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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Topsy-turvy Hagel politics — President Obama wants to get credit for bipartisanship, so he picks a Republican defense secretary who will garner few if any Republican votes. He walks away from a politically loyal African American woman for secretary of state (whose nomination would open …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Crack Pipe — I'm watching a lot of neoconservative policy activists and a lot of people in the press telling me that it's a very up in the air thing whether Chuck Hagel gets confirmed as Secretary of Defense. These folks should stop smoking crack. Because crack isn't good for you.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
John Brennan tapped to lead CIA — President Barack Obama will announce Monday that he's nominating the White House's point person on counterterrorism, John Brennan, to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, White House officials told POLITICO.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Counterterror Adviser to be Named Chief of C.I.A.
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Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Hagel's Mideast blunder-not on Israel
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The Daily Dish, The Atlantic Online and The Week
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Real Reason Republicans Hate Hagel
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
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Politico:
Chuck Hagel takes fire from Capitol Hill
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Fox News:
Obama to nominate counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan for CIA director
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CBS News:
Obama to tap John Brennan to head CIA: sources
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Carrie Dann / First Read:
Senators signal tough fight for Hagel
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Taps Hagel for Defense, Girds for Fight
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Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
The Education of John Boehner — Leverage for the next clash: GOP willingness to let the spending sequester take effect. — What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats look for up to $1 trillion in new tax revenues this year — Democrats say they want to raise as much as $1 trillion in new revenues through tax reform later this year to balance Republican demands to slash mandatory spending. — Democratic leaders have had little time to craft …
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Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:
Boehner Coup Attempt Larger Than First Thought — A concerted effort to unseat Speaker John A. Boehner was under way the day of his re-election to the position, but participants called it off 30 minutes before the House floor vote, CQ Roll Call has learned.
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Elisabeth Arriero / The Charlotte Observer:
Man ID'd as Rand Paul's son arrested at airport — A teenager identified in several media outlets as the son of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and the grandson of former presidential candidate Ron Paul was arrested Saturday morning at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Rand Paul in Israel: US foreign aid can't be one-way — Republican Senator tells Israeli audience it will be harder to be a friend to Israel if the US is “out of money.” — Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a fierce opponent of US foreign aid who is being touted already …
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Josh Haskell / ABCNEWS:
Senator Rand Paul's Son Arrested at Charlotte Airport
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Post Politics, Business Insider and Joe. My. God.
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Rand Paul's son arrested, report says
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The Hinterland Gazette
Paul Krugman:
Be Ready To Mint That Coin — Should President Obama be willing to print a $1 trillion platinum coin if Republicans try to force America into default? Yes, absolutely. He will, after all, be faced with a choice between two alternatives: one that's silly but benign, the other that's equally silly but both vile and disastrous.
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
The conservative movement is still an elaborate moneymaking venture — The story of FreedomWorks' big Glenn Beck payout encapsulates the right-wing media — The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. As Rick Perlstein explained in the Baffler …
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Firedoglake and The Immoral Minority
Paul Krugman:
The Outside Man — Yes, I've heard about the notion that I should be nominated as Treasury Secretary. I'm flattered, but it really is a bad idea. — Part of the reason is that I am indeed the World's Worst Administrator — and that does matter. Someone else can do the paperwork …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Fail — It's that time again: the annual meeting of the American Economic Association and affiliates, a sort of medieval fair that serves as a marketplace for bodies (newly minted Ph.D.'s in search of jobs), books and ideas. And this year, as in past meetings …
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Washington Monthly, CANNONFIRE and Prairie Weather
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Democrat Says Obama's Gun Control Proposals Are Extreme — On ABC's This Week yesterday, Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp described President Obama's gun control proposals as “extreme.” … Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. — Heitkamp's comments come …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
CASTING VOTES — Here's a safe prediction for 2013: few people will pine for the Presidential campaign of 2012. Even Barack Obama's most ardent supporters acknowledge that his victory provided little of the euphoria of four years ago. Not many Republicans have longed to hear …
Jenna Portnoy / New Jersey Online:
Christie looks ahead to big victory in 2013, reflects on how Sandy changed him — Governor Chris Christie during a one-on-one interview with The Star-Ledger in his inner office at the Statehouse. (Photo by Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger) — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie doesn't want to settle …
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