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2:50 PM ET, December 11, 2007

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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Wallace: Dems are 'fools' to boycott Fox  —  When Chris Wallace replaced Tony Snow as the host of "Fox News Sunday" in December 2003, the network appeared to take a more moderate approach to Sunday talk.  —  Unlike Snow, a former Republican speechwriter, Wallace's broadcasting résumé …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll: Huckabee would lose to leading Dems by double digits  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
The Corner:
Edwards the Conqueror  —  Forgive me for thinking this new CNN poll is a little weird.  It shows Democrats winning a lot of presidential matchups, which is not weird, but it shows the strongest Democrat against any Republican candidate is...John Edwards.  Which is a little weird.
Discussion: Ross Douthat
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   The Air Wars: Romney Goes Negative
The Politico:
Liberal views could haunt Obama  —  When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was seeking state office a dozen years ago, he took unabashedly liberal positions: flatly opposed to capital punishment, in support of a federal single-payer health plan, against any restrictions on abortion …
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Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Dropping Oppo  —  Circulating among Iowa labor circles …
Discussion: Hot Air and Right Voices
David Yepsen / Des Moines Register:
Parties, candidates must make sure caucuses are clean
Team Huckabee / Mike Huckabee for President:
MINUTEMAN FOUNDER ENDORSES HUCKABEE  —  Proven Leader.  Authentic Conservative.  — Contribute  —  In Iowa today Minute Project Founder Jim Gilchrist endorsed Governor Huckabee.  We will have a press release on today's big endorsement shortly.
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Huckabee to Romney: Grow Up, This Isn't Third Grade
Discussion: Firedoglake and MSNBC
Petey / Matthew Yglesias:
Minutemen Heart Huckabee
Discussion: Gristmill
The Washington Post / The Trail:   Huckabee Picks Up Minuteman Founder Endorsement
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Bush: I Didn't Know About CIA Tape Destruction  —  ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations.  —  The President said he was told just a few days ago.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Cliff Schecter
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New York Times:
Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes Cleared by Lawyers
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
This Will Ruin Ted Kennedy's Day
Discussion: The Lede and The Anchoress
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Democrats Pull Budget Offer  —  The GOP Is Negotiating In Bad Faith, Obey Says  —  A Democratic deal to give President Bush some war funding in exchange for additional domestic spending appeared to collapse last night after House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) …
Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
U of I prof heckles Clinton  —  Iowa City, Ia.  — A University of Iowa professor dressed as a robot interrupted Bill Clinton at a campaign stop here late Monday, screaming for an apology before security escorted him from the building.  —  The professor, Kembrew McLeod …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Abolish the CIA  —  DESTROYING THE INTERROGATION TAPES AMOUNTS TO MUTINY AND TREASON.  —  It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W. Bush learned of the National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions only a few days before the rest of us did …
Barry Hertz / network.nationalpost.com:
Teen girl in critical condition after alleged dispute over hijab  —  A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
What's Working In Iraq  —  A reader writes:
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Matthew Yglesias:
Walling Iraq  —  A couple of days ago, I was rereading Fred …
Discussion: The Debatable Land
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Ex-Pentagon Aide Says U.S. Abandoned Quick Iraq Transition  —  A former top Pentagon official blamed the Bush administration's top official in Iraq for abandoning a plan for a quick transition to Iraqi leadership in the summer of 2003 and instead keeping the U.S. government in control of the country for more than a year.
Wall Street Journal:
Group Says Iran Resumed Weapon Program  —  The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran's nuclear-fuel program said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.
The Corner:
Road to Damascus  —  Jonah: I have pretty much decided for Ron Paul myself.  I am sympathetic to many of the reservations you have posted, but every piece of serious policy analysis I read confirms to me that our country has gone too far down a wrong path—a path that leads to nothing I recognize as conservatism.
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Huckabee does a flip-flop on Cuba  —  The GOP candidate now supports a trade embargo against the island nation, a stance sure to satisfy hard-line Cuban exiles.  —  MIAMI — As governor of Arkansas five years ago, Mike Huckabee joined a bipartisan chorus of politicians who concluded …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Labor Unions Support WGA, Fire Union Busting Consultant Chris Lehane  —  SEIU Local 99 in Los Angeles — education workers who include teacher's aids, cafeteria workers and crossing guards — have fired former Clinton spokesman Chris Lehane from a consulting contract in support of the WGA .
Discussion: Calitics, Group News Blog and Daily Kos
 
 
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