Love Pentagon, from the Shirtless FBI Agent to Chuck Klosterman
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Tara McKelvey / The Atlantic Online:
The Writer and the General: What the Petraeus Affair Exposed About D.C.
The Writer and the General: What the Petraeus Affair Exposed About D.C.
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Jonathan Last Online and Conservatives4Palin
Investor's Business Daily:
Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff — Budget Talks: If President Obama wants to get a deficit deal done to avoid the fiscal cliff, his biggest challenge won't be Republicans, but his own hard-core left-wing supporters. — Two days after the election …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi to stay on as House minority leader — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will remain atop the Democratic caucus for at least two more years, her office announced Wednesday. — Pelosi will remain the most vocal liberal voice in Congress opposing the Republican agenda …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Appeals To Activist Base For Help With Fiscal Cliff … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , Barack Obama , Elections 2012, Fiscal Policy, Video, Mitch Stewart, Obama Activist Base, Obama Activists, Obama Base, Obama Disappointments, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Obama Mitch Stewart …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
US deficit was $120 billion in October
US deficit was $120 billion in October
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The Irish Times:
Woman ‘denied a termination’ dies in hospital — Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month. — Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan: It ‘Looked Like We Stood A Pretty Good Chance Of Winning’ On Election Day — In an interview with WISN 12 News in Milwaukee on Monday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted that he and Mitt Romney were indeed caught off guard by the results of last week's election, claiming …
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John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Paul Ryan Exclusive: Obama Lacks Mandate to Raise Taxes
Paul Ryan Exclusive: Obama Lacks Mandate to Raise Taxes
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Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Majority Supports Path to Citizenship; Greater Division on Other Social Issues — Most Americans support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, an issue that may be high on the agenda of newly re-elected President Obama and the 113th Congress, given the increased importance of nonwhites …
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Business Insider and Outside the Beltway
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Relationship between Boehner, McConnell faces tough test — The relationship between House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will be tested in the months ahead as political forces pull them in different directions.
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Carol Marin / Chicago Sun Times:
Emanuel downplays eavesdrop act — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at a Monday news conference, didn't like questions about whether his press office had recorded reporters' conversations without first seeking their consent. — That's a big no-no under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, one of the toughest two-party consent laws in the country.
Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:
Misreading Election 2012 — The GOP might be out of step with some voters, but Mitt Romney was an unusually unpopular party standard-bearer. — Postelection talk of “lessons learned” is often exaggerated and misleading, and so it is in 2012. — A week after President Obama won re-election, two themes are dominant.
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David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
ABC Affiliate: ‘All Up In My Snatch’ Petraeus Book Graphic A ‘Mistake’ — Today in adventures in television news: graphics gone wrong. An ABC affiliate in Denver, Colo., said it was a “mistake” to run an image of Paula Broadwell's David Petraeus biography that listed the title as …
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BuzzFeed:
A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus — On the night of the South Carolina Republican primary in January, I sat near the front of a dark campaign press bus, and listened to reporters talk about Mitt Romney's underwear. — Earlier in the day, one of them had happened upon the candidate …
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GOP 12
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Colbert's super-PAC files termination paperwork with FEC — According to the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow had its termination paperwork scanned onto the commission's website at about 7 p.m. — Among it its final disbursements, the committee reports giving the …
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CNN and Ballot Box
Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
Hurricane Sandy: Katrina on the Hudson? — Glenn Reynolds notices similarities, in USA Today: … But there is one difference: … It took days for FEMA to hit the ground in hard-hit parts of NYC. More than a week after the storm, FEMA representatives were just getting on the ground and opening temporary offices in New Jersey.
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