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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Name Jack Lew to Replace Geithner at Treasury — Obama Said to Name Lew Tomorrow to Replace Geithner — President Barack Obama plans to name White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew tomorrow as his choice for Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy F. Geithner, a person familiar with the process said.
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The Plum Line, msnbc.com, Taylor Marsh, Capital New York, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
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Politico:
Why President Obama is picking fights with Congress — Barack Obama is looking for a few good fights. — Obama, the same president who campaigned twice on breaking the cycle of conflict in Washington, sees the utility — even the necessity — of rattling Republican cages as he plunges …
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NBC Politics and The Hill
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Who Is Jack Lew, Obama's Nominee for Treasury Secretary? — The current White House chief of staff is a bookish, private man, but he's also an outspoken liberal with a mind for the intricacies of numbers and budgets. — Jim Young/Reuters — President Obama will nominate Jacob Lew …
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Business Insider and Quartz
Manu Raju / Politico:
Senate vs. President Obama over Cabinet
Senate vs. President Obama over Cabinet
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The Week and Business Insider
Kevin Roose / Bloomberg:
Jack Lew's Terrible Signature May Grace Dollar Bills Now
Jack Lew's Terrible Signature May Grace Dollar Bills Now
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The Atlantic Online, Mashable!, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Ed Henry / Fox News:
Obama expected to nominate chief of staff Lew for Treasury secretary
Obama expected to nominate chief of staff Lew for Treasury secretary
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The Hill and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman:
Rage Against the Coin — (From Talking Points Memo). — Well, the trillion-dollar-coin thing — deal with the debt ceiling by exploiting a legal loophole to have the Treasury mint one or more large-denomination coins, deposit them at the Fed, and use the cash in the new account to pay bills — has really taken off.
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The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, Althouse, The Jawa Report, Business Insider, The Week, JustOneMinute, Eschaton, Balloon Juice and New York Magazine
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Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe on the Legality of #mintthecoin
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe on the Legality of #mintthecoin
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Paul Krugman, American Prospect, Business Insider, PostPartisan and The Atlantic Online
Megan McArdle / Asymmetrical Information:
Washington Goes Platinum
Washington Goes Platinum
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and FP Passport
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Democrats Re-Establish Lead in Party Affiliation — In 2012, 47% identified or leaned Democratic, 42% Republican — PRINCETON, NJ — An average of 47% of Americans identified as Democrats or said they were independents who leaned Democratic in 2012, compared with 42% who identified as or leaned Republican.
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The Moderate Voice, Ballot Box, Politico, The Political Carnival, Hot Air, Post Politics and National Review
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Hagel pick: Final snub of George W. Bush — The final insult to George W. Bush's foreign policy may have come in the form of a Republican ex-senator from Nebraska. — Chuck Hagel's nomination for secretary of defense has stirred opposition on both the left and the right …
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CNN, The Moderate Voice and Taegan Goddard's …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
More DC Play-Acting — Nominations lose steam or gain steam.
More DC Play-Acting — Nominations lose steam or gain steam.
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The Moderate Voice, Reuters and Israel Matzav
Amy Odell / BuzzFeed:
DC Sex Workers Prepare for Huge Influx of Inauguration Partiers — If you require the services of a stripper or dominatrix over inauguration weekend, be prepared to pay extra. — Image by Shutterstock — When Steve Baker talks about the inauguration, he gets a little giddy.
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The Gateway Pundit
James Hohmann / Politico:
At 100, still little love for Nixon — Richard Nixon would have turned 100 Wednesday, but about the only people marking the occasion are historians, family members and loyalists from the disgraced 37th president's administration. — And even they're slowly dying off.
