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GOP's private war goes public — The simmering feud between House Republicans and movement conservatives is finally an all-out war. — The tension exploded on Wednesday morning when Speaker John Boehner and outside conservative groups traded sharp barbs over the budget deal Rep. Paul Ryan …
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Ryan Deal Limits Senate GOP's Power to Block Tax Increases — Senate Republicans scrubbing the Ryan-Murray budget deal have come across a little-noticed provision that will limit the GOP's ability to block tax increases in future years. — The bill includes language from the Senate Democrats' budget …
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Power Line and Hot Air
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RSC fires executive director — The conservative Republican Study Committee, the bastion of right-wing strategy on Capitol Hill, has fired its longtime executive director Paul Teller, accusing him of leaking conversations with lawmakers. — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the chairman of the RSC …
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Source: McConnell will vote against budget deal brokered by Paul Ryan — Add the Senate's top Republican to the list of those who will oppose the new budget deal, which conservatives are blasting for blowing through the mandated spending caps on government spending next year.
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Conservative Groups Fire Back At John Boehner's Attack — Outside right-leaning groups are firing back at Speaker John Boehner after he attacked their intentions and questioned their commitment to conservative principles on Wednesday. — “Speaker Boehner's real problem here isn't with conservative groups …
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Matt Berman / NationalJournal.com:
John Boehner: Conservative Groups' Reaction to Budget Deal Is ‘Ridiculous’
John Boehner: Conservative Groups' Reaction to Budget Deal Is ‘Ridiculous’
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BOHICA Act of 2013 — I am old enough to remember when the GOP …
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Other McCain and Washington Monthly
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Possible GOP 2016 contenders in Senate critical of budget deal
Possible GOP 2016 contenders in Senate critical of budget deal
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and neo-neocon
Jake Sherman / Politico:
House prepares to vote on budget deal
House prepares to vote on budget deal
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Thomas Donnelly / Weekly Standard:
Right Deal for National Defense
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Rand Paul, Mike Crapo to oppose budget deal
Rand Paul, Mike Crapo to oppose budget deal
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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The story behind “that selfie” — So here's the photo, my photo, which quickly lit up the world's social networks and news websites. The “selfie” of three world leaders who, during South Africa's farewell to Nelson Mandela, were messing about like kids instead of behaving with the mournful gravitas one might expect.
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The media's Michelle Obama problem: What a selfie says about our biases — The overanalysis of the first lady's expression speaks volumes about America's expectations of black women — Not even President Obama is above taking a selfie in the least appropriate selfie-taking venue possible.
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New York Post, Wonkette, NY Daily News, ThinkProgress, Althouse, Feministing, American Prospect, The Impolitic, Jezebel, American Spectator and Business Insider
Alexander Smith / World News:
‘Fake’ sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela memorial provokes anger — Nelson Mandela's body is to lie in state for three days in Pretoria. NBC News' Ron Allen reports on the thousands lining up to view Mandela's body and on a sign language interpreter at the Mandela memorial.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans plan 30-hour talkathon to protest ‘nuclear option’ use in Senate — Senate Republicans will stage a more than 30-hour talkathon on the Senate floor to protest Democrats' triggering of the “nuclear option” last month. — The GOP protest, which could extend into the weekend …
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Prosecutor: No Domestic Charges Against Zimmerman — MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors say they will not file domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman after his girlfriend said in a sworn statement she did not want to pursue the case. — State Attorney Phil Archer in Seminole County …
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Greenwald Attacks Time For Person Of The Year Selection: ‘A Meaningless Award From A Meaningless Magazine’ — Glenn Greenwald ridiculed Time on Wednesday for the magazine's decision to name Pope Francis — and not Edward Snowden — its “person of the year” for 2013.
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Pope Francis, The Choice
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Kathleen Sebelius pushes back against GOP critics — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted a vastly improved Obamacare enrollment website Wednesday morning as she sought to reassure skeptical lawmakers that people who want health insurance coverage starting Jan. 1 will have it.
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Kathleen Sebelius / HHS.gov:
Building On Our Progress and Moving Forward: Three Initial Steps
Building On Our Progress and Moving Forward: Three Initial Steps
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GOP dislikes sitting congressman, eyes DWI pol with secret family — Republicans are so nervous about Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm's re-election chances that they've quietly reached out to former GOP Congressman Vito Fossella — who quit five years ago after confessing to having a secret second family …
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Oregon signs up just 44 people for Obamacare despite spending $300 million — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OREGON HEALTHCARE.GOV TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE EXCHANGES — Oregon, once touted as a model for President Obama's health care law, signed up just 44 people …
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Happy Holidays: Startup CEO Complains SF Is Full of Human Trash — Behold a perfect Silicon Valley denizen, an archetype: he's been written up in TechCrunch for his hackathon-organizing company. He's been fluffed in Business Insider. And now, inevitably, he's publicly savaged the homeless …
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Lamar Alexander top aide Ryan Loskarn arrested for child porn — GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander's chief of staff was arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, the Justice Department said. — Jesse Ryan Loskarn — who goes by his middle name …
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Hill staffers warned not to rely on info from ObamaCare exchange — Capitol Hill staffers who signed up for ObamaCare through the Washington, D.C., healthcare exchange, called DC Health Link (DCHL), are being told to confirm their enrollments in person, and not to rely on data provided by the website.
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Voucher-mania: Why the right is diseased (and out of ideas) — Conservatives have exactly one answer for all spending questions — and it has little to do with serious economics — In the second decade of the 21st century, the American right has only two economic ideas.