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6:40 PM ET, November 19, 2008

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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Giving Up on God  —  As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.  —  Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.  —  I'm bathing in holy water as I type.  —  To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing …
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Quit It Kathleen  —  To my friend Kathleen Parker — This act is getting really old. … Me: I don't know what's more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way …
Discussion: Hot Air and Wonkette
Brendan Miniter / Wall Street Journal:
No Room for RINOs  —  Who will resurrect the GOP?  —  South Carolina's Mark Sanford is one of three GOP governors now being widely mentioned as potential saviors of the Republican Party between now and 2012.  All are conspicuous for calling on their own party to live up to its principles.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KATHLEEN PARKER TAKES ON THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT.... In September …
Discussion: Liberal Values
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CNN:
Daschle the choice for Health and Human Services  —  CHICAGO (CNN) — Three sources close to the transition and in a position to know tell CNN that former Sen. Tom Daschle is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services and the former Senate Majority Leader has indicated he wants the job.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
TOM DASCHLE: HEALTH CZAR.  —  CNN is reporting that Tom Daschle will not only be Health and Human Services Secretary, but also health reform czar under the Obama administration.  This is huge news, and the clearest evidence yet that Obama means to pursue comprehensive health reform.
Associated Press:
McCain wins Missouri in close race against Obama
Discussion: CNN and Washington Monthly
The Trail / Washington Post:
Obama Picks Daschle for HHS
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Daschle at HHS = Good News for Health Reform
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Daschle Accepts Offer to Be Health Secretary
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Mitt Romney / New York Times:
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt  —  IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.  It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.  —  Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself.
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ABCNEWS:
Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds  —  Auto Industry Close to Bankruptcy But They Get Pricey Perk  —  The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Rep. Ackerman: Auto Execs' Private Jet Travel Like Guy At ‘The Soup Kitchen In High Hat And Tuxedo’  —  Today, the CEOs of the Detroit Big Three returned to Capitol Hill to ask for $25 billion in loans.  Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner insisted …
Discussion: Brian Beutler and Alternate Brain
New York Times:
Hopes Dim for Quick Bailout for Automakers
Discussion: DealBook
David Corn / MoJoBlog:
Obama's First Drama: Hillary Clinton  —  I was agnostic on the matter of Hillary Clinton's possible appointment as secretary of state—until last night.  —  If Barack Obama, the president-elect, wanted to pull a Team of Rivals play, that had seemed fine to me.
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Foggy Bottom, Top
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Gawker
Associated Press:
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet … CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
AL QAEDA'S MOST EPIC FAIL EVER.  —  Al Qaeda plays a little identity politics: … The best part about this is that a knee-jerk patriotic response implicitly rejects the notion of black American culture as oppositional by definition.  And doing so is an act of solidarity with the future President of the United States!
Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: English Translation of Zawahiri Message
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
State Supreme Court to hear challenges to Prop.  8  —  (11-19) 13:57 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars today, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure that repealed the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed in California.
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Bee Capitol / Sacramento Bee:
Supreme Court takes up gay marriage issue  —  The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to consider complaints by opponents of Proposition 8 that it improperly revised the constitution to ban gay marriage.  The court declined to stay its enforcement in the meantime.
Discussion: MyDD, SFist and Campaign Silo
Ryan Powers / Think Progress:   Huckabee: Prop. 8 Did Not ‘Prohibit’ Same-Sex Marriage
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Boehner, McCotter prevail; Sessions takes over NRCC  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) held on to their GOP leadership positions Wednesday while Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas) is taking over Rep. Tom Cole's (Okla.) post.  —  During mostly predictable …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
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Eve Fairbanks / The New Republic:
John Boehner, Cleverest Republican in Washington
Republican Leader John Boehner:
House Republicans Elect New Leadership Team
Discussion: The Swamp
CNN:
Stevens concedes race  —  (CNN) - Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has conceded defeat to Democratic challenger Mark Begich in the Alaska Senate race.  —  Stevens, 85, was the longest serving Republican senator in the chamber's history.  —  “Given the number of ballots that remain to be counted …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Stevens ousted; Dems eye power of 60
Discussion: New York Times and Bloomberg
CQ Politics:
Democratic Steering Panel Chooses Waxman Over Dingell  —  The House Democratic Steering Committee has nominated Henry A. Waxman to be chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee next year — a stinging rebuke of the sitting chairman, John D. Dingell .
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Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Election surprise: Obama won Salt Lake County voters' nod  —  Politics » Democrats say win is a big step for party's plans in Beehive State.  —  Updated election results released Tuesday show that Salt Lake County voters favored Barack Obama over John McCain — but just barely …
Discussion: The Reaction
Washington Wire:
Huckabee on Palin: 'She Didn't Have to Get Bloodied'  —  Laura Meckler reports from Washington on politics.  —  Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, a once and possibly future presidential candidate, admires his fellow social conservative, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.  Really.
Discussion: TIME.com
Wall Street Journal:
It's Time to Give Voters the Liberalism They Want  —  Don't believe pundits who say there's a centrist mandate.  —  It is possible, I suppose, that the pundits are right and the public didn't really mean it when it elected a liberal Democrat president and gave Democrats even larger majorities in both houses of Congress.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Wonk Room and The Heretik
 
 
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Mark Heinrich / Reuters:
Syria site hit by Israel resembled atom plant: IAEA
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin destined to be ‘the white Oprah’?
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Kerry expected to get top foreign affairs panel post
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