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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Obama to GOP: I'm done negotiating with myself — Republican aides are circulating their summary of the White House's opening bid on the fiscal cliff. They're circulating it because they believe it fleshes out Speaker John Boehner's complaint that “the White House has to get serious.”
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Don't jump off the cliff yet — A lot of smart conservatives have argued that Republicans should walk away from the fiscal negotiations or dare President Obama to go over the fiscal cliff if he going to insist on making ridiculous proposals that set back the negotiations.
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Suzy Khimm / Wonkblog:
READ: The White House's fiscal cliff proposal
READ: The White House's fiscal cliff proposal
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Cliff-jumping with Barack
Cliff-jumping with Barack
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans Balk at White House Plan to Avert Fiscal Crisis
Republicans Balk at White House Plan to Avert Fiscal Crisis
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff Talks: Behind Obama's Opening Bid
Fiscal Cliff Talks: Behind Obama's Opening Bid
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
McConnell ‘Burst Into Laughter’ as Geithner Outlined Obama's Plan
McConnell ‘Burst Into Laughter’ as Geithner Outlined Obama's Plan
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Washington Examiner:
Morning Examiner: Timmy Geithner's letter to Santa
Morning Examiner: Timmy Geithner's letter to Santa
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Boehner, House GOP reject debt deal offer from White House
Boehner, House GOP reject debt deal offer from White House
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Politico:
Dems bet big that GOP caves on taxes
Dems bet big that GOP caves on taxes
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Exclusive: The Internal Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He'd Win — It's no secret that the Romney campaign believed it was headed for victory on Election Day. A handful of outlets have reported that Team Romney's internal polling showed North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia moving safely …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Self-Awareness Matters — In politics, self-awareness matters. It does. When I was a political consultant, I told my clients my first two rules. The first was to know when you were in the minority, even when you thought you were right. The second was to know yourself as others see you.
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New York Times:
Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the Reagan '80s — What Is Fair?: — BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Alan Hicks divides long days between the insurance business he started in the late 1970s and the barbecue restaurant he opened with his sons three years ago.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
For Secretary of State, G.O.P. Pushes Old Hand — WASHINGTON — As President Obama's potential nominee for secretary of state, Susan E. Rice, comes under increasing fire, Congressional Republicans appear to be coalescing around a familiar name as an alternative candidate …
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
History — At their Conference today, the Justices will consider petitions raising federal constitutional issues related to same-sex marriage. These are the most significant cases these nine Justices have ever considered, and probably that they will ever decide.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Rules Nevada Can Ban Same-Sex Couples From Marriage
Federal Judge Rules Nevada Can Ban Same-Sex Couples From Marriage
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Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Court to consider same-sex marriage cases: In Plain English
Court to consider same-sex marriage cases: In Plain English
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Down and Out With Ted Cruz and the GOP — As Republicans regroup from electoral disaster, some — including a rising star in the Senate — insist conservatism was not to blame. — Associated Press — Why did Republicans lose the 2012 election? Ask Ted Cruz, the newly elected Republican senator from Texas.
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Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Cruz: I'm ‘something that is not supposed to exist: a Hispanic Republican’
Cruz: I'm ‘something that is not supposed to exist: a Hispanic Republican’
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Pot legalization support hits record high, poll shows — Support for marijuana legalization has edged up recently and is now tied with the oppposition, according to a CBS poll released Friday — the first time since that survey started keeping track of the issue.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid must wrestle with undecided Dems to reform filibuster rules — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may be short on votes he needs to force changes to the Senate's filibuster rules, as nine Democratic senators sit on the fence about the proposed reforms.
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Gary Strauss / Detroit Free Press:
New ethanol blend could damage vehicles and void warranties, AAA warns — The AAA says the Environmental Protection Agency and gasoline retailers should halt the sale of E15, a new ethanol blend that could damage millions of vehicles and void car warranties.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Drawn-Out Crisis—It's the Obama Way — The president seems to prefer frustration to good-faith negotiation. — The president's inviting Mitt Romney for lunch is a small thing but a brilliant move. It makes Mr. Obama look big, gracious. It implies the weakened …
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Josh Barro / Bloomberg:
Why Conservatives Must Surrender on ‘Redistribution’ — Liberals talk about booming incomes at the top while lower-income households barely see benefits from economic growth. Conservatives talk about a rising share of the population that depends on government benefits and a shrinking share that pays income tax.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Class Wars of 2012 — On Election Day, The Boston Globe reported, Logan International Airport in Boston was running short of parking spaces. Not for cars — for private jets. Big donors were flooding into the city to attend Mitt Romney's victory party. — They were, it turned out, misinformed about political reality.
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
See No Evil — If a campaign finance story is not about David Koch or Sheldon Adelson, do liberals care? — Consider the reaction to Kenneth Vogel's important report on the winter meeting of the Democracy Alliance, the secretive organization of progressive millionaires and billionaires …
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Jeff Spross / ThinkProgress:
Steve King: Democrats Will Win Over Hispanics By Giving Them ‘A Great Big Check’ — Since President Obama's re-election and Mitt Romney's poor performance among Hispanic voters, a number of prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators have come out in favor of immigration reform.
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Floats New Conspiracy Theory: Obama Ousted Qaddafi ‘So Al-Qaeda Could Take Over’ — As if it weren't enough that members of the Republican Party spent much of President Obama's first term accusing him of being a crypto-Manchurian Candidate who was born in Kenya …
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