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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Why the White House thinks it's winning the ‘fiscal cliff’ — Consider the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations from the White House's perspective. — The specifics of the potential McConnell-Biden deal are fluid, but the bottom line, at the moment, seems to be this: It raises taxes …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Tentative Deal Is Reached to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy — WASHINGTON — Furious last-minute negotiations between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership on Monday secured a tentative agreement to allow tax rates to rise on affluent Americans, but the measure was not going to pass …
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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff: Live Updates On Congress, White House Negotiations … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , Congress, Barack Obama , Video, Politics News, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff Deal, Fiscal Cliff Live Updates, Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, Fiscal Cliff Talks, Fiscal Cliff Updates, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Politics News
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Here's what Republicans really hated about Obama's news conference — President Obama's cheerful, mocking statement enraged Republicans. But the bigger problem is he said something Republican leaders have been trying to hide from their members. Obama said, clearly, that if the GOP wants …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff Deal Growing More Likely, Would Raise $715 Billion In Revenue … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Bush Tax Cuts, Video, Boehner Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff Deal, Fiscal Cliff Tax Revenues, Fiscal Cliff Taxes, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Obama Fiscal Cliff Deal, Tax Hikes, Politics News
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Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
The Estate Tax Is a Huge Giveaway in the Fiscal-Cliff Talks — It will cost us $375 billion over the next decade if we keep the estate tax from going back to its Clinton-era levels. That's twice the savings from switching to chained CPI. — (Reuters) — It's time to talk …
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Paul Krugman:
Conceder In Chief? — OK, I've had my own sorta-kinda briefing on the apparent fiscal cliff deal, and I'm pretty much with Noam Scheiber. Viewed on its own, it's a bad and upsetting deal but not as terrible as initial rumors had it. But the strategic consequences are likely to be very bad indeed, and in very short order too.
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bigstory.ap.org:
AP SOURCES: ‘FISCAL CLIFF’ DEAL EMERGING — You are here — Home » United States Congress » AP Sources: ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal emerging — WASHINGTON (AP) — The contours of a deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’ emerged Monday, with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to raise tax rates …
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Washington Post:
(APPLAUSE) — Thank you. Please, everybody have a seat. — Well, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the White House. — (UNKNOWN): Thank you for having us. — (LAUGHTER) — OBAMA: Now I realize that the last thing you want to hear on New Year's Eve is another speech from me …
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
It's official: Deal reached on “fiscal cliff”
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Biden meets Senate Democrats as Reid, Pelosi sign off on deal
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Obama Fiscal Cliff Remarks Spark Republican Threats To Blow Up Deal
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell's Latest Gambit Is A Big Tax And Debt Limit Tell
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The case for the Dems' negotiating strategy
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Nancy Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Fiscal Compromise Would Set Stage For a New Year of Mini-Cliffs
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Lash Out At Obama, Even As Fiscal Cliff Deal Close At Hand
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Timothy Noah / The New Republic:
Kill This Deal … Dear House and Senate Democrats,
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Democrats' Cliff Compromise Is Bad; But the Strategic Consequences Are Disastrous
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
2 Sides in Talks Inch Closer but No Fiscal Deal on Final Day
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CBS News:
Finally, a “fiscal cliff” breakthrough
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Grover Norquist: Tax rates won't increase
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Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
TRENDING: House unlikely to vote on any deal until after cliff deadline
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
NBC reporter raises Hillary Clinton questions — The top science reporter for NBC News raised questions Monday about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's hospitalization, raising the possibility the blood clot causing isn't linked to an earlier concussion. — “It's not exactly clear …
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The European / The European Union Times:
Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret US Mission To Iran — A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd right] was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Most Admired in 2012
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Louis Michael Seidman / New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution — AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Long Walks, Short Piers
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Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Seidman: “Let's Give Up on [Parts of] the Constitution”
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Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election — The right-wing Fox News host lost half his audience in the weeks after Obama's win — Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity had predicted President Obama would lose in a landslide.
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New York Post:
Greenwich Village couple busted with cache of weapons, bombmaking explosives: sources — The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Worst Holiday: New Year's Eve Is Over-hyped and Anti-Climactic — An absurd mix of international traditions would be better than how we celebrate it in America. — The national embarrassment of American New Year's Eve celebrations embodied in one image. And it only got worse. / Reuters
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