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2:40 PM ET, November 21, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
The Waxman Democrats  —  What the coup against Dingell means for business.  —  John Dingell's fall from power yesterday is an important inflection point in the history of the modern Democratic Party.  The House purge marks the final triumph of the Congressional generation that came …
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Christopher Beam / Slate:
Henry Waxman's victory is the biggest gift Obama could have asked for.  —  Out: Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the tough, cantankerous eminence grise of the House Democratic caucus (he's 82), who was so deferential to Detroit as chairman of the House energy and commerce committee that Lee Iacocca once said he …
Washington Times:
Boehner: GOP firmly against ‘card check’
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
David Rogers / The Politico:
Marine general may head National Security Council  —  President-elect Barack Obama is close to landing James L. Jones, the well-known retired Marine Corps general, as his national security adviser, sources said.  —  Jones is a former Marine Corps commandant and was head of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe …
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CNN:
Sources: Jones leading choice for national security advisor  —  CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) - Two sources close to the Obama transition team tell CNN retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones has emerged as President-elect's leading choice to become national security adviser in the White House.
Discussion: Open Left
Bloomberg:
Obama Team Said to Explore ‘Prepack’ Auto Bankruptcy  —  Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team is exploring a swift, prepackaged bankruptcy for automakers as a possible solution to the industry's financial crisis, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Tom Curry / MSNBC:
‘Card check’ best hope for auto workers union?
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Paul Ingrassia / Wall Street Journal:
The Auto Makers Are Already Bankrupt
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Commentary
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama to delay repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell'  —  Advisers see consensus building before lifting ban on gays  —  President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
No Way.  No How.  No Brennan.  —  Marc reports the Republican, former chief-of-staff for George Tenet (who authorized war crimes as CIA head), admirer of Dick Cheney, CEO of the company one of whose contract employees improperly accessed Obama's and McCain's passports, and defender of renditions and …
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Washington Post:
Obama's Once-Disciplined Team Springs Leaks During Transition  —  Rumors Disrupt Plan For Announcing Cabinet Nominees  —  Barack Obama was famously able to impose discipline and control over his presidential campaign, but it didn't take long for him to discover that running a transition is something quite different.
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Mike Flannery / WBBM-TV:
Obama Advisers To Public: Temper Expectations  —  CHICAGO (CBS) ― President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer — all by the Fourth of July.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Moonbattery
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New York Times:
An Option for Clinton: Enhanced Senate Role
Discussion: Althouse
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama plans to name Clinton to State
Wall Street Journal:
Al Franken's Minnesota  —  More postelection funny business.  —  Al Franken's campaign takes exception to our recent description of the curious goings-on in Minnesota's Senate vote count.  We're delighted to hear his growing vote total is all routine.  But who needs to worry about votes discovered …
ABCNEWS:
GM Downsizing Jet Fleet, CEO Still Flies High  —  Company Reducing Number of Jets, But Top Execs Keep Perk  —  General Motors said today that it is putting two of its five corporate jets out of service because the planes are not being used enough.  The top three executives at GM, however …
Discussion: The Swamp
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
End of the beginning?  —  The failure of Citigroup, which looks increasingly likely to happen in the near future, would mark the end of the beginning of the financial crisis.  Until now, the prevailing view has been that the crisis and recession will pass in a year or so, after which things will go back …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Would Clinton's State Team Include Obama Thinkers?  —  With Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) almost certain to become President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of state, some foreign-policy experts in the Obama orbit are expressing frustration.  —  Clinton herself isn't so much the problem, they say.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism? … And then a bit later...  Emphasis mine.  —  This might be the key passage of my interview with John Ziegler on Tuesday, for it is, in a nutshell, why conservatives don't win elections anymore.  It is not that conservatism generally permits less nuance than liberalism …
USA Today:
Mukasey released from hospital  —  WASHINGTON (USATODAY.com) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey was released Friday from a Washington hospital after collapsing during a speech late Thursday night.  —  Shortly after noon Friday, Mukasey left George Washington University Hospital with his wife, Susan.
Discussion: Law Blog and Wall Street Journal
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Insider's Crusade  —  Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day.  Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly.  Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Forbes:
Why Guns Are Better Than Butter  —  In economic crises, watch out for government expansion.  —  “War is the health of the state,” wrote Randolph Bourne, horrified by World War I and its excesses.  And that phrase has been used by libertarians and opponents of state power ever since, as a reason why war is a bad idea.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Woman Who Posed as Boy Testifies in Case That Ended in Suicide of 13-Year-Old  —  LOS ANGELES — Slumping forward miserably in the witness box, in barely audible tones, a young woman told a federal jury here on Thursday that she had posed as a teenage boy in a series of e-mail messages …
Discussion: Law Blog
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Would-be appointees quizzed on guns  —  President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is asking potential appointees detailed questions about gun ownership, and firearms advocates aren't happy about it.  —  The National Rifle Association has denounced the move, which has already led …
 
 
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