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4:50 PM ET, November 11, 2008

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David Brooks / New York Times:
Darkness at Dusk  —  It's only been a week since the defeat, but the battle lines have already been drawn in the fight over the future of conservatism.  —  In one camp, there are the Traditionalists, the people who believe that conservatives have lost elections because they have strayed from the true creed.
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Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Steele Likely to Seek RNC Leadership Post
beliefnet:
Conservative reform won't come soon
Discussion: The Corner
Drudge Report:
BUSH ANGER: OBAMA AIDES LEAK CHAT DETAILS  —  Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush handing over power to Obama with grace  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - No matter how people remember President Bush's time in office, let there be no doubt about how he wants to end it: gracefully.  —  Never mind that Democrat Barack …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Schumer and Durbin Want Lieberman Stripped of Homeland Security Chair  —  Newsweek's Howard Fineman on Keith Olbermann: … One point I think needs to be made.  This isn't about Joe Lieberman maintaining membership in a country club as a matter of feel-good “bipartisanship.”
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Obama puts leash on lobbyists for transition  —  After bashing rival John McCain for surrounding himself with lobbyists, Barack Obama announced today what his transition team calls the strictest lobbying rules ever during a presidential transfer of power.  —  But it could also be viewed …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama Lays Out Ethics Rules
Discussion: TIME.com
CNN:
Obama team works to flesh out staff
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Obama likely to escape campaign audit  —  The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign's record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The onset of ODS  —  For the past seven-plus years, the Left has suffered from Bush Derangement Syndrome.  Well, actually, the rest of us have suffered from their embrace of BDS, which one might think would inoculate us from any related maladies.  As Jake Tapper notes, though …
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James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Saxby Chambliss Seeks Deferment From Runoff - Cites “Bum Knee”  —  Never one to let an opportunity to mislead the people of Georgia, Saxby Chambliss has requested that he actually be excused from the December 2nd runoff against Jim Martin and just be declared the winner.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
CH-CH-CHANGES  —  A couple of potentially disturbing reports today in the Wall Street Journal, one suggesting that Obama is not going to substantially rein in Bush-era intelligence activities and another reporting that Obama is leaning toward asking Bob Gates to stay on as secretary of defense.
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Hotline On Call:
Brownstein On The Palin Dilemma  —  Sarah Palin, who started her post-campaign bid for rehabilitation with a series of high profile interviews this week, emerged from the 2008 election in an even more politically damaged condition than previously understood, new data show.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and The Impolitic
White House:
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Dana Perino  —  MS. PERINO: All right, so, sorry that we couldn't do this on the plane, but I — as I told you I ran out of time and doing the gaggle on ascent — or on descent has proved dangerous in the past.  So thanks for gathering here.
The Politico:
Obama-Clinton soap opera takes new turn  —  Michelle Obama wasn't always an admirer of Hillary Clinton, but last Wednesday the soon-to-be first lady dialed up the former first lady for pointers on protecting her two young daughters from the media maelstrom of the White House.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
How the Palin debate helps McCain  —  Want an idea of how popular Sarah Palin was among Southern Republicans?  You can check her numbers in exit polls or just see which element of the party is defending her the loudest.  GOP state chairs in North Carolina, South Carolina and now Tennessee …
Discussion: Hot Air
Dan Walters / Sacramento Bee:
Surge for Obama sealed Prop. 8's victory  —  Supporters of same-sex marriage rights are fuming over California voters' approval of Proposition 8, which would place a ban on such marriages in the state constitution - especially since in other respects voters showed a somewhat left-of-center bent …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
For South, a Waning Hold on National Politics  —  VERNON, Ala. — Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday's vote in this rural red swatch where buck heads and rifles hang on the wall.  This corner of the Deep South still resonates with negative feelings …
James Pethokoukis / US News:
Why Obama Looks Like a One Termer  —  Just “one and done” for Barack Obama's presidency?  Recall an ominous passage in his otherwise joyous election-night speech: “The road ahead will be long.  Our climb will be steep.  We may not get there in one year or even in one term.”
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
From Tiny Sect, Weighty Issue for Justices  —  PLEASANT GROVE CITY, Utah — Across the street from City Hall here sits a small park with about a dozen donated buildings and objects — a wishing well, a millstone from the city's first flour mill and an imposing red granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
Michelle Malkin:
National Obama Holiday hits some road bumps  —  Uh-oh.  The planned Adoration of the Obamessiah has run into some planning snags.  —  Turns out that the Obama cult member who wants to lobby for the holiday doesn't have as many supporters as he claimed, according to the Topkea Capital-Journal.
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Racism Rears Its Head in European Remarks on Obama  —  Europe erupted in cheers to celebrate Barack Obama's election as president, but the continent is seeing its share of insensitive racial blunders, too.  —  Over the past week, a number of European lawmakers and journalists have made foot …
 
 
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Uh, Sarah....You Sure You Want To Go There?
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
U.S. Bishops Urged to Challenge Obama
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge
Discussion: The Big Picture and Portfolio
Daniel W. Drezner / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Public Intellectual 2.0  —  Disquisitions about public …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
A House Disappointment
Discussion: Kevin Drum
John Oywa / WORLDMEETS.US:
‘My Life with Obama Senior’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and PoliGazette
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's Veterans Day: Soldier Field
Discussion: The Hill
Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Report: Hamas says its officials met Obama aides before U.S. election
Discussion: Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
John Edwards returns to public stage in Indiana
Discussion: TIME.com
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IRRATIONAL FEAR OF THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.... Over the weekend …
Discussion: The Corner