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CNN Poll: Two-thirds say fiscal cliff poses major problem — Washington (CNN) - A new national poll suggests Americans understand that the “fiscal cliff” is no joking matter. — Two-thirds of people questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey (PDF) say that the U.S. would face a crisis …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Fiscal cliff: Will they jump? — Call them the cliff jumpers. — A growing bloc of emboldened liberals say they're not afraid to watch defense spending get gouged and taxes go up on every American if a budget deal doesn't satisfy their priorities. — Here's what these progressives fear …
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Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh and Hot Air
Bob Corker / Washington Post:
A plan to dodge the ‘fiscal cliff’ — In business I found that a challenging environment often produced our best opportunities. Perhaps that's why I see the so-called “ fiscal cliff ” of year-end spending cuts and tax increases not as an impassable precipice but as our best opportunity to finally enact meaningful fiscal reform.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Corker touts fiscal plan, says it's time to ‘rip the Band-Aid off’ and reach deal
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Back to the drawing board for Obamacare foes
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Public would blame GOP more than Obama if fiscal talks fail
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Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
Lindsey Graham, Peter King break with Grover Norquist
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: Republicans whitewash history of filibuster — So it's looking more and more likely that Harry Reid and Democrats will introduce some sort of package of filibuster reforms at the start of the next Congress. Politico reports this morning that Republicans are preparing …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
GOP: Don't mess with filibuster — A partisan war is brewing that could bring the government to a screeching halt as early as January — and no, it's not over the fiscal cliff. — It's all about the filibuster. — Democrats are threatening to change filibuster rules …
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Warren E. Buffett / New York Times:
A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy — SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. “This is a good one,” he says enthusiastically. “I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.” — Would your reply possibly be this? “Well, it all depends on what my tax rate …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
SCOTUS orders appeals court to hear Liberty University health care lawsuit — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to examine the constitutionality of the health reform law's employer requirements and mandatory coverage of contraceptives without a co-pay.
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Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
MANDATE WITH DESTINY — Thanksgiving was still two weeks away when the Republican Party, to its evident shock, found itself stuffed, trussed, roasted, and ready to be served with all the trimmings. This was not the menu that the Party's nominees, donors, and operatives had looked forward to.
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The Daily Dish
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
How Hillary Clinton's choices predict her future — On a recent Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked with her husband onto a stage at the New York Sheraton to cheers and whoops and a standing ovation that only got louder as she tried to quiet things down.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
McCain Backs Off Susan Rice Smear Campaign — Shortly after news broke about a fatal attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused President Obama of “sympathiz[ing] with those who waged the attacks.” And Romney continued …
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WSB-TV:
Alleged Walmart thief dies after confrontation — DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A police investigation is under way after a man suspected of shoplifting from a local Walmart died during his confrontation with store employees. — According to a police report obtained by Channel 2 Action News …
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Jill Vejnoska / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Alleged shoplifter dies after being subdued by Walmart workers
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Matt Hill / Telegraph:
The Israel-Palestine problem has a simple solution — Only political stubbornness, not popular support or irreconcilable differences, prevents the two-state solution from working, argues Matt Hill. — Flying the flag: A Palestinian at the border with Israel
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fighting Fiscal Phantoms — These are difficult times for the deficit scolds who have dominated policy discussion for almost three years. One could almost feel sorry for them, if it weren't for their role in diverting attention from the ongoing problem of inadequate recovery …
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Disagreeing with Obama can ruin Christmas, says White House report — Any Republican refusal to accept President Barack Obama's fiscal plan may ruin Christmas for the nation's retailers, the White House claimed in a report released Monday morning. — “The National Retail Federation …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Obama faces huge challenge in setting up insurance exchanges — The Obama administration faces major logistical and financial challenges in creating health insurance exchanges for states that have declined to set up their own systems. — The exchanges were designed as the centerpiece …
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americanthinker.com, First Read, Pundit & Pundette and National Review
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Turns to Obama Voters for Support — WASHINGTON — When Tea Party activists swamped town hall-style meetings about health care in the summer of 2009, President Obama's army of campaign volunteers largely stayed away, seemingly less interested in fighting for legislation …
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Times-Standard:
Two dead, one missing in Big Lagoon drowning — The bodies of two adults were recovered and the search is on for a missing 16-year-old boy Saturday at Big Lagoon, about 32 miles north of Eureka. — The U.S. Coast Guard said it received a call around 12:40 p.m. that three people had been pulled …
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