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Adam Levy / CNN:
Geithner: No deal ‘without rates going up’ — Washington (CNN) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner drew a line in the sand over taxes in defense of the Obama administration's controversial proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff. — In an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley on “State of the Union …
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Greg Clary / CNN:
TRENDING: Boehner ‘flabbergasted’ at fiscal cliff proposal — (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner painted a bleak picture Sunday when talking about fiscal cliff negotiations between the White House and Republicans. — “Right now I would say we're nowhere. Period. We're nowhere.
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McCaskill: ‘I Feel Almost Sorry For John Boehner’ — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that she feels “almost sorry” for House Speaker John Boehner during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday, explaining that Boehner is in a tough spot because of the far-right wing of the Republican Party.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
McCaskill feels ‘sorry’ for Boehner's hand in deficit negotiations — Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) said on Sunday that she feels “sorry” for Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) hand going into talks on the “fiscal cliff.” — McCaskill (D-Mo.) told “Meet the Press” …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Sen. Ayotte ‘disappointed’ in initial White House proposal
Sen. Ayotte ‘disappointed’ in initial White House proposal
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Sen. Hatch: Obama fiscal proposal ‘classic bait and switch’
Sen. Hatch: Obama fiscal proposal ‘classic bait and switch’
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Dan Morain / Sacramento Bee:
Billionaire Bloomberg knocks out Joe Baca, adds dynamic to gun politics — Joe Baca never saw it coming, and neither did Gloria Negrete McLeod. — But as state Sen. Negrete McLeod replaces Baca in Congress, the dueling San Bernardino County Democrats witnessed first hand the beginnings …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Go To Obama School — At Harvard, GOP staffers sit at Axelrod's feet. “We weren't even running in the same race.” — Source: pics.lockerz.com / via: @jmartpolitico — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Demoralized Republicans arrived in Boston Wednesday night for a rare moment in American politics …
Associated Press:
Asperger's gone, dyslexia stays in first change to psychiatric manual in almost 20 years — CHICAGO — The now familiar term “Asperger's disorder” is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama hits the links with Bill Clinton — JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md.— President Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the golf course on Sunday. — Obama is playing his round at Maryland's Joint Base Andrews and it is the third presidential golf outing here since the Nov. 6 elections …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Jacob Lew, Low-Key Power Broker — WASHINGTON — When President Obama was locked in painful spending negotiations with House Republicans last spring, his exceedingly meticulous budget director, Jacob J. Lew, went to the Oval Office to propose some complex budget changes.
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Benjamin Schwarz / The Atlantic Online:
The Education of Virginia Woolf — Born into the highest stratum of the English intellectual aristocracy, Virginia Woolf—whose set included some of the kingdom's most illustrious families, many of its finest writers and painters, its greatest poet, its most brilliant economist—could be an appalling snob.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rogers: ‘Gross negligence’ in handling Benghazi — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday there was “gross negligence” in the handling of security for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. — “Well, it's very clear to me...that the intelligence was right about the threats …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
More Babies, Please — IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United States off its global perch, there has always been one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition.
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