memeorandum: Praised by de Blasio, Dinkins Responds With an Arrow (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

10:00 AM ET, November 26, 2013

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Republicans mindlessly oppose Iran nuclear deal — Republicans are opposed to President Obama's deal with the Iranians — whatever it is. — A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday, word crossed the news wires that negotiators in Geneva had reached an agreement on Iran's nuclear program.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and DownWithTyranny!

Bryan Bender / The Boston Globe:

John Kerry opened secret channel to Iran — Quiet diplomacy helped lead to deal on Tehran's nuclear program — WASHINGTON — It was early December 2011 and the US Senate was poised to hold a crucial vote on the nomination of Richard Cordray to head President Obama's controversial new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Taegan Goddard's …

Yossi Klein Halevi / The New Republic:

Israel's Freakout, Explained — New worries about whether Obama's presidency has made them less safe — There are only two credible obstacles to an Iranian bomb: economic sanctions and the possibility of an Israeli military strike. The deal signed with the Iranian regime threatens both.

Discussion: Postmodern Conservative

Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Analysis: Iran deal bears Obama's personal stamp

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Hot Air and Bloomberg

Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Signals a Shift From Military Might to Diplomacy

Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Post, Reuters, Prairie Weather, Foreign Policy, Mondoweiss, Wonkblog and Wall Street Journal

The White House:
Remarks by the President on Immigration Reform — San Francisco, CA

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, White House.gov Blog, Pat Dollard and PoliticusUSA

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

HealthCare.gov won't be perfect on Dec. 1, administration says — Administration officials said Monday that some visitors to ObamaCare's federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow response times or messages to try again later during the month of December.

Discussion: First Read, Connecting.the.Dots, Outside the Beltway, CNN, The Moderate Voice and BizPac Review

Reuters:
All (good) Obamacare news is local

Discussion: ABC News, The Plum Line and Politico

Bloomberg: Obama Is Wounded. Obamacare Is Unstoppable

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and The Reaction

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today won't publish handout photos from White House

Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Pat Dollard and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »

Nancy Folbre / Economix:
The Single-Payer Alternative — Nancy Folbre is professor emerita …

Discussion: Corrente

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

CNN/ORC poll: Democrats lose 2014 edge following Obamacare uproar — Washington (CNN) - What a difference a month makes. — A new CNN/ORC International poll indicates a dramatic turnaround in the battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.

Discussion: Reuters, Taegan Goddard's …, Talking Points Memo and UrbanGrounds

Katrina Trinko / USA Today:

It's all ho-ho-ho til Obama hijacks your holiday: Column — Forget the turkey; stuff yourself with health care talk. — CONNECT — Loathe peaceful holidays? Detest the spirit of agreeableness and good will that tends to pervade during this time of year?

Discussion: The Federalist

Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:

Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents — The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Spies worry over “doomsday” cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden — (Reuters) - British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a “doomsday” cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Caller and The Verge

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Praised by de Blasio, Dinkins Responds With an Arrow — To punctuate an impassioned pitch for his signature plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio went out of his way during a speech on Monday to praise a cherished political mentor and former boss watching from the audience.

Discussion: Capital New York and Politicker

Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:

Report: Deeds expresses anger at state agency that failed son, vows fight for change — Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, who is recuperating at home after his son stabbed him before taking his own life last week, blamed a local mental-health agency for the tragedy in an interview with a Bath County newspaper Monday.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Creigh Deeds: ‘I am alive for a reason’

Discussion: CNN and NPR

Washington Post:

Among American workers, poll finds unprecedented anxiety about jobs, economy — Will Figg/For The Washington Post - John Stewart works at the Philadelphia International Airport escorting passengers in wheelchairs. The job pays $5.25 an hour, plus tips. “I'm glad I don't have a family,” Stewart said.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hot Air

Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:

Democrats Fear Obamacare Will Cost Them The Senate — One top Democratic pollster: “If there's nothing you want to fix, there's something wrong with you.” — Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is one of the most vulnerable Democrats headed into the midterms. (Liz Lynch)

Discussion: The Plum Line

Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Week

Alex Kane / Mondoweiss:

(Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians — New York Senator Chuck Schumer was his usual hawkish self on Sunday evening. In an address to the OHEL Children's Home and Family Services gala, Schumer railed against the deal …

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Matthew Kroenig / Foreign Policy:
Now for the Hard Part — The Iran deal is a good first step.

Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner, Mediaite, News Desk and Washington Post

Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Deal or No Deal — The final details of a nuclear agreement signed …

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Jose DelReal / Politico:

Charles Krauthammer: Worst since Munich — 'This is a sham from beginning to end. It's the worst deal since Munich,' he said. John Shinkle/POLITICO — Close — Charles Krauthammer says he believes President Barack Obama's deal with Iran is “the worst deal since Munich.”

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Why voters are finished believing Obama's health care promises — In April, Real Clear Politics' average of polls showed that 47 percent of Americans opposed Obamacare, while 41 percent supported it — a 6-percentage-point edge for opponents of the president's health care law …

Discussion: Betsy's Page and Chicago Tribune

Washington Post:

Karzai tells Susan Rice of more demands for accord extending U.S. troop presence — KABUL — Efforts by the United States and Afghanistan to finalize a long-term security arrangement appeared on the brink of collapse Monday as Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a new set of demands …

Discussion: The Week, New York Times and Liberaland

New York Times:

End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now — WASHINGTON — THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they embedded this principle in the Fourth Amendment.

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Tea party unscathed in early GOP civil war — The Republican civil war erupted into full view this fall, and the establishment looked like it was about to shove the movement back in line. — But the early skirmishes ended with the tea party no weaker than it was.