memeorandum: Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace (Bob Dreyfuss/thenation.com/blogs/161)

8:05 AM ET, November 25, 2013

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Juan Williams / The Hill:

Pressure builds on Boehner — If Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put the Senate's immigration bill to a vote in the House, it wins. — The math is pretty simple. It will take 218 votes to pass it. All 200 Democrats are on board as well as three Republican co-sponsors.

Bernie Becker / The Hill:

Top Dems, Republicans blast Obama's nuke deal with Iran — Top lawmakers on both side of the aisle on Sunday voiced skepticism about the newly struck agreement with Iran, and vowed to keep up the pressure with sanctions. — Senior members in both chambers said that, at first glance …

Discussion: CNN

Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:

Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges — LONDON — The Obama administration's successful push for an accord that would temporarily freeze much of Iran's nuclear program has cast a spotlight on the more formidable challenge it now confronts in trying to roll the program back.

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Barrie McKenna / Globe and Mail:

Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal — Striking a distinctly harsher tone than its closest allies, Canada is balking at lifting any of its sanctions against Iran until the Islamic regime fully abandons its nuclear weapons' ambitions.

Discussion: Brookings Institute, Michael J. Totten's blog and National Review

Bob Dreyfuss / thenation.com/blogs/161:
Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer ‘Disappointed’ With Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama's Very Personal Deal With Iran

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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Iran's top officials hail nuclear deal as beginning of new era

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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Early skepticism, caution on nuclear deal

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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement

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The White House:
Statement By The President On First Step Agreement On Iran's Nuclear Program

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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
We Have a Deal With Iran. A Good One.

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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius — Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform. — The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges, but it will now be easier for Obama to replace her.

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare — Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.

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John Harwood / New York Times:
Don't Dare Call the Health Law ‘Redistribution’

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Steven Hayward / Power Line:

Filibuster Rope-a-Dope? — Did the crafty Mitch McConnell just succeed in getting Democrats to damage their long-term interest by nuking the filibuster? I've always defended the filibuster (and still do) as a valid anti-majoritarian device, especially useful for when fitful voters …

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: Filibuster Rule Change ‘Will Poison The Atmosphere Of The Senate’

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Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Filibuster change clears path for Obama climate regs crackdown

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:

Obama: 'I'm not a particularly ideological person' — President Barack Obama says he is not a “particularly ideological person,” but remains passionate about certain issues. — “I'm not a particularly ideological person,” Obama said Sunday during a fundraiser in Seattle.

MySanAntonio.com:

SAPD officer accused of rape — A San Antonio police officer was arrested Saturday and accused of raping a 19-year-old woman on the South Side early the day before. At a news conference Saturday, police said the officer has been accused of sexual assault before.

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KENS:
On-duty officer sexually assaults 19-year-old during traffic stop, police say

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CNN:

President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll — Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll. — And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

James Jay Carafano / National Review:

Munich II — No, that's not a facile, partisan jab. What just went down in Geneva is, in fact, a replay of the greatest diplomatic tragedy of the 20th century. — The Munich deal rested on the ridiculous notion that Hitler could be satiated. The new pact builds on the equally ludicrous idea …

Discussion: Power Line and Crooked Timber

Susan Mohamed / OnIslam.net:

Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques — LUANDA - According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country. — “The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved …

Discussion: Jihad Watch, The Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs, Blazing Cat Fur and The Volokh Conspiracy

Lawrence R. Jacobs / New York Times:

Right vs. Left in the Midwest — MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin's Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

Discussion: Jared Bernstein and The Mahablog