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The fiscal cliff deal that almost wasn't — House Speaker John Boehner couldn't hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday. — It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
SOURCES: ENOUGH REPUBLICANS WILLING TO UNSEAT SPEAKER BOEHNER — American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer told Breitbart News late Tuesday that enough House Republicans have banded together in an effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner from his position—they just need a leader to take up the mantle.
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Firedoglake, The Week, Gestetner Updates, Booman Tribune, Taegan Goddard's …, Joe. My. God. and Hullabaloo
John Boehner / CNN:
TRENDING: Boehner's White House F-bomb — (CNN) - For all the stalemate in the fiscal cliff negotiations, there were some heated moments, too. — A Democratic source familiar with one particular exchange told CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Los Angeles Times:
House approves ‘fiscal cliff’ deal, rescinding broad tax hike — This post has been updated. See below for details. — WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval Tuesday night to a bill to rescind tax increases for the vast majority of Americans, but only after a day of closed-door …
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Washington Post:
House members meet to review Senate-passed cliff deal
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The House Comes Around on the Cliff. Why Am I Not Reassured?
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The Atlantic Online, Washington Monthly, Wonkblog, American Prospect, Paul Krugman, BuzzFeed, RedState and Washington Examiner
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Sen. Toomey: GOP should risk shutdown to force spending cuts in debt-limit fight
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Back to Vacation: Obama Takes Midnight Flight to Hawaii
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Pundit & Pundette
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Peter King: Halt donations to House GOP — New York Republican Rep. Peter King went to war with his Republican colleagues on Wednesday after leaders spiked a Hurricane Sandy relief bill, calling on New Yorkers to stop all donations to GOP House members. — “These Republicans have no problem finding …
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David Rogers / Reuters:
House pulls plug on Sandy aid bill — House Republicans abruptly pulled the plug Tuesday night on their promise to take up this week an emergency supplemental disaster aid bill for Northeast states damaged by Hurricane Sandy. — The decision is a stunning reversal since just hours …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Boehner committed to move Hurricane Sandy relief bill in January — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), under fire from Northeast lawmakers in his own party, is promising to pass an emergency spending bill to help pay for damage from Hurricane Sandy in the next Congress, which starts Thursday.
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Firedoglake and National Review
NBC Politics:
Bipartisan outrage after House skips vote on $60 billion Sandy aid bill — House Republicans have abandoned plans to vote on an aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy in the current term of Congress after the Senate approved more $60 billion to help affected residents recover.
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Washington Monthly, BBC, Taylor Marsh and msnbc.com
CBS News:
GOP Rep: “We got whooped” on “fiscal cliff” … PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) said today on “CBS This Morning” that the GOP “got whooped” in the “fiscal cliff” compromise that passed the House last night, but explained that he voted for the deal regardless because …
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Post Politics and The Raw Story
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House members to Boehner: ‘Shame on you’ for not holding Sandy vote
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Politico and Politicker
Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Fiscal cliff deal: House OKs proposal despite GOP objections
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Boehner, Cantor take different sides
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Dskriloff / The Rockland County Times:
The Journal News is Armed and Dangerous — ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES EXCLUSIVE — Armed guards from RGA Investigations have taken up post at the Journal News' Rockland County headquarters — Journal News' Rockland headquarters in West Nyack, Town of Clarkstown — Guns are good for the goose but NOT for the gander.
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Noreen O'Donnell / Reuters:
New York County denies request for names of gun permit holders
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Journal News’ hires armed security guards
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
6 Things You Won't Believe That Are In The Fiscal Cliff Bill That The Senate Passed At 2 AM While Most Americans Were Drunk — On January 1, just before 2 AM, the Senate overwhelmingly agreed to pass a bill that will avert the Fiscal Cliff. The House approved it late that night.
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Rational Irrationality, Fausta's Blog, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite and The National Memo
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Democratic Congressman Laughs At Fox News' Fiscal Cliff Misinformation — Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) schooled the hosts of Fox & Friends on the details of the deal to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” during an appearance to explain his opposition to the Senate-passed compromise on Wednesday morning.
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The Raw Story and Business Insider
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Strangest Conservative Priority: Prepping a ‘2nd Amendment Solution’ — The Bill of Rights offers much smarter, more effective ways to safeguard liberty than preparing for armed insurrection. — Reuters — In National Review, Kevin Williamson argues that nearly everyone calling …
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
GOP State Senator: Kwanzaa Is A Leftist Plot ‘To Destroy’ America — While outrage about the so-called war on Christmas has died down for another year, Wisconsin state Senator Glenn Grothman (R) has launched a new war on Kwanzaa, claiming it is a fake holiday invented by racist radicals who want to “divide America.”
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Jonathan Terbush / The Raw Story:
Wisconsin state Senator: Kwanza is a fake holiday that black people don't even like
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Richard Rubin / Bloomberg:
Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households — The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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Sudeep Reddy / Real Time Economics:
Payroll Tax Cut Expires; How Much More Will You Pay?
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Michelle Malkin, American Prospect, The Heritage Foundation, LewRockwell.com Blog and Wonkblog
Erik Ortiz / NY Daily News:
Attorney for Newtown survivor seeking to sue Connecticut for $100 million backs off — Irving Pinsky said he's received new information about security at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where his 6-year-old client almost died in a Dec. 14 massacre. He initially said he would sue Connecticut in order to improve school safety.
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