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Washington Monthly, USA Today, ABCNEWS, CNN and Althouse
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Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS:
Five Key Legacies of Former President Richard Nixon On His 100th Birthday
Five Key Legacies of Former President Richard Nixon On His 100th Birthday
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Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Taylor Marsh and Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell to take entitlement talks lead, Boehner in back seat — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to play a bigger role in negotiations to reform entitlement programs in the wake of the tax deal he helped forge last week. — Lawmakers see the passage of a bill to extend …
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CNN, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, The Plum Line and Booman Tribune
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The New / New York Times:
Transcript of Nate Silver's ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit — Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight took questions Tuesday on the popular social news site Reddit's “Ask Me Anything” section. What follows is an edited transcript, with the questions and answers sorted into several subject areas.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why can't Republicans enforce law against Harry Reid? — WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) arrrives for a weekly policy luncheon with Democratic members of the U.S. Senate December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Congress is still negotiating pending …
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Hit & Run, Betsy's Page, Weasel Zippers, Power Line and The Other McCain
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
TRENDING: Reid adviser: Senate majority leader ‘in a different place’ on gun control
TRENDING: Reid adviser: Senate majority leader ‘in a different place’ on gun control
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CBS News, Weasel Zippers and The Plum Line
nbcnewyork.com:
Ferry Crashes in Lower Manhattan, Dozens Injured — A rush hour commuter ferry with more than 300 passengers aboard crashed Wednesday as it approached a Wall Street pier, injuring more than 50 people, police said. — Officials had initially said the injuries were minor …
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U.S. News, Crooks and Liars, Gawker, PIX 11 and The Hinterland Gazette
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Chuck Hagel Expanded On ‘Aggressively Gay’ Slur In 1998 — Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel's remark to the Omaha World-Herald in 1998 that Clinton ambassadorial nominee James Hormel was “openly aggressively gay” was only a part of what Hagel told the paper about his opposition to Hormel's nomination.
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BuzzFeed, The Daily Dish, PostPartisan, Washington Examiner, Towleroad News #gay, The Reaction, Power Line and Washington Post
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Can Chris Christie rescue the GOP? — A pair of polls out this week shows the dire state the Republican Party finds itself in — and a way out of the wilderness, should Republicans choose to take it. — Poll No. 1: Rasmussen Reports found that views of the tea party …
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Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, msnbc.com, Business Insider, Ballot Box, Weekly Standard and Post Politics
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics — A month after President Obama won reelection, America's most powerful liberal groups met to plan their next moves. Here's what they talked about. — It was the kind of meeting that conspiratorial conservative bloggers dream about.
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Taegan Goddard's …
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Iowa lawmaker calls for retroactive gun ban, confiscation of semi-automatic weapons — In an interview with the Daily Times Herald in Caroll, Iowa, state Rep. Dan Muhlbauer said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms.
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protein wisdom, Infowars and The Gateway Pundit
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Scalpers hawking members' inaugural tickets online — Free presidential inauguration tickets given out by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Sen Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and other lawmakers are being hawked online for thousands of dollars. — The scalping of the tickets technically is not illegal …
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Political Watch and msnbc.com
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S. — The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the Corn Belt and a huge storm that caused broad devastation in the Middle Atlantic States, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
Now Gossip site Gawker publishes names of ALL licensed gun owners in New York City — A gossip site has taken the controversial decision to post the name of every licensed gun owner in New York City online as the debate over gun control rages on. — Gawker posted the list of names, which is already publicly available, today.
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Michael Burke / Journal Times:
Employers, educators search for answers to technical jobs issue — RACINE COUNTY — The challenge of finding good employees is so long-standing and pervasive that Racine Metal-Fab has revised its hiring approach. — “If we see behaviors we don't like, we fire faster and hire slower,” …
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Vox Popoli
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Richard Blanco, 2013 Inaugural Poet — WASHINGTON — From the moment Barack Obama burst onto the political scene, the poet Richard Blanco, a son of Cuban exiles, says he felt “a spiritual connection” with the man who would become the nation's 44th president.
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ABCNEWS, Advocate, Towleroad News #gay and Colorlines