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5:10 PM ET, November 24, 2008

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CNN:
Obama, Bush ‘united’ in fixing economy  —  (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Monday called the financial crisis one of “historic proportions” and said that he and the Bush administration are “united” in their efforts to get the economy back on track.  —  As Obama unveiled his economic team …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council  —  My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes, who was at CAP before I got on board, will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House.  The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Berkeley economist to head Obama economic council  —  President-elect Obama plans to name Christina Romer, an expert on tax cuts and recessions who is an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to chair his Council of Economic Advisers, aides said.
Discussion: Reason and Marginal Revolution
Robert Schroeder / MarketWatch:
House leaders clash over economic stimulus
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Oxdown Gazette
Washington Wire:
More on Obama Econ Team: Higginbottom, Barnes
Discussion: American Street
BREITBART.COM:
Alan Colmes to Depart Top Rated Hannity & Colmes  —  FOX News Channel's (FNC) Alan Colmes will relinquish his role as co-host of Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year.  —  In announcing his decision, Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC's Senior Vice President of Programming) …
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SteveK / TVNewser:
Alan Colmes Leaving “Hannity & Colmes”  —  Breaking: Alan Colmes is leaving his position as co-host of “Hannity & Colmes” at the end of 2008.  —  According to the FNC release, he will stay on as a liberal commentator for FNC and as host of The Alan Colmes Show on FOX News Radio.
Discussion: Think Progress, Don Surber and Gawker
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Hannity and Colmes split up
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Brian Stelter / TV Decoder:
One Half of ‘Hannity & Colmes’ Is Leaving
Discussion: News Hounds
Jeff Montgomery / delawareonline:
Minner naming Ted Kaufman to fill Biden's seat  —  Gov. Ruth Ann Minner said today she will appoint Ted Kaufman, a longtime, close adviser to Sen. Joe Biden, to fill the senator's seat until a 2010 special election, a move that some warned could leave Delaware Democratic Party feelings bruised for years to come.
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Longtime adviser to replace Biden  —  Ted Kaufman, a longtime adviser to Vice President-elect Joe Biden, has been chosen as his interim replacement in the Senate.  —  Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce the selection.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Minner Appoints Biden Aide to Senate
Discussion: Gawker
Mike Memoli / Marc Ambinder:
The next Delaware senator
Bloomberg:
Fed Pledges Top $7.4 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit  —  Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
ANATOMY OF A MELTDOWN  —  Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis.
Discussion: Corrente and Open Left
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Rice Likely to UN for Obama (Susan, Not Condi)  —  From Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, and Martha Raddatz:  —  ABC News has learned that Dr. Susan Rice has emerged as the leading candidate to be President-elect Obama's nominee as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Jason Trahan / Dallas Morning News:
Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts  —  jtrahan@dallasnews.com  —  A jury on Monday determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Freedom's Watch effort winding down  —  Conservative group's future undecided  —  Freedom's Watch, the conservative group backed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson, is pretty much kaput, sources with knowledge of the organization said.
Mike Madden / Salon:
Barack Obama, honeymoon killer?  —  WASHINGTON — One of the first things Barack Obama did after winning the election two weeks ago was put an old-school political brawler in charge of his White House.  Next, he saved Joe Lieberman.  Then, he met with John McCain, and asked Hillary Clinton to run his State Department.
Paul Krugman:
Citigroup  —  Mark Thoma has the rundown of informed reactions.  A bailout was necessary — but this bailout is an outrage: a lousy deal for the taxpayers, no accountability for management, and just to make things perfect, quite possibly inadequate, so that Citi will be back for more.
ABCNEWS:
CONSERVATIVE LADIES PRETTY IN MINK  —  Pretty in Mink: Conservative Leading Ladies  —  Ann Coulter is the author of six New York Times best-sellers, a popular syndicated columnist and a frequent TV pundit.  She is the 2004 recipient of the Luce Policy Institute's Woman of the Year Award …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Runnin' Scared
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Tomorrow, austerity  —  Obama's staff won't elaborate, but the President-Elect said just now that he'd roll out a plan to cut the federal budget tomorrow — something both presidential candidates said they'd do, but neither detailed.  —  “[T]o make the investments we need …
ABCNEWS:
Whistleblower: U.S. Snooped on Tony Blair, Iraqi President  —  Former Intercept Operator Tells ABC News He Saw Blair File, Heard “Pillow Talk” of Iraqi Leader  —  A former communications intercept operator says U.S. intelligence snooped on the private lives of two of America's most important allies …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Two-Thirds Approve of Transition; Expectations on Economy Pull Back  —  ABC News Poll Finds 44 Percent Think Obama Will Improve Economy Significantly  —  Americans have eased back on their expectations of Barack Obama's ability to improve the crippled economy, potentially buying …
cfinst.org:
REALITY CHECK: Obama Received About the Same Percentage from Small Donors in 2008 as Bush in 2004  —  Obama also raised 80% more from large donors than small, outstripping all rivals and predecessors  —  It turns out that Barack Obama's donors may not have been quite as different as we had thought.
Discussion: Minnesota Independent and Hot Air
Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Last Secrets of the Bush Administration  —  How to find out what we still don't know.  —  In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush.  It concerned an important deadline that was looming—one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon.
Discussion: TPMCafe
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Appeals Court Backs Warrantless Searches Abroad  —  A federal appeals court in Manhattan upheld the convictions on Monday of three Al Qaeda operatives in a ruling that bolsters the government's power to investigate terrorism by holding that a key Constitutional protection afforded to Americans does not apply overseas.
Discussion: The Corner
 
 
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Thomas R. Suozzi / The Politico:
States, localities can't fix economy alone
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Hillary Clinton and the Emoluments Clause: There's been talk …
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Richard Clarke for CIA Director
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Hillary + Obama = High Drama
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Mike Memoli / Marc Ambinder:
Another name in RNC race?
Discussion: MyDD
Tim Paradis / Associated Press:
Dow ends up nearly 400 after bailout of Citigroup
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Home Prices Plunge in October
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE CAMPAIGN VS. THE TRANSITION.
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