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Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight. — Over the years, one of the more troubling characteristics of the Democratic Party and the left in general has been a shortage of loyalty and an abundance of self-loathing. It would be a shame if we Republicans took a narrow presidential loss …
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Melinda Henneberger / She The People:
Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it … Most of those chortling over Tom Ricks's highly unusual ninety seconds on Fox News this week were wowed by the way he spoke liberal truth to conservative power, informing his astonished interviewer, Jon Scott …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
For Obama and Romney, Lunch at the White House
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Politico:
The fiscal cliff roadshow
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Boehner shoots down proposal to agree to Obama tax demand — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans on Wednesday shot down a proposal by a senior GOP lawmaker that the House agree to President Obama's demand to extend current tax rates for the middle class.
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Cole: Join with Obama on quick deal — Republican Rep. Tom Cole urged colleagues in a private session Tuesday to vote to extend the Bush tax rates for all but the highest earners before the end of the year — and to battle over the rest later. — The Oklahoma Republican said in an interview …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
GOP divide over Obama tax plan goes public — Washington (CNN) — An angry warning by President Barack Obama delivered well over a year ago foreshadowed his campaign-style approach on Wednesday aimed at pressuring Republicans to compromise and reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Kate Nocera / Politico:
Grover Norquist: No GOP fingerprints on fiscal cliff tax hikes — Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said Wednesday that Republicans need to have “credible” separation from any tax hike as part of a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff — in order to make a case to voters …
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Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events:
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE FISCAL CLIFF?
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Republican Urges Party to Yield on Tax Cuts for Most Earners
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Make Up Turned Break Up — Are the Republican senators unreasonable? Or is the secretary of state-manqué undiplomatic? Did the senators sandbag Susan Rice? Or did Rice further inflame a tense situation? Is it a case of shooting the messenger and playing politics?
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
The Five Different Reasons Why Susan Rice's Benghazi Talking Points Were Edited
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Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT GLENN BECK DID TO AN OBAMA BOBBLEHEAD DURING HIS SHOW ON TUESDAY — UPDATE: Ebay, the online marketplace where Glenn Beck put his Obama creation up for auction for charity, has now pulled the ad. At it's last bidding around 11:00 a.m. ET, the bid for the Obama doll in the jar was up to $11,300.
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State — Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets (who are quite adept at creating and taking down their own strawmen arguments, if not quite as adept at using an abacus, let alone a calculator) …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Majority Now Against Gov't Healthcare Guarantee — Views of healthcare system overall more positive in some respects — PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time in Gallup trends since 2000, a majority of Americans say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage.
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USA Today:
Social Security adds to deficits … You can look it up (p. 465) — Trays of printed Social Security checks. (Photo: Bradley C Bower, AP) — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — 8:49PM EST November 27. 2012 - Do Democrats really believe Social Security doesn't contribute to federal deficits and the national debt?
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
CEOs Looking To ‘Fix The Debt’ By Cutting Social Security Sit On Huge Retirement Accounts
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
‘Fix The Debt’ CEOs Underfund Employee Retirement, Demand Cuts For Elderly
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
John Heilemann Makes Lindsey Graham Joke on ‘Morning Joe;’ Edited Out of 8am Reair — Just after 6am, on “Morning Joe” this morning, Joe, Mika and guest John Heilemann were talking about yesterday's New York Times article about “the three amigos” Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama On Filibuster Reform: White House Embraces Harry Reid's Rule Changes … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Harry Reid , Barack Obama , White House, Congress, Barack Obama , Video, Obama Harry Reid, White House Filibuster Reform, Filibuster, Filibuster Reform, Harry Reid Filibuster Reform …
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James Richardson / Georgia Tipsheet:
Erickson considering challenge to Chambliss — Popular conservative blogger and radio personality Erick Erickson said Tuesday he was considering a primary challenge to Sen. Saxby Chambliss after a host of political bigs had approached him about staging a bid of his own in the days since …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
My Secretary of State — President Obama is assembling his new national security team, with Senator John Kerry possibly heading for the Pentagon and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice the perceived front-runner to become secretary of state. Kerry is an excellent choice for defense.
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Rick Warren: Being Gay Is Like ‘Punching A Guy In The Nose’ Or Consuming Arsenic — Megachurch pastor Rick Warren remains as ill-informed on gay identity as ever. Unfazed by the notion that there may be a biological cause for homosexuality, Warren told Piers Morgan on CNN this week that acting …
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Nathan Harden / The College Fix:
How much would you pay for 1 hour with Sandra Fluke? — EXCLUSIVE: Sandra Fluke, noted advocate for government-subsidized birth control, is auctioning off one hour of her time for an online “strategy session” at the site BiddingForGood.com. — According to the auction page …
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Ryan Lovelace / The College Fix:
Students Told to Disavow ‘American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality’ — A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status” when writing and speaking in the classroom …
